I’m honored to have been elected the “Olsen Bicentennial Professor of Engineering”.
The appointment is in the 12 Septemember 2025 Board of Visitors minutes (page 13072):
The professorship was created by a gift from Greg Olsen in 2019 to celebrate the bicentennial of the University’s founding in 1819:
A $15 million endowment for Olsen Bicentennial Professorships, providing resources for UVA Engineering to recruit and retain leading scholars who will drive collaborative research, create knowledge and technologies to benefit humanity and cultivate an environment of educational innovation.
(From Elizabeth Thiel Mather and T.J. Zepp, Largest-Ever Gift to UVA Engineering will Support Teaching and Research Excellence, UVA Engineering News, November 2019.)
