Kurt S. Anderson anderk5 414 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/414 2010-10-12 09:45 http://www.rpi.edu/~anderk5/ Ph.D. Applied and Computational Mechanics, Stanford University,1990 After receiving his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, Dr. Anderson went on to earn a MS in the area of dynamic systems and control from the same institution in 1984. He then spent the next two years working in the areas of dynamics, structural dynamics, and controls for TRW Space and Technology in Redondo Beach, California.After this period, he entered the Ph.D. program in Applied and Computational Mechanics at Stanford University, earning his degree in 1990. Dr. Anderson then accepted a position as researcher and principal dynamics engineering at TRW where he was associated with various spacecraft and research programs. In late 1991 Dr. Anderson was invited to Germany for a two-year period as a visiting scholar, lecturer, and research fellow at the Technische Hochscule - Darmstadt. In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Aviation at The Ohio State University, in Columbus where he http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/anderson_kurt_web.jpg A State-Time Formulaton for Dynamics Systems Simulation Using Massively Parallel Computing Resources A Dynamics Simulation of Multibody Systems Using a New State-Time Methodology Parallel Logarithmic Order Algorithm for General Multibody System Dynamics (2004) Order(n+m): Direct Differentiation Determination of Design Sensitivity for Constrained Multibody Dynamic Systems (2004) A Generalized Recursive Coordinate Reduction Method for Multibody Dynamic Systems (2003) Improved Order-n Performance Algorithm for the Simulation of Constrained Multi-Rigid-Body Systems (2003) Recursive Sensitivity Analysis for Constrained Multi-rigid-body Dynamic Systems Design Optimization (2002) Analytical Full-Recursive Sensitivity Analysis for Multibody Chain Systems (2002) Domain Approximation and Deterministic Progression in Genetic Crossover (2001) Low Operational Order Analytic Sensitivity Analysis for Tree-Type Multibody Dynamic Systems (2001) On the Eigenfrequencies of a Flexible Arm driven by a Flexible Shaft (20 After receiving his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, Dr. Anderson went on to earn a MS in the area of dynamic systems and control from the same institution in 1984. He then spent the next two years working in the areas of dynamics, structural dynamics, and controls for TRW Space and Technology in Redondo Beach, California. After this period, he entered the Ph.D. program in Applied and Computational Mechanics at Stanford University, earning his degree in 1990. Dr. Anderson then accepted a position as researcher and principal dynamics engineering at TRW where he was associated with various spacecraft and research programs. In late 1991 Dr. Anderson was invited to Germany for a two-year period as a visiting scholar, lecturer, and research fellow at the Technische Hochscule - Darmstadt. In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Aviation at The Ohio State University, in Columbus where he Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering multibody dynamicsparallel computingvehicle dynamics Engineering Georges Belfort belfog 415 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/415 2010-09-17 09:09 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/belfort/index.html B.S. Chemical Engineering (the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa), 1963M.S. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine)Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine), 1972 Membrane separation processes Transport phenomena Interfacial phenomena and rheology Bioseparations and sensors Protein misfolding and aggregation Intein technology Dr. Georges Belfort: Endowed chair Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. He received his BS degree in CHME at the University of Cape Town and PhD in Engineering from UC Irvine. He has broad research interests include mass transfer and membrane filtration, protein misfolding and kinetics, single molecule force spectroscopy, and bioseparations. He has received the two major awards in the US on Separations (ACS (1995) and AIChE (2000)), the ACS Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2008), and is one of the “100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Erae as part of the AIChE Centennial Celebration in 2008. He was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, February 2003. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/george_belfort.jpg We have (i) developed an inexpensive, fast, reproducible and scalable high throughput synthesis and testing method for selecting the optimal surfaces against fouling from 100s of surfaces (e.g. membranes)in weeks rather than years, (ii) used magnetic resonance imaging to verify the existence of self cleaning Dean vortices (secondary flow) during filtration of colloidal feeds in curved channel flow, (iii) measured the rheological properties (shear viscosity and modulus) of adsorbed films (brushes, gels etc.) for layerupon layer deposition of polyelectrolytes and sensor development, (iv) fractionated and determined theeffects of additives (e.g. osmolytes) on amyloid fibril nucleation kinetics, and (v) applied a biologicalswitch (intein cleavage and splicing) for bioseparations of proteins in one step, for sensor developmentand fundamental insight into its mechanism. Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Daniel Berg bergd 416 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/416 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (Yale University, 1953), M.S. Physical Chemistry (Yale University, 1951), B.S. Chemistry, Physics (City College of New York, CCNY, 1950) Dr. Berg is a former Dean of Science and Provost at Carnegie Mellon University and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Rensselaer, where he has also served as President. Prior to his academic career, he was director of research at Westinghouse and technical director. He has served and is serving on several boards of directors for a variety of industrial manufacturing and service companies and is chairman of the board for the Crystek Corporation, a manufacturer of RF timing products. He is the American Editor for the International Journal of Service Technology and Management. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/berg_daniel_web.jpg NULL <p>Dr. Berg is a former Dean of Science and Provost at Carnegie Mellon University and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Rensselaer, where he has also served as President. Prior to his academic career, he was director of research at Westinghouse and technical director. He has served and is serving on several boards of directors for a variety of industrial manufacturing and service companies and is chairman of the board for the Crystek Corporation, a manufacturer of RF timing products. He is the American Editor for the <em>International Journal of Service Technology and Management.</em></p> Center for Services Research and Education Industrial and Systems Engineering innovationmanufacturing strategypolicyrobotics Engineering Henry R Bungay III bungah 417 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/417 2010-08-06 10:48 Ph.D. Biochemistry (Syracuse University, 1955)B.Ch.E. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University, 1949) A faculty member since 1976, Professor Bungay previously worked for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis and Worthington Biochemical Corporation in Freehold, NJ, was a Program Manager at the National Science Foundation and at ERDA (now the U.S. Department of Energy), was the Resident Energy Fellow at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and held academic positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Clemson University. He is the author of five books on environmental and biochemical engineering. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/bungay_henry_web.jpg Energy, the Biomass Options (1981) Computer Games and Simulation for Biochemical Engineering (1985) BASIC Environmental Engineering (1988) BASIC Biochemical Engineering (1989) Environmental Systems Engineering (1998) Pulse Distribution Analysis Device (1966) Reaction Container for Chemical Analysis (1976) Chemical analysis method using reaction container (1977) Production of microbial cellulose using a rotating disk film bioreactor (1999) Method for Preparation of Microbial Cellulose (2000) Listing of Books and Journal Articles Professor Emeritus Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Bruce A. Carlson carlson 418 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/418 2010-10-20 09:57 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, B.S. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Luciano Castillo castil2 419 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/419 2010-10-12 09:56 http://www.rpi.edu/~castil2 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1997 Dr. Castillo's teaching interest is primary in thermal/fluid science. My goal is to help students connect the theory with experiments by using visual experimental examples and computer tools in the classroom, thus increasing their understanding of the subject by doing and seeing. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/castillo_luciano_web.jpg Dr. Castillo&#039;s teaching interest is primary in thermal/fluid science. My goal is to help students connect the theory with experiments by using visual experimental examples and computer tools in the classroom, thus increasing their understanding of the subject by doing and seeing. Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering fluid mechanicsTurbulent boundary layers Engineering Joe H. Chow chowj 420 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/420 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/chowj/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois, 1977), M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois, 1975), B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (University of Minnesota, 1974) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/chow_joe_web.jpg Power System Stabilizers as Undergraduate Control Design Projects (2004) Pelton Turbine Deflector Overspeed Control in Small Power Systems (2004) A Common Modeling Framework of Voltage-Sourced Converters for Loadflow, Sensitivity, and Dispatch Analysis (2004) Pumped-Storage Hydro-Turbine Bidding Strategies in a Competitive Electricity Market (2004) A Dispatch Strategy for a Unified Power Flow Controller to Maximize Voltage-Stability Limited Power Transfer (2004) Hierarchical Pelton Turbine Control in a Small Power System (2003) A Multi-layer Petri Net Model for Deregulated Electric Power Systems (2002) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and GUPFC: Loadflow modelsand NYPA. (January 2005)computational toolsCSCdamping controldynamic modelsEPRIincluding UPFCIPFCmultiple FACTS Controllersrated-capacity operation and dispatch strategiessensitivity analysisvoltage and power dispatchvoltage stability analysisVoltage-Sourced Converter based FACTS Controllersweb simulator Engineering T. Paul Chow chowt 421 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/421 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/cie/cpes/chow.html Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1982), M.S. Materials Science (Columbia University, 1977), B.S. Mathematics and Physics (Augustana College, 1975) From 1977-1989, Dr. Chow worked at General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, NY. In the first two years, he was involved with developing CVD processes and characterization of doped tin oxide and indium oxide thin films for transparent electrode applications in solid-state imagers. From 1979-1982, his work on refractory metals and metal silicides included the deposition and plasma etching of these films as well as their incorporation into integrated-circuit processes and performance characterization of test devices and logic circuits. From 1982 to 1989, he participated in the design and process development of various discrete and integrable MOS-gated unipolar and bipolar devices (such as the MOSFET, IGBT and MCT). Also, he was involved with process architecture and integration of high-voltage power integrated circuits. Since 1989, he has been in the faculty of the Electrical, Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, where he is now Profe http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/chow_paul_web.jpg Thermal Oxidation of (100) Silicon in O2 and CO2 and its Effect on the SiO2-Si MOS Parameters (1997) Reactive Ion Etching of GaN in BCl3/N2 Plasmas (1997) Chemical-Mechanical Polishing as an Enabling Technology for Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) Devices (1997) Comparison of Aluminum- and Boron-Implanted Vertical 6H-SiC p+n Junction Diodes (1998) Electrical Characteristics of Magnesium-Doped Gallium Nitride Junction Diodes (1998) Silicon Nitride Chemical Mechanical Polishing Mechanisms (1998) Effect of Reactive Ion Etch-Induced Damage on the Performance of 4H-SiC Schottky Barrier Diodes (1998) XPS and AFM Study of Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Silicon Nitride (1998) 6H-SiC P+N Junctions Fabricated by Beryllium Implantation (1999) Current-Controlled Negative Resistance (CCNR) in SiC P-i-N Rectifiers (1999) Re-Oxidation Characteristics of Oxynitrides on 3C- and 4H-SiC (1999) Characterization of Phosphorus Implantation in 4H-SiC (1999) Design Considerations and Experimental Analysis for Silicon Carb From 1977-1989, Dr. Chow worked at General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, NY. In the first two years, he was involved with developing CVD processes and characterization of doped tin oxide and indium oxide thin films for transparent electrode applications in solid-state imagers. From 1979-1982, his work on refractory metals and metal silicides included the deposition and plasma etching of these films as well as their incorporation into integrated-circuit processes and performance characterization of test devices and logic circuits. From 1982 to 1989, he participated in the design and process development of various discrete and integrable MOS-gated unipolar and bipolar devices (such as the MOSFET, IGBT and MCT). Also, he was involved with process architecture and integration of high-voltage power integrated circuits. Since 1989, he has been in the faculty of the Electrical, Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, where he is now Profe Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Chan I. Chung chungc 422 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/422 2011-03-04 12:42 http://www.rpi.edu/~chungc Ph.D. Materials Science (Rutgers University, 1969), M.S. Chemical Engineering (Stevens Institute of Technology, 1966), B.S. Chemical Engineering (Seoul National University, 1962) Professor Chung received his BChE from Seoul National University (1962) in Korea, MChE from Stevens Institute of Technology (1966), and PhD from Rutgers University (1969). He worked for industrial companies for about 12 years between 1961 and 1973, including Lucky Chemical (Now, LG in Korea), Celanese Plastics, Waldron-Hartig, and Exxon Research & Engineering. He joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an assistant professor in January 1973, and received fast promotions to a full professor in July 1979 at the early age of 39. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/chung_chan_web.jpg A High Temperature Morphological Transition in a SBS Block Copolymer (1980) Low Temperature Mechanical Relaxations in Polymers Containing Aromatic Groups (1971) Shear Refining of Branched Low Density Polyethylene (1998) Screw Horsepower Dependence on Screw Speed and Size Theory and Experiment (1974) Design of Coat Hanger Type Extrusion Die for Isothermal Power Law Fluids (1976) Melt Rheology and Thermodynamic Properties of Polyethylene Homopolymers and Poly(ethylene/-olefin) copolymers with respect to Molecular Composition and Structure (1996) On the Scale Up of Plasticating Extruder Screws (1984) EXTRUSION OF POLYMERS - Theory and Practice (2000) The SPE Guide on Extrusion Technology and Troubleshooting (2001) Effect of ZnO Nano Particles on Thermal Stabilization of Polymers (2004) 2nd Edition of his book, "Extrusion of Polymers - Theory and Practice" was published on Oct. 27, 2010 by Hanser Publishers. <p>Professor Chung received his BChE from Seoul National University (1962) in Korea, MChE from Stevens Institute of Technology (1966), and PhD from Rutgers University (1969). He worked for industrial companies for about 12 years between 1961 and 1973, including Lucky Chemical (Now, LG in Korea), Celanese Plastics, Waldron-Hartig, and Exxon Research &amp; Engineering. He joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an assistant professor in January 1973, and received fast promotions to a full professor in July 1979 at the early age of 39.</p> Presented the plenary talk, "Extrusion of Polymers - Theory and Practice", at the semi-annual meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineers - Korean Section on Nov. 12, 2010 Professor Emeritus Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Kenneth A. Connor connor 423 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/423 2010-05-18 01:00 http://hibp.ecse.rpi.edu/~connor/ken_connor.html Ph.D. Electrophysics (Polytechnic University (aka Brooklyn Poly), 1975), M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Wisconsin, 1970), B.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Wisconsin, 1968) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/connor_kenneth_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and technology enhanced learning.electromagnetic phenomenaespecially those associated with high frequency wavesprimarily Engineering Yaron Danon danony 424 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/424 2011-03-08 15:52 http://www.rpi.edu/~danony Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/danon_yaron_web.jpg Fission Cross-Section Measurements of 247Cm, 254Es, and 250Cf from 0.1 eV to 80 keV (1991) Design and Construction of a Thermal Target for the RPI Linac (1995) Fission Cross Section Measurements Of The Odd-Odd Isotopes 232pa, 238np and 236Np (1996) Neutron Total Cross-Section Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Holmium, Thulium, and Erbium (1998) Neutron capture and total cross-section measurements and resonance parameter analysis of zirconium up to 2.5 keV (2000) Application of Monte Carlo Chord-Length Sampling Algorithms to Transport Trough a 2-D Binary Stochastic Mixture (2003) Comment on Anomalous neutron Compton scattering from molecular hydrogen (2007) Moreh, Block, and Danon Reply (2007) Neutron Capture and Total Cross-Section Measurements and Resonance Parameters of Gadolinium (2006) Neutron Capture and Transmission Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Niobium (2006) Cross Section Measurements for 239Pu(n,f) and 6Li(n,a) with a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer (2006) Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Accelerator technology and radiation applicationsNuclear data and instrumentation Engineering Pankaj K Das daspa 425 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/425 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. (University of Calcutta) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Robert C. Degeneff degenr 426 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/426 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Electric Power Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1974), M.S. Electric Power Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1967) Robert C. Degeneff (F'93) received his B.M.E. from GMI in 1966 and his M.Eng and D. Eng in 1967 and 1974 respectivly from RPI in Electric Power Engineering. He joined General Electric's Large Power Transformer Department as a Senior Development Engineer and was promoted in 1978 to Manager of the Advanced Electrical Development Unit. In 1981 he joined the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Deparment as Manager of the HVDC Engineering Subsection and in 1985 assumed the position as Manager of the Software services section. In 1989 he joined the faculty of RPI as a professor of Electric Power Engineering. He has published over four dozen papers, several chapters in books, and holds three patents. