Meet Dartmouth's Newest Engineering Professors

"This cohort of faculty represents some of the most innovative and promising thinkers in their respective disciplines," says President Sian Leah Beilock. "They are committed to bringing those talents to teaching and will also impact scholarship in fields ranging from health care policy to large-language models to philosophy to renewable energy systems. I am proud to welcome them to the Dartmouth community."

(Photos by Katie Lenhart.)

Cong Chen

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Education: BE, Wuhan University | MS, Tsinghua University | PhD, Cornell University | Postdoc, Stanford University

"My research focuses on advancing the global energy transition through optimization, economics, and modern machine learning/AI principles. I have research experience in large-scale distributed energy resource aggregation, pricing under uncertainties, energy storage integration in the electricity market, behavioral generative agents for energy operations, and hydrogen storage for grid resilience."

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Bryce Ferguson

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Education: AA, Santa Rosa Junior College | BS, University of California, Santa Barbara | MS, University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

"My research focuses on the control and automation of large-scale systems with many interconnected devices and/or many human users (often termed multi-agent systems). I work to provide answers to emerging questions facing engineers, such as 'How should multiple autonomous systems interact?' and 'How should systems adapt to collective human behavior?' By developing fundamental analysis and deployable algorithms, my research provides relevant insights into many application areas, including critical infrastructure, robotics, security, and the environment."

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Rebecca Gallivan

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Education: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MS, California Institute of Technology | PhD, California Institute of Technology

"My research focuses on understanding micro- and nano-scale material design from processing to performance. Building from this, my group will work to uncover the foundational principles behind complex nanostructural materials engineering. I am particularly interested in developing new techniques for nanoscale manufacturing (like nanoscale 3D printing) and am excited to tackle how these advances can be made while still addressing sustainability concerns, such as energy consumption in manufacturing, rare/scarce material needs, toxicity, and waste."

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Bijan Mazaheri

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Education: BA, Williams College | PhD, California Institute of Technology

"I am interested in a variety of topics within causality and information theory. I aim to make AI more adaptable to scientific problems by studying the mathematics of combining information from multiple places, studies, and modalities."

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Anthony Rizzo

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Education: BS, Haverford College | MS, Columbia University | MPhil, Columbia University | PhD, Columbia University

"My research interests are in the development and application of photonic integrated circuits across various domains including computing, communications, and sensing. These photonic circuits, fabricated on the same silicon chips used for electronics, use light rather than electricity to process information and thus enable a dramatic reduction in energy consumption relative to incumbent technologies. My group is working to develop the next-generation of photonic chips for applications in quantum computing, data center interconnects, and biosensing."

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Junbo Zhao

Todd M. Cook and Elizabeth Donohoe Cook Associate Professor of Engineering

Education: BS, Southwest Jiaotong University | PhD, Virginia Tech

"My mission is to develop the next generation of cyber-physical intelligence to advance electric grid digitalization, electrification, and decarbonization. I pursue this goal through close collaborations with partner universities, the power industry, and national laboratories. My research focuses on power and energy system modeling and monitoring, renewable energy integration, reliability and resilience, data analytics, dynamics and stability control, and cybersecurity. I am currently the director of DOE Northeast University Cybersecurity Center for Advanced and Resilient Energy Delivery (CyberCARED) and a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."

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