Faculty

Research Areas

  • Energy Systems
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Energy Harvesting (Conversion) and Storage

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University (2020-present)
    • Affiliated Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University (2020-present)
    • Affiliated Member of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University (2020-present)
    • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University (2014-2020)
    • Affiliated Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University (2014-2020)
    • Affiliated Member of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University (2014-2020)
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
    • American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
    • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Invited Headline Speaker for the Faraday Discussion on Unimolecular Reactions (2022)
    • Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award from the Combustion Institute (2021)
    • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2020)
    • Research Excellence Award from the Combustion Institute (2020)
    • Doctoral New Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society PRF (2016-2018)
    • Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory (2011-2013)
    • Wallace Memorial Fellowship (2009-2010)
    • Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars Fellowship (2008-2010)
  • Education
    • PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
    • BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Research Areas

  • Economics & Computation
  • Optimization
  • Algorithmic Fairness
  • Large-scale Optimization
  • Matching Platforms

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2026-
    • Assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2020-2025
    • Co-founder, Robust Intelligence, 2019-2020
  • Honors & Awards
    • ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention Award, 2020
    • Google PhD fellowship, 2017
    • Smith Family Graduate Science and Engineering Fellowship, 2015
    • Best Paper Award, 18th Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, 2013
  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, Harvard University
    • BS, Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon

Research Areas

  • Information Retrieval & Web Search
  • Optimization
  • Resource Allocation
  • Stochastic Modeling and Simulation

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science and in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 2019-
    • Lecturer in Discipline of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2014-2019
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Information Theory Society (ITSOC)
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
    • Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's (CEAA), 2019
  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, Harvard University
    • MSc, Computer Science, Harvard University
    • BS, Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras (Greece)

Research Areas

  • Cell & Tissue Engineering
  • Genomics and Computational Modeling
  • Personalized Medicine and Patient-Specific Modeling

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2022-
    • Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, 2022-
    • Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Uppsala University, 2022-
    • Wallenberg Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2017 - 2022
    • Visiting Scientist, New York Genome Center, 2017 – 2022
    • Visiting Scientist, MIT, 2017 – 2022
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, 2017 - 2017
    • Graduate Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, 2012 - 2017
    • Research engineer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2011 - 2012 
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Wallenberg Academy Fellow with the Royal Academy of Sciences and Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Honors & Awards
    • Wallenberg Academy Fellow,  2022-
    • Wallenberg Fellow for distinguished young Swedish researchers to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2017-2022
    • Fellow, SciLifeLab, 2023-
    • Invited lecture, American Association for Cancer Research, 2024
    • Invited lecture, Max Plank Society, Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics, 2024
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, AGBT Genome Partnership, 2023
    • Invited lecture, Allen Institute for Brain Research, Annual Cell Symposia, 2022       
    • Invited lecture, Human Cell Atlas Technology working group, 2022       
    • Invited lecture, International Society for Stem Cell Research, 2022       
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, AGBT Genome Partnership, 2021       
    • Invited lecture, American Association for Cancer Research, 2021       
    • Klarman Cell Observatory symposia, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2020       
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, AGBT Genome Partnership, 2020       
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, AGBT Genome Partnership, 2020       
    • Young Investigator Grant, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2014 - 2019   
    • Invited lecture, Human Cell Atlas, HCA, 2019       
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, AGBT Genome Partnership, 2019       
    • Invited lecture, Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, 2018       
    • Invited lecture, Klarman Cell Observatory symposia, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2018       
    • Invited presentation to Broad Institute Board of Scientific Counselors, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2018
    • Invited presentation to Klarman Cell Observatory Board of Scientific Counselors, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2018   
    • Invited lecture, Human Cell Atlas, 2017       
    • Selected talk, Molecular Tri-Conference, 2015       
    • Shanghai Jiao Tong University Summer School scholarship, SJTU, 2014         
  • Education
    • PhD, Gene Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    • MSc, Molecular Biomedicine, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    • BSc, Biotechnology, University of Zagreb

