Lingzi Wu
Lingzi Wu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management. Strategically expanding Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) is essential to support the electrification of the transportation sector, which is responsible for a significant 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. My research interests include assessing and developing an equitable nationwide expansion of EVCI to rectify past injustices rooted in various communities, particularly ones that have been historically underrepresented, environmentally burdened, and economically distressed. Email...
Zachary Sherman
Zach Sherman is an assistant professor of chemical engineering. The Z Lab leverages a unique computational tool set to investigate the self-assembly, transport, and effective properties of colloidal materials, particularly those driven by or responsive to electromagnetic fields. Broadly, we are interested in (1) developing new computational methods that are both fast and accurate, (2) elucidating fundamental relationships among electromagnetic fields, colloid structure, colloid dynamics, and effective properties, and (3) applying this fundamental understanding for application-specific design of colloidal material technologies. Our specific interests include designing new optical metamaterials incorporated in optoelectronic devices, understanding field-driven transport of magnetic colloids within porous media for biomedical applications,...
Di Xiao
Di Xiao is Department Chair of Materials Science & Engineering, the Robert J. Campbell Chair in the College of Engineering, and Professor of Physics at the UW. Xiao develops novel ways to probe and control magnetism in van der Waals materials. He investigates novel phenomena, including transport and optical signatures of topological phases and heterostructure engineering of novel quantum states. Xiao is a renowned theorist in the field of quantum materials, having been named a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher every year since 2017, with his work cited over 46,000 times and holding an h-index of 71....
Sajjad Moazeni
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Sajjad Moazeni is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UW. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2018 focusing on large-scale and energy-efficient electronic-photonic integration. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. Prior to joining UW, he was a postdoctoral research scientist in the Bioelectronic Systems Lab at Columbia University from 2018 to 2020. His research interest lies at the intersection of integrated system design and photonics with applications in computing and communication, sensing and imaging, and life...
Douglas A. Reed
Assistant Professor of Chemistry The Reed lab makes microporous materials - solids with molecule-sized pores and atomically thin walls that result in very high surface areas. While typical microporous materials are made with rigid and insulating walls, our group utilizes new types of chemical bonds that are flexible or conductive, making the resultant structures amenable for efficient greenhouse gas capture, water purification, energy storage, or alternative energy production. Email | Website...
Jungwon Choi
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Jungwon Choi's research interests include high-frequency power converters, wireless power transfer for battery-powered vehicles, industrial and biomedical applications, magnetic designs, controls at high-frequencies, energy storage, and wide bandgap devices. In 2017, she was selected to the Rising Stars in EECS, received Unlock Idea awards from Lam Research in 2019 and 2020, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics and a member of several IEEE committees. Email | LinkedIn...
Shijing Sun
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Shijing Sun's research lies at the crossroads of materials science, data science, and robotics, driving interdisciplinary studies into autonomous materials design for clean energy technologies. With a vision to address global energy, climate, and sustainability challenges, Dr. Sun’s interests span from understanding the fundamental structure-function relationships of inorganic materials to tool development incorporating artificial intelligence for amplified research capacities and efficiency. She joined UW from the Toyota Research Institute where she worked on EV energy storage. She previously worked at MIT applying data science to thin film photovoltaics. Email | Website | LinkedIn...
Aniruddh Vashisth
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering The Vashisth research lab focuses on energy efficient, advanced manufacturing of materials and composites. Specifically, we are interested in using low-frequency electromagnetic fields (1-200 MHz) and plasma for manufacturing and processing composites, synthesis of batteries materials, and recycling polymers. Additionally, the lab also couples experimental work with molecular simulations. Our lab uses reactive molecular dynamics to understand the reactive events that drive and can potentially be optimized for advanced manufacturing. The Vashisth lab is part of the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative. Email | Website | LinkedIn...
June Lukuyu
June Lukuyu is an assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Washington. She joined the UW in January 2023 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is an Energy for Growth Hub Fellow. Lukuyu's research focuses on developing and planning for inclusive energy systems and innovative technologies in underserved communities, centering on promoting sustainability, social development, and human empowerment. Her work uses a wide range of data analytics, computing techniques, and social science methods to build models for integrated energy development, and systems planning, with model outputs aimed at informing energy, climate, and development decision-making. Website | LinkedIn...
Dylan Stevenson
Dylan Stevenson is an assistant professor of Urban Design + Planning in the College of Built Environments. He joined the UW in Autumn 2022. Stevenson, who is of Prairie Band Potawatomi descent, researches how culture informs planning strategies and influences land relationships. More specifically, he investigates how tribal epistemologies structure notions of Indigenous futurities by centering Indigenous cultural values at the forefront of environmental stewardship and cultural preservation. Website | LinkedIn...
Julie Rorrer
Julie Rorrer is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. She joined the UW in January 2023 after completing postdoctoral research as an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University. The Rorrer Lab leverages tunable heterogeneous catalytic systems to enable sustainable chemical transformations including the chemical upcycling of waste plastics, and catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived platform molecules. By developing targeted active catalytic sites to enable new chemical transformations and leveraging advanced characterization techniques, we...
Chaoyue Zhao
Dr. Zhao works on data-driven optimization methodologies to support strategic and operational planning in power systems management. She developed innovative data-driven approaches to enable effective decision-making under uncertainty for power system scheduling problems such as optimal power flow and unit commitment. Her analytical models advance scalable solution methods to improve cost-effectiveness, streamline daily power system operations, and mitigate system disruptions and risk. Email | Website...