Michael Bevan joined the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering as an associate professor. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Hopkins, he was an associate professor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University.

Kai Loon Chen will join the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor. Chen earned his PhD from the Environmental Engineering Program at Yale. His doctoral research focused on the aggregation and deposition behavior of both naturally occurring and engineered nanomaterials and earned him the Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional research in Engineering and Applied Science.

Michael Falk will be joining the Department of Materials Science as an associate professor. Falk, who earned his PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and served as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Hynek Hermansky will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as a professor. Hermansky earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo and served as professor and director of the Center for Information Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.

Youngmi Hur will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics as an assistant professor. Hur received her PhD in mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining Hopkins, she was the C.L.E. Moore Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nam Lee will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics as an assistant research professor. Lee recently received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California San Diego.

Tim Sui-Tang Leung will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics as an assistant professor. Leung recently received his PhD in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University.

Danielle Tarraf will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT and has been a postdoctoral associate at MIT and a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.