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/degeneff_robert_web.jpg A General Method for Determining Resonances in Transformer Windings (1977) Reducing Storage and Saving Computational Time with a Generalization of the Dommel Solution Method (1977) Transformer Response to System Switching Voltages (1982) Advanced Studies Techniques: Tools for HVDC System Design (1984) AC Filter Design for HVDC Systems (1984) Using a Production Simulation Program to Evaluate the Effect of Transmission Limits on HVDC Imports (1986) Security Constrained Optimization: An Added Dimension in Utility Optimal Power Flow Technology (1988) A Method for Constructing Reduced Order Transformer Models for System Studies form Detailed Lumped Parameter Models (1991) Modeling Power Transformers for the Transient Voltage Calculation (1992) Determination of the Effect of Harmonics on Pipe- Type Power Cable AC/DC Resistance Ratio (1993) Pipe-Type Cable Ampacities in the Presences of Harmonics (1994) Robert C. Degeneff (F&#039;93) received his B.M.E. from GMI in 1966 and his M.Eng and D. Eng in 1967 and 1974 respectivly from RPI in Electric Power Engineering. He joined General Electric&#039;s Large Power Transformer Department as a Senior Development Engineer and was promoted in 1978 to Manager of the Advanced Electrical Development Unit. In 1981 he joined the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Deparment as Manager of the HVDC Engineering Subsection and in 1985 assumed the position as Manager of the Software services section. In 1989 he joined the faculty of RPI as a professor of Electric Power Engineering. He has published over four dozen papers, several chapters in books, and holds three patents. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Stephen J. Derby derbys 427 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/427 2010-10-07 15:08 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1981), M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1977), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1976) Since 1986 Dr. Derby has been an Associate Professor at Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, Troy, New York. He was an Assistant Professor at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute from 1981 to 1986. He has conducted research in theareas of modular automation, robotics, and manufacturing. He created theTrackbot multihead robotic material handling system, and has taught coursesin the areas of automation, mechanisms, and manufacturing systems. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/derby_stephen_web.jpg Agile Automation Control Systems: The Hansford Assembly Flex Project (2000) Quantitative Analysis Of An Agile Automation Control System Software (2000) Design of the Stackbot Cam Track Palletizer/Material Handling Device (2000) Design and Implementation of A Flexible Intelligent Electronics Remanufacturing System (1999) Motion Requirements for Flexible Parts Feeders (1999) Since 1986 Dr. Derby has been an Associate Professor at Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, Troy, New York. He was an Assistant Professor at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute from 1981 to 1986. He has conducted research in theareas of modular automation, robotics, and manufacturing. He created theTrackbot multihead robotic material handling system, and has taught coursesin the areas of automation, mechanisms, and manufacturing systems. Flexible Manufacturing Center Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering and mechanical design.automation Engineering Suvranu De des 428 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/428 2011-03-04 12:18 http://www.rpi.edu/~des/ Sc.D. Mechanical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 Professor, MANE, BME and ITWS Departments, RPI 2011 - present Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM), RPI 2010 - presentAssociate Professor, MANE, BLE and ITWS Departments, RPI 2007 - 2010Assistant Professor, MANE Department, RPI 2002 - 2007 Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Oct 2000 - Dec 2001Fast computational tools for MEMS designMultimodal medical simulationsGraduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT May 1997 - Sep 2000Meshfree Methods: Method of Finite SpheresVirtual environments for medical simulationBiomechanics of touchResearch Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sept 1993 - Jan 1995FE algorithms for large deformation elastoplastic boundary value problems http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/de_suvranu_web.jpg The method of finite spheres (2000) De, S. and Bathe, K. J., The method of finite spheres with improved numerical integration(2001) De, S. and Bathe, K. J., Towards an efficient meshless computational technique: the method of finite spheres (2001) Displacement/ pressure mixed interpolation in the method of finite spheres (2001) On the method of finite spheres in applications: towards the use with ADINA and a surgical simulator (2003) Hierarchical tree-based discretization in the method of finite spheres (2003) Efficient computation of drag forces on micro-machined devices using a boundary integral equation-based solver (2003) Physically-based real time simulation of soft tissues in multimodal medical simulations Towards an automatic discretization scheme for the method of finite spheres and its coupling with the finite element method The role of haptics in medical simulations A unified approach to multimodal rendering of heterogeneous scenes using point clouds A finite element mode <ul> <li>Associate Professor, MANE Department, RPI<br /> 2007 - 2010 </li> <li>Visiting Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT<br /> Jan 2002 - present</li> <ul> <li>Assistant Professor, MANE Department, RPI<br /> Jan 2002 - 2007</li> <li>Visiting Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT<br /> Jan 2002 - present</li> <li>Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT<br /> Oct 2000 - Dec 2001 <ul> <li>Fast computational tools for MEMS design</li> <li>Multimodal medical simulations</li> </ul> </li> <li>Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT<br /> May 1997 - Sep 2000 <ul> <li>Meshfree Methods: Method of Finite Spheres</li> <li>Virtual environments for medical simulation</li> <li>Biomechanics of touch</li> </ul> </li> <li>Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore<br /> Sept 1993 - Jan 1995 <ul> <li>FE algorithms for large deformation elastoplastic boundary value problems</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Biomedical EngineeringIT and Web ScienceMechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering computational mechanicsHapticsMultiscale modelingVirtual surgery Engineering Alan A Desrochers desroa 429 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/429 2010-10-20 10:04 http://www.eng.rpi.edu Ph.D. (Purdue University) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Professor Emeritus Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Zhaoran (Rena) Huang huangz3 430 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/430 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/huang Ph.D. Optoelectronics (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003), M.S. Integrated Optics (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999), B.S. Electronic Physics (Beijing Institute of Technology, 1995) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/huang_rena_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering David J. Duquette duqued 431 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/431 2011-03-08 16:26 MTLE 4310 Corrosion (Alternate Spring) Ph.D. Metallurgy and Materials Science (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968), B.S. Engineering (United States Coast Guard Academy, 1961) Metallurgy Intehgrated Electronics Advanced Materials http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/duquette_david_web.jpg MRS: Materials Research Society ASM International National Association of Corrosion Engineers The Electrochemical Society Fellow, American Society for Metals Fellow, The Electrochemical Society “Corrosion Issues Related to Disposal of Nuclear Waste in the Yucca Mountain Repository – Peer Reviewers Perspective” Corrosion Vol. 65, (2009) pp199-207 (with R. M. Latanision, C. A. Dibella and B. E. Kirstein) “Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering”, MRS bulletin, December 2010 215.Morphology Control of Copper Growth on TaN Diffusion Barriers in Seedless Copper Electrodeposition”, J. Electrochem. Soc., 154, (2007) pp195-201 (with S. Kim) Seedless copper Electrochemical deposition on Air-Exposed TaN Barrier Layers with Pd and Ru Adhesion Promoters (2007) Fretting Fatigue in 2XXX Series Aerospace Aluminium Alloys (2006) ) <p>Professor Duquette received his Ph.D. in metallury and materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.&nbsp; Following his graduate work, he performed research on elevated temperature materials at the Advanced Materials Research and Deelopment Laboratory of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1970. He is the author or co-author of more than 160 scientific publications, primarily in the areas of environmental degradation of materials and electrochemical processing of semiconductor interconnects.</p> Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Professor Materials Science and Engineering CorporationDOE chemical mechanical planarizationelectrodepositionPhysical chemical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys Engineering Mark J. Embrechts embrem 432 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/432 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/embrechts_mark_web.jpg Computer Intrusion Detection through Predictive Models pp. 489-494 Direct Kernel PLS for Spectral Source Identification pp. 483-499 Classification Results for Six Organophosphate Nerve Agents Using Support Vector Machines Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (2004) Introduction to Scientific Data Mining: Direct Kernel Methods and Applications, (2004) Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Jacob Fish fishj 433 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/433 2011-03-02 15:10 http://www.rpi.edu/~fishj/ Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Northwestern University, 1989 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/fish_jacob_web.jpg First Course in Finite Elements (2005) Higher Order Continum Wave Equation Calibrated on Lattice Dynamics (2004) Fatigue Life Prediction using 2-Scale Temporal Asymptotic Homogenization (2004) The Generalized Global-Basis (GGB) Method (2004) Stabilized Nonlocal Model for Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous media (2004) Space-Time Multiscale Model for Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media (2004) Multiscale Modeling of Fatigue for Ductile Materials Multiscale Enrichment based on the Partition of Unity (2004) Space-time multiscale laminated theory (2004) Order reduction for Large scale finite Element Models: a System Perspective (2004) Nonlocal Multiscale Fatigue Model (2004) A Generalized Space-time Mathematical Homogenization Theory for Bridging Atomistic and Continumm Scales (2004) Performance Improvement of a Generalized aggregation Method Employing Cache and Parallel Processing (2000) Nonlocal three-field variational principal for wave propagation in heterogeneous media (2001) Discrete Element <ul><li>1982 - 1984 Structural Engineer: Buckshpan Civil Engineering Consulting Firm, Tel-Aviv, Israel. </li><li>1984 - 1986 Research Engineer: Methods Development Group, Israel Aircraft Industries, Ben - Gurion Airport, Israel. </li><li>1989 - 1994 Assistant Professor: Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. </li><li>1994 - 1998 Associate Professor: Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear&nbsp;Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering,&nbsp;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. </li><li>2001 - Visiting Chair Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France</li><li>1998 - 2005 Professor: Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear&nbsp;Engineering, and Civil and Environmental&nbsp;Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. </li><li>1998 - present Professor: Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. </li><li>2005 - present The Rosalind and John J. Redfern, Jr. &#039;33 Chaired Professor in Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, A Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering advanced materialscomputational mechanicsmathematical optimizationmicro-electro-mechanical systems Engineering Jacob Fish fishj 434 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/434 2011-03-02 15:10 http://www.rpi.edu/~fishj/ Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Northwestern University), M.S./B.S. Structural Mechanics, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) Mathematical Optimization Computational Mechanics Applied Mechanics/Mechanics of Materials * 1982 - 1984 Structural Engineer: Buckshpan Civil Engineering Consulting Firm, Tel-Aviv, Israel. * 1984 - 1986 Research Engineer: Methods Development Group, Israel Aircraft Industries, Ben - Gurion Airport, Israel. * 1989 - 1994 Assistant Professor: Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. * 1994 - 1998 Associate Professor: Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. * 2001 - Visiting Chair Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France * 1998 - 2005 Professor: Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. * 1998 - present Professor: Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. * 2005 - present The Rosalind and John J. Redfern, Jr. '33 Chaired Professor in Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. * 2006 - Director, Multiscale Science & Engineering CenterOver the past 25 years (in both industry and academia) Dr. Fish has been in the forefront of multiscale computational mechanics in science and engineering. Professor Fish is one of the pioneers in recognizing that nature is replete with systems that encompass interacting behaviors occurring across a range of spatial and temporal scales. His scientific contributions span diverse applications such as the structural integrity of mechanical, aerospace and civil systems, electronic packaging, nanostructured material systems, biological systems, and energy absorption systems. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/fish_jacob_web.jpg Fellow, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), 2007 2005 USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award: "in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of Computational Structural Mechanics" Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Award, 2003 Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 2001. Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2000. ASME, International Computers in Engineering Conf., Best Paper Award, 1995. USACM Travel Award, 1994. AIAA/SDM, Computational Mechanics, Best Paper, 1993. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1992. Walter P.Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1986. Summa Cum Laude, M.S 1985, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Summa Cum Laude, B.S 1982, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Presidential Award for outstanding performance in the academic years 1978-1982. First Course in Finite Elements (2005) Higher Order Continum Wave Equation Calibrated on Lattice Dynamics (2004) Fatigue Life Prediction using 2-Scale Temporal Asymptotic Homogenization (2004) The Generalized Global-Basis (GGB) Method (2004) Stabilized Nonlocal Model for Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous media (2004) Space-Time Multiscale Model for Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media (2004) Multiscale Modeling of Fatigue for Ductile Materials Multiscale Enrichment based on the Partition of Unity (2004) Space-time multiscale laminated theory (2004) Order reduction for Large scale finite Element Models: a System Perspective (2004) Nonlocal Multiscale Fatigue Model (2004) A Generalized Space-time Mathematical Homogenization Theory for Bridging Atomistic and Continumm Scales (2004) Performance Improvement of a Generalized aggregation Method Employing Cache and Parallel Processing (2000) Nonlocal three-field variational principal for wave propagation in heterogeneous media (2001) Discrete Element Dr. Fish&#039;s areas of research include simulation, computational mechanics, mathematical optimization, micro-electro-mechanical systems, advanced materials, structural integrity and high performance computing. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Multi-scale Computational Engineering. Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Civil and Environmental EngineeringMechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering William J. Foley foleyw 435 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/435 2010-05-30 20:09 Ph.D. Operations Research & Statistics (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983),M.S. Operations Research & Statistics (Rensselaer, 1974),B.S. Mechanical Engineering (University of Connecticut, 1972) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/foley_william_web.jpg Industrial and Systems Engineering computer simulationDr. Foley teaches courses in engineering economyoperations researchproduction and operations management Engineering Daniel Gall galld 436 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/436 2011-03-04 12:43 http://www.rpi.edu/~galld MTLE 4200 Properties of Materials I (Fall) MTLE 4960 Thin Films (Spring) Ph.D. Physics (University of Illinois, 2000), M.S. Physics (University of Basel, Switzerland, 1994), B.S. Physics (University of Basel, Switzerland) Nanotechnology Electronic Materials Glancing Angle Deposition Professor Gall received his Diploma from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Prof. Gall has been a Visiting Scientist at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Illinois, has served as Assistant Editor and Editorial Board Member for Thin Solid Films, and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. He is the elected secretary of the AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division and serves as session chair, program committee chair, and proceedings editor for the International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films and the AVS International Symposium. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/gall_daniel_web.jpg Materials Research Society American Vacuum Society American Physical Society ASM International 2008 IBM Faculty Award for research on “Post-CMOS Nanoelectronics.” 2006 ASM International Young Researcher Award J. S. Chawla, F. Zahid, H. Guo, and D. Gall, “Effect of O2 adsorption on electron scattering at Cu(001) surfaces,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 132106 (2010) S. Cazottes, Z.L. Zhang, R. Daniel, J.S. Chawla, D. Gall, G. Dehm, “Structural characterization of a Cu/MgO(001) interface using CS-corrected HRTEM,” Thin Solid Films 519, 1662 (2010) C.P. Mulligan, T.A. Blanchet, and D. Gall, “Control of lubricant transport by a CrN diffusion barrier layer during high-temperature sliding of a CrN-Ag composite coating,” Surf. Coat. Technol. 205, 1350 (2010). X.Y. Zhang and D. Gall, “CrN electronic structure and vibrational modes: an optical analysis,” Phys. Rev. B 82, 045116 (2010). For a complete list of Dr Galls publications please click here http://www.rpi.edu/~galld/publications/publications.htm/ <p>Professor Gall received his Diploma from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Prof. Gall has been a Visiting Scientist at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Illinois, has served as Assistant Editor and Editorial Board Member for Thin Solid Films, and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. He is the elected secretary of the AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division and serves as session chair, program committee chair, and proceedings editor for the International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films and the AVS International Symposium.