Faculty Research Profiles

Orlando Baiocchi

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

In collaboration with the University of Paraiba, Brazil and the University of Azores, Portugal, we investigate the harvesting of electrical energy from trees based on the thermoelectric effect. This energy is used to feed sensors that measure environmentally relevant variables like temperature, humidity, and gas concentrations, without use of chemical batteries. These data are then transmitted wirelessly to a central hub and from there to satellites or the Internet. Applications include the prevention of forest fires and the navigation of helicopters in adverse weather conditions.

baiocchi@uw.edu

Joel Baker

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

Dr. Baker's interests as Director of the UW Puget Sound Institute center about the application of high-quality science to effective environmental policy.  His research expertise centers on the transport of organic contaminants in the environment, including the dynamics of contaminant transport in estuaries, and modeling the exposure and transfer of bioaccumulative chemicals in aquatic food webs.  He teaches courses in water quality modeling, environmental engineering, and qualitative methods.

Bonnie J. Becker

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Dr. Becker, a marine ecologist and conservation biologist, specializes in larval shellfish dispersal and fisheries sustainability. She engages with undergraduate students and community partners through the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group, focused on supporting tribal and state Dungeness crab fisheries management in the Salish Sea. Her students also collaborate with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, studying market squid migration and feeding habits in Puget Sound.As Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success at UW Tacoma, Dr. Becker merges her research and academic leadership experience to explore best practices in student success. Currently, she works with a multidisciplinary and cross-institutional team in exploring high-impact practices (HIPs). This work aims to foster access, equity, and equitable post-graduation outcomes while nurturing students' sense of purpose and belonging.
 

bjbecker@uw.edu

Kristin Kawena Begay

Assistant Professor, School of Education

I have both clinical and research experience related to the field of school psychology and learning. I am passionate about bringing psychological services into school settings, with a specific focus on best practices for appropriate identification services that lead to effective interventions for children from historically underserved populations. My research interests focus on culturally responsive assessment practices for all students, with a particular focus on identifying autism.

Begayka@uw.edu

Nicole Blair

Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

My research involves a number of topics: modern British fiction (Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group), American poetry by women (i.e. Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson), Americana and other genres of mostly American music (Lucinda Williams, for example), women's issues (equality in the workplace, etc). I have published two academic books and presented at numerous conferences. I am also interested in pedagogy, and have presented and published in this area as well. 

nblair@uw.edu

Alireza Boloori

Assistant Professor, Milgard School of Business

Healthcare analytics, operations, and policy
Opioid epidemic
Telehealth utilization

aboloori@uw.edu

Wei Cai

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Wei Cai holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia (2016), an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University (2011), and a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Xiamen University (2008). Prior to joining UW, Dr. Cai was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He has also conducted research visits at Academia Sinica (Taipei), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo). 

Dr. Cai has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has received six Best Paper Awards. His research focuses on decentralized computing, with emphasis on mechanism design, social computing, multimedia, and applications. He was named the World's Top 2% Scientist Single Year 2022 and 2023 by Stanford/Elsevier Scientist Ranking. Dr. Cai serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM),  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), and previously for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). He is a Steering Committee member for ACM NOSSDAV, where he served as TPC co-chair in 2023, and has been an Area Chair for ACM MM since 2023. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM. 

Dr. Cai is now leading the Decentralized Computing Laboratory. Please visit the lab site for more research updates at https://sites.uw.edu/weicaics

weicaics@uw.edu

Rubén Casas

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Studies rhetoric within urban contexts, in particular public space. Emphasizes the ways cities are transformed through everyday activities and social action, especially that of migrants and others who are marginalized by and through official planning and development paradigms.  

rcasas@uw.edu

Leighann Chaffee

Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I study the complex determinants of food choice and decision making, including attitudes and preferences. My current research is influenced by my training in neuroscience and ingestive behavior. In my lab, student researcher pose hypotheses around the roles of self-compassion, cognitive load, implicit preferences, reward processes, weight stigma, and other phenomena. Our broad goal is to create a more inclusive perspective on eating behavior, to better understand why we think the way we do about food, and the biopsychosocial influences on our daily eating decisions.

