Faculty & Staff Directory

Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network, 

Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty

Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Professor, 

Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces

Assistant Professor, 

Mammalian synthetic biology tools to advance cancer cellular therapy, regenerative medicine, and microfluidic human organ models

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Director of Program Development, 

Professor, 

Cellular and molecular mechanomedicine, Cancer cell biology and mechanics, Embryonic stem cell biology and mechanics, Mechanical biotechnologies and their applications to cells, tissues, and organisms, Mechanotransduction: nuclear deformation and gene expression

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 

Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing

Associate Professor, 

Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms

Professor, 

development of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing methods; nanopores as molecular sensors; bioinspired sustainability solutions; optical and electrical analysis of biomolecular systems; electron microscopy and electron-beam shaping of nanomaterials

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes

Administrative Assistant, 

Research Scientist, 

Professor, 

Natural product biochemistry, plant abiotic and biotic interactions, carbon sequestration, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery

Director of Graduate Student Services, 

Senior Academic Advisor, 

Associate Professor, 

Development of detailed microkinetic models for complex reacting systems; automating the discovery and calculation of reaction pathways; heterogeneous catalysis

Marketing, Communications and Events Coordinator, 

Director & Teaching Professor, 

Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Assessment, Thermo-fluids Engineering, Microscale Heat Transfer, Numerical Modeling of Laser Welding of Plastics, Thermal Effects in Nonlinear Optical Material

Affiliated Faculty, 

dynamics of large-scale molecular machines, working to identify the physical principles that guide biomolecular dynamics, using molecular simulation approaches to interpret experimental data from a wide range of techniques, including biochemical, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic electron microscopy

Associate Professor, 

Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight

Professor Emeritus, 

Process safety education High pressure chemical processes

Affiliated Faculty, 

single molecule biophysics, molecular biophysics

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor and Chairperson, 

Mechanobiology of neural systems; Systems for nerve regeneration; Diversity and equity in engineering

Affiliated Faculty, 

Grants Manager - Pre Award, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, Seattle, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures

Assistant Director of Pre Award Administration, 

Assistant Professor, 

Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health

Academic Advisor and Program Manager, Silicon Valley, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance