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.