Edward A. Chamberlain

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I am an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Washington. In my research, I largely build upon the approaches of Ethnic Studies, Food Studies, and Gender Studies. This work ultimately connects the creative efforts of a diverse set of people and places. Likewise, this research speaks to the intersections of cultural experience across creative expression, exploring issues of equity, inclusion, and belonging. More recently, I've examined how performance, visual art and writing depict several communities across the United States and beyond.

ec10@uw.edu

EC Cline

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Currently my main focus is on inclusive excellence and broadening participation in STEM, and I am the Director of the ACCESS in STEM program and lead a research project examining self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and motivation in STEM. 

ecline@uw.edu

Dawn Debasis

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) development for new generation of highly integrated multifunctional devices, circuits and systems which promises a wide range of applications in science, engineering and medicine.

ddawn@uw.edu

Martine De Cock

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

Martine De Cock holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Ghent University. She is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington Tacoma, as well as a guest professor at Ghent University. She has over 190 peer reviewed publications in international journals and conferences on artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, web intelligence and logic programming. Her current research interests are privacy preserving machine learning, cybersecurity, and data analytics to improve the quality of healthcare.

mdecock@uw.edu

Rachel Endo

Professor, School of Education

My primary research interests include anti-racist approaches to organizational development (including HRM); Asian/American education; bilingual education; immigrant and refugee education; the role of Ethnic Studies in PK-12 and teacher education; transnational studies, and urban education.

rendo@uw.edu

Robin Evans-Agnew

Professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership

I focus on critical theory and participatory approaches for health promotion and advocacy, including the application of photovoice (a visual research methodology) for advancing environmental justice. I facilitated an 8-year community based participatory research project with Latinas and their children, mostly recently in a youth photovoice project on climate justice in nursing, supported by UW Earthlab.   I have written about and innovated research methods, particularly photovoice, and the application of critical discourse analysis in health equity research. I have applied my research skills in photovoice to develop new tools for community assessment, planning, and evaluation, and community based tools for evaluating asthma friendly daycares.

robagnew@uw.edu

Ehsan H. Feroz

Professor, Milgard School of Business

My main research interests are in institutional governance, corporate and non-profit financial governance, governance of the financial regulatory institutions, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory enforcement actions. My published work (http://ssrn.com/author=16772) has influenced both academic research in terms of citations (www.adscientificindex.com) as well as public policy.
 

ehf2@uw.edu

Laura Feuerborn

Professor, School of Education

I study systems change in schools as related to social emotional learning (SEL) and Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS). I have created staff and student survey tools for the purposes of obtaining their voices and engaging them in planning, implementation, and evaluation decisions.

feuerl@uw.edu

James E. Gawel

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

The overall theme of my scholarship is examining the impact of anthropogenic and natural disturbance forces on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the resulting implications for resource management and mitigation. I have developed multiple interrelated research areas within this larger theme: (a) the physical and biogeochemical factors that affect metal bioavailability and toxicity in aquatic systems; (b) the impact of metal pollutants on forest health; (c) nutrient cycling, invasive species dynamics, and ecological change in lakes; and (d) water resource management to address anthropogenic degradation. I have shaped my scholarship around UW Tacoma's urban serving and community engaged mission, reaching a broader audience through applied research, student and community involvement, and disseminating results through alternative venues that increase public accessibility and research translation.

jimgawel@uw.edu

Cheryl Greengrove

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I am a physical oceanographer currently working with biological, chemical and geological oceanographers studying Harmful Algal Blooms in Puget Sound and estuarine processes in Barkley and Clayoquot Sounds on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I also work on STEM based pedagogical studies that examine the impact of incorporating real world data and applied, hands-on learning and field activities on student learning.  My favorite activity is taking students in the field and involving them in hands-on research.

cgreen@uw.edu

Matthew Harvey

Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I am a public economist with a particular interest in institutions and crime. My research uses both experimental and applied micro techniques to explore the effect of micro-level institutions on trust, social engagement, crime, and race. I examine how policy and regime changes in sub-national institutions affect individuals' incentives to engage in improper behavior at the margin. I am further interested in the relationship between individuals and institutions: in particular the ways individuals respond to institutions after new information. While law enforcement is my main institution of focus, I have also focused on local governments and employer employee interactions.

matt1307@uw.edu

Rachel M. Hershberg

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I primarily explore positive youth development and critical consciousness development in adolescents across a range of contexts. In one line of work I examine how adolescents from different sociodemographic backgrounds think about social injustices and become engaged in actions to address them. In another I focus on Central American adolescents’ contributions to their transnational and mixed-status families and how families manage to experience well-being despite these challenging systems. I engage in community-based and participatory research methodologies and most of my scholarship is mixed-methods or qualitative.

