11 engineering faculty among those earning promotion, tenure honors

April 10, 2026

The grand staircase inside Kiewit Hall.
The grand staircase inside Kiewit Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will award promotion and/or tenure to 95 faculty in 2026, including 11 from the College of Engineering (listed below):

Promoted to Associate Professor and Granted Tenure 

Mona Bavarian, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Hau Chan, School of Computing

Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Nirnimesh Ghose, School of Computing

Jun Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Granted Tenure

Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, School of Computing

Craig Zuhlke, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Promoted to Professor 

Saleh Taghvaeian, Biological Systems Engineering

David Yuill, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction

Promoted to Associate Professor of Practice

Anthony Roebuck II, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction

Matthew Williamson, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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