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SET Leadership
SET Dean: Dr. Raj Katti |
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Raj Katti, Ph.D. joined the UW Tacoma faculty in 2014 as the interim leader of the then UWT "Institute of Technology" from 2015 to 2017. During that time, he helped guide the Institute’s transition from a program to the School of Engineering & Technology and was named dean of the new school. Dr. Katti did his undergraduate work at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University. |
SET Faculty Directory
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Abraham, Menaka |
Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Ali, Mohamed |
Professor | Computer Science & Systems | GIS processing, analysis, and visualization; databases and data streams; geographical information systems (GIS) |
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Al-Masri, Eyhab |
Associate Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Internet of things (IoT) |
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Almeida, Nara |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Civil Engineering | |
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Anderson, Kevin |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Arnold, Lorne |
Assistant Professor | Civil Engineering | |
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Atwood, Derek |
Part-time Lecturer | Information Technology | Business intelligence, machine learning |
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Bai, Yan |
Professor & Associate Dean of Academics, School of Engineering & Technology Director, Master of Cybersecurity and Leadership Program |
Cybersecurity & Leadership | Cybersecurity, privacy, cloud and edge computing, Internet of things, and Blockchain |
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Baiocchi, Orlando |
Professor, Research Associate, Center for Data Science |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Wireless sensor networks, engineering |
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Baker, Joel |
Professor | Civil Engineering | |
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Barreto, Paulo |
Associate Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Cryptography |
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Bryan, Charles |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Cai, Wei |
Assistant Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Decentralized computing, blockchain, Web3, Metaverse, digital economics, online games |
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Capaul, Thomas |
Program Chair of Computer Science & Systems, Associate Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Software engineering, code security, and database design |
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Cheng, Wei |
Program Chair of Computer Science & Systems, Associate Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Wireless networks, smart cities, security, and algorithm design and analysis |
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Cheng, Zhi-Qi |
Assistant Professor | ||
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Chinn, Donald |
Associate Professor | Computing & Software Systems | Algorithms and algorithmic analysis, computer science education |
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Cordingly, Robert |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Costarella, Charles |
Associate Teaching Professor | Information Technology | Networking |
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Crum, Larry |
Professor Emeritus | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Dargahi, Vahid |
Assistant Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
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Dawn, Debasis |
Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Microelectronics/microsystems, radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), silicon (CMOS/SiGe) ICs for radar, sensors |
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De Cock, Martine |
Professor | Computing & Software Systems | Privacy preserving machine learning, cybersecurity, data analytics to improve the quality of healthcare, artificial Intelligence, databases and data streams, web science |
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Dillon, Heather |
Program Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Renewable energy systems, solid-state lighting, energy efficiency in buildings, fundamental heat transfer studies, and engineering education. |
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Donatelli, Cassandra |
Assistant Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Biomechanics |
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Fattah, Hossam |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Ford, Matthew |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Mechanical Engineering |
Engineering education, mechanics of materials and structures, and engineering design |
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Fowler, Alan |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Object-Oriented Programming |
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Fry, Andrew |
Director of Industry Partnerships and Lecturer | ||
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Goda, Bryan |
Professor,
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Information Technology | |
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Grant, DC |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Information Technology | Intelligent grid-connected hydrogen-oxygen power storage, Development of a cyber security immune system response |
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Gutmann, Robert |
Affiliate Associate Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
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Hadnagy, Emese |
Program Chair of Civil Engineering, Associate Professor | Civil Engineering | Contaminants on coastal water systems, Environmental engineering, Environmental pollution prevention, Water resources engineering |
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Hoang, Varik |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Horakova, Ingrid |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Quantitative Mathematics |
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Hu, Juhua |
Associate Professor, Director, Center for Data Science |
Computer Science & Systems | Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Data Science especially for Computer Vision, Healthcare, and Smart City. |
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Hung, Ling-Hong |
Assistant Research Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Protein structure and purification, Parallel computing, High performance computing, Bioinformatic tools, Machine learning, Site-directed mutagenesis |
