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.