Faculty Expertise Areas

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computational hydrology and satellite data assimilation, studying the surface and subsurface hydrologic processes and their interactions to improve the predictability of extreme hydroclimate events under climate change.

Adjunct Instructor & Senior Research Associate

Research Areas:
Transportation safety modeling, spatial econometrics and statistics, big data analysis focusing on various concepts such as traffic flow, travel time, freight commodity analyses, methodological approaches.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Advanced econometric modeling, transportation planning and demand analysis, transportation safety analysis, disaster management and evacuation behavior analysis, adoption of emerging technologies (electric and connected vehicles) and their impacts on land use, public health and transportation energy.

Department Chair & Professor

Research Areas:
Earthquake resistance and retrofit of bridges, seismic assessment of high voltage infrastructure, strength assessment of green building systems, design strategies for rapid occupancy following extreme events.

Department Chair & Professor

Research Areas:
Electric vehicles and new vehicle technologies, emissions and air quality modeling, freight and logistics, innovations in traffic and transportation management and operations, non-motorized transportation.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Ecohydrology, modeling the impact of vegetation on water, carbon, and energy fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere, sustainable agriculture in dryland ecosystems.

Professor

Research Areas:
Tidal analysis, fluid mechanics research on the impact of the Columbia River plume on oceanic dynamics as they relate to tides, fish migration up the Columbia, and impacts of dams and dikes on fish habitat in the lower Columbia River.

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Groundwater hydrology, subsurface contaminant transport and fate, and environmental chemistry.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil liquefaction, geotechnical numerical and physical modeling, soil-structure interaction (SSI), probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and ground motions

Senior Research Associate

Research Areas:
Multimodal traffic operations, bicycle and pedestrian counting, multimodal safety, data archival for non-motorized transportation data.

Senior Research Associate

Research Areas:
Fate and transport of organic contaminants in environment, chemistry of tobacco and tobacco smoke, measurement of volatile organic compounds emission from industrial activities, consumer products, and biogenic sources, flavor chemicals and their impacts.

Associate Professor & Vice Provost for Faculty Success

Research Areas:
Multimodal transportation safety, management and dissemination of large transportation data, improvements in transportation operations.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, in-situ testing, numerical modeling, soil constitutive modeling, characterization of unique or problematic soils.

Professor

Research Areas:
Design of autonomous water samplers for surface waters, gas/particle (G/P) partitioning, air quality model development, chemistry of tobacco products.

Professor & Associate Chair of Graduate Programs

Research Areas:
Novel sensing methodologies for non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure, i.e. acoustic emission and ultrasonic monitoring, carbon nanotube-based composites, and video-based monitoring.

Professor

Research Areas:
Surface water quality and hydrodynamic modeling, fluid particle dynamics.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Risk management and resilience assessment under disaster and climate change, decision-making under uncertainty, and life-cycle management of civil infrastructure.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Watershed hydrology and non-point source modeling, riverine water quality and riparian vegetation modeling, lake and reservoir water quality modeling, multi-media contaminant transport and environmental risk modeling, environmental software development.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning & natural language processing (NLP)

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and systems & networking

Professor

Research Areas:
Functional logic programming and languages, symbolic computation

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer science theory

Professor

Research Areas:
Programming languages & formal methods

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy and systems & networking

Senior Instructor

Research Areas:
High-resolution computer graphics, genetic algorithms, computer programming and languages

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy, computer science education, and systems & networking

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics and systems networking

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security & privacy, computer science education and programming languages & formal methods

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computational imaging deals with image sensing and image sensor hardware, and novel compute compatible with in-pixel processing methods.

Professor

Research Areas:
Programming languages & formal methods

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security & privacy, high performance computing (HPC), and systems & networking

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Programming languages & formal methods

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics 

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics 

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Software, open source programming, artificial intelligence

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy, data science, and systems & networking

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer science theory

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision & computer graphics and data science

Instructor

Research Areas:
Machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and systems & networking

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Computing and quantum-safe cryptography

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy and programming languages & formal methods

Professor

Research Areas:
Software engineering

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Areas:
Advanced computer architecture, digital integrated circuits, hardware information security, digital system testing, memristors

Professor

Research Areas:
Electrical machines, controls, computational electromagnetics, maglev, magnetic gearboxes and renewable energy.