</p> “Nanorods by Glancing Angle Deposition,” Nanostructured Thin Films IV at SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, August 21-25, 2011 “Nanorods, Nanopipes, Nanosmiles,” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, May 2-6, 2011 Center for Advanced Interconnect Systems Technologies (CAIST)Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR)Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE)Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)The Focus Center – New York Rensselaer: Interconnections for Gigascale Integration Associate Professor Materials Science and Engineering ARLIBMNSFNSF-ENGNSF-MPSNYSERDAOther - Corporation advanced materialselectronic materialsnanomaterialsSolar EngeryThin filmTribology Engineering Nanotechnology Shekhar Garde gardes 437 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/437 2010-09-02 16:06 http://www.rpi.edu/~gardes/ Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (University of Delaware, 1997)B.S. Chemical Engineering (University of Bombay, 1992) http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/garde.jpg National Science Foundation Center for Directed Assembly of NanostructuresRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Martha Grabowski grabow 438 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/438 2010-05-18 01:00 http://web.lemoyne.edu/~grabowsk/ Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M.B.A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), B.S. (US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY) Dr. Grabowski is principal investigator of several major research projects investigating technology and its impact in safety-critical systems. These projects include developing leading indicators of safety, assessing human and organizational error in large-scale systems, and investigating the impact of advanced technology in distributed large-scale systems. Dr. Grabowski is Vice Chair of the U.S. National Research Council's Transportation Research Board/Marine Board, and is a member of the Executive Committee. She is also a member of the American Bureau of Shipping. Her research projects include: http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/grabowski_martha_web.jpg Dr. Grabowski is principal investigator of several major research projects investigating technology and its impact in safety-critical systems. These projects include developing leading indicators of safety, assessing human and organizational error in large-scale systems, and investigating the impact of advanced technology in distributed large-scale systems. <br /> <br />Dr. Grabowski is Vice Chair of the U.S. National Research Council&#039;s Transportation Research Board/Marine Board, and is a member of the Executive Committee. She is also a member of the American Bureau of Shipping. <br /><br />Her research projects include: Industrial and Systems Engineering embeddedhuman and organizational errorhuman and organizational error Engineering Richard N. Smith smithr 439 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/439 2010-10-13 09:13 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (University of California at Berkeley, 1974) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/smith_richard_web.jpg Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Engineering Curriculum (2000) A Neural Network Model for Real-Time Estimation of Workpiece Thermal Expansion (1999) Towards an Integrated Thermal/Fluids Engineering Curriculum (1998) Tufts-Rensselaer Thermal Manufacturing Research-Curriculum Development Program (1998) The Influence of Forced Convection During Solidification on Fragmentation of the Mushy Zone of a Model Alloy (1997) An Experimental Study of Waste Heat Recovery from a Residential Refrigerator (1996) Effects of Buoyancy on the Growth of Dendritic Crystals (1996) Effects of Mixed Convection on Dendrite Fragmentation During Alloy Solidification (1994) Experimental Study of Dendrite Growth in an Undercooled Melt Under Microgravity Conditions (1994) Solidification of Undercooled Melts: Thermal Recalescence and Mushy Zone Coarsening Dynamics (1994) Experimental Investigation of Freezing Within a Thick-Walled Cylinder (1993) Mushy Zone Modeling with Microstructural Coarsening Kinetics (1992) <p>Richard Smith received a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and the M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Smith has had a wide variety of experiences in many elements of engineering education, including research, teaching, curriculum development and academic administration during his 34 year professional career, most of which has been spent at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a faculty member in the (now named) Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering.&nbsp; His research and teaching expertise has been in heat transfer and thermal-fluid sciences, with research applications in manufacturing and materials processing, especially solidification processing, as well as energy utilization and conversion, and his activities have been centered in the Heat Transfer Division of ASME.</p> <p>In 2004, he completed a 3-year appointment as Program Director for the Thermal Transport Program in the Chemical and Transport System Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering energy systemsheat transfer Engineering Thomas Gessmann gessmt 440 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/440 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~gessmt/ Ph.D. (Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, 1997), M.S. Physics (Stuttgart University, 1994) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Henrik J. Hagerup hagerh 441 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/441 2010-10-07 15:08 Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1963), M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956), B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hagerup_henrik_web.jpg Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Prabhat Hajela hajela 442 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/442 2011-02-04 13:27 Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics (Stanford University, 1981 Please refer to Dr. Hajela's personal website for a current bio. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hajela_prabhat_web.jpg Confidence Intervals for Reliability Estimated Using Response Surface Methods (2002) Soft Computing in Multidisciplinary Aerospace Design New Directions for Research, (2002) Variable Complexity Reliability-Based Optimization with Neural Network Augmentation (2002) Genetic Exchange Mechanisms for Co-Evolution In Decomposition-Based Design (2002) Search Efficiency in Genetic Algorithms (2002) GA Based Fuzzy Optimization for Non-Convex Pareto Surfaces (2001) Elastic Element Based Cellular Automata for Structural Analysis and Design (2001) MADEsmart: An Environment for Improved Development of Aircraft Components in Preliminary Design (2001) Reliability-Based Shape Optimization of Truss Structures (2001) Handling Variable String Lengths in GA Based Structural Topology Optimization (2001) A Classifiers Based Optimization Technique for Designing Turbine Airfoils (2002) Strategies for Modeling, Approximation, and Decomposition in Genetic Algorithms Based Multidisciplinary Design, Eme Please refer to Dr. Hajela&#039;s <a href=http://www.rpi.edu/~hajela>personal website</a> for a current bio. Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering AeroelasticityOptimum designStructural dynamics Engineering Marcelo R M Crespo da Silva crespm 443 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/443 2010-10-19 14:23 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Stanford University), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Stanford University,, B.S. Electrical Engineering (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Dr. Crespo da Silva majored in electrical engineering at the Escola Nacional de Engenharia. of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. After receiving the degree of engineer (a 5-year program), he worked in the Brazilian electronics industry for over a year and then went to Stanford University where he soon changed his main interest to dynamics and space mechanics problems. From Stanford he received his M. Sc. and his Ph. D. degrees. His doctoral work was on satellite attitude dynamics, and he continued that work as a National Research Council Post-doctoral research associate at NASA Ames Research Center. In 1971 he joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Department at the University of Cincinnati, raising through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, and to Full Professor. He was a Visiting Research Scientist in the Aeromechanics Laboratory at Ames Research Center on a sabbatical leave in 1983, working on nonlinear dynamics of helicopter roto http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Dynamics of a Class of Multi-beam Structures by a Reduced Nonlinear Analytical Model. Applied Mechanics in the Americas (1999) A Comprehensive Analysis of the Dynamics of a Flexible Helicopter Rotor Blade. (1998) A Reduced-order Analytical Model for the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Class of Flexible Multi-beam Structures. (1998) General Reduced Order Analytical Model for the Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Beams with or without Lumped Masses. (1997) On an Analytical Model for Investigating Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Flexible Structures. (1996) Nonlinear Flexural-flexural-torsional Interactions in Beams Including the Effect of Torsional Dynamics: I: Primary Resonance. (1994) Nonlinear Flexural-flexural-torsional Interactions in Beams Including the Effect of Torsional Dynamics: II: Combination Resonance. (1994) Experimental Investigation of Non-linear Modal Coupling in the Response of Cantilever Beams. (1994) Nonlinear Dynamics of a Flexible Beam in a Central Gravitational Field- I: Equations of Motion. (19 Dr. Crespo da Silva majored in electrical engineering at the Escola Nacional de Engenharia. of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. After receiving the degree of engineer (a 5-year program), he worked in the Brazilian electronics industry for over a year and then went to Stanford University where he soon changed his main interest to dynamics and space mechanics problems. From Stanford he received his M. Sc. and his Ph. D. degrees. His doctoral work was on satellite attitude dynamics, and he continued that work as a National Research Council Post-doctoral research associate at NASA Ames Research Center. In 1971 he joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Department at the University of Cincinnati, raising through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, and to Full Professor. He was a Visiting Research Scientist in the Aeromechanics Laboratory at Ames Research Center on a sabbatical leave in 1983, working on nonlinear dynamics of helicopter roto Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Amir H. Hirsa hirsaa 444 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/444 2010-10-13 08:58 http://www.rpi.edu/~hirsaa/ Ph.D. Aerospace (University of Michigan, 1999 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hirsa_amir_web.jpg Electroosmotic Micro-Pump Array for Local Control of Droplets (2006) Protein Crystallization on Liquid Surface: Forced versus Natural Crystallization (2005) Protein Crystallization Induced and Enhanced via Hydrodynamics: Force Crystallization (2006) Monolayer Phase Coarsening using Oscillatory Flow (2005) Mighty Morphing Monolayers: How Oscillatory Flow can Influence Phase Morphology (2006) The Dueling Bubble Experiment (2007) Capillary Oscillations of a Liquid Sphere Pinned on a Circle-of-Contact (2006) Effects of Length Scale on Determining Surface Dilatational Viscosity (2007) Coupling of a Protein-Laden Air/Water Interface to a Shearing Bulk Flow (2007) Three-Dimensional Modes in a Periodically Driven Elongated Cavity (2005) Low-Dissipation Capillary Switches at Small Scales (2005) Influence of Co-Existing Phases on the Surface Dilatational Viscosity of Langmuir Monolayers (2004) Symmetry Breaking in Free-Surface Cylinder Flows (2004) Flow Induced Patterning at the Air-Water Interface (2003)| <ul><li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2005 - present Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; 1996 - 2005&nbsp;Associate Professor; 1990 - 1996 Assistant Professor, also, Associate Head for Graduate Studies (2007 &ndash; present)</li><li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2003 - present Joint Appointment (by courtesy) Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering </li><li>University of California in Santa Barbara, Department of Chemical Engineering; 1/&#039;07 - present Visiting Professor </li><li>Cornell University, School of Chemical Engineering 1/&#039;00 - 12/&#039;00 Visiting Associate Professor Naval Surface Warfare Center (Formerly David Taylor Research Center), Hydrodynamics Division, Code 1542, Bethesda, Maryland. 5/&#039;92 - 8/&#039;92 Faculty Research Fellow</li><li>Editorial board member, Proceedings of The Royal Society (London) A: Mathematical, Physical &amp; Engineering Sciences (<a href=http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/proceedingsa>Proc. R. Soc. A</a>)<br /></li></ul> Professor Chemical and Biological EngineeringMechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Experimental gas dynamicsfluid mechanics Engineering John B. Hudson hudsoj 445 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/445 2011-03-04 12:44 Ph.D. Metallurgy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1960) Professor Hudson received the Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Rensselaer in 1960. After three years at a General Dynamics research laboratory, he returned to join the Rensselaer faculty in 1963. He is the author or co-author of over 80 publications, primarily in the area of surface structure and reactivity, and is the author of the texts "Surface Science: An Introduction" and "Thermodynamics of Materials". He is also actively engaged in applying interactive learning techniques to materials education. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hudson_john_web.jpg Professor Hudson received the Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Rensselaer in 1960. After three years at a General Dynamics research laboratory, he returned to join the Rensselaer faculty in 1963. He is the author or co-author of over 80 publications, primarily in the area of surface structure and reactivity, and is the author of the texts &quot;Surface Science: An Introduction&quot; and &quot;Thermodynamics of Materials&quot;. He is also actively engaged in applying interactive learning techniques to materials education. Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Michael K. Jensen jensem 446 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/446 2010-10-12 10:25 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, 1980 Michael Jensen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He began his teaching and research career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and moved to Rensselaer in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and holds a Professional Engineers license. Among many other university activities, he has served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department, been on the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, and served as the student-elected member on the Institute-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee. As principal investigator on 38 sponsored programs, including 17 multi-year grants from NSF, DOE, NIST, NYSERDA, and industry, and consultant to 25 industry and government organizations, Michael's research interests have been directed toward convective single- and two-phase heat transfer and the associ http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/jensen_michael_web.jpg Study of Isoflux Coolers (2002) Fin efficiency of annular fins made of two materials (1999) Numerical investigation of turbulent flow and heat transfer in internally finned tubes (1999) Experimental investigation of turbulent heat transfer and fluid flow in internally finned tubes (1999) Experimental investigation of turbulent heat transfer and fluid flow in internally finned tubes with surface roughness (1998) Combined convection and non-gray radiation in simultaneously developing turbulent flow and heat transfer (1998) Pressure Drop with Highly Subcooled Flow Boiling in Small Diameter Tubes (1997) Void Fraction Distributions in a Kettle Reboiler (1996) Phenomenological Model of Pool Boiling From Enhanced Surfaces in Binary Mixtures (1996) Experimental Investigation of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in Internally-Finned Tubes (1996) Numerical Investigation of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in Internally-Finned Tubes (1996) The Literature on Enhancement of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (1996) Michael Jensen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He began his teaching and research career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and moved to Rensselaer in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and holds a Professional Engineers license. Among many other university activities, he has served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department, been on the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, and served as the student-elected member on the Institute-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee. As principal investigator on 38 sponsored programs, including 17 multi-year grants from NSF, DOE, NIST, NYSERDA, and industry, and consultant to 25 industry and government organizations, Michael&#039;s research interests have been directed toward convective single- and two-phase heat transfer and the associ Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR)Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)Center for Multiphase Research Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Boiling and two-phase flowEnhanced heat transferfluid mechanicsfuel cellsHeat exchangersheat transferSolar energysustainability Engineering Qiang Ji jiq 447 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/447 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Washington) Qiang Ji joined the ECSE faculty in the spring, 2001 after serving as an assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at University of Nevada at Reno since Aug. 1998. Dr. Ji received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Robert M. Haralick . He also held research positions at Western Research Company, Tucson, Arizona and with the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. In summer, 2003, Dr. Ji was a visiting faculty fellow at the Information directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, conducting research on decision-making under uncertainty. Dr. Ji currently serves as the director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL). http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/ji_qiang_web.jpg A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring Human Fatigue A Factorization Approach To Evaluating Simultaneous Influence Diagrams Information Extraction from Image Sequences of Real-world Facial Expressions Robust Real-time Eye Detection and Tracking Under Variable Lighitng Conditions and Various Face Orientations, in the special issue on eye detection and tracking (2005) Facial Expression Recognition with Dynamic Bayesian Networks Active Affective State Detection and User Assistance with Dynamic Bayesian Networks (2005) Eye and Gaze Tracking for Interactive Graphic Display (2004) Real Time Non-intrusive Monitoring and Prediction of Driver Fatigue (2004) Self-calibration of a Rotating Camera with Transnational Offset (2004) Randomized Hough Transform with Error Propagation for Line and Circle Detection (2003) A Dempster-Shafer Approach for Recognizing Machine Features from CAD Models (2003) Real-time eye, gaze, and face pose tracking for monitoring driver vigilance (2002) 3D Fac <p>Qiang Ji joined the ECSE faculty in the spring, 2001 after serving as an assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at University of Nevada at Reno since Aug. 1998. Dr. Ji received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Robert M. Haralick . He also held research positions at Western Research Company, Tucson, Arizona and with the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. In summer, 2003, Dr. Ji was a visiting faculty fellow at the Information directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, conducting research on decision-making under uncertainty. Dr. Ji currently serves as the director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL).