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Participating Units

The Collaboration Core is an administrative unit in the UW College of Engineering established to support interdisciplinary institutes, centers, and facilities. Our flexible structure enables us to respond to new opportunities and needs, while providing exceptional support to multiple research units.

The Collaboration Core supports the following units:

Organization Leadership
ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change Director: Joyce Chen
Advanced Composites Center Director: Marco Salviato, Aeronautics & Astronautics
AI Center for Dynamics and Control (ACDC) Director: Steve Brunton, Mechanical Engineering
Boeing Advanced Research Collaboration (BARC) Director: Xu Chen, Mechanical Engineering
Clean Energy Institute Director: Daniel Schwartz, Chemical Engineering
Chief Scientist: David Ginger, Chemistry
CoSSaR (NSF SECURE – Sound Transit UCC) Director: Mark Haselkorn, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Co-director: Lynette Arias
Cross Pacific AI Hub (XPAI) Director: Jihui Yang, Materials Science & Engineering
FAA Center of Excellence – Advance Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS) Director: Marco Salviato, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems (NanoES) Director: Karl Bohringer, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF) Director: Lara Gamble, Bioengineering
Molecular Engineering & Science Institute (MolES) Director: Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
Director of Education (MolES PhD Program): Cole DeForest, Chemical Engineering
NSF UPWARDS for the Future PI: Mo Li, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Co-PI: David Bergsman, Chemical Engineering
NIH – BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Director: Joyce Chen
Quantum Technologies Training and Testbed (QT3) Director: Kai-Mei Fu, Physics
Lab/Facility Director: Max Parsons, Electrical & Computer Engineering
QuantumX Initiative (ORU) Director: Kai-Mei Fu, Physics
Research Training Testbeds (RTT) Lab Manager: Michael De Siena
UW + Amazon Science Hub Director: Joshua Smith, Computer Science & Engineering
Washington Clean Energy Testbeds Technical Director: Devin MacKenzie, Materials Science & Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
Managing Director: Michael Pomfret
Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) Director: Maria Huffman