New Engineering Faculty Members 2008
This year UW Engineering has attracted thirteen outstanding new faculty members to our departments. We are excited to have these distinguished professors join our community of innovators.
Craig H. Benson »Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chair
Research focus: Barriers to flow and contaminant transport and the effectiveness of waste containment
Michael D. Ernst »Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: Making software more reliable, more secure, and easier to produce
Maryam Fazel »Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Systems biology optimization, systems and control theory, with applications to engineering and biological systems
Julie Kientz »Department: Technical Communication
Research focus: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing, Assistive Technology, Computing & Health
Sarah Kriz »Department: Technical Communication
Research focus: Cognition and communication, including visual and spatial communication, the role of gesture in communication and the effects of animation on learning
Charlotte P. Lee »Department: Technical Communication
Research focus: Application of ethnographic studies and qualitative research to understanding cyber infrastructure and cooperative work
Shwetak N. Patel »Departments: Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Development of easy-to-deploy sensing technologies for location and activity recognition applications
Marco Rolandi »Department: Material Science & Engineering
Research focus: Reliable fabrication of novel materials for the investigation of nanoscale phenomena
Jacques “Chris” Rudell »Department: Electrical Engineering
Research focus: RF transceiver circuits and systems in advanced CMOS processes
Georg Seelig »Departments: Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Research focus: Synthetic and quantitative biology, DNA nanotechnology, RNA-based mechanisms for gene regulation, and molecular circuits
Amy Shen »Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Complex fluids processing to create morphologies and structures that can find application in the nanotechnology, biotechnology microelectronics, and energy related materials
Emanuel Todorov »Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Research focus: intelligent control in biological and artificial systems
Junlan Wang »Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Mechanics of complex material systems
New Faculty Members -
by Department
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Craig H. Benson
Computer Science & Engineering
Michael D. Ernst
Shwetak N. Patel (also EE)
Georg Seelig (also EE)
Emanuel Todorov
Electrical Engineering
Maryam Fazel
Shwetak N. Patel (also CSE)
Jacques “Chris” Rudell
Georg Seelig (also CSE)
Materials Science & Engineering
Marco Rolandi
Mechanical Engineering
Amy Shen
Junlan Wang
Technical Communication
Sarah Kriz
Charlotte P. Lee
Julie Kientz