</p> Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and robotics.computer visionhuman computer interactionpattern recognition Engineering Deborah A. Kaminski kamind 448 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/448 2010-10-12 10:32 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985 After receiving her B.S. degree in Physics, Deborah Kaminski spent 5 years at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. Her work focused on heat transfer in electrical machinery, including motors, transformers, batteries, and generators. She then returned to Rensselaer for doctoral research on computational fluid dynamics in free convection. After receiving her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, she joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/kaminski_deborah_web.jpg Application of Inverse Method to Determine Heat Transfer Coefficient for Post-Extrusion Spray Quenching of Aluminum Alloys (2001) Automatic Convergence in a Computational Fluid Dynamic Algorithm Using Neural Networks (2000) Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Curriculum (2000) A Residual-Based Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Control of Convergence in a Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation (1999) Control of Convergence in Convective Flow Simulations Using a Fuzzy Rule Set that Stabilizes Iterative Oscillations (1999) Cross-Flow Convective Cooling of an Optical Fiber Exiting a Draw Furnace (1999) Towards an Integrated Thermal/Fluids Curriculum (1998) Control of Convergence of a Computational Fluid Dynamic Algorithm Using Fuzzy Logic (1998) Combined Convection and Non-Gray Radiation in Simultaneously Developing Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer (1998) <p>After receiving her B.S. degree in Physics, Deborah Kaminski spent 5 years at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. Her work focused on heat transfer in electrical machinery, including motors, transformers, batteries, and generators. She then returned to Rensselaer for doctoral research on computational fluid dynamics in free convection. After receiving her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, she joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991.</p> Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering computational fluid mechanicsheat transferThermal radiation Engineering Ravi Kane kaner 449 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/449 2010-08-06 10:14 http://www.rpi.edu/~kaner/ B.S. Chemical Engineering (Stanford University, 1993)M.S. Chemical Engineering Practice (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) biotechnology nanotechnology polyvalency biosurfaces molecular therapeutics stem cells Dr. Ravi Kane is the P. K. Lashmet Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. Dr. Kane received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with distinction from Stanford University in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1998. After postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, Dr. Kane joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor in 2001. He was promoted to associate professor in 2006, to professor in 2007, and to the P.K. Lashmet Professor in 2008. In 2004, he was recognized by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world. In 2008, he received a young investigator award from the AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum, a NYSTAR faculty development award, and was selected as the Dr. G.P. Kane Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Bombay, India. In 2009, he received a young investigator award from the ACS Biochemical Technology Division. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/kane_ravi_web.jpg Capillarity Driven Assembly of Two-dimensional Cellular Carbon Nanotube Foams (2004) Structure and Function of Enzymes adsorbed onto Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (2004) Block Copolymer Nanoparticles of Controlled Size Via ROMP (2004) Effect of Surface Wettability on the Adhesion of Proteins (2004) Microfluidic Separation of DNA (2003) Non-covalent functionalization of graphite and carbon nanotubes with polymer multilayers and gold nanoparticles (2003) Spectral Fingerprinting of Structural Defects in Plasma Treated Carbon Nanotubes (2003) Si Nanocolumns as Novel Nanostructured Supports for Enzyme Immobilization (2003) Nanometer-Scale roughness has little effect on the amount or structural stability of adsorbed protein (2003) Discriminate Surface Molecular Recognition Sites on a Microporous Substrate: A New Approach (2003) Kosmotropes Form the Basis of Protein-Resistant Surfaces (2003) Solving Mazes Using Microfluidic Networks (2003) Synthesis of Free-standing Quasi-Two-Dimensional Polymers (2003) The Kane group’s research interests lie at the interface of biotechnology and nanotechnology. Our group is designing nanoscale polyvalent therapeutics and working on the molecular engineering of biosurfaces and nanostructures. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Wei Ji jiw2 450 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/450 2010-10-12 10:28 Ph.D. University of Michigan 2007 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/ji_wei_web.jpg <p style=margin: 0pt class=MsoNormal><font face=Times New Roman size=3>After receiving his BS degree in engineering physics from Tsinghua University at Beijing, China in 1999, Dr. Ji went on to earn a MS in the area of nuclear technology and its application from the same institution in 2002. He then came to the U.S. to enter the Ph.D. program in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, earning his MS in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2007. During this period, Dr. Ji had participated in several DOE funded projects on the research, development and demonstration of Very-high Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors, one of the promising candidates for Gen IV designs. He had been a research specialist at General Atomics and Argonne National Laboratory in 2005, working on the advanced fuel cycle designs using deep-burn gas cooled reactors. </font></p><p style=margin: 0pt class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p><p style=margin: 0pt class=MsoNormal><font face=Times New Roman size=3>After receiving his Ph.D. at Michigan, Dr. Ji joined RPI as Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Computational methodologyDevelopment in radiation transprtMonte Carlo modelingNuclear reactor core analysisSimulation in stochastic media Engineering Diane R. Demers demerd 451 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/451 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/demers_diane_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Nikhil Koratkar koratn 452 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/452 2011-03-08 16:01 http://www.rpi.edu/~koratn/ Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (University of Maryland at College Park, 2000), http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/koratkar_nikhil_web.jpg NATURE- Carbon nanotubes for gas sensing ADV MAT- Carbon nanotubes for structural damping applications <p>Nikhil Koratkar received his B.Tech degree from IIT-Bombay in 1995, followed my MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1998 and 2000. His research interests lie in the development and characterization of advanced<br />nanostructured materials and devices. He has published his work in top journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Small to name a few. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation&#039;s faculty CAREER development award and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute&#039;s Early Career Award. He is also an Associate Editor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters journal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering rotorcraftSmart materials and structures Engineering Erhard Krempl krempe 453 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/453 2011-03-02 15:09 Ph.D. (Technical University of Munich) After receiving his Dipl.-Ing. (1956) and Dr.-Ing. (1962) degrees at the Technische Hochschule Munchen in Germany, he joined General Electric Company in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1964 to work on Mechanics of Materials problems in the power generation industry. Fundamental and applied aspects of Mechanics of Materials continued to be his research interests after joining RPI in 1968 where he is presently the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. Professor of Engineering. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and has organized several meetings on constitutive equations. Most recently he organized the fourth International Conference on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials at RPI in July of 1999. Active in ASME, he was the founding chairman of the joint Applied Mechanics/Materials Divisions Committee on Constitutive Equations. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/krempl_erhard_web.jpg After receiving his Dipl.-Ing. (1956) and Dr.-Ing. (1962) degrees at the Technische Hochschule Munchen in Germany, he joined General Electric Company in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1964 to work on Mechanics of Materials problems in the power generation industry. Fundamental and applied aspects of Mechanics of Materials continued to be his research interests after joining RPI in 1968 where he is presently the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. Professor of Engineering. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and has organized several meetings on constitutive equations. Most recently he organized the fourth International Conference on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials at RPI in July of 1999. Active in ASME, he was the founding chairman of the joint Applied Mechanics/Materials Divisions Committee on Constitutive Equations. Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering alloysconstitutive modeling of metalscreepMechanics of materialsnonlinearrelaxationstiff differential equations Engineering Richard T. Lahey Jr. laheyr 454 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/454 2010-10-07 15:12 http://www.rpi.edu/~laheyr Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University, 1971), M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1964), B.S. Marine Engineering (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, 1961) Professor Lahey is an international authority in multiphase flow and heat transfer technology and was formerly Director of the Center for Multiphase Research (CMR) at Rensselaer. He was previously Dean of Engineering at RPI and has served as Chairman of the Faculty & Science Senate. Prior to joining Rensselaer in 1975 as Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, he held several technical and managerial positions with the General Electric Company, including overall responsibility for all domestic and foreign R&D programs associated with nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulic and safety technology. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/lahey_richard_web.jpg Sonofusion - Fact or Fiction (2005) BUBBLE FUSION-HYDRO CODE ANALYSIS (2003) COMMENTS ON THE SHAPIRA AND SALTMARSH REPORT (2002) SHAPIRA AND SALTMARSH REPORT (2002) AN ANALYSIS OF TWO-PHASE FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER USING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL, MULTI-FIELD, TWO-FLUID COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODEL (2000) <p>Professor Lahey is an international authority in multiphase flow and heat transfer technology and was formerly Director of the Center for Multiphase Research (CMR) at Rensselaer. He was previously Dean of Engineering at RPI and has served as Chairman of the Faculty &amp; Science Senate. Prior to joining Rensselaer in 1975 as Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, he held several technical and managerial positions with the General Electric Company, including overall responsibility for all domestic and foreign R&amp;D programs associated with nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulic and safety technology.</p> Center for Multiphase Research Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Jong Kyu Kim kimj4 455 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/455 2010-05-18 01:00 Dr. Kim received the Ph. D. degree from POSTECH, South Korea in 2002. He joined Rensselaer in 2003 as a research associate and now serves as a research assistant professor. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings, has contributed several book chapters, and is inventor or co-inventor of a number of US patents. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/kim_jong_web.jpg Dr. Kim received the Ph. D. degree from POSTECH, South Korea in 2002. He joined Rensselaer in 2003 as a research associate and now serves as a research assistant professor. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings, has contributed several book chapters, and is inventor or co-inventor of a number of US patents. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and solid-state lighting.and solid-state lighting. His studies include epitaxial growth of AlGaInN-based wide bandgap semiconductorsfabrication and characterization of light-emitting devicesmaterial characterizationoptoelectronic devices Engineering Howard Littman littmh 456 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/456 2010-08-06 10:53 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Yale University, 1956), B.S. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University, 1951) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg An Overview of Flow Regimes in Fluidized Beds (1985) An Axisymmetric Model of Flow in the Annulus of a Spouted Bed of Coarse Particles. Model, Experimental Verification and Residence Time Distribution (1985) Spout Voidage Distribution, Stability and Particles Circulation Rates in Spouted Beds of Coarse Particles. (1985) A Model for Calculating the Minimum FLuid Flowrate and Pressure Drop in a Conical Spouted Bed (1986) The Minimum Spouting Characteristics of Small Glass Particles Spouted with Water (1986) A New Spouting Regime in Beds of Coarse Particles Deeper than the Maximum Spoutable Height (1986) Reply to comments on Predicting the Maximum Spouted Height in Spouted Beds of Irregularly Shaped Particles. (1987) Measurements of Spout Voidage Distributions, Particle Velocities and Particle Circulation Rates in Spouted Beds of Coarse Particles (1987) Flow in the Annulus of a Bed of Fine Particles Spouted with Water (1987) Hydrodynamics of Turbulent Bed Contactors - Part I: Operating Regimes and Liqui Professor Emeritus Chemical and Biological Engineering and has used his expertise in fluid mechanics for the study of fluidized bedsand the effects of turbulence on the drag coefficient of particles in pneumatic transport. He holds several patents and is an active consultant.spouted bedsthe spouted-bed coating of fine particles Engineering Bimal K. Malaviya malavb 457 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/457 2010-08-16 10:09 Ph.D. (Harvard University) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/malaviya_bimal_web.jpg Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Antoinette M. Maniatty maniaa 458 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/458 2010-10-13 09:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~maniaa Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Cornell University, 1991 After receiving her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, Antoinette Maniatty went on to earn two M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, one from the University of Minnesota in 1988 and a second from Cornell University in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1991. After spending one year as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, she joined the faculty at Rensselaer in 1992. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor from 1992-1997. She was one of four women scientists and engineers nationwide to be awarded a Luce fellowship by the Luce Foundation in 1992. In 1993, she received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. She was a member of the Defense Science Study Group in 2000 and 2001. In 2001, she was the first Loewy Visiting Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University. In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the ASME. Maniatty is a member of the http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/maniatty_antoinette_web.jpg Model of steady rolling contact between layered rolls with thin media in the nip (1998) Anisotropic yield criterion for polycrystalline metals using texture and crystal symmetries (1999) Model for predicting thermal stresses in thin polycrystalline films (1997) Shape sensitivity analysis for steady metal forming processes (1996) Effect of skew angle on the axial pressure distribution between flexible rubber-covered rollers (1996) Effect of elasticity on slip system activity in fcc crystals: A numerical study (1996) Stabilized finite element formulation for finite elastic-plastic deformations (2005) Finite element formulation for modeling large deformations in elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals (2004) Predicting residual stresses in steady-state forming processes (1994) Investigation of regularization parameters and error estimating in inverse elasticity problems (1994) The estimation of diffuse strains in the toe of the western Nankai accretionary prism: A kinematic solution (1994) Stabilized finite <p>After receiving her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, Antoinette Maniatty went on to earn two M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, one from the University of Minnesota in 1988 and a second from Cornell University in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1991. After spending one year as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, she joined the faculty at Rensselaer in 1992. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor from 1992-1997. She was one of four women scientists and engineers nationwide to be awarded a Luce fellowship by the Luce Foundation in 1992. In 1993, she received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. She was a member of the Defense Science Study Group in 2000 and 2001. In 2001, she was the first Loewy Visiting Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University. In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the ASME. Maniatty is a member of the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)Inverse Problems Center at RPIScientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering computational mechanicsContinuum mechanicsMechanics of materialsPolycrystalline materials Engineering Robert W. Messler Jr. messlr 459 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/459 2011-03-04 12:45 MTLE 4960/6960 Failure Analysis (Fall) MTLE 4910 Desgin in Materials Engineering (Fall) ENGR 1600 Materials Science for Engineers Ph.D. Physical Metallurgy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971), B.S. Metallurgical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1965) Welding Metallurgy Microstructures Professor Messler received his Ph.D. in physical metallurgy in 1971 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After 16 years in industry, 11 at Grumman Aerospace and 5 at Eutectic-Castolin, he returned to Rensselaer in 1984 to serve for 7 years a Technical Director and Associate Director of the Center for Manufacturing Productivity. He joined the faculty in 1991 as Associate Professor and Director of the Materials Joining Laboratory, was tenured in 1997, promoted to Professor in 1999, and appointed as Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs for the School from 1999-2004. Professor Messler has authored 4 technical books in welding and joining, and over 140 papers in diverse areas of materials processing, joining, design, manufacturing, and engineering education.Dr. Messler teaches materials and processes selection and application of materials within design, multidisciplinary courses in welding and joining, principles of failure analysis, and materials science for engineers; for which he has receiv http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/messler_robert_web.jpg Fellow, ASM International Fellow, American Welding Society ASM International&#039;s Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award (2011) Essence of Materials for Engineers (2010) Integral Mechanical Attachment: A Resurgence of the Oldest Method of Joining (2006) EB Welding on the F14: The Greatest Story Never Told! (2007) <p>Professor Messler received his Ph.D. in physical metallurgy in 1971 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After 16 years in industry, 11 at Grumman Aerospace and 5 at Eutectic-Castolin, he returned to Rensselaer in 1984 to serve for 7 years a Technical Director and Associate Director of the Center for Manufacturing Productivity. He joined the faculty in 1991 as Associate Professor and Director of the Materials Joining Laboratory, was tenured in 1997, promoted to Professor in 1999, and appointed as Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs for the School from 1999-2004. Professor Messler has authored 4 technical books in welding and joining, and over 140 papers in diverse areas of materials processing, joining, design, manufacturing, and engineering education.