MGEN Full-Time Faculty

Below are the full-time faculty that help teach the Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs.


Omar Badreldin
Omar Badreldin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director,  Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs

predicting software evolution using a variety of approaches, including software quality predictive analysis, with the goal of enhancing upfront software designs, and enabling effective continuous design refactoring


Ram Hariharan
Ram Hariharan
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of MGEN Operations, Seattle,  Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs


Robin Hillyard
Associate Teaching Professor,  Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs

Sorting algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Anonymization--cryptography--blockchain.


Handan Liu

High-Performance Computing (HPC) for AI, scalable and distributed machine learning, large language models (LLMs) with a focus on efficiency and scaling (quantization, PEFT), reasoning and cognitive abilities, and multimodal learning.


Maricla Pirozzi Quartey
Maricla Pirozzi Quartey

Area of Focus: Program director for the information systems-bridge and data architecture and management master's programs, as well as administration operations management for multidisciplinary engineering master's program unit.