New Engineering Faculty 2014
This year UW Engineering has attracted 20 outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Steven Brunton »-
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Techniques in dimensionality reduction, sparse sensing, and machine learning for data-driven control of complex dynamical systems
David Butman »-
Departments: Civil & Environmental Eng., Enviro. & Forest Sci.
Research focus: The influence of humans and climate on carbon cycling at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic systems
Alvin Cheung »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Co-optimizing data-intensive applications by examining the database and the runtime system and environment together
Yejin Choi »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computational models for human language processing, with a focus on contextual and nonliteral language understanding
Bruce Hinds »-
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research focus: Nanostructures and nanoscale fabrication: electronics fabrication at the molecular level and new technologies for nano-lithography
Vincent Holmberg »-
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research focus: The synthesis, application and integration of nanomaterials
Faisal Hossain »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: Sustainable water resource management
Shuai Huang »-
Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research focus: Methodologies for modeling, monitoring, diagnosis, and prognosis of complex networked systems
Sreeram Kannan »-
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Information theory and the fundamentals of information processing and transmission
Edward Kolodziej »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: The transport, reactions, and ecological implications of human-derived pollutants in aquatic systems
Jonathan Liu »-
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Developing biomedical optical devices and molecular contrast agents for cancer diagnostics and therapy
David McDonald »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, and social computing
Franziska Roesner »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Computer security and privacy, with perspectives from both computer system design and human-computer interaction
Thomas Rothvoss »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics
Research focus: discrete optimization, linear/integer programming, and theoretical computer science
Venkat R. Subramanian »-
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research focus: Cost-effective and energy-efficient electrochemical systems, particularly in batteries, fuel cells, capacitors, and sensors
Emina Torlak »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Developing programming models that use advances in automated reasoning for rapid software design, development, and validation
Anthony Waas »-
Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research focus: Developing lighter aerospace and automotive structures to improve manufacturability, damage tolerance, and structural stability and integrity
Xi Wang »-
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Securing operating systems and applications; development of static analysis and debugging tools
Richard Wiebe »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: The experimental and computational nonlinear dynamics of structures
Baosen Zhang »-
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Power systems and smart grids to optimize, control, and integrate renewable and distributed energy resources