Specialization: Engineering

• Shayna Hilburg

  

  Shayna Hilburg is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Lilo Pozzo’s group in the University of Washington’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Prior to receiving her PhD in Materials Science & Engineering in the Program for Polymers and Soft Matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she worked in polymer processing…

• Kiran Vaddi

  

  Kiran Vaddi is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His current research interests are accelerated material design and discovery with emphasis on topological and geometrical representations of data. At UW, he…

• Taylor Kessler Faulkner

  

  Taylor Kessler Faulkner works with professor Siddhartha Srinivasa in the Personal Robotics Lab. Her research interests include human-robot interaction and AI, and her recent work is on developing interactive algorithms for robots learning from non-expert human teachers. She is currently working on the Robot-Assisted Feeding project in the Personal Robotics Lab. Taylor received her Ph.D. in…

• Tucker Burgin

  

  Tucker is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Washington department of Chemical Engineering and an eScience Institute postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on the application of machine learning to molecular simulations of enzymes, and specifically on the ability of neural networks to extract information about key sequence/function relationships from simulation data in order to…

• Ross Boczar

  

  Ross Boczar is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington, associated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Institute for Foundations of Data Science, and the eScience Institute. He is advised by Prof. Maryam Fazel and Prof. Lillian J. Ratliff. His research interests include control theory, statistical learning theory, optimization, and other…

• Vani Mandava

  

  Vani Mandava is the Head of Engineering for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center within eScience Institute. In her role, she is responsible for setting up the SSEC organization and work with research investigators to define the priorities and scope of software infrastructure that will strengthen the scientific software community. The primary mission of the…

• Maryam Fazel

  

  Maryam Fazel is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments in the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics. Maryam received her MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University, her BS in EE from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Control and…

• Cecilia Aragon

  

  Cecilia Aragon is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where she is director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab. Previously, she was a computer scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2005, after earning her Ph.D. in Computer Science…

• David Beck

  

  Dr. David Beck is the eScience Institute Director of Research & Education and a Research Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Beck has been associated with eScience since 2009, formerly serving as the Director of Research for the Life Sciences. For more than ten years, he has organized the eScience Community / Data Science Seminar.…