</p><p>Dr. Messler teaches materials and processes selection and application of materials within design, multidisciplinary courses in welding and joining, principles of failure analysis, and materials science for engineers; for which he has receiv Professor Materials Science and Engineering inter-metallics using exothermic chemical reactionsweld-bonding; joining of dissimilar combinations of metals Engineering Cornelius T. Moynihan moynic 460 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/460 2011-03-04 12:46 Ph.D. Chemistry (Princeton University, 1965), M.A. Chemistry (Princeton University, 1962), B.S. Chemistry (Santa Clara University, 1960) Glass Materials Mass Transport Ceramic Materials Thermodynamics Professor Moynihan received a Ph.D. in chemistry form Princeton University in 1965. He was a faculty member in chemistry at California State University at Los Angeles and in chemistry and in materials science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., before joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1981. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of over 180 scientific publications. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/moynihan_cornelius_web.jpg American Ceramic Society Fellow, American Ceramic Society Professor Moynihan received a Ph.D. in chemistry form Princeton University in 1965. He was a faculty member in chemistry at California State University at Los Angeles and in chemistry and in materials science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., before joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1981. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of over 180 scientific publications. Professor Emeritus Materials Science and Engineering thermodynamicstransport Engineering Shyam P. Murarka murars 461 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/461 2011-03-04 12:46 Ph.D. Chemistry and Metallurgy and Materials Science (Agra University and University of Minnesota, 1970) Semiconductors Metallurgy Thin Films Professor Murarka received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Agra University in India and a Ph.D. in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Minnesota, both in 1970. He has written five books, edited seven books, and is the author of more than 250 scientific papers and over 270 presentations in the area of electronic materials and processing. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/murarka_shyam_web.jpg Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ASM International Fellow, American Vacuum Society Fellow, Electrochemical Society Professor Murarka received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Agra University in India and a Ph.D. in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Minnesota, both in 1970. He has written five books, edited seven books, and is the author of more than 250 scientific papers and over 270 presentations in the area of electronic materials and processing. Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Professor Emeritus Materials Science and Engineering characterizationchemical mechanical planarizationdefect generation mechanism and eliminationelectronic materialspatterning Engineering Syed Murtuza murtus 462 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/462 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.eng.rpi.edu Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Purdue University), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Oklahoma State University,, B.S. Electrical Engineering (Osmania University, Hyderabad, India) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/murtuza_syed_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering George Nagy nagyg 463 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/463 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/nagy/ Ph.D. (Cornell University) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Adaptive classifiers for multisource OCR (2004) Issues in ground-truthing graphic documents in Lecture Notes in Computer (2002) Rapid Automated Three-dimensional Tracing of Neurons from Confocal Image Stacks (2002) Volume and surface area distributions of cracks in concrete (2001) A Tabular Survey of Table Processing in Graphics Recognition -- (2000) Geometry and Geographic Information Systems, in Geometry at Work (2000) Integrated Text and Line-art Extraction from a Topographic Map (2000) Twenty Years of Document Image Analysis in PAMI (invited) (2000) Evaluation of model-based interactive pattern recognition (2004) Surface tortuosity and its application to analyzing cracks in concrete (2004) Chipless RF ID for everyday documents (2004) Classifiers that improve with use (2004) Classifiers that improve with use (2004) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering J. Keith Nelson nelsoj 464 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/464 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~nelsoj/ Ph.D. (University of London) Dr. Nelson is currently the Philip Sporn Professor of Electric Power Engineering at Rensselaer. Previously he had been Manager of High Field Technology Programs at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY, after serving as a faculty member at the University of London in the UK. His early career and training had been in the utility industry. He holds degrees from the University of London and is a Fellow both of the IEEE and the IEE. Keith Nelson has been very active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and is past President of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society. He has acted extensively as an industrial consultant to numerous organizations. Dr. Nelson has been the recipient of many awards from professional organizations such as the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (US), the Edison Electric Institute, the Royal Society, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/nelson_keith_web.jpg Electric strength of transformer oil for large electrode areas (1971) Optical studies of pre-breakdown events in liquid dielectrics (1977) The electric strength of co-polymers (1977) Synchronous vacuum interruption (1979) Evidence for cavitation in fluorocarbon fluids subjected to alternating elctric fields (1976) Additives for enhancing corona stabilization in electronegative gases, US Patent # 4410456, 1983 (1983) Breakdown strength of solids (1983) Simulation and measurement of corona for electrostatic pulse powered precipitators (1985) The influence of elctrohydrodynamic motion of the breakdown of dielectric liquids (1988) Impact of pulse energization on electrostatic precipitator performance (1987) Tandem chamber charge density monitor (1990) Dielectric fluids in motion (1994) An acoustic diagnostic technique for use with electric machine insulation (1994) A parametric study of streaming electrification in a full-scale core-form transformer winding using a network-based model (2000) Dr. Nelson is currently the Philip Sporn Professor of Electric Power Engineering at Rensselaer. Previously he had been Manager of High Field Technology Programs at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY, after serving as a faculty member at the University of London in the UK. His early career and training had been in the utility industry. He holds degrees from the University of London and is a Fellow both of the IEEE and the IEE. Keith Nelson has been very active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and is past President of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society. He has acted extensively as an industrial consultant to numerous organizations. Dr. Nelson has been the recipient of many awards from professional organizations such as the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (US), the Edison Electric Institute, the Royal Society, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering gas physicsmore recentlyphysical electronics Engineering Jonathan C. Newell newelj 465 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/465 2010-10-01 14:19 http://www.rpi.edu/~newelj Ph.D. Physiology (Albany Medical College, 1974)<br>M.Eng. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1968)<br>B.E. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1965) Dr. Newell was an investigator for 20 years in the Trauma Research Center at the Albany Medical Center, conducting clinical research into the physiological consequences and complications of injury or trauma. He has investigated basic physiological regulation of the pulmonary circulation and gas exchange. He has been a reviewer of grants for research and training in Biomedical Engineering for the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and other agencies. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and a reviewer of manuscripts for that and many other journals. Since 1985, he has collaborated with several other faculty in developing Electrical Impedance Imaging systems. The focus of this work recently is its application to breast cancer diagnosis. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/newell_jonathan_web.jpg An iterative Newton-Raphson method to solve the inverse complex conductivity problem. (1998) Current patterns for electrical impedance tomography. (1995) Electrical Impedance Tomography. (1999) A reconstruction Algorithm for electrical impedance tomography data collected on rectangular electrode arrays. (1999) Real-time three-dimensional electrical impedance imaging. (2000) Phasic three-dimensional impedance imaging of cardiac activity. (2002) Distinguishability of inhomogeneities using planar electrode arrays and different patterns of applied excitation. (2003) Current source design for electrical impedance tomography. (2003) Reconstructions of chest phantoms by the d-bar method for electrical impedance tomography. (2004) The Rensselaer Experience. (2005) Dynamic Electrical Impedance Imaging with the Interacting Multiple Model Scheme (2005) Dr. Newell was an investigator for 20 years in the Trauma Research Center at the Albany Medical Center, conducting clinical research into the physiological consequences and complications of injury or trauma. He has investigated basic physiological regulation of the pulmonary circulation and gas exchange. He has been a reviewer of grants for research and training in Biomedical Engineering for the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and other agencies. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and a reviewer of manuscripts for that and many other journals. Since 1985, he has collaborated with several other faculty in developing Electrical Impedance Imaging systems. The focus of this work recently is its application to breast cancer diagnosis. Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Biomedical Engineering Adaptive Current Tomographs (ACT) Engineering Marianne Nyman nymanm 466 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/466 2010-10-07 15:53 http://www.rpi.edu/~nymanm/index.html Ph.D. Environmental Engineering (Purdue University, 1997), M.S. Organic Chemistry (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 1991) B.S. Chemistry (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 1990) Water Quality Biomaterials Biochemical Engineering Aquatics http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/nyman_marianne_web.jpg Early Career Award, National Science Foundation 1996 Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Fellowship Recipient 1996 Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation Fellowship Recipient 1995 Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship Recipient 1995 The Best Research Poster Presentation Award, Industrial Wastewater Conference, West Lafayette, IN 1995 Halikon Kunta Fellowship Recipient 1992 Memorial Hass Fellowship Recipient 1990 Neste OY Fellowship Recipient 3,3-Dichlorobenzidine Transformation Processes in Natural Sediments (1997) Initial Sorption of Aromatic Amines by Surface Soils (1997) Determination of 3,3&#039;-Dichlorobenzidine and Its Degradation Products in Environmental Samples with a Small Low Field Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer (1999) Dr. Nyman&#039;s research includes: * Fate (and transport) of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) in natural and engineered systems * aquatic chemistry * method development for HOCs * sorption/desorption processes * abiotic degradation of HOCs * modeling and mass spectrometry Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Aleksandar G. Ostrogorsky ostroa 467 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/467 2010-10-27 12:53 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/mane/deptweb/faculty/member/ostrogorsky.html Sc.D. Mechanical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986), M.S. Nuclear Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1981), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (University of Belgrade, 1977) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/ostrogorsky_aleksandar_web.jpg Reproducible Te-doped InSb Experiments in Microgravity Science Glovebox at the International Space Station (2008) Modeling and Crystal Growth of Semitransparent Rare Earth Halides (2008) <p>A. Ostrogorsky received his Dipl. Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade (1977), Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering at R.P.I. (1981), and Sc.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT (1986). He worked as a Post-doctoral associate, in the Material Science and Engineering Dept. at M.I.T. until 1987, when he joined <a href=http://www.columbia.edu/ target=blank>Columbia University</a> as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In 1991, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Material Science Department Universit&auml;t Erlanger-N&uuml;rnberg. He joined the Rensselaer faculty in January 1993. He was Director of the <a href=http://www.cmmr.uah.edu/ target=blank>Center for Microgravity and Materials Research (CMMR)</a> at the Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, January 1999- to Sept. 2000. </p><p>Professor Ostrogorsky is Principal Investigator of the <a href=http://www.rpi.edu/~ostroa/SUBSA_Investogation.htm>SUBSA</a> microgravity investigation, conducted during the <a href= Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) microgravity Rahmi Ozisik ozisik 468 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/468 2011-03-04 14:24 http://www.rpi.edu/~ozisik/ MTLE 4050/6963 Introduction to Poilymers (Fall) MTLE 4920 Application of Mateirals (Fall) Society of Plastics Engineers Ph.D. Polymer Science (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1999), M.S. Polymer Engineering (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1996), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1990) Polymers Composite Materials 2008 - Present Associate Professor of Materials Science and EngineeringRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA2002 - 2007 Assistant Professor of Materials Science and EngineeringRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA2005 Summer - Visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico2001 - 2002 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of Polymer ScienceThe University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA (Ronald K. Eby).2000 - 2001 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of PolymersFederal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (Ulrich W. Suter).1996 - 1999 Research Assistant, Department of Polymer ScienceThe University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.1992 - 1996 Research Assistant, Department of Polymer EngineeringThe University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.1990 - 1991 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical EngineeringBogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/ozisik_rahmi_web.jpg American Physical Society American Chemical Society Materials Research Society K. Parker, R. T. Schneider, R. W. Siegel, R. Ozisik, J. C. Cabanelas, B. Serrano, C. Antonelli, J. Baselga, “Molecular probe technique for determining local thermal transitions: The glass transition at silica/PMMA nanocomposites” Polymer 2010, 51, 4891-4898. G. Subramanian, R. Ozisik, “Simultaneous Estimation of the Phase Content and Lamellar Thickness in Isotactic Polypropylene by the Simulated Annealing of Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering Data” J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2010, 117, 2386-2394. L. Chen, L. S. Schadler, R. Ozisik, “The influence of carbon nanotube aspect ratio on the bubble densities of polymer/carbon nanotube composite foams” Polymer 2010 51, 2368-2375. D. Rende, N. Baysal, R. Ozisik, “Carbon dioxide sequestration by carbon nanotubes: Application of graph theoretical approach” 2010, Computational Materials Science 2010 48, 402-408. B. K. Goren, L. Chen, L. S. Schadler, R. Ozisik, “Influence of nanoparticle surface chemistry and size on supercritical carbon dioxide processed nanocomposite foam morphology” J. Supercritical Fluids 2010, 51, 420-427 T. Liu, R. W. Siegel, R. Ozisik, “The effect of confinement in nanoporous polymers on the glass transition temperature” Polymer 2010, 51, 540-546. S. Shenogin, N. Raravikar, R. Ozisik, P. Keblinski, “Using vibrational mode analysis for predicting the coefficient of thermal expansion of amorphous polymers” J. Polym. Sci.: Part B: Polym. Phys. 2009, 47, 2114–2121 My research interests are in the area of polymeric materials and polymeric nanocomposites. My group uses both experimental and computational methods to investigate and understand the role of nanoparticles, nanoparticle/polymer interface, and processing on properties. “Bridging the gap between computer simulations and experiments requires understanding of mechanisms at various length and time scales” 66th Southwest and 62nd Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LO, November 29 - December 4, 2010 Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Associate Professor Materials Science and Engineering Composite Materialsmaterials processingMolecular SimulationsnanomaterialsPolymers Engineering Nanotechnology William A. Pearlman pearlw 469 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/469 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/~pearlman/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Stanford University, 1974), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Since 1979 Dr. Pearlman has been with the ECSE Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is currently Professor. He had been Director of the Center for Next Generation Video Research, but has relinquished that post to serve as Director of the Center for Image Processing Research (CIPR). During the 1985-1986 academic year, and again for the spring semester in 1993, he was on sabbatical leave as Visiting Professor and Lady Davis Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He also held a Visiting Professor Chair at Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands in 1993, and has been an IBM Visiting Scientist in the IBM-Rio Scientific Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1988. During the Summer of 2001, he was in residence as Visiting Professor at the University of Hannover in Hannover, Germany. His research interests are in information theory, source coding theory, image, video and audio coding, and image processing. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/pearlman_william_web.jpg Region-Based Wavelet Coding Methods for Digital Mammography Efficient, Low-Complexity Image Coding with a Set-Partitioning Embedded Block Coder Algorithmic Modifications to SPIHT (2001) Trends of Tree-Based, Set Partitioning Compression Techniques in Still and Moving Image Systems (2001) Combined Spatial and Subband Block Coding of Images (2000) SPIHT Image Compression without Lists (2000) SBHP- A Low Complexity Wavelet Coder (2000) Implementation of Wavelet Transform Image Compression Algorithms Using Associative Computing Based DSP Chips (1999) Low-Memory Packetized SPIHT Image Compression (1999) Lapped Orthogonal Transform Coding by Amplitude and Group Partitioning (1999) An Embedded and Efficient Low-Complexity Hierarchical Image Coder (1999) A Survey of the State of the Art and Utilization of Embedded, Tree-Based Coding (1998) High Performance, Low Complexity Image Compression (1997) <p>Since 1979 Dr. Pearlman has been with the ECSE Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is currently Professor. He had been Director of the Center for Next Generation Video Research, but has relinquished that post to serve as Director of the Center for Image Processing Research (CIPR). During the 1985-1986 academic year, and again for the spring semester in 1993, he was on sabbatical leave as Visiting Professor and Lady Davis Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He also held a Visiting Professor Chair at Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands in 1993, and has been an IBM Visiting Scientist in the IBM-Rio Scientific Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1988. During the Summer of 2001, he was in residence as Visiting Professor at the University of Hannover in Hannover, Germany. His research interests are in information theory, source coding theory, image, video and audio coding, and image processing. The Center for Image Processing Research Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Yoav Peles pelesy 470 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/470 2010-10-12 13:32 http://www.rpi.edu/~pelesy/index.htm Ph.D. