NEW FACULTY With a national reputation for academic and research excellence and technology commercialization, the University of Utah’s College of Engineering continues to attract the world’s brightest and most inventive researchers to its faculty ranks. Seven new faculty members will join the faculty this year as the college responds to its growing enrollment.
TAO GAO
HEATHER HOLMES
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Bachelor’s and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University; Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park.
Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, Montana State University; Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah; Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah.
Research interests: Energy storage for electric transportation, renewable integration and robotics, water desalination technology.
Research interests: Energy storage for electric transportation, renewable integration and robotics, water desalination technology.
JIANLI CHEN
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University; Master’s in Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytech Institute and State University; Master’s in Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ph.D. in Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology. Research interests: Computing in building and urban development, renewable energy integration, intelligent control for sustainability and resilience.
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