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College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Welcomes New Faculty

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is pleased to welcome our new faculty members joining Stony Brook University for the 2022/23 academic year. We have five new faculty members including lecturers, assistant professors and associate professors from diverse backgrounds who bring research and teaching experience from all over the world.

“On behalf of our faculty and staff, I am honored to welcome our new faculty to Stony Brook. They are sure to contribute greatly to our campus with their extensive knowledge and experience in their fields,” said Jon Longtin, Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “I look forward to working closely with them to ensure their success with our students and their research efforts that will improve CEAS and the greater Stony Brook community.”

Computer Science

Omar Haider Chowdhury

Omar Haider Chowdhury
Associate Professor

Omar Haider Chowdhury joins us as a SUNY Empire Innovation Scholar and an Associate Professor of Computer Science. Before joining SBU, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, and prior to that he worked as Post-doctoral Researcher at both Carnegie Mellon University and Purdue University. His research interests lie in computer security, privacy, formal methods, and automated reasoning. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at San Antonio and his BSc from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Jalaa Hoblos

Jalaa Hoblos
Associate Professor of Practice

Jalaa Hoblos was most recently and Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Behrend. Before joining Penn State, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hiram College. She was also an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University and the University of Akron. Her research interests include data quality analysis, cloud computing, wireless network security and statistical mathematics. She received both her PhD and MS in Computer Science from Kent State University.

Nengkun Yu

Nengkun Yu
Associate Professor

Nengkun Yu joins Stony Brook as a SUNY Empire Innovation Scholar from the University of Technology Sydney Center for Quantum Software and Information. His research interests include the verification and testing of quantum computation and distributed quantum computing. He received his PhD and BS in computer science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Civil Engineering

Wei Li

Wei Li
Assistant Professor

Wei Li joins us from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he was a postdoctoral researcher. He is interested in geosystems centered on infrastructure and energy and his research areas include groundwater flow and reaction, contaminant transport, geohazards, CO2 storage, large-scale geothermal modeling and granular media. He received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yifan Zhou

Yifan Zhou
Assistant Professor

Yifan Zhou has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering here at Stony Brook, working with Professor Peng Zhang. She joins the CEAS faculty as an Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on collaboratively integrating machine learning, quantum computing, and formal analysis to enable intelligent and resilient power system operations and support extreme renewable energy integration. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Mechanical Engineering

William Stewart

William Stewart
Assistant Professor

William Stewart joins Stony Brook from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. His research interests include aerodynamics, mechanics, and vehicle design. He received both his PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Biomedical Engineering

Ulas Sunar

Ulas Sunar
Associate Professor

Ulas Sunar joins Stony Brook as a SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor from Wright State University’s Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering. His primary research area focuses on functional and molecular optical imaging techniques for early disease detection and image-guided intervention in preclinical and clinical settings. He earned his PhD in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, in the research area of diffuse optical imaging.

- Sydney Corwin