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
THz mixer design, phonon-cooled hot-electron bolomoter mixer fabrication, ultra-thin substrate preparation, e-beam lithography, reactive ion etching, thin film deposition, microcontact printing, FIB, SEM, TEM

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
RF, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, crystal-free wireless communication, wireless sensor mote miniaturization, field-deployable sensor systems

Professor

Research Areas:
Physical design automation for VLSI ICs, 3D heterogeneous integration, ML and quantum inspired algorithms, CNT and graphene-based devices, cryogenic electronics

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Cyberphysical systems, evolutionary computation, evolvable hardware, and mathematical games
 

Research Professor

Research Areas:
Acoustical oceanography, acoustic remote sensing, seafloor scattering/reflection, underwater acoustics, acoustic propagation, reverberation and ocean environmental effects on sonar systems

Senior Instructor Emeritus

Research Areas:
Embedded systems and FPGA System-On-Chip Design

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Active machine learning, subspace methods and reinforcement learning

Research Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, aeolian processes, atmospheric loss, and stellar atmospheres

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Obscure problems in electrostatics, lightning, wireless sensor networks, amateur radio, volcanology and coffee

Professor

Research Areas:
IC Design and Test Lab, mixed-mode and high-frequency test and characterization of ICs, semiconductor device characterization, design, and simulation

Professor & Chair

Research Areas:
Acoustics/sonar, electromagnetics/radar, computational methods for acoustics and electromagnetics and signal processing

Professor

Research Areas:
Modeling and verification of complex systems, formal methods, design automation, IC design, computing system design

Professor

Research Areas:
Microprocessor system design, computer architecture, embedded systems programming, computation and simulation

Professor

Research Areas:
Turbulence with an emphasis placed on physics related to wall-bounded, free-shear, canopy, particle-laden and multi-phase flows as well as wind/solar energy.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Sustainability concepts for infrastructure systems, sustainable energy storage systems and incorporating transparent PV technologies with urban agricultural systems to promote nature-inspired solar panels to decentralize city energy production and food supply. 

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Indoor air quality and building science, mathematical models to characterize sources, transformation, and removal processes of indoor air pollutants

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Robotics, neural control of behavior and locomotion, computational neuroscience, additive manufacturing, adaptive algorithms, and machine learning.

Professor
Member, Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Semiconductor thin films, nanowires, graphene, carbon nanotubes syntheses and characterizations, and the fabrication and testing of the electronic devices based on these semiconductor materials

Teaching Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Fluid mechanics, general mechanics (statics, dynamics), instrumentation & measurement, engineering fundamentals (ethics, design), electrical fundamentals, programming (using C/C++, Arduino, and MATLAB), thermodynamics, system modeling and vehicle crash dynamics.

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Micro-particle image velocimetry, measurements of flow in micro-devices, and non-Newtonian fluid flow

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Dynamics, controls, analysis & design of high-speed mechanical systems, system design, motion synthesis for manufacturing and material handling processes, robotics, computer-aided design & computer-aided manufacturing, geometric modeling, and experimental methods.

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Mechanical testing, fatigue testing, fracture mechanics, manufacturing process optimization, instrumentation, and robotics

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
First-principles-based methods and machine learning approaches to simulate dynamics of phonons and electrons, and application of such to solve materials problems

Professor

Research Areas:
Nanoscience, electronics packaging, reliability and failure analysis, electronic material characterization and modeling, deep learning

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Electronic packaging, engineering analysis, design optimization, semiconductor materials and manufacturing, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and characterization of electronic and engineering materials.

Professor

Research Areas:
Analytics, benchmarking, technology forecasting, data mining, and new product development

Professor & Associate Director 

Research Areas:
Technology roadmapping

Department Chair & Associate Dean for Research 

Research Areas:
New product development, entrepreneurship, and technology marketing and engineering education.

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Innovation management, entrepreneurship, knowledge management, organizational learning and problem-solving.