This year UW Engineering has attracted 9 outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Xuegang (Jeff) Ban »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: transportation network system modeling and simulation, urban traffic system modeling and operations, connected/automated vehicles, transportation big data analytics, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
Andre Berndt »-
Department: Bioengineering
Research focus: protein engineering, optogenetics, tissue and neuroengineering, electrophysiology, high throughput calcium and voltage imaging, mammalian disease models
Youngjun Choe »-
Department: Industrial Systems & Engineering
Research focus: computational statistics, stochastic simulation, sustainable energy systems
Michael Gomez »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: bio-mediated and bio-inspired geotechnical technologies, sustainable engineering practices, biogeochemistry, ground improvement, geophysical measurements, advanced soil characterization methods, cemented granular materials
Simge Küçükyavuz »-
Department: Industrial Systems & Engineering
Research focus: mixed-integer optimization, optimization under uncertainty, and large-scale optimization with applications in supply chain, computing infrastructure, social networks, power systems, homeland security, and emergency logistics
Nirnimesh Kumar »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: coastal physical oceanography, numerical modeling, surf zone and shelf processes, sediment transport, wave-current interaction
Julian Marshall »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: air quality engineering, air pollution exposure assessment, environmental health impacts of energy use, air pollution in developing countries, environmental justice
Brett Maurer »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: earthquake-induced soil liquefaction, life-cycle hazard assessment and mitigation, paleoseismology, induced seismicity, environmental geotechnics
Lillian Ratliff »-
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: game theory, optimization, statistical learning, smart cities/infrastructure