The new hires, including 20 tenure-track professors, bring impressive credentials, a passion for teaching and research prowess in autonomy and robotics, engineering for human health, materials and energy, humanitarian engineering, aerospace engineering and more. We are excited to see what they will do.
Biomedical Engineering
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Ramkumar Annamalai
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, 2014
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Fanny Chapelin
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, CA, 2019
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Chong Huang
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2011
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Mark Suckow
Professor
D.V.M. Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1987
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Sheng Tong
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2003
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Caigang Zhu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2014
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Chemical and Materials Engineering
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Brittany Rassoolkhani (starting January 2020)
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, 2019
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Paul Rottmann
Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Materials Science & Engineering, 2017
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Civil Engineering
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Diana Byrne
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
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Shakira Hobbs
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Clemson University, 2017
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Hala Nassereddine
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, May 2019
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Computer Science
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James Brusuelas
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D. Classics, University of California Irvine, 2008
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Stephen Ware
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, North Carolina State, 2014
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Jihye Bae
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2013
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Luis Sanchez Giraldo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2012
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Peng Wang
Assistant Professor (Joint Appointment in ECE and ME)
Ph.D. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
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Biyun Xie
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, 2019
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Mechanical Engineering
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Scott Berry
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville, 2008
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Xu Jin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2019
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Savio Poovathingal (starting January 2020)
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2016
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Two additional tenure-track faculty members will be announced shortly.
