Core Faculty
November 17, 2025
Johannes Fröch
January 13, 2025
Luyao Niu
Luyao Niu is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington and the Global Innovation Exchange. He teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on programming, signals, and sensors & circuits. Luyao’s research focuses on establishing trustworthy autonomy. The solutions use an interplay of methodologies from machine learning, optimization and control,…
December 13, 2024
Dinuka Sahabandu
July 22, 2024
Jing Yu
Bio Jing Yu received the Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech in 2024. Prior to that, she received the B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. She is broadly interested in the interplay between control theory and machine learning, with a focus on online decision making and distributed algorithms for large-scale sustainable energy…
May 21, 2024
Banghua Zhu
Bio Banghua is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, starting in Fall 2025. He received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was advised by Michael I. Jordan and Jiantao Jiao. He received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. Banghua’s…
May 16, 2024
Vasileios Charisopoulos
Bio Vasilis is currently an AI & Science Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, hosted by Rebecca Willett. He is broadly interested in developing numerical optimization methods for machine learning, signal processing and scientific computing. He holds a PhD in Operations Research & Information Engineering from Cornell University. Vasilis was recognized…
Yiyue Luo
Bio Yiyue received her Ph.D. degree in EECS from MIT in 2024 and a B.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from UIUC in 2017. Her research lies at the intersection of digital fabrication, human-computer/robot interaction, and applied AI. Her research on integrated intelligent textiles has been published in interdisciplinary journals, e.g., Nature Electronics and…
August 31, 2023
Jungwon Choi
Biography Jungwon Choi (GS’13-M’19) is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2019, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2013, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea University in Seoul,…
July 5, 2023
Ang Li
Biography Ang Li (he/his) is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW. He earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, his M.A. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton University. He directs the PN Computer Engineering Lab (PNCEL), which innovates from…
July 3, 2023
Hossein Naghavi
Biography Hossein Naghavi is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on terahertz integrated circuits. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology and the University of Tehran, Iran, respectively. From 2016 to 2018,…
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