New faculty
More than 30 new faculty members are joining the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University for the 2021-2022 academic year.
These talented professionals bring skills and insights from top universities, leading laboratories and industry innovators across the nation and around the world — from Texas to Turkey. As they help to grow America’s largest university engineering program, they also enhance the scope and impact of educational and research enterprise at the Fulton Schools.
These experts in biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical, manufacturing, mechanical and other engineering disciplines will augment an already remarkable community of students, researchers and entrepreneurs. Simultaneously, they will advance ASU’s collective efforts to address the great challenges of our time and transform society for the better.
“Academic and research excellence by our faculty is a central goal, and one that is effectively a journey requiring tremendous dedication by the faculty and support by FSE,” says Kyle Squires, dean of the Fulton Schools. “Our faculty not only make an impact within their disciplines but also foster an environment and a culture that promotes excellence. We always benefit from more gifted minds and articulate voices to broaden the impacts that we have all come to expect from the Fulton Schools. So, please join me in extending an enthusiastic welcome to these impressive scholars.”
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
- School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
- School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
- The Polytechnic School
- Academic and Student Affairs
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Madeline Andrews
Assistant Professor, Biomedical engineering
Developmental neuroscience, stem cell biology, brain organoids
Albert Wu Cheng
Associate Professor, Biomedical engineering
CRISPR engineering, genomics, bioinformatics, stem cells and cancers
Shaopeng Wang
Associate Professor, Biomedical engineering
Development of optical and electrochemical biosensors and bio-analytical instruments
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Tyler Baron
Lecturer, Software engineering
Game-based learning, educational games, software engineering
Eduardo Blanco
Associate Professor, Computer science and engineering
Natural language processing with a focus in computational semantics
Zhichao Cao
Assistant Professor, Computer science and engineering
Big data storage, data infrastructure, key-value stores, AI/ML in storage systems, new storage devices
Joshua Daymude
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Distributed computing, complex systems, stochastic processes, bio-inspired algorithms, self-organization, collective behavior
Yuli Deng
Lecturer, Computer science and engineering
Computer science education, especially in computer network and cybersecurity domains
Michel Kinsy
Associate Professor, Computer science and engineering
Hardware security, secure computer architecture and processor design and applied cryptography
Md. Shohel Rana
Lecturer, Software engineering
Data science, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, computer vision, cybersecurity
Chaowei Xiao
Assistant Professor, Computer science and engineering
Trustworthy machine learning and the artificial intelligence of things
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Christian Arenz
Assistant Professor, Electrical engineering
Quantum control theory, quantum information science, quantum information theory, open quantum systems, variational quantum algorithms
Matthew Marinella
Associate Professor, Electrical engineering
Microelectronic devices and circuits, energy efficient computing, memory technologies, neuromorphic computing and radiation effects
Arindam Sanyal
Assistant Professor, Electrical engineering
Mixed-signal integrated circuits and neuromorphic computing
Kanu Sinha
Assistant Professor, Electrical engineering
Quantum optics, open quantum systems, quantum information
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei
Assistant Professor, Civil, environmental and sustainable engineering
Biogeotechnical engineering
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Masoud Yekani Fard
Lecturer, Mechanical and aerospace engineering
Solid mechanics, composite and nanocomposite materials, material characterization and modeling
Qijun Hong
Assistant Professor, Materials science and engineering
Computational materials science, density functional theory, machine learning
Majid Minary
Associate Professor, Mechanical and aerospace engineering
Additive and advanced manufacturing and materials processing
Eileen (Soyoung) Seo
Assistant Professor, Chemical engineering
Synthetic polymer chemistry, additive manufacturing, nanomaterials and composites
Renxuan (Ren) Xie
Assistant Professor, Chemical engineering
Polymer physics, rheology and polymer processing, especially material design and additive manufacturing of functional plastics
The Polytechnic School
Brian L. Atkinson
Lecturer, Information technology
Natural language processing, data modeling and architecture, text analysis, and the application of these tools to real-world problems
Eric Bishop
Lecturer, Information technology
UNIX/Linux systems administration, security controls, ethical hacking, digital forensics and incident response
Laura Cechanowicz
Assistant Professor, Graphic information technology
Critical worldbuilding, the intersections of art and science, arts-based research, immersive media, pre-visualization, spatialization, production design, sound design, animation, filmmaking
Shenghan Guo
Assistant Professor, Manufacturing engineering
Statistical quality control, data-driven decision making, interpretable machine learning, additive manufacturing
Hyunwoong Ko
Assistant Professor, Manufacturing engineering
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics in additive manufacturing and design
Andi Wang
Assistant Professor, Manufacturing engineering
Data fusion for complex systems, system informatics, modeling for the internet-of-things and intelligent systems
Academic and Student Affairs
Ayca Tuzmen Yildirim
Lecturer, Engineering education
Software verification and validation, software project management, software change and release management in financial, insurance and telecommunication industries