Faculty Promotions in the School of Engineering

Congratulations to the SOE faculty members who have received promotions or were appointed to endowed professorships! Their work represents the breadth of research within the School of Engineering from nanoscale materials and devices to data center networking and more. 

Faculty Promotions

Fahad Dogar, Department of Computer Science 

 Dogar, promoted to professor, began as an assistant professor at Tufts in 2014.  Dogar's research interests span the broad areas of networking and systems, with a recent focus on technologies for social impact. He is the principal investigator at the Networking at Tufts (NAT) Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 2012.  

Valencia Koomson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Koomson was promoted to professor and began her faculty career as an assistant professor in 2005. Her research advances energy-efficient integrated circuits, wearable bioinstrumentation, AI-enabled biomedical signal processing, and computational cardiovascular sensing for noninvasive health monitoring. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and runs the Advanced Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab at Tufts. 

Nik Nair, Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Nair was promoted to professor and has been at Tufts since 2013. Research in Nikhil Nair's lab is focused on biomolecular and microbial engineering, with the long-term goal of advancing human and planetary health. He received his Ph.D. in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Kristen Wendell, Mechanical Engineering 

Wendell, promoted to professor, received her Ph.D. from Tufts and began as an assistant professor in 2016. Wendell's engineering education research focuses on characterizing and supporting inclusive knowledge construction during engineering learning experiences in undergraduate courses, K-8 classrooms, and teacher education contexts. She is also a fellow with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, co-director of the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction, and has a secondary faculty appointment with the Department of Education. 

Robert White, Mechanical Engineering 

White was promoted to professor and has been at Tufts since 2005. He runs a research group working at the intersection of micro- and nano-scale devices, acoustics, sensors, and aerodynamics. He teaches courses in dynamics, controls, mechanics, vibrations, acoustics, and microsystems, always trying to bring a “hands on” aspect to learning, and actively advises students at all levels from undergraduate to doctoral.

Endowed Professorship

Bin Wang, Robert and Marcy Haber Professor in Energy Sustainability, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Wang joined Tufts as a visiting professor in June 2025 and was approved by the Board of Trustees in January as the Robert and Marcy Haber Professor in Energy Sustainability. Focusing on the computational modeling of nanoscale materials, his research explores how these atomic structures can be used in areas like catalysis, separation, optoelectronics, and energy storage systems such as batteries.