Meet Our New Faculty for 2019-2020

Duke Engineering is an ambitious community where the best and brightest minds are invited to devise creative solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. With six outstanding new faculty joining us in 2019-2020, we continue to add depth and breadth to our research focus areas, while enhancing teaching and mentorship for our students. Learn more about the exciting work of our newest faculty members in the profiles below.

Matthew Becker

Professor of Chemistry and of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Designing functionalized, degradable biomaterials for healing

George Delagrammatikas

Professor of the Practice in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Applying design thinking to master’s-level engineering education

Neil Gong

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Exploring privacy and security issues and techniques related to machine learning and artificial intelligence

Genevieve Lipp

Assistant Professor of the Practice in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Teaching programming to non-computer engineers

Michael Rizk

Assistant Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering

Personalizing undergraduate education

Lisa Wills

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Designing custom processors to accelerate health care research