Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members

This spring, Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new tenure-track professors, who will bring their research expertise and fresh perspectives to multiple departments.

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences*

Corrigan-Gibbs received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University before spending one year as a postdoc at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he was an associate professor at MIT. His research focuses on building computer systems that protect users’ privacy and security, often using new cryptographic ideas.

Igor Jovanovic, professor of nuclear engineering

Jovanovic earned his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from UC Berkeley and most recently worked as a professor at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was a staff physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a professor at Purdue University and Penn State University. His research interests include nuclear security, nuclear energy and fundamental science.

Asir Intisar Khan, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences*

Khan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His research focuses on engineering heterogeneous electronic materials and devices for energy-efficient 3D integrated electronics. Through his work, he investigates charge, heat and spin transport at nanoscale interfaces to address the energy and latency limits of emerging computing technologies.

Scott McCormack, assistant professor of materials science and engineering

McCormack earned his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the crystallography and thermodynamics of complex oxides, carbides and nitrides in extreme environments. As part of Berkeley’s aerospace engineering faculty, he seeks to discover properties of new material systems that can be utilized for space exploration.

Kater Murch, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences* and of physics

Murch graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley, then studied superconducting quantum circuits as a postdoc under professor Irfan Siddiqi. Most recently, he was a professor at Washington University, St. Louis. His research interests include open quantum systems and non-Hermitian physics, quantum sensing and metrology, superconducting quantum circuits, dark matter detection and quantum thermodynamics.

*The EECS department is shared by the College of Engineering and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.