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Jasim, Mohammed |
Assistant Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Fog Computing, Network Function Virtualization, Millimeter Wave Systems, Phased Arrays and Beamforming |
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Johnston, Charles |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Katti, Raj |
Dean and Professor, School of Engineering & Technology Research Associate, Center for Data Science |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Digital systems, cryptography, engineering, security |
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Kauer, Joseph |
Part-Time Lecturer | Information Technology | |
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Kim, Hee Seok |
Assistant Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Thermal energy conversion systems, Nanostructured materials synthesis and Characterization and soft material-based bioelectronics manufacturing |
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Kitali, Angela |
Assistant Professor | Civil Engineering | Using real-time data and applying data-driven, statistical, and machine learning approaches to improve highway safety and traffic operations |
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Laddomada, Massimiliano |
Program Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Signal processing and wireless communications, especially modulation and coding, including turbo codes; Biochemical signal processing for molecular communications |
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Lee, Seung-Jin |
Assistant Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Sustainable engineering and design, Industrial ecology, Life cycle assessment and Circular economy |
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Liang, Hengshou (Winston) |
Assistant Professor | Information Technology | |
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Lloyd, Wes |
Associate Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering |
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Logenthiran, Thillainathan |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Advanced power system analysis, Power system operation and management, Power generation, transmission and distribution, and Renewable energy systems |
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Marriott, Chris |
Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Artificial life, Self-organizing systems |
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Mason, Tim |
Part-Time Lecturer | Information Technology | |
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McCourt, Michael |
Assistant Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Control systems and estimation, nonlinear systems, hybrid systems, and switched systems |
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Mobus, George |
Professor Emeritus | Computer Science & Systems | Algorithms and complexity, embedded systems, robotics |
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Nayak, Deveeshree |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Information Technology | Cyber Security, IT and Information Science, STEM education |
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Pagano, Mark |
Professor | Mechanical Engineering | |
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Rosenfeld, Moshe |
Professor Emeritus | ||
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Sakpal, Raghavi |
Associate Teaching Professor, Acting Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion | Computer Science & Systems | Artificial Intelligence |
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Schuessler, David |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | |
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Sheng, Jie |
Associate Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Microprocessor embedded systems, robotics, signals and systems, control engineering applications, engineering education |
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Shu, Zhiquan (Andy) |
Assistant Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical engineering, specialized in cryopreservation of living cells/tissues/organs, and artificial organs, multidisciplinary research |
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Siddique, Nafiul |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer architecture, embedded system, digital logic design, system-on-chip (SoC), electrical and electronics engineering, VLSI, and integrated circuits design |
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Sobolewska, Monika |
Teaching Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Computer science education, curriculum development, pedagogy, online learning, outreach, and improving the under-representation of women |
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Suri, Ankur |
Teaching Professor | Information Technology | Simulating wireless sensor networks with OMNeT++, Load sharing routing protocol, Solving (linear and partial) differential equations using MQ method |
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Tenenberg, Josh |
Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Computer Science Education |
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Teredesai, Ankur |
Professor, Founding Director, Center for Data Science |
Computer Science & Systems | Data science applications for healthcare and its societal impact, artificial intelligence (AI), databases and data streams, web science |
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Tolentino, Matthew |
Assistant Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Hardware architectures, system software (firmware, operating systems, middleware, and novel applications), parallel and distributed systems, tools for efficiently exploiting the computational capacity of high-end computing systems, performance analysis, real-time data analytics |
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Torre, Damiano |
Assistant Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Software engineering, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence |
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Walters, Jeff |
Assistant Professor | Civil Engineering | |
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Weiss, Jeff |
Part-Time Lecturer | Computer Science & Systems | |
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West, Jim |
Assistant Teaching Professor | Information Technology | |
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Yeung, Ka Yee |
Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Endowed Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Bioinformatics, systems biology, data science, machine learning |
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Zhao, Dongfang |
Assistant Professor | Computer Science & Systems | Databases, cryptography, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence |
