By Bill Kisliuk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to welcome nine new faculty members in the fall of 2013-14. With more than 50 NSF Early Career Award winners on the faculty and 26 affiliated faculty who are National Academy of Engineering members, UCLA engineering is at the forefront of interdisciplinary research and education and is one of the top engineering schools at a public university anywhere in the world. Our vision: Our new faculty members: |
![]() Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering Research: Risk assessment, reliability engineering. Member of NAE |
XIAOCHUN LI![]() Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering Research: Scalable nano-materials. Winner of NSF CAREER Award |
![]() Associate Professor in Civil and Environ-mental Engineering Research: Water systems, hydrological fluxes Winner of NASA New Investigator and AGU awards |
![]() Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Research: Terahertz optoelectronics and microwave photonics Winner of early career awards from NSF, DARPA, ONR and ARO |
![]() Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering Research: Modeling and simulation of materials under extreme conditions. Winner of DOE’s Early Career Award |
![]() Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Research: Synthetic biological systems, targeted cancer therapy Winner of NIH Early Independence Award |
![]() Assistant Professor in Computer Science Research: Big Data. Large-scale distributed systems for processing massive data sets and runtimes for declarative languages |
![]() Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Research: Analysis, control design and security in cyber-physical systems and smart power grids |
![]() Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research: Design, fabrication of flexible materials with elastic energy storage and release capacity |