Research Areas

  • Chemical Reactions and Kinetics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Electrochemical Engineering
  • Energy Storage and Conversion Technology
  • Separation Processes
  • Advanced Materials
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy, Mineral, and Materials
  • Energy Storage Systems
  • Energy System Economics
  • Circular Economy
  • Sustainable Energy Systems
  • Sustainable Materials
  • Mining

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • Professor, Columbia University, 2022 - Current
    • Department of Chemical Engineering
    • Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
    • Independent Director, FREYR Battery, 2022 - Current
    • Chief Scientist, Electra, 2021 - 2022
    • Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2019 - 2022
    • Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
    • Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
    • Associate Professor, Princeton University, 2017 - 2019
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
    • Co Founder, Feasible, 2015 - 2022
    • Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2018 - 2019
    • Department of Chemistry
    • Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2016 - 2019
    • Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 2013 - 2017
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
    • Assistant Professor, City College of the City University of New York, 2009 - 2013
    • Senior Applications Engineer, Sentilla Corporation, 2008 - 2008
    • Co Founder, WIT, 2006 - 2008
  • Honors & Awards
    • Stanley Thompson Professor in Chemical Metallurgy, Columbia University (2019)
    • Best Tweet, Princeton University (2018)
    • National Academy of Engineering Japan-USA Frontiers of Engineering Speaker (2016)
    • National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Organizer (2014)
    • National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Invitee (2013)
    • Nuclear Regulatory Commission Young Investigator Award (2012)
    • Xerox University Affairs Committee Award (2012)
    • Best Poster US-Korea Nanotechnology Conference (2012)
    • International Solid-State Circuits Conference Design Award for Picocube (2008)
    • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Fellow (2005)
    • National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellow (2005)
    • Cubicciotti Student Award - Electrochemical Society (2005)
    • Intel Robert Noyce Graduate Fellowship (2003)
    • University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Management of Technology Fellowship
    • (2002)
    • University of California, Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering Jane Lewis Student Graduate
    • Fellowship (2000)
  • Education
    • PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
    • ScB, Engineering, Brown University

Research Areas

  • Bioinstrumentation
  • Biomechanics
  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Biosignals
  • Medical Devices and Systems
  • Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 3D Printing and Biofabrication
  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Engineering Education

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
    • Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
    • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD)
    • Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
    • Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Columbia Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2024
    • Duke University Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022
    • Duke University Biomedical Engineering Departmental Service Award, 2021
    • Duke University Biomedical Engineering TA of the Year, 2018
    • Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award, 2016
  • Professional Experience
    • Undergraduate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2024-
    • Lecturer in the Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2022-
  • Education
    • PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
    • MS, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
    • BSE, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Research Areas

  • Development, structure-function, repair, and regeneration of the tendon-to-bone attachment

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • Orthopaedic Research Society
    • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Honors & Awards
    • Van C. Mow Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 2020
    • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2018
    • Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies - ICORS) 2018
    • Fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2017
    • Neer Award for Basic Science Research in the Shoulder (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society) 2009
    • Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) 2009
    • Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 2007
    • Neer Award for Basic Science Research in the Shoulder (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society) 1999
    • Hughston Award for Basic Science Research (American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) 1999
  • Professional Experience
    • Robert E. Carroll and Jane Chace Carroll Professor, Columbia University, 2017-
    • Professor of Biomechanics (in Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering) (with tenure), Columbia University (New York, NY)
    • Vice Chair for Basic Research, Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University, 2015-
    • Director of Robert Carroll & Jane Chace Carroll Laboratories, Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University (New York, NY), 2015-
    • Professor of Biomechanics (in Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineeri
  • Education
    • PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
    • MS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
    • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
    • BS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University

Research Areas

  • Security and Privacy
  • Software Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Cybersecurity

Additional Information

Research Areas

  • Mechanobiology
  • Biomaterials
  • Cell & Tissue Engineering
  • Genomics and Computational Modeling
  • Medical Devices and Systems
  • Cell and Tissue Biomechanics
  • Personalized Medicine and Patient-Specific Modeling
  • Immunoengineering

