Affiliate Faculty


December 7, 2016

Nirav Desai

Nirav Desai

Nirav S. Desai is an entrepreneur, investor, and strategist who integrates technologies to enable the next wave of computing. Over the course of his career, Mr. Desai has consulted with clients in the technology, health, manufacturing/logistics, and government sectors – helping a major consulting firm build a 100+ person immersive technology (virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.)…


November 17, 2016

Murat Kaya Yapici

Murat Yapici

Murat Kaya Yapici received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University—College Station (TAMU) in 2004 and 2009, respectively. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Solid State Electronics, Photonics and Nano-Engineering Laboratory at TAMU. Yapici has expert knowledge on device fabrication, microelectronic process technologies,…


November 16, 2016

Randy Bly


November 10, 2016

David Baisch


March 22, 2016

Sreeram Kannan

Kannan runs the Information theory lab with research interests in information theory, which deals with the fundamentals of information processing and transmission, and its applications to computational biology as well as in wireless networking. Kannan previously received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1 grant for his work on RNA sequence assembly in collaboration with…


March 21, 2016

Visvesh Sathe

Visvesh Sathe joined the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2013. Prior to joining the faculty at the UW, he served as a Member of Technical Staff in the Low-Power Advanced Development Group at AMD, where his research focused on inventing and developing new technologies for next-generation microprocessors. Sathe led the…


March 11, 2016

Babak Parviz

Babak Parviz is the CEO and founder of NewDays.ai. From 2023 to 2025, he was a venture partner at the Madrona Venture Group primarily focused on venture capital investments in artificial intelligence, healthcare, and deep tech. Before joining Madrona, Babak was a vice president at Amazon for eight and a half years. He founded and…


March 4, 2016

Wei-Chih Wang

Wei-Chih Wang

Wei-Chih Wang is currently a Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems at the National Tsinghua University. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated from University of Washington with a degree in electrical…


Lin Xiao


Dirk Nicolas Weiss



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