The University of Utah’s College of Engineering continues to grow, and this year’s new faculty represents some of the brightest minds in their respective fields. Listed are the new faculty for the 2017-18 school year. Included are the departments they work for and their research interests. All started this month except where noted.
XIANFENG YAN
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Evacuation system design, traffic operations with connected vehicle technology, integrated traffic control, traffic incident management, and unconventional intersection design
ABBAS RASHIDI
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Information and sensing technologies (IST) for construction engineering and management, video/image processing for 3D reconstruction of civil infrastructure systems, acoustical modeling of construction job sites, tracking, modeling and analysis of nano-particle dispersion at construction job sites
ARMIN TAJALLI
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ultra-low power circuits, analog/mixed-signal circuits, data converters, serial data transceivers, clock and data recovery, phase-locked loop, frequency synthesizer, RFID, RF/high-frequency circuits
SRIRAM KRISHNAMOORTHY
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Energy-efficient electronic/optoelectronic/photonic devices, Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III – Nitrides, Gallium Oxide, Van der Waals epitaxy of 2D-layered materials and heterostructure devices
NEDA NATEGH
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vision science, systems and cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neuroengineering, applied probability and statistics, image, and information processing; computational and mathematical modeling
YONG LIN KONG (Jan. 2018)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Advanced manufacturing of nanomaterials-based biomedical devices, specifically the intersection of additive manufacturing, nanomaterials and biomedical engineering
CLAIRE ACEVEDO (Jan. 2018)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Stress and fatigue fracture, skeletal biomechanics, bone quality and bone fragility, multiscale approach – X-ray synchrotron, collagen and mineral deformation
SHANDIAN ZHE (Jan. 2018)
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Bayesian machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian nonparametrics, Bayesian sparse learning, data science, high-imensional feature selection, large-scale tensor/matrix factorization, computational biology
ROGELIO CARDONA-RIVERA
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Discourse-driven procedural narrative generation, empirically-tested models of narrative roles and narrative genres, simulating memory recall performance for narrative events during online comprehension, procedural generation of interactive narrative artifacts to augment human creativity