New Engineering Faculty 2011
This year UW Engineering has attracted nine outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Wanpracha “Art” Chaovalitwongse »-
Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering, Radiology
Research focus: Decision-making paradigms that analyze complex data and systems to address computational challenges in health care, computational biology and logistics.
Kai-Mei Fu »-
Department: Electrical Engineering and Physics
Research focus: Optical control and characterization of spins in solids, including semiconductor carriers and diamond color centers for applications in quantum information processing, spintronics, and magnetic sensing/imaging.
Daniel Kirschen »-
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Smart grid technology to improve the reliability, reduce the cost, and integrate renewable sources of energy systems; operational security of power systems to better understand processes that lead to large-scale blackouts.
Arvind Krishnamurthy »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Distributed systems and computer networks including peer-to-peer systems; Internet availability; distributed storage systems; and network management, measurements and security.
Rebecca Neumann »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Understanding how land-surface modifications affect human and environmental health by altering the fluxes of water, nutrients, carbon and contaminants in underlying soils, with the goal of informing policy decisions.
Jonathan Posner »-
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Micron- and nanometer-length scale fluid dynamics and transport physics in micro/nanofluidic devices, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, and environmental and health impacts of nanomaterials.
Joseph Wartman »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, natural hazards, engineering geomorphology, and sustainable geotechnics to understand and forecast the effects of earthquakes on natural systems and the built environment.
Jihui Yang »-
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research focus: Novel materials for energy storage and conversion, including high efficiency thermoelectricity for automotive thermoelectric generators, and advanced battery electrode materials.