Three Women Join the Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University has announced the hiring of five new faculty members this fall. Three of the new faculty members are women. There are now 80 ladder faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and 13 of them are women. Thus, women are 16 percent of the total faculty, up from 13 percent before the new hirings. In Harvard’s overall Faculty of Arts and Sciences, women make up 34 percent of junior faculty members and 24 percent of senior faculty.

Na Li is a new assistant professor of electrical engineering. She is one of only two women teaching electrical engineering at Harvard. Dr. Li is a graduate of Zhejiang University in China, where she majored in mathematics. She holds a Ph.D. in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology. She spent the previous academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Elsie M. Sunderland is a new associate professor of environmental engineering. She has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 2010. Dr. Sunderland is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She earned a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Finale Doshi-Valez is a new assistant professor in the Division of Computer Science. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Doshi-Valez holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D., all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also earned a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge in England.