Three McKelvey faculty elected to AAAS
Yixin Chen, Lori Setton and Joshua Yuan were among eleven WashU faculty members elected
Eleven WashU faculty members, including three from McKelvey Engineering, are among the nearly 500 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.
AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. New fellows will be celebrated at a forum May 29 in Washington, D.C.
The 2025 McKelvey Engineering members are:
Yixin Chen
Chen, PhD, a professor of computer science at WashU McKelvey Engineering, focuses his research on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data mining, foundation models, AI for scientific discovery and computational biomedicine. He is the director of the Collaborative Human-AI Learning and Operation (HALO) Center, which advances principles and methods for productive human-AI collaboration, including fairness, trust, awareness, privacy and situational sensitivity in human-AI interaction. Chen is also a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Lori Setton
Setton, PhD, chair and the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at McKelvey Engineering, focuses her research on the role of mechanical factors in the degeneration and repair of soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system and on engineering and evaluating novel materials for tissue regeneration and drug delivery to treat musculoskeletal disease. She is a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering.
Joshua Yuan
Yuan, PhD, chair and the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at McKelvey Engineering, focuses his research on broad sustainability challenges and natural resources engineering; on designing biorefinery and biomaterials from renewable resources; and on environmental remediation, carbon capture and utilization, and synthetic and systems biology. He also is director of the National Science Foundation-funded Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing Engineering Research Center. Yuan also is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
