Yale Engineering welcomes four new faculty members
Yale Engineering is proud to welcome four new faculty members across four departments, further strengthening the school's research excellence and expanding its leadership in cutting-edge technologies. These accomplished scholars bring expertise spanning computational electromagnetics, wireless communications and sensing, immune system modeling, and microbial ecology for sustainable water systems. Their arrival represents Yale Engineering's continued growth and strategic investment in research areas that bridge disciplines and drive innovation.
The new faculty members who recently joined Yale Engineering are:
Eric Michielssen
Professor
Applied & Computational Mathematics
Eric Michielssen’s research interests encompass all aspects of theoretical and applied computational electromagnetics, with a specific focus on developing fast frequency and time domain integral-equation-based techniques for analyzing electromagnetic phenomena. His work has applications ranging from radar cross section analysis to circuit design, optics and photonics, and electromagnetic compatibility and interference. Throughout, the aim is to connect applied mathematics and computational science to engineering problems where accurate electromagnetic modeling matters.
Arun Natarajan
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Arun Natarajan focuses on analog, RF, and mm-wave circuits and systems for wireless communications and pervasive sensing. His group has emphasized low-power integrated circuits for sensors and architectures for interferer-tolerant RF/mm-wave MIMO arrays. He is also active in entrepreneurship, with a strong interest in translating academic innovations into commercial technologies.
Armita Nourmohammad
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Armita Nourmohammad studies learning, adaptation, and evolution in biological systems through theoretical and data-driven approaches. Her lab’s main focus is the adaptive immune system, where they develop physics-inspired machine learning models for immune protein design and immune repertoire responses. She holds a fully joint appointment in the Department of Immunobiology and will assume the role of Associate Director of Theoretical Sciences for the Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI).
Lutgarde Raskin
Professor
Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Lut Raskin is motivated to understand and improve the engineered water cycle microbiome to advance human and environmental health through sustainable design approaches. Specifically, her team develops and investigates technologies for drinking water treatment and distribution, as well as for recovering resources from waste streams. Current focus areas include drinking water microbiome management, resource recovery from organic waste streams through anaerobic biotechnologies, and understanding the principles governing microbial community assembly and function in engineered environments.
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Published Date
Jan 23, 2026
