Core Faculty (Former)

January 16, 2020

Penny Hinke

Biography Penny Hinke is joining the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department as a teaching assistant professor, where she has taught advanced technical communication since 2016. Penny received an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is a graduate of the Artist Trust EDGE Development Program for Literary Artists. Her work has appeared in literary magazines and journals…

July 26, 2017

Brian Johnson

Biography Brian Johnson joined UW’s Electrical & Computer Engineering Department in 2018 as an assistant professor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010. He has five…

March 18, 2016

Robert Bruce Darling

Bruce Darling is currently the interim Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He joined the department in 1985, and has regularly taught courses in electronic circuits and devices, analog circuit design, photodetection, semiconductor devices, microfabrication, medical instrumentation and senior project design. His research areas have covered many different areas of integrated sensor…

March 16, 2016

Vikram Jandhyala

Biography Vikram Jandhyala was a professor and former chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Vice President for Innovation Strategy at the University of Washington, Executive Director of CoMotion (UW’s collaborative innovation hub) and Co-Executive Director of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), and adjunct professor in the Information School. He also…

March 3, 2016

Yasuo Kuga

Yasuo Kuga was born in Kitakyushu, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1977, 1979, and 1983, respectively. He was an engineer at Matsushita Electric Industrial Corporation, Osaka, Japan, from 1971 to 1975. From 1979 to 1983, he was a research associate at the University of…

Appointments Research Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Adjunct Research Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Biography Katrin Kirchhoff is a research professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering with an adjunct appointment in computer science and engineering. Her research areas include statistical speech and language processing, human computer interactions and health informatics, with particular emphasis on multilingual…

Appointments Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Biography Hannaneh Hajishirzi is a research assistant professor at the University of Washington. Her research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from the computer science department at the University of Illinois…

Daniel J. Dailey

Daniel Dailey received the B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in 1982 and 1988 respectively. He is a research track Professor and also holds an adjunct appointment in Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering where he serves as the director of…

Appointments Research Professor, Electrical Engineering Research Professor, Bioengineering Biography Dr. Lawrence A. Crum is Principal Physicist in the Applied Physics Laboratory, Research Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, and Founder and former Director of the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, all at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has held previous positions at…