We welcome our exceptional incoming class of new faculty members for 2018, representing research and teaching expertise from across the engineering disciplines. They join our outstanding faculty team to train and encourage our students to become respected engineers around the world.

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Shrada Agarwal
Research Assistant Professor
Nuclear Engineering

Research areas: Helium mobility and its effects on the microstructure/physical properties of different advanced ultra-high temperature ceramics; understanding radiation tolerance of SiC based accident tolerant fuel (ATF) claddings for Light Water Reactors (LWR); neutron irradiation behaviour of novel materials like TiC for nuclear structuralapplications

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Hua “Kevin” Bai
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Power electronics in motor drive systems, EV on-board charger, EV DCDC converter, applications of wide-bandgap devices, and battery management systems.

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Amartya Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

Research areas: Development and usage of mathematical and computational tools for the characterization and informed discovery of novel nano-materials and nano-structures, first principles methods and their applications to the mechanics of materials.

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Joshua Dunn
Lecturer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Computer vision, image registration and
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Dustin Gilbert
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Research areas: Properties of nanostructured materials & nanoscale phenomena. Interactions & reversal behavior in hysteric systems.

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Sara Hanrahan
Lecturer
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

Research areas: Advancing Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, neurophysiology of anesthesia and motor control, active learning techniques to increase student engagement in engineering courses.

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Austin Henley
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Software engineering, human-computer interaction, developer productivity

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Hoon Hwangbo
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research areas: System informatics and data analytics, constrained statistical learning, renewable energy, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.

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Hugh Medal
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research areas: Stochastic programming (especially decision- dependent uncertainty); bi-level programming; integer programming (especially decomposition techniques); graph analytics; optimal design and protection of complex networked systems.

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Daniel Oliver
Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research areas: Engineering education, active learning environments in civil engineering labs and geomatics.

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Arun Padakandla
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Data science, privacy-preserving data analysis, security, information theory, cybersecurity, communication networks, optimization, statistical inference, computation complexity.

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Scott Ruoti
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Security, privacy, human-computer interaction, blockchain.

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Amir Sadovnik
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Computer vision, machine learning, natural language generation.

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Eric Schindelholz
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Research areas: Emergent materials for corrosion applications.

(Starts in January 2019)

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Michela Taufer
Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: High performance computing; scientific applications; numerical reproducibility; performance analysis, modeling, and optimization; cloud computing and volunteer computing; big data analytics.

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Dan Wilson
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Modeling and control, especially for medical applications.

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Kristen Wyckoff
Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research areas: Stormwater runoff, environmental microbiology, water reuse, engineering education.

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Zhenbo Wang
Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

Research areas: Optimal control theory, convex optimization methods, guidance, control, and dynamics, space systems design, atmospheric flight vehicles, neural networks and deep learning.

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Shutang You
Research Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Power systems and smart grid.

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Lin Zhu
Research Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research areas: Power system monitoring, protection and control.

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