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Undergraduate Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 - present
    • Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Columbia University, 2019 - present
    • Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 - present
    • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - 2018
    • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2003 - 2012
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Biomedical Engineering Society
    • Society for Biomaterials
    • American Society for Cell Biology
  • Honors & Awards
    • AIMBE Fellow, 2023
    • BMES-SPRBM, Rising Star, 2011
  • Education
    • PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    • BS, Physics, Washington University in St. Louis
    • BS, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Areas

  • Solid Mechanics
  • Dynamic Behavior of Structures
  • Mechanics of Advanced Materials
  • Soft Materials Mechanics

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, NewYork, NY (01/2022 – present)
    • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of SouthCarolina, Columbia, SC (8/2017 – 01/2022)
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (8/2011 - 8/2017)
  • Research Experience
    • Summer Visiting Researcher, Sandia National Laboratory (May 21 – June 14, 2012)
    • Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2009 - 2011)
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Associate Editor: Mechanics of Materials (Jan 2022 -present)
    • Member: Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM), (2007-present)
    • Member: American Society of Composites (ASC) (2011-present)
    • Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2011-present)
  • Honors and Awards
    • Carnegie Africa Diaspora Fellow, June 2022-August 2023
    • Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia 2019/2020
    • The Peterson Award, SEM’s Best Paper Award for the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, SEM, 2018
    • The James W. Dally Young Investigator Award, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2018.
    • 2018 Breakthrough Star, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina, 2018
    • Young Investigator Research Award, College of Engineering and Computing, the University of South Carolina, 2017
    • ORR Early Career Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Materials Division, 2016
    • Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2014
    • Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Applied Mechanics Division, 2013

Research Areas

  • Geotechnical Engineering

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Professor, Columbia University, 2007-
    • Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, January-June 2006
    • Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2000 – 2007
    • Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 1998-1999
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 1994 – 1998
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Editor-In-Chief: Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology (2013-, with Jonathan Wu)
    • Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmnetal Engineering (2011-)
    • Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami (2006-)
    • Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Geoengineering, Taiwan Geotechnical Society (2011-)
    • Geosynthetics Committee, Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (1998-)
    • Poromechanics Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE (2002-)
    • Secretary, ASCE Met Section Engineering Mechanics Committee (2011-)
    • Public Relation Committee, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2011-)
    • Technical Committee 101, ISSMGE-Laboratory Stress Strength Testing of Geomaterials (2011-)
    • Technical Committee 305, ISSMGE-Geotechnical Infrastructure for Megacities and New Capitals (2014-)
    • Committee of Inelastic Behavior, Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE (2002-)
    • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE (ID No. 289040)
    • Member, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
    • Member, International Geosynthetics Society (membership #8856)
  • Honors and Awards
    • IGS Award, Highest Award from International Geosynthetics Society, Berlin, Germany, 2014
    • Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2001-2006
    • L.N. Gumilyov Honorary Medal, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2015
    • Best Paper Award (with Toshinori Kawabata), Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, 2016
    • Best Paper Award (with Dov Leshchinsky), Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, 2014
    • Honorary Professor, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, China, 2014
    • Aitalyev Medal, Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society, 2013
    • Best Paper Award (one of top 3 papers), Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Official Journal of International Geosynthetics Society, 2011
  • Education
    • PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo
    • MS, Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo
    • BS, Civil Engineering, Kyoto University 

Research Areas

  • Communications
  • Embedded Systems
  • Hardware Accelerators
  • Networking
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Speech Processing
  • Sensor Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet of Things
  • Parallel Computing
  • Systems

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-
    • Principal Scientist, Architecture Design Lead, Mobile System on Chip, Broadcom Inc.
    • Principal Engineer, The Mathworks
    • Principal MTS, AT&T Wireless Research
    • Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories Cellular Mobile Communications
    • Academic Instructor, graduate level and executive courses, UCLA, UCSD, CU
    • Founder, startup InnovICs , third generation cellular system design
    • Intellectual Property Consulting
  • Honors & Awards
    • IEEE, Senior Member
    • Three dozen patents on signal processing, wireless and mobile communications (database link) 
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad