New Engineering Faculty 2012
This year UW Engineering has attracted eleven outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
James Carothers »-
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research focus: RNA-based genetic control system design and engineering for synthetic biology applications in chemical synthesis and regenerative medicine
Ali Farhadi »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer graphics
Shyamnath Gollakota »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computer networks, particularly wireless networks, networked systems, wireless communications, and network security
Carlos Guestrin »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Parallel algorithms, distributed systems, taming information overload, sensor networks and machine learning
Jeffrey Heer »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Enhancing our collective ability to analyze and communicate data through the design of interactive visual analysis tools
Irena Kemelmacher-Shlizerman »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computer vision and computer graphics, including tools that capture, model and render a person’s appearance and behavior from large, unstructured photo collections
Michael Motley »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Advancing the understanding, design and implementation of energy producing and energy efficient structures, specifically those that exploit fluid-structure interactions
Sean Munson »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: Social software applications for health and wellness, and news aggregators that enhance diversity of available information and opinions
Brandon Pierquet »-
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Design of electronic systems power electronics and their control, smart-grids, photovoltaic systems, electric vehicles, and high-efficiency circuits
Kate Starbird »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: Dynamics of massive participation and interaction enabled by new and social media
Ben Taskar »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, structured prediction, weakly supervised learning, natural language processing, and computer vision
New Faculty 2012 by Department
Chemical Engineering
James Carothers
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Michael Motley
Computer Science & Engineering
Ali Farhadi
Shyamnath Gollakota
Carlos Guestrin
Jeffrey Heer
Irena Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Ben Taskar
Electrical Engineering
Brandon Pierquet
Human Centered Design & Engineering
Sean Munson
Kate Starbird