New Engineering Faculty 2009
In 2009, UW Engineering attracted 14 outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
M.P. Anantram »Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Theory, algorithms, and computational models to study molecular, semiconductor, and bionano structures.
Linda Ng Boyle »Departments: Industrial & Systems Engineering; Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Modeling driver behavior; quantification of crash risks; user acceptance of new technology; commercial vehicle operations and transportation safety.
Cynthia Chen »Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Travel behavior analysis, demand forecasting, survey design, transportation geography, and transportation safety.
Michael Dodd »Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Characterization of homogeneous and heterogeneous redox reactions in engineered and natural aquatic systems, photochemical mechanisms of reactive halogen and oxygen species formation in high-salinity waters.
Antonino Ferrante »Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research focus: Computational Fluid Mechanics, single-phase, multi-phase, and multi-species turbulent flows relevant to engineering applications, e.g., internal and external aerodynamics, propulsion, and to natural phenomena.
Erkan Istanbulluoglu »Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Role of climate on ecohydrological and geomorphological response of landscapes, sediment transport, and water balance of large basins.
Su-In Lee »Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computational methods for understanding the genetic basis of complex phenotypic traits.
Barry Lutz »Department: Bioengineering
Research focus: Biosensor chemical transport & kinetics; sound-based microfluidic systems; single-cell manipulation; multiplex optical detection; point-of-care diagnostics.
James Pfaendtner »Department: Chemical Engineering
Research focus: Computational work in biomolecular engineering, modeling of biological systems, production of biofuels, development of novel biomaterials, and investigation of a new class of peptides as potential drug compounds.
Brian Polagye »Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Responsibly harnessing the kinetic energy in moving water. Development of cost-effective instrumentation packages to characterize the physical and biological environment at potential in-stream energy sites.
Anup Rao »Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Theoretical computer science including pseudo randomness, approximation algorithms, and optimization problems.
Andrey Shcherbina »Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: The dynamics of oceanic water mass transformation and mixing under the combined forcing by wind, waves, tides, and buoyancy changes.
Setthivoine You »Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research focus: Fusion energy and advanced electric spacecraft propulsion, plasma physics of magnetic confinement concepts envisioned for compact fusion power, physics and development of variable-thrust and variable-specific-impulse plasma thrusters, cellular automata numerical approach to magnetohydrodynamics.
Kim A. Woodrow »Department: Bioengineering
Research focus: Delivery systems for reagents that can be used in diagnostic or therapeutic applications.
New Faculty 2009 by Department
Aeronautics & Astronautics
Antonino Ferrante
Setthivoine You
Bioengineering
Barry Lutz
Kim A. Woodrow
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Linda Ng Boyle (also ISE)
Cynthia Chen
Michael Dodd
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Andrey Shcherbina
Chemical Engineering
James Pfaendtner
Computer Science & Engineering
Su-In Lee
Anup Rao
Electrical Engineering
M.P. (Anant) Anantram
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Linda Ng Boyle (also CEE)
Mechanical Engineering
Brian Polagye