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 1999 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/peles_yoav_web.jpg An Overview of Heat and Mass Transfer in Fluids with Nano- particle Suspensions Heat Transfer Fundamentals Chapter 12, Applications of Microscale Phase Change Heat Transfer: Micro Heat Pipes and Micro Heat Spreaders, (2000) Dimensionless Governing Equations for Vapor and Liquid Flow Analysis of Heat Pipes, Microscale Heterogeneous Bubble on Smooth Surfaces From Bubble Nucleation to Bubble Dynamics, An Experimental Investigation of a High Flux Heat Pipe Heat Sink Computational Study of Heat Transfer in Microchannels, Mechanical Nonequilibrium Considerations in Homogeneous Bubble Nucleation for Unsteady-state Boiling, (2005) Geometric Optimization of a Micro Heat Sink with Liquid Flow, (2005) An Experimental Study on the Operating Characteristics and Performance Measurement of a Reversible Loop Heat Pipe, (2004) Thin Film Evaporation Effect on Heat Transport Capability in a Grooved Heat Pipe, (2004) Numerical Simulation for Microconvection around Brownian Motion Moving Nano-Particl Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Design and device testingDesign and Manufacturing of electronic packagingMEMS Fabrication Engineering Catalin R. Picu picuc 471 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/471 2010-10-12 13:44 Ph.D. Dartmouth College, 1995 Catalin Picu received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. He then joined the faculty of the same institution working in the area of Solid Mechanics. In 1992 he entered the PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Dartmouth College from where he obtained his degree in 1995. Shortly after, Dr. Picu joined the Solid Mechanics group at Brown University where he worked until coming to RPI as a faculty member in August 1998. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Atomistic-Continuum Simulations of Nano-Indentation in Molybdenum (2000) Towards a Unified View of Stress in Small Molecular and Macromolecular Liquids (1999) Direct Observations of Surface Sublimation and Relaxation in CdTe {111} Films by High Resolution Electron Microscopy (1999) Intrinsic Distributions and Atomic-Level Stress in Polymeric Melts (1999) Elastic moduli for particulate composites with graded filler-matrix interfaces Stress Relaxation in Diatomic Fluids (1998) <p>Catalin Picu received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. He then joined the faculty of the same institution working in the area of Solid Mechanics. In 1992 he entered the PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Dartmouth College from where he obtained his degree in 1995. Shortly after, Dr. Picu joined the Solid Mechanics group at Brown University where he worked until coming to RPI as a faculty member in August 1998.</p> Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Atomsitic simulationsMechanics of solidsMicro- and nano-mechanics of crystalline defects Engineering Zvi Rusak rusakz 472 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/472 2010-10-12 15:01 http://www.rpi.edu/~rusakz Sc.D. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 1989 Zvi Rusak received the degrees of B.Sc. (1980) and M.Sc. (1982), in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked as an aeronautical engineer at the Israeli Air Force (1982 - 1988), where he headed the Aeroelasticity group from 1987 - 1988. He received a D.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion-IIT in August 1989. Ph.D. thesis advisor: Professor Arnan Seginer. He spent 1989 - 1991 as a post-doctorate associate at the Mathematical Sciences Department in RPI, working with Professor Julian D. Cole. He joined the RPI faculty in 1991. Assistant Professor (1991 - 1995), Associate Professor (1995 - 2000), and Full Professor (2000 - Present) in the department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI. He is currently the Director of the Aerospace Engineering Program at the department (2001-Present). http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/rusak_zvi_web.jpg Near-Critical Swirling Flow in a Slightly Contracting Pipe (2004) On the Stability of a Compressible Axisymmetric Rotating Flow in a Pipe (2004) Rapid Prototyping of Wind Tunnel Models (2004) Condensation Processes in Transonic Two-Phase Flow of Saturated Humid Air (2003) Small-Scale Airfoil Aerodynamic Efficiency Improvement By Surface Temperature and Heat Transfer (2003) A Computational Study on Compressible Flow of Humid Air Around Airfoils (2003) Effect of Combustion on Near-Critical Swirling Flow (2002) Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Transonic Flow of Moist Air Around a Thin Airfoil (2002) Compressible Flow of Satuarted Moist Air with Condensation Phenomena, in: Advances in Fluid Mechanics IV (2002) The Effect of Compressibility on the Critical Swirl of Vortex Flows in a Pipe (2002) Numerical-Asymptotic Expansion Matching for Computing a Viscous Flow Around a Sharp Corner (2002) The Stability of Non-Columnar Swirling Flows in Diverging Streamtubes (2001) The Dynamics of a Laminar Flow I Zvi Rusak received the degrees of B.Sc. (1980) and M.Sc. (1982), in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked as an aeronautical engineer at the Israeli Air Force (1982 - 1988), where he headed the Aeroelasticity group from 1987 - 1988. He received a D.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion-IIT in August 1989. Ph.D. thesis advisor: Professor Arnan Seginer. He spent 1989 - 1991 as a post-doctorate associate at the Mathematical Sciences Department in RPI, working with Professor Julian D. Cole. He joined the RPI faculty in 1991. Assistant Professor (1991 - 1995), Associate Professor (1995 - 2000), and Full Professor (2000 - Present) in the department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI. He is currently the Director of the Aerospace Engineering Program at the department (2001-Present). Center for Broadband Data Transport Science and Technology Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering aerodynamicsApplied mathematicscombustion dynamics and safetySystem stabilityTheoretical and computational fluid dynamics Engineering Sheppard J. Salon salons 473 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/473 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~salons/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Pittsburgh), M.S. Electrical Engineerin (Carnegie Mellon University,, B.S. Engineering Science (State University of New York at Stony Brook) Sheppard Salon Graduated with a BE in Engineering Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1970 to 1978 he was with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the Large Rotating Apparatus Division in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He joined RPI in 1978 where he is now Professor of Electric Power Engineering. Dr. Salon is a registered professional engineer and a Fellow of IEEE. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/salon_sheppard_web.jpg Sheppard Salon Graduated with a BE in Engineering Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1970 to 1978 he was with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the Large Rotating Apparatus Division in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He joined RPI in 1978 where he is now Professor of Electric Power Engineering. Dr. Salon is a registered professional engineer and a Fellow of IEEE. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Arthur C. Sanderson sandea 474 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/474 2010-08-16 09:07 Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University, 1972), M.S. (Carnegie Mellon University, 1970), B.S.(Brown University, 1968) After completing a post-doctorate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, Sanderson spent 14 years at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering as well as co-director of the Robotics Institute. While affiliated with CMU, he also held visiting faculty positions for several institutions, including TU Delft; Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City; and served as research director at Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Sanderson joined Rensselaer with the rank of professor and served as head of the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department from 1987 to 1994. He spent 1996 on sabbatical leave as a visiting professor in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Institute for Information Sciences and Electronics in Japan's University of Tsukuba. During 1998 and 1999, he was on leave from Rensselaer while serving as director of the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems at the National Scien http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sanderson_art_web.jpg After completing a post-doctorate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, Sanderson spent 14 years at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering as well as co-director of the Robotics Institute. While affiliated with CMU, he also held visiting faculty positions for several institutions, including TU Delft; Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City; and served as research director at Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. <br /><br /> Sanderson joined Rensselaer with the rank of professor and served as head of the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department from 1987 to 1994. He spent 1996 on sabbatical leave as a visiting professor in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Institute for Information Sciences and Electronics in Japan&#039;s University of Tsukuba. During 1998 and 1999, he was on leave from Rensselaer while serving as director of the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems at the National Scien Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering computer visionrobotics and automation systemsSanderson&#039;s research interests include signal processingsensor-based control Engineering Gary J. Saulnier saulng 475 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/475 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/saulnier http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/saulnier_gary_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Mike I. Savic savicm 476 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/476 2010-05-18 01:00 Eng.Sc.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Susan T. Sharfstein sharfs 477 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/477 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (University of California, Berkeley, 1987), B.S. Chemical Engineering (California Institute of Technology, 1993) Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001-present Assistant Professor of Biology, Resselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007-presentVisiting Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, 2001 Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001 Visiting Scientist, Wadsworth Laboratories, New York State Department of Health, 2000-present Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Toledo, 1996-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell and Molecular Biology, UCLA Medical School, 1994-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1994 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sharfstein_susan_web.jpg Hyperosmotic Stress in Murine Hybridoma Cells: Effects on Antibody Transcription, Translation, Posttranslational Processing, and the Cell Cycle (2004) Genome-Wide Analysis of the Transcriptional Response of Murine Hybridomas to Osmotic Shock (2006) Regulation of Recombinant Monoclonal Antibody Production in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells: A Comparative Study of Gene Copy Number, mRNA Level and Protein Expression (2006) Reproducibility of the high-performance liquid chromatographic fingerprints obtained from two soybean cultivars and a selected progeny (2001) Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Laboratory for Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering (2001) Repetitive, non-invasive imaging of the dopamine D-2 receptor as a reporter gene in living animals (1999) Effect of extracellular glutamine concentration on primary and secondary metabolism of a murine hybridoma: An in vivo C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance study (1998) Noninvasive methods for quantitating blood time-activity curves from mouse PET images obtain <ul><li>Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001-present </li><li>Assistant Professor of Biology, Resselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007-present</li><li>Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Biology &amp; Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, 2001 </li><li>Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001 </li><li>Visiting Scientist, Wadsworth Laboratories, New York State Department of Health, 2000-present </li><li>Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Toledo, 1996-2001 </li><li>Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell and Molecular Biology, UCLA Medical School, 1994-1996 </li><li>Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1994 </li></ul> Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Mark S. Shephard shephm 478 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/478 2011-01-17 11:43 http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/ Ph.D. Cornell University Mark S. Shephard’s professional activities have focused on technologies to improve the reliability and level of automation of advanced numerical simulations to support their effective application by engineers and scientist. His research activities have lead to well recognized and applied contributions on the areas of automatic mesh generation of CAD geometry, automated and adaptive analysis methods, and parallel adaptive simulation technologies. This research has been supported by both government agencies (over 65 research grants from 13 agencies) and industry (funding from 44 companies). Dr. Shephard has published over 250 papers and graduated 24 Ph.D’s.As part of his professional activities Mark S. Shephard founded Rensselaer's Scientific Computation Research Center that has brought together faculty form seven academic departments and three schools at Rensselaer to perform research on the development and application of advanced simulation technologies. These research activities have included collaborations with more that ten other universities over the past decade.Mark S. Shephard is a co-founder, board member and technical advisor to Simmetrix Inc., a computer-aided engineering company dedicated to producing the technologies and associated software components to enable simulation-based engineering. Simmetrix is currently researching, developing and providing advanced simulation automation and simulation-based design technologies to CAE and Fortune 500 companies, and universities. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg See http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/reports/ <p>Mark S. Shephard’s professional activities have focused on technologies to improve the reliability and level of automation of advanced numerical simulations to support their effective application by engineers and scientist. His research activities have lead to well recognized and applied contributions on the areas of automatic mesh generation of CAD geometry, automated and adaptive analysis methods, and parallel adaptive simulation technologies. This research has been supported by both government agencies (over 65 research grants from 13 agencies) and industry (funding from 44 companies). Dr. Shephard has published over 250 papers and graduated 24 Ph.D’s.</p> <p>As part of his professional activities Mark S. Shephard founded Rensselaer&#039;s Scientific Computation Research Center that has brought together faculty form seven academic departments and three schools at Rensselaer to perform research on the development and application of advanced simulation technologies. These research activities have included collaborations with more that ten other universities over the past decade.</p> <p>Mark S. Shephard is a co-founder, board member and technical advisor to Simmetrix Inc., a computer-aided engineering company dedicated to producing the technologies and associated software components to enable simulation-based engineering. Simmetrix is currently researching, developing and providing advanced simulation automation and simulation-based design technologies to CAE and Fortune 500 companies, and universities.</p> Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Professor Computer ScienceMechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering ARLDOE – Office of ScienceIBMNIHNSFNYSTAR adaptive finite elementsCAEmesh generationparallel computingscientific computation Engineering Computation & Information Technology Mark S. Shephard shephm 479 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/479 2010-05-18 01:00 Shephard is a fellow past president the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, and is an active member of numerous organizations including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SIAM, the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He serves at the Editor of Engineering with Computers and is on the editorial board of five other technical journals. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg See http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/cgi-bin/reports/Search1.pl <p>Shephard is a fellow past president the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, and is an active member of numerous organizations including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SIAM, the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He serves at the Editor of Engineering with Computers and is on the editorial board of five other technical journals.</p> Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Civil and Environmental Engineering automated and adaptive analysis methods Engineering Biplab Sikdar sikdab 480 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/480 2010-05-18 01:00 http://poisson.ecse.rpi.edu/~bsikdar/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1988), B.S. Electronics and Communication Engineering (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, 1996) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sikdar_biplab_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Shreefal Mehta mehtas 481 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/481 2010-09-30 09:35 http://www.shreefal.com Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) Areas of Instruction: Professor Mehta introduced the new graduate and undergraduate course Commercializing Biomedical Technologies: for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Mehta is a recent appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department. In the classroom, Dr. Mehta incorporates his own experiences as an entrepreneur and co-founder of a biopharmaceutical company, Myomatrix Therapeutics. