This year UW Engineering has attracted 11 outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Cecilia Aragon »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: Human-computer interaction in scientific collaborations, computer-supported cooperative work, eScience, visualization, visual analytics, eye tracking.
Hugh Hillhouse »-
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research focus: Understanding the fundamental physical, chemical, and biomolecular processes involved in assembling nanomaterials and devices that will allow transition from traditional fossil fuel resources to renewable, clean energy resources.
Deok-Ho Kim »-
Department: Bioengineering
Research focus: The development of micro- and nanofabricated scaffolds and integrated, lab-on-a-chip devices for cell biology and tissue engineering that can be used in diagnostic or therapeutic applications.
Peter Pauzauskie »-
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research focus: Molecular engineering; design, synthesis, and integration of nanoscale optoelectronic materials; cavity optomechanics using optical dielectrophoresis (laser/optoelectronic tweezers); subwavelength molecular biosensors; nanomedicine.
Joshua Smith »-
Departments: Computer Science & Engineering; Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Sensor systems: inventing new sensor systems, devising new ways to power them, and developing algorithms for using them. The research has application in the domains of ubiquitous computing, robotics, and human-computer interaction.
Candan Tamerler-Behar »-
Department: Material Science & Engineering
Research focus: Protein-based materials and systems where the peptide functionalities are genetically controlled, with emphasis on genetic selection of material-specific proteins and their utilization as synthesizers, assemblers, and scaffolds.
Ruikang "Ricky" Wang »-
Department: Bioengineering
Research focus: The interaction of light with biological tissues as a means to measure/image the properties of tissue, both morphological, functional and molecular. These techniques can inform the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of abnormal states of tissue produced, for example, by cancer and neurological diseases.
Paul Wiggins »-
Departments: Bioengineering; Physics
Research focus: Understanding how biological systems function and are structured at the microscopic scale, including the development of new mathematical models of biological systems at increasing levels of abstraction.
Xiaodong Xu »-
Departments: Materials Science & Engineering; Physics
Research focus: Optoelectronic, spintronic, and photovoltaic applications of carbon-based nanomaterials.
Luke Zettlemoyer »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Artificial intelligence including natural language processing, machine learning, and decision making under uncertainty.
Qifeng "Jeff" Zhang »-
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research focus: Engineering applications of nano-structured materials on electrical devices including solar cells, UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs), field-effect transistors (FETs), and gas sensors.