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Engineering Sciences - Area Deans and Directors

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Todd Zickler
Director of Graduate Studies: Fawwaz Habbal

Faculty of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Offering Instruction in Engineering Sciences

David E. Abrams, Lecturer on Engineering Sciences
Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science (on leave 2015-16)
Bethanne Altringer, Lecturer on Innovation and Design
Ariel Amir, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Applied Physics
James G. Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry
Michael J. Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies (on leave Fall term)
Demba Ba, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Katia Bertoldi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences
Sujata K. Bhatia, Lecturer on Biomedical Engineering
Paul B. Bottino, Lecturer on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering
Anas Chalah, Lecturer on Engineering Sciences
Yiling Chen, Gordan McKay Professor of Computer Science
David R. Clarke, Extended Tarr Family Professor of Materials (on leave Fall term)
Francis J. Doyle, John A. Paulson Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
David A. Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation
Daniela Faas, Senior Preceptor in Design Instruction
Thomas Fai, Lecturer on Applied Mathematics
Brian F. Farrell, Robert P. Burden Professor of Meteorology
John A. Girash, Lecturer on Engineering and Applied Sciences
Roy G. Gordon, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science
Fawwaz Habbal, Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics
Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics (on leave Spring term)
Thomas C. Hayes, Lecturer on Physics
Chuck Hoberman, Lecturer in Architecture
Robert D. Howe, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering (on leave Fall term)
Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne Professor Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering; Harvard College Professor
Peter J. Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Science and Engineering
Sarah Iams, Lecturer on Applied Mathematics
Donald E. Ingber, Professor of Bioengineering
Daniel J. Jacob, Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
Neel S. Joshi, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics
Frank N. Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Zhiming Kuang, Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science
Scott Kuindersma, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
Jennifer Lewis, Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering (on leave Spring term)
Na Li, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics
Xin Li, Assistant Professor of Materials Science
Christopher J. Lombardo, Lecturer on Engineering Sciences
Marko Loncar, Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering (on leave 2015-16)
Yue Lu, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics
Vinothan N. Manoharan, Wagner Family Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics
Scot T. Martin, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Richard McCullough, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering���
Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies
Karena A. McKinney, Lecturer on Environmental Science & Engineering
David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy
Daniel J. Needleman, Associate Professor of Applied Physics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Kevin K. Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics (on leave Spring term)
James R. Rice, Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics (on leave Fall term)
Christ Richmond, Visiting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Shmuel Rubinstein, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Sadasivan Shankar, Margaret and Will Hearst Visiting Lecturer in Computational Science and Engineering
John H. Shaw, Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Maurice A. Smith, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering
Pia M. Sorensen, Preceptor in Science and Cooking
Frans A. Spaepen, John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics (on leave Spring term)
Peter R. Stark, Visiting Associate Professor in Engineering Sciences
Elynor M. Sunderland, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Zhigang Suo, Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials
Vahid Tarokh, Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow of Electrical Engineering
Eli Tziperman, Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr. Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics (on leave Fall term)
Patrick D. Ulrich, Lecturer on Environmental Science and Engineering
Joseph Usoff, Visiting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Chad D. Vecitis, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Joost J. Vlassak, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Materials Engineering
Conor J. Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering (on leave Fall term)
Gu-Yeon Wei, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics (on leave 2015-16)
Robert M. Westervelt, Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
Steven C. Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science (on leave Spring term)
Robert J. Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robin Wordsworth, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
James Wright, Lecturer on Engineering Sciences
Woodward Yang, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Todd Zickler, William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Additional Information

The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (www.seas.harvard.edu) offers undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Computation, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Engineering Sciences. Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty also offer several courses in the section entitled Freshman Seminars, Extra-Departmental Courses, and House Seminars.