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/mehta_shreefal_web.jpg <b>Areas of Instruction:</b> Professor Mehta introduced the new graduate and undergraduate course Commercializing Biomedical Technologies: for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Mehta is a recent appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department. In the classroom, Dr. Mehta incorporates his own experiences as an entrepreneur and co-founder of a biopharmaceutical company, Myomatrix Therapeutics. <br /> Biomedical Engineering Dr. Mehta&#039;s current research interests are in the domains of knowledge management Engineering Richard Uhl uhlr 482 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/482 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Medicine (Jefferson Medical College, 1984), B.S. Biology (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1980) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Biomedical Engineering Engineering Inthuorn Sasanakul sasani 483 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/483 2010-10-18 09:02 Ph.D. Civil/Geotechnical Engineering (Utah State University, 2005)M.Eng. Civil/Geotechnical Engineering (Asian Institute of Technology, 2000)B.E. Civil Engineering (Thammasat University, 1998) * 2008-Present Research Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY* 2005-Present Technical Manager, Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY* 2000-2005 Graduate Research Assistant, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT* 2002 Visiting Student & Graduate Research Assistant, Civil Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX* 1998-2000 Graduate Student & Project Assistant, Asian Center of Soil Improvement and Geosythetics (ACSIG), Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/Sasanakul_Inthuorn_web.jpg Recipient of “Certificate of Recognition” on behalf of the Project Director, Technical Director, and Team Leads. This award is in recognition of the leadership and dedication provided to the IPET effort (2007) Recipient of “Commander’s Award for Public Service” with accompanying medal from the Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This medal is one of the highest awards given by the US Army to civilians who provided outstanding services to the US Army. This award is in appreciation for the support of New Orleans Recovery through efforts with the Evaluation Task Force of the Hurricane Katrina Interagency Performance (2007) Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Xuegang (Jeff) Ban banx 484 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/484 2010-12-21 10:11 http://www.rpi.edu/~banx Ph.D. Transportation Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)M.S. Computer Sciences (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003) B.S. Automotive Engineering (Tsinghua University, 1997) Transportation Simulation Operations Research Modeling Dr. Ban's research focuses on modeling and simulation that aim to reveal the complex dynamic, stochastic, and evolving interactions among the critical components of transportation systems, with the purpose to develop effective, efficient, and sustainable methodologies to mange wide-area and multi-modal transportation systems. His current research interests are •Theoretical and algorithmic issues of dynamic traffic network modeling;•Sensor-aided modeling and simulation, especially the application of mobile traffic sensors (such as GPS-enabled cellular phones) for transportation system performance measurement, state estimation, optimal traffic control and management, and related issues on privacy protection•Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that focuses on applying information technologies to various traffic/transportation applications http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/jeff_ban_web.jpg Civil and Environmental Engineering algorithmicand evolving interactions among the critical components of transportation systemsand traffic information collection and disseminationefficientespecially the application of mobile traffic sensors for traffic monitoring and managementIntelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)network analysisSensor-aided modeling and simulationstate estimationstochastic Engineering Christoph O. Steinbruchel steinc 485 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/485 2011-03-08 16:28 http://www.rpi.edu/~steinc/ ENGR 1600 Materials Science for Engineers MTLE 6120 Advanced Electronic Properties (Fall) Ph.D. Chemical Physics (University of Minnesota, 1974) Microelectronics Technology Thin Films Professor Steinbruchel received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1974. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory, RCA Laboratories, and Mettler Instruments. Professor Steinbruchel has published extensively in the areas of plasma etching, sputtering, plasma diagnostics, and surface science. Steinbruchel's research program is in the area of thin film materials science, with application especially to microelectronics and sensor technology. This research includes all types of materials, the common theme being that they are used in the form of thin films. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/steinbruchel_christoph_web.jpg Plasma etching of benzocyclobutene in CF4/O2 and SF6/O2 plasmas (2006) A-site Deficiency, Phasepurity and Crystal Structure in Lanthanum Strontium Ferrite (2007) Professor Steinbruchel received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1974. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory, RCA Laboratories, and Mettler Instruments. Professor Steinbruchel has published extensively in the areas of plasma etching, sputtering, plasma diagnostics, and surface science. Steinbruchel&#039;s research program is in the area of thin film materials science, with application especially to microelectronics and sensor technology. This research includes all types of materials, the common theme being that they are used in the form of thin films. Associate Professor Materials Science and Engineering Microelectronics TechnologyThin Films Engineering Liping Huang huangl5 486 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/486 2011-03-09 10:42 http://www.rpi.edu/~huangl5/ MTLE 6060 Advanced Kinetics (Spring) MTLE 6500 Modeling of Materials (Alternate Fall) Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004), M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Zhejiang University, China, 1999), B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Zhejiang University, China, 1996) Glass and Ceramic Materials Computational Modeling Energy Nanomaterials Thermal Sensors http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/Huang_Liping_web.jpg American Ceramic Society Materials Research Society American Physics Society American Institute of Chemical Engineers Constorium for Mineral Physics Research in Earth Sciences Defense Treat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Award, 2009 RAMP-UP Career Campaign Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009 Lang Sui, Liping Huang, Paul Podsiadlo, Nicholas Kotov, John Kieffer, "Brillouin Light Scattering Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Cellulose Nanocrystal Films", Macromolecules, 43, 9541 (2010). Ying-Chun Liu, Liping Huang, Keith E. Gubbins and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, "Dissociation of Water Over Ti-Decorated C60", Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 084510 (2010). Liping Huang, Ying-Chun Liu, Keith E. Gubbins and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, "Ti-decorated C60 as catalyst for hydrogen generation and storage ", Applied Physics Letters, 96, 063111 (2010). Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (March 1, 2010). Yunfeng Shi, Liping Huang, Donald W. Brenner, "Computational Study of Nanometer-Scale Self-Propulsion Enabled by Asymmetric Chemical Catalysis ", Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014705 (2009). Liping Huang, Dario Rocca, Stefano Baroni, Keith. E. Gubbins, and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, "Molecular design of photoactive acenes for organic photovoltaics", Journal of Chemical Physics, 130, 194701 (2009). Liping Huang, Erik E. Santiso, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli and Keith E. Gubbins, "Catalytic role of carbons in methane decomposition for CO- and CO2-free hydrogen generation", Journal of Chemical Physics, 128, 214702 (2008). Liping Huang, Jason Nicholas, John Kieffer and Jay Bass, "Polyamorphic transitions in vitreous B2O3 under pressure", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 20, 075107 (2008) Junwei Wang and Liping Huang, "Thermometry based on phonon confinement effect in nanoparticles ", Applied Physics Letters, 98, 1 (2011) Dr. Huang received her B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University, China in 1996 and 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Materials Science and Engineering in 2004. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University before joining the faculty at RPI in 2008. She has won Norbert J. Kreidl Award, The highest honor bestowed upon a student by the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society in 2003.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering NSF Ceramic MaterialsComputational ModelingenergyGlass materialnanomaterialsNanotechnology Engineering Jian Sun sunj3 487 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/487 2011-03-08 16:12 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~jsun/ Ph.D. (University of Paderborn, Germany, 1995), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics, 1984) Sun began his professional career in 1984, designing aircraft electrical systems at the research and development center of the Xian Aircraft Company in Xian, China. Beginning in 1991, he spent five years at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Devices at the University of Paderborn, in Paderborn, Germany. He served as a research assistant, then as a research associate, while pursuing a doctoral degree. Following completion of his degree, Sun was a post-doctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1996 to 1997. He then worked at the Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA, as a senior engineer from 1997 to 1999. Sun was promoted to principal engineer in 2000, and became a member of the Rensselaer faculty in 2002. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sun_jian_web.jpg Small-signal modeling of variable-frequency pulse-width modulators, (2002) Averaged modeling of PWM converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode (2001) Input impedance analysis of single-phase PFC converters, (2003) Ultra compact dc-dc converters for the digital age, (2002) Demystifying zero-crossing distortion in single-phase PFC converters, (2002) Bilinear discrete-time modeling for enhanced stability prediction and control design, (2002) Bilinear discrete-time modeling for enhanced stability prediction and control design, (2002) A new matrix integrated magnetics (MIM) structure for low voltage, high current DC-DC converters, (2002) An improved current-doubler rectifier with integrated magnetics, (2002) DCM analysis and modeling of half-bridge converters with current-doubler rectifier, (2001) A unified analysis of half-bridge converters with current-doubler rectifier, (2001) , Practical design issues for PFC converters with input filters, (2000) Single-stage thr Sun began his professional career in 1984, designing aircraft electrical systems at the research and development center of the Xian Aircraft Company in Xian, China. Beginning in 1991, he spent five years at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Devices at the University of Paderborn, in Paderborn, Germany. He served as a research assistant, then as a research associate, while pursuing a doctoral degree. Following completion of his degree, Sun was a post-doctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology&#039;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1996 to 1997. He then worked at the Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA, as a senior engineer from 1997 to 1999. Sun was promoted to principal engineer in 2000, and became a member of the Rensselaer faculty in 2002. Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Associate Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering ac-dc with power factor correctionaerospaceanalysisand energy systems.communicationshigh-frequency electric power conversionincluding dc-dc Engineering Energy and the Environment John A. Tichy tichyj 488 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/488 2011-03-08 15:40 Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1970 John A. Tichy, Professor and former Head of the Department, has been a member of the faculty since 1976. He is an ASME fellow, an STLE fellow (the national tribology society), a past chairman of the ASME Tribology Division, and the former Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology. Tichy has been awarded several honors including the ASME Board of Governors Award in 2005, the ASME Best Paper in Tribology in 1984 and 2000, the Tribolgy Division Innovative Research Award in 2004, the Department's Assini Teaching and Counseling Award, and Rensselaer's Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award.John Tichy is also listed in the Who's Who in Rock & Roll (1996) and the Rolling Stone Encyclopaedia of Rock & Roll (1998) for his work as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the 1960s and 70s with Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/tichy_john_web.jpg On the application of the method of finite spheres to problems in tribology (2005) Integrated Multiscale Process Simulation in Microelectronics (2005) Modelling thin film lubrication: Scientific versus engineering approaches (2006) A Continuum Description of Dense Granular Lubrication Flow (2008) The Phan-Thien and Tanner Model Applied to Thin Film Spherical Coordinates: Applications for Lubrication of Hip Joint Replacement (2008) <p>John A. Tichy, Professor and former Head of the Department, has been a member of the faculty since 1976. He is an ASME fellow, an STLE fellow (the national tribology society), a past chairman of the ASME Tribology Division, and the former Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology. Tichy has been awarded several honors including the ASME Board of Governors Award in 2005, the ASME Best Paper in Tribology in 1984 and 2000, the Tribolgy Division Innovative Research Award in 2004, the Department&#039;s Assini Teaching and Counseling Award, and Rensselaer&#039;s Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award.</p><p>John Tichy is also listed in the Who&#039;s Who in Rock &amp; Roll (1996) and the Rolling Stone Encyclopaedia of Rock &amp; Roll (1998) for his work as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the 1960s and 70s with <a href=http://www.commandercody.com title=Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen>Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen</a>.</p> Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Non-Newtonian fluid mechanicsrheologyTribology Engineering Robert K MacCrone maccrr 489 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/489 2011-03-04 12:45 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Kim L. Boyer boyerk 490 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/490 2010-10-20 09:55 Ph.D. 1986, Purdue University Dr. Kim Boyer is Head of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer. He received the BSEE (with distinction), MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Purdue University in 1976, 1977, and 1986, respectively. From 1977 through 1981 he was with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ; from 1981 through 1983 he was with Comsat Laboratories, Clarksburg, MD. From 1986-2007 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of IAPR, and a former IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Boyer is also a National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow at the US Department of State, spending 2006-07 as Senior Science Advisor to the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. He retains his Fellowship as a consultant on science and technology policy for the State Department. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/boyer_kim_web.jpg Dr. Kim Boyer is Head of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer. He received the BSEE (with distinction), MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Purdue University in 1976, 1977, and 1986, respectively. From 1977 through 1981 he was with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ; from 1981 through 1983 he was with Comsat Laboratories, Clarksburg, MD. From 1986-2007 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of IAPR, and a former IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Boyer is also a National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow at the US Department of State, spending 2006-07 as Senior Science Advisor to the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. He retains his Fellowship as a consultant on science and technology policy for the State Department. Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Junichi Kanai kanaij 491 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/491 2010-08-16 14:05 http://www.rpi.edu/~kanaij Ph.D. Computer and Systems Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M.S. Computer and Systems Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,, B.S. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Kanai was an Associate Research Professor at the Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working on document image processing. From 1998 to 2002, he was a senior scientist at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab, Princeton, NJ. His work included development and transfer of advanced technologies to product divisions. He was also responsible for managing a patent portfolio. From 2002 to 2004, he was a manager at Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic) Secaucus, NJ, providing system integration and software development for clients. Dr. Kanai joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, in 2004.Junichi Kanai is currently Associate Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory and Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, RPI. His responsibilities include managing the operation of the Design Laboratory an http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/kanai_junichi_web.jpg <p>From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Kanai was an Associate Research Professor at the Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working on document image processing. From 1998 to 2002, he was a senior scientist at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab, Princeton, NJ. His work included development and transfer of advanced technologies to product divisions. He was also responsible for managing a patent portfolio. From 2002 to 2004, he was a manager at Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic) Secaucus, NJ, providing system integration and software development for clients. Dr. Kanai joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, in 2004.</p><p>Junichi Kanai is currently Associate Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory and Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of <em>Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering</em>, RPI. His responsibilities include managing the operation of the<a href=../mdl/> Design Laboratory</a> an Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Education Engineering Minoru Tomozawa tomozm 492 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/492 2011-03-04 16:42 MTLE 4030 Intro to Glass Science (Fall) MTLE 2100 Structure of Engineering Materials (Spring) Ph.D. Metallurgy and Materials Science (University of Pennsylvania, 1968), B.S. Electrochemistry (Yokohama National University, Japan, 1961) Glass Materials Mass Transport Reliability Professor Tomozawa received a Ph.D. degree in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, after working for the Nippon Electric Company for four years. He joined the faculty at Rensselaer in 1969. He has published extensively in the area of glass science and edited several books on the subject. He served as the Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society and is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/tomozawa_minoru_web.jpg American Ceramic Society Ceramic Educational Council National Institute of Ceramic Engineers Society of Glass Technology Fellow, American Ceramic Society The George W. Morey Award of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society for his life-long contribution to glass science, specially for establishing the FTIR technique to measure the fictive temperature of glass. "Effect of Alumina on Enthalpy of Mixing of Mixed Alkali Silicate Glasses” to appear in J. Non-Crystalline Solids, (2011) (with P.J. Lezzi). “Enthalpy of Mixing of Mixed Alkali Glasses” J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (2010) 1439-1446. (with P.J. Lezzi). “Fictive temperature of fracture surface of a silica glass” J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (2010) 1194 – 1197. (with C.