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