rmhersh@uw.edu

Arthur Jago

Assistant Professor, Milgard School of Business

Arthur primarily researches automation and the psychology of technology, with a particular emphasis on how new technologies are changing people's experiences in business and society.

ajago@uw.edu

Sana Khalil

Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington Tacoma. I obtained my doctoral degree in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September 2022, where I was a US Fulbright doctoral fellow and received the 2018 Solomon Barkin Award for best research on improving the conditions of the working class.  
My research interests are in applied microeconomics and econometrics, centered on exploring social and economic inequalities. In my research, I integrate experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. One of my current studies examines the impact of intersecting identities such as race and sexual orientation on hiring outcomes.

sanakhl@uw.edu

Angela Kitali

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

My research focuses on improving highway safety, promoting transportation equity, and optimizing traffic operations using data, statistics, and machine-learning approaches. With over seven years of experience in research, I have contributed to over twelve research projects funded by the Florida Department of Transportation, the United States Department of Transportation, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the Washington State Department of Transportation, and the Ohio Department of Transportation. I have established an outstanding interdisciplinary research portfolio marked by successful collaborations with experts from various fields, including computer science, statistics, psychology, and sociology. I aspire to establish a successful transportation engineering research program that produces high-quality research, involves undergraduate students in research, and promotes diversity and inclusivity by collaborating with researchers from diverse backgrounds.

akitali@uw.edu

Edward P. Kolodziej

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

My interests include water quality and contaminant fate in natural and engineered systems, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to complex environmental issues affecting water and ecosystem health. My research group works to characterize and control non-point source pollution, understand attenuation mechanisms in natural systems, and optimize engineered systems for trace contaminant removal. We do lots of work on the water quality impacts of roadway runoff and tire rubber chemicals, seeking to improve urban water quality while insuring we control toxic chemicals at the source. Our research has been published in Science and other high impact journals and widely featured in news media such as The New York Times, LA Times, CNN, The Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, U.S. News and World Report, podcasts, documentaries, and many others.

koloj@uw.edu

Sharon Laing

Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership

Supporting healthcare services delivery for patients in safety-net healthcare systems and empowering the healthcare providers of the patients.

laings@uw.edu

Jingyi Li

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership

My primary research focuses on translating evidence-based, non-pharmacological interventions designed to improve the care and quality of life for older adults with chronic illnesses and their family caregivers. I am currently working on a couple of projects: (1) culturally adapting and pilot-testing chatbot-delivered psychotherapy for Chinese American families caring for older adults with chronic conditions, and (2) promoting health equity through cultural adaptation of Alzheimer's Cafe in Chinese American communities. 

jingyi89@uw.edu

Wes Lloyd

Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

My research broadly spans cloud computing, distributed systems, and software engineering.  I engage in research in serverless computing, cloud computing delivery models including function-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, container-as-a-service, and others, containerization, virtualization, performance profiling, analysis, and modeling, and autonomous deployment and management of cloud applications and infrastructure.

wlloyd@uw.edu

Eric Madfis

Professor, School of Social Work & Criminal Justice

Dr. Madfis is a qualitative sociologist and critical criminologist whose main areas of research focus on the causes and prevention of school violence, hate crime, and mass shootings.  He is interested in theoretical criminology and the causes of violent behavior, emergent forms of violence prevention policy and practice (such as harm reduction, behavioral threat assessment, conflict resolution, and restorative and transformative justice) and the sociology of deviance and social control more generally.  He has also published scholarship on tattooing, masculinities, white supremacist organizations, and school punishment.  His recent books include How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings and All-American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings.

emadfis@uw.edu

Erik McDonald

Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Erik is a teacher who enjoys using high-impact practices like community engagement and undergraduate research to help support the growth of his students. He currently leads a coho pre-spawn mortality monitoring project at Swan Creek (Puyallup, WA) every fall. This project connects local middle school and UW Tacoma students in a hands-on setting that teaches how science is used to address concerns in our society.

emcdonal@uw.edu

Marc Nahmani

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

The Nahmani lab works to understand how the nanoscale structure of neuronal synapses informs their function across development and during periods of plasticity, and how inappropriate modifications of these structures can lead to disease states. Our lab uses 3D electron microscopy, live functional imaging, and super resolution microscopy techniques.

