This year UW Engineering has attracted 14 outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Corie L. Cobb »-
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: advanced manufacturing, batteries and energy storage, mechanics of materials, computational design synthesis, stochastic optimization
Leah Findlater »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: mobile and wearable technologies, human-computer interfaces, machine-learning tools, accessibility
Jon Froehlich »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: human-computer interaction, persuasive technology, personal informatics, health behavior change
Kevin Jamieson »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: active learning, optimization, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning
Brian Johnson »-
Departments: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: power electronics, power systems and controls, power electronics inverters, microgrids, renewable energy systems
Ji-Eun Kim »-
Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research focus: human factors, neuroergonomics
Yin-Tat Lee »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: convex optimizations, convex geometry, spectral graph theory, online algorithms
Jennifer Mankoff »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: human-computer interaction, fabrication, ubicomp, diversity, accessibility
Amy Orsborn »-
Department: Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering
Research focus: brain-machine interfaces, motor-learning, operant conditioning of neural activity, multi-learner adaptive systems, motor control and sensorimotor integration, multi-scale and large scale recording technologies
Nadya Peek »-
Department: Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research focus: digital fabrication, machine design, human-computer interaction, advanced manufacturing, controls
David Shean »-
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research focus: glaciology, mountain snowpack evolution, glacial geology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, near-surface geophysical investigations
Siddhartha "Sidd" Srinivasa »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: human-robot interaction, physics-based manipulation, prediction modeling, machine-learning
Michael Taylor »-
Department: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Research focus: computer architecture, VLSI, computer vision, ASIC Clouds, Bitcoin, dark silicon
Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad »-
Department: Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering
Research focus: neurorehabilitation, optogenetic stimulation, neural engineering