-Y. Li, T.M. Gross). “Indentation Mechanical Characterization of Glasses: Role of Plastic Deformation-Induced Fictive Temperature Increase” Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Fracture July (2009). Paper T16.004 (with T.M. Gross). “A Glass with High Crack Initiation Load: Role of Fictive Temperature- Independent Mechanical Properties” J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 355 (2009) 563-568 (with T.M. Gross# and A. Koike). “Fictive temperature-independent density and minimum indentation size effect in calcium aluminosilicate glass” J. Appl. Phys. 104, 063529 (2008). (with T. M. Gross). Professor Tomozawa received a Ph.D. degree in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, after working for the Nippon Electric Company for four years. He joined the faculty at Rensselaer in 1969. He has published extensively in the area of glass science and edited several books on the subject. He served as the Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society and is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. “Delayed failure of oxide glasses” the Glass and Optical Materials Division, the American Ceramic Society, May 2010, “Glass and Water” George W. Morey Award Lecture, the Glass and Optical Materials Science and Engineering CorporationNSF fictive temperature of glassesIndentation size effect of glassesmechanism of water diffusionrare-earth doped glasses Engineering Wolf von Maltzahn vonmaw 493 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/493 2010-10-01 14:49 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (University of Hannover, Germany, 1979)<br>M.S. Electrical Engineering (The Ohio State University, 1971)<br>B.S. Electrical Engineering As Acting VP for Research Wolf W. von Maltzahn advances the research enterprise at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and oversees all Institute-wide centers. He develops new strategies for achieving research leadership positions that align with Rensselaer’s primary research thrust areas of Energy and Environment, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Computational Science and Engineering, and Experimental Media and the Arts. He facilitates the development of individual and team proposals, streamlines administrative processes, and represents Rensselaer’s research interests to state, federal and corporate officials.Von Maltzahn received his undergraduate education in electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and his graduate education in electrical (biomedical) engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. After completing his doctorate in biomedical engineering in 1979 at the University of Hannover, Germany, he became a faculty member in the biomedical engineering program at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. His research focused on biomedical instrumentation, mathematical modeling, mechanical characterization of small arteries, and fabricating small vascular grafts. His research was funded by grants from NSF, NIH, AHA and some industry contracts. He authored or co-authored over 80 publications in journals, books and conference proceedings.Before accepting his current position as Associate VP for Research at Rensselaer in 2002, von Maltzahn was Vice President for Biomedical Engineering at the Whitaker Foundation. During his seven years at the foundation, he directed the Young Investigator Program for biomedical engineering faculty and the Industrial Internship Program for biomedical engineering students, he organized the Whitaker Annual Conference, and participated in major university site visits.Von Maltzahn is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), a senior member of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE/EMBS), and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/von_maltzahn_wolf_web.jpg Biomedical Engineering Engineering Daniel Walczyk walczd 494 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/494 2010-10-13 10:34 http://www.rpi.edu/~walczd/ Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel F. Walczyk, Ph.D., PE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. He received a B.S. from Syracuse University in 1986, a M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, a P.E. License from New York State in 1994 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to his graduate work, Dr. Walczyk worked in industry, primarily with the GE Company, as a mechanical design engineer. Since becoming an academic in January 1996, he has received several awards and honors including a DAAD Fellowship, NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 1998, Loctite Corp. Summer Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 1998, and a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999. He is also a holder of two U.S. patents. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/walczyk_daniel_web.jpg Fixturing of Compliant Parts Using a Matrix of Reconfigurable Pins A Comparison of Pin Actuation Schemes for Large-scale Discrete Dies Control of a Hydraulically-Actuated Reconfigurable Tool for Flexible Fabrication (2000) Simplifying the Development and Usage of Fixtures for Sheet Metal and Composite Aircraft Parts (2000) Fixture-less Assembly of Sheet Metal Parts for the Aircraft Industry A Comparison of Rapid Fabrication Methods for Sheet Metal Forming Dies (1999) Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling Methods for Metal Forming (1998) Bevel Cutting Methods and Cutting Trajectory Control for Steel Laminations Used in Tooling (1998) Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Discrete Dies for Sheet Metal Forming (1998) A Reconfigurable Tool for Forming Aircraft Body Panels (1998) Rapid Tooling for Sheet Metal Forming using Profiled-Edge Laminations-Design Principles and Demonstration (1998) Bonding Methods for Laminated Tooling (1997) Daniel F. Walczyk, Ph.D., PE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. He received a B.S. from Syracuse University in 1986, a M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, a P.E. License from New York State in 1994 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to his graduate work, Dr. Walczyk worked in industry, primarily with the GE Company, as a mechanical design engineer. Since becoming an academic in January 1996, he has received several awards and honors including a DAAD Fellowship, NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 1998, Loctite Corp. Summer Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 1998, and a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999. He is also a holder of two U.S. patents. Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)Flexible Manufacturing Center Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Environmentally conscious DesignMachine DesignRapid tooling Engineering Peter C Wayner Jr. wayner 495 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/495 2010-09-11 10:51 http://www.rpi.edu/~wayner Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Northwestern University, 1963), M.S. Chemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960), B.S. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1956) June 1956 - Sept. 1958 Communications Officer, United States Navy 3912, Sasebo, Japan 1959 - 1960 (Summer) Research Engineer in Textile Fibers Dept. (exploratory research on synthetic fibers) E.I. du Pont de Nemours March 1963 - August 1965 Research Scientist engaged in heat transfer studies, United Aircraft Corporation Research Laboratories August 1965 Joined the Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1976 - (Summer) Chemist (Chemical Engineer) Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Sept. 1976 - July 1977 Sabbatical leave at Stanford Universit (Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering); NASA Ames Research Center (Contract Researcher for Heat Pipe Research Program) 1985 Chairman, Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1987 Sabbatical visit to National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, and to Oxford University, Oxford, England 1988 - 1989 1988 Technical Program C http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/wayner_peter_web.jpg Experimental Determination of the Effect of Disjoining Pressure on Shear in the Contact Line Region of an Evaporating Thin Film (2005) Stability and Oscillations in an Evaporating Corner Meniscus (2004) A Study of an Oscillating Corner Meniscus with Phase Change Using Image Analyzing Interferometry (2004) Stability and Oscillations in an Evaporating Meniscus (2004) Inferred pressure gradient and fluid flow in a condensing droplet based on the measured thickness profile (2004) Experimental Verification of the Pressure Gradient with Phase Change in the Contact Line Region (2003) Experimental Study of a Constrained Vapor Bubble Fin Heat Exchanger in the Absence of External Natural Convection (2003) Reflectivity Based Evaluation of the Coalescence of Two Condensing Drops and Shape Evolution of the Coalesced Drop (2004) Effect of Interfacial Phenomena on Dewetting in Dropwise Condensation (2003) Adsorption, Evaporation, Condensation, and Fluid Flow in the Contact Line Region (2003) Center for Multiphase Research Professor Emeritus Biocomputation & Bioinformatics Chemical and Biological Engineering heat pipes for the cooling of microelectronic devices). Engineering Thomas R. Willemain willet 496 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/496 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Princeton University, 1969) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/willemain_thomas_web.jpg Interaction between runway loading and speed of arriving aircraft Industrial and Systems Engineering Model formulation Engineering Roger N. Wright wrighr 497 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/497 2011-03-04 17:00 MTLE 4400 Synthesis & Processing of Materials I (Fall) MTLE 6250 Advanced Mechanical Propertiews (Fall) MTLE 4450 Synthesis & Processing of Materials II (Spring) ENGR 1600 Matierals Science for Engineers (Summer) Sc.D. Metallurgy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969) Metallurgy Applied Mechanics/Mechanics of Materials Materials Processing Professor Wright received the Sc.D. in metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He joined Rensselaer in 1974, after having been at Allegheny Ludlum Research from 1968-1971, and at Westinghouse Research from 1971 -1974. Professor Wright is author or co-author of 130 scientific papers. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/wright_roger_web.jpg ASM International Fellow, American Society for Metals Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Dr. Wright received the Schneider Memorial Award of the Poland Chapter of Wire Association International “for an outstanding contribution for the development of world wire industry”. 2009 Wire Technology – Process Engineering and Metallurgy, Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Oxford, UK, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-382092-1 “Machinability of Metals”, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 11th Edition, 2010. "Rapid Flow Stress Characterization of Steel”, Journal of Engineering Materials and Performance, 2009, Vol. 18, No. 7, p. 985 (with P. Hale and J. Vosburgh). “Drawing Steel with New Long-Life Dies”, Wire & Cable Technology International, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. (with J. Keane). “Annealing of Steel – Part IV: Stress Relief Annealing”, Fastener Technology International, Vol. 31, No. 6, December, 2010/January, 2011. “Drawing Speed Considerations – Part 3”, Wire & Cable Technology International,Vol. 38, No. 6, November/December, 2010. “Mechanical Properties, Part 7 – Strength and Ductility in Bending”, Wire Forming Technology International, Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall, 2010. “Annealing of Steel – Part IV: Stress Relief Annealing”, Fastener Technology International, Vol. 32, No. 5, October/November, 2010 “Drawing Speed Considerations – Part 2”, Wire & Cable Technology International, Vol. 38, No. 5, September/October, 2010. Professor Wright received the Sc.D. in metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He joined Rensselaer in 1974, after having been at Allegheny Ludlum Research from 1968-1971, and at Westinghouse Research from 1971 -1974. Professor Wright is author or co-author of 130 scientific papers. Professor Materials Science and Engineering Corporation drawing of copper and aluminum wirefriction-lubrication-surface quality interactions in metalworkingMechanical and thermal processing of materials Engineering Xie George Xu xug2 498 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/498 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~xug2/ Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering (Texas A&M University, 1994), B.S. Physics (Xidian University, Xi&#039;an, P.R.China, 1983) Dr. Xu currently Professor of Nuclear and Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer (Troy, New York). In addition, he holds adjunct faculty appointments in Medical Physics at Albany Medical College (Albany, New York). He is also a visiting guest professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).Dr. Xu's research and teaching have centered on the understanding of scientific principles and development of biomedical applications related to delivery, measurement, and dosimetry of ionizing radiation. His most recent work involved one of the world's finest whole-body dosimetry models, VIP-Man, developed from the famous Visible Human Project and several most widely used Monte Carlo simulation codes. This model allowed radiation dose to human to be more accurately studied for the purposes of radiation protection and therapy. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/xu_george_web.jpg Sex-Specific Tissue Weighting Factors for Effective Dose Equivalent Calculations. (1996) Determining Effective Dose Equivalent For External Photon Radiation: Assessing Effective Dose Equivalent From Personal Dosemeter Readings. (1997) Possible Nondestructive Method For Determining Contamination Depth Profile. (1997) A Non-Destructive Method To Determine The Depth Of Radionuclides In Materials In-Situ. (1999) Applications of Terahertz Time-Domain Measurement on Paper Currencies. (1999) Photon Activation Analysis for River Sediment Sample Using A 60 MeV Linear Electron Accelerator. (2000) VIP-Man: An image-based whole-body adult male model constructed from color photographs of the visible human project for multi-particle Monte Carlo calculations. (2000) Near-Field Terahertz Imaging with a Dynamic Aperture. (2000) Photon Activation Analysis: A Proof of Principle Using an NIST Sediment Standard and An Electron Accelerator. (2000) Fluence-to-Dose Conversion Coefficients from Monoenergetic Neutron Beams be <p>Dr. Xu currently Professor of Nuclear and Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer (Troy, New York). In addition, he holds adjunct faculty appointments in Medical Physics at Albany Medical College (Albany, New York). He is also a visiting guest professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).</p><p>Dr. Xu&#039;s research and teaching have centered on the understanding of scientific principles and development of biomedical applications related to delivery, measurement, and dosimetry of ionizing radiation. His most recent work involved one of the world&#039;s finest whole-body dosimetry models, VIP-Man, developed from the famous Visible Human Project and several most widely used Monte Carlo simulation codes. This model allowed radiation dose to human to be more accurately studied for the purposes of radiation protection and therapy.</p> Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Biomedical Engineering measurementmedicalMonte Carlo radiation transport simulations Engineering Tong Zhang zhant 500 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/500 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/tzhang/ Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Minnesota, 2002), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Xi&#039;an Jiotong University, China, 1998), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Xi&#039;an Jiotong University, China, 1995) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/zhang_tong_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dr. Zhang&#039;s research focuses on VLSI design and implementation for signal processing and communication. Engineering Paul M. Schoch schocp 501 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/501 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1981), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1976) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/schoch_paul_web.jpg Core Electrostatic Fluctuations and Particle Transport in a Reversed-Field Pinch (2002) Initial measurements of plasma potential in the core of the MST reversed field pinch with a heavy ion beam probe. (2001) Radial electrostatic flux inferred from core measurements of potential and density fluctuations. (2001) The Evidence for Nonlocal Transport in the Texas Experimental Tokamak (1997) Measurements of Broadband Fluctuations and Plasma Potential with the 2Mev Heavy Ion Beam Probe on the TEXT-U Tokamak (1997) A Studio Format for Innovative Pedagogy in Circuits and Electronics (1997) A Motivational First-year Electronics Lab Course (1997) Current Density Profile Measurement on the Texas Experimental Tokamak Using a Heavy Ion Beam Probe (1998) Ballooning Characteristics in Density Fluctuations Observed with the 2 MeV Heavy Ion Beam Probe on the TEXT-U Tokamak (1996) Internal Magnetic and Electrostatic Fluctuation Measurements of MHD Modes in the TEXT Tokamak (1993) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Kenneth S. Vastola vastok 502 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/502 2010-05-18 01:00 http://networks.ecse.rpi.edu/~vastola/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois, 1982), M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois, 1972), B.S. Mathematics (Rutgers University, 1976) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/vastola_kenneth_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and multimedia networking.routingwireless networks Engineering Michael J. Wozny woznym 503 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/503 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. University of Arizona http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/wozny_michael_web.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering David T. Corr corrd 504 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/504 2010-10-01 14:12 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (University of Wisconsin, 2001)<br>M.S. Biomedical Engineering, M.S. Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics (University of Wisconsin, 1994)<br>B.S. Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics (University of Wisconsin, 1992) David T. Corr received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics, University of Wisconsin. After working as a consultant at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under the funding of the Universities Space Research Association, Dr. Corr returned to the University of Wisconsin to earn his M.S. degree from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Following a one-year Postdoctoral Research Associateship in the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Corr spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in muscle physiology and modeling at the Human Performance Laboratory of the University of Calgary, and two years as the Ernst & Young Fellow in Joint Injury and Arthritis Research, at the McCaig Centre, University of Calgary.Dr. Corr's research addresses the experimental evaluation and theoretical modeling of biological soft tissues, such as skeletal muscle, skin, and ligament, and their healing response following injury.He is a member of numerous professional societies including the Orthopaedic Research Society and the Wound Healing Society, and has held memberships in the American College of Sports Medicine, American Society of Biomechanics, and the Canadian Society for Biomechanics. Dr. Corr serves as a reviewer for several journals in the areas of biomedical engineering, biomechanics, and soft tissue mechanics.Dr. Corr was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary's McCaig Centre for Joint Injury & Arthritis Research, where he specialized in orthopedic soft tissue biomechanics; investigating the development of osteoarthritis, as well as wound healing in skin, ligament and skeletal muscle. An outstanding young researcher with broad-based knowledge and interests, Dr. Corr brings to the department a strong background in theoretical and applied mechanics, coupled with research at the whole tissue level. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/corr_david_web.jpg David T. Corr received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics, University of Wisconsin. After working as a consultant at NASA&#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under the funding of the Universities Space Research Association, Dr. Corr returned to the University of Wisconsin to earn his M.S. degree from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Following a one-year Postdoctoral Research Associateship in the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Corr spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in muscle physiology and modeling at the Human Performance Laboratory of the University of Calgary, and two years as the Ernst & Young Fellow in Joint