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
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