mnahmani@uw.edu

Deveeshree Nayak

Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

Research Interest: Cybersecurity and Privacy Engineering

Cybersecurity research is a rapidly growing field as the threat of cyberattacks continues to grow. There are many opportunities for those with the skills and knowledge to pursue a career in this field. In Cybersecurity, I study different research methods, techniques, and technologies to protect computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. In my research work, I develop new ways to secure computer systems and networks and thwart cybercriminals' efforts. I also collaborate with government, private, and non-profit organizations to educate the public about cybersecurity risks and best practices. 

dnayak@uw.edu

Randy Nichols

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

My work focuses on the critical political economy of video games.  I have published three books, The Video Game Business (2014), Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play (2016), and Political Economy of Media Industries: Global Transformations and Challenges (2019) as well as various articles and book chapters analyzing the interplay of the video games industry with other media industries and the implications of video games on cultural and creative industries policy.

rjnic@uw.edu

Jill Purdy

Professor, Milgard School of Business

Dr. Purdy studies how people influence and are influenced by the organizations and environments in which they operate. She examines how collaboration and entrepreneurship can generate innovative and sustainable solutions to challenging problems that span across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. Her current research focuses on power in partnerships, building entrepreneurial ecosystems, and social and environmental innovation.

jpurdy@uw.edu

Emma Rose

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

My research interests include participatory and human-centered design and developing methods to engage communities and vulnerable populations in the design process.

ejrose@uw.edu

Bara Safarova

Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies

My research is on the intersection of spatial inequality and housing studies, focusing on spatial patterns of housing segregation. I combine geospatial analyses with qualitative methods. I am developing a new way of measuring segregation using the distribution of housing instead of demographic data and arguing that if segregation is built-into the physical environment, it should be measure that way to assist with development of effective policies. I serve on the executive board of LGBTQAI+ Allies interest group with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning advocating for inclusion of queer & trans people in cities. I teach service learning/community engaged urban design studios focusing on equity, climate action, and housing justice in partnerships with local public-sector and non-profit groups. 

bsafar@uw.edu

Peter Selkin

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

I read the big stories of the Earth told by small things. Specifically, I use the physical and chemical properties of micro- to nanometer-scale minerals as recorders of geological and environmental processes through deep time. I am particularly interested in what "weird" times in our planet's history - when major parts of Earth's systems were different from their present states, or when those systems changed significantly - can tell us about the present and future.

paselkin@uw.edu

Claudia Sellmaier

Associate Professor, School of Social Work & Criminal Justice

Dr. Sellmaier is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research focuses on economic opportunities and work life fit for parents caring for children with disabilities, looking specifically at the impact of work, and community resources. Dr. Sellmaier also examines disability in social work education. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods and conducts international research.

sellmaic@uw.edu

S. Joseph Shin

Assistant Professor, Milgard School of Business

The focus of Joseph's research is on the nexus of strategy and entrepreneurship. Joseph's research aims to enhance scholarly knowledge about the growth and scaling of high-growth nascent ventures in technology-based industries known as unicorn ventures. A unicorn venture is a private firm valued at more than one billion dollars. Using an extensive and novel longitudinal dataset and robust identification strategy, Joseph attempts to better understand the antecedents and consequences of ventures' high growth and fast-paced scaling.

seowon@uw.edu

Huatong Sun

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Professor of Digital Media and Global Design, multi-award-winning book author of Global Social Media Design (2020) and Cross-Cultural Technology Design (2012) with Oxford University Press, she writes for public media including Fast Company and The Conversation, speaks at SXSW, STC, UXPA, CHI, and ATTW, and offers workshops at local SIGs and international conferences ranging from humanities to engineering. She has won multiple awards for her community-engaged projects with marginalized user communities, including the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Technical Communication and the Distinction in the Practice of Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Association for Business Communication.

htsun@uw.edu

Josh Tenenberg

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

My interdisciplinary research spans education, human-computer interaction, design research, workplace studies, semiotics, and technical communication. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, undertook advanced study at the Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, and was visiting professor at the University of Victoria (Canada) and Indiana University. I served for six years as the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education, have published several dozen papers in the human sciences, and am the author of Narratives of Qualitative Research: Making Praxis Visible (Routledge). I teach human-oriented aspects of computing at the undergraduate and graduate level.

jtenenbg@uw.edu

Riki Thompson

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

My research and teaching reflect an interest in the dynamic nature of language, visual imagery, and technology. I am particularly interested in how people negotiate digital spaces to connect with (and exclude) others.

rikitiki@uw.edu

Grant Tietjen

Associate Professor, School of Social Work & Criminal Justice

Dr. Tietjen, formerly Associate Professor and Assistant Program Director for the Masters of Science in Criminal Justice at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013. He has written, researched, and lectured on convict criminology, stigmatization, successful reintegration, mass incarceration, criminological theory, and pathways to correctional/postcorrectional education. He has published in multiple peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and academic encyclopedias; with multiple works in progress. Dr. Tietjen is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Western Society of Criminology. He works with multiple carceral advocacy organizations, and mentors justice involved colleagues and students.

grantt5@uw.edu

Barb Toews

Associate Professor, School of Social Work & Criminal Justice

Still doing life: 22 lifers, 25 years later, co-authored by Howard Zehr and Barb Toews, features portraits and interviews with 22 men and women serving life without the possibility of parole at two points during their incarceration, 25 years apart. This decades-long look presents an opportunity to learn firsthand how these individuals have coped in prison, made sense of their lives, and grown as community members, as well as hear their perspectives on criminal justice policies and reform. Barb’s closing essay reflects on their words and experiences through a lens of trauma healing and restorative justice. The book invites readers to explore what it means to serve this sentence and consider the human and social consequences of such a policy.

btoews@uw.edu

Erik R. Tou

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Erik Tou received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2007, after earning an M.A. in mathematics from Dartmouth in 2004. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2002. Since 2005, he has served as director of the Euler Archive, a scholarly organization devoted to the collection, digitization, and translation of the works of 18th century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. Dr. Tou's research interests include the history of quadratic forms, the mathematics of juggling, and number theory over imaginary quadratic fields. As an educator, he seeks to build equitable and just pedagogies in mathematics that encourage students to be lifelong learners.

etou@uw.edu

Gene Wang

Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Dr. Gene Wang is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington. An interdisciplinary art historian, theorist, and curator, Professor Wang focuses on the conceptual and material dimensions of artists' physical acts of inscribing in transpacific representations between East Asia and the United States since the 1980s. 

gnw365@uw.edu

Carolyn West

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Dr. Carolyn M. West is an award-winning author, international speaker, documentary filmmaker, and expert witness who investigates gender-based violence, with a special focus on domestic violence and sexual assault in the lives of Black women. She teaches courses on Family Violence and Sex Crimes and Sexual Violence. In 2021, she became the inaugural Resident Fellow of the Office of Community Partnerships. Dr. West has authored more than 100 academic publications and presented hundreds of keynote addresses, workshops, and presentations around the country. She has been interviewed by national media outlets, including The New York Times and CBS News. Dr. West is featured in the documentary Subjects of Desire, an examination of contemporary beauty images of Black women, available on STARZ and Hulu. 

carwest@uw.edu

Ka Yee Yeung

Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

My research focuses on the development of optimized methods and cloud-based software tools for the analyses of big biomedical data. My group has expertise in next generation sequencing, long read sequencing and imaging data. My research experience includes bioinformatics, machine learning, data science, systems biology, cancer genomics, and precision medicine. I am strongly committed to enhancing the diversity of the STEM workforce. 

kayee@uw.edu

Weichao Yuwen

Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership

My scholarship focuses on examining the interplay of culture and health and developing technology-enabled solutions to promote health among marginalized individuals, families, and communities. I work with interdisciplinary and community partners to develop, test, and disseminate technology-enabled health solutions to increase access to tailored symptom self- and family-management support in people with chronic health conditions and their families. I also collaborate with computer scientists in exploring equitable and privacy-preserving machine learning approaches to use healthcare data for improving human health. 

wyuwen@uw.edu

Luna Zhang

Associate Professor, Milgard School of Business

Dr. Luna Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics. Her research interests include Consumer Behavior, Mobile Commerce, Platform Economy, Revenue Sharing, Business Analytics, Large Scale Data Analysis, and Information Systems and Operations Management Interface. Dr. Zhang's current project focuses on consumer search and purchase in mobile commerce and revenue sharing in the platform economy. She won the Distinguished Research Award at UW Tacoma in 2023 and the Best Paper Award at the prestigious academic conference, Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST) 2021. Her research has appeared in the premier academic journals, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and Information & Management.

xyzhang5@uw.edu

Dongfang Zhao

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology

Prof. Dongfang Zhao conducts research in multiple areas: databases, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and computer security. His publications have appeared in venues like SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SC, TPDS, AAAI, KDD, PAMI, and NDSS. His research has been sponsored by NSF, DOE, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and the Sloan Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle.

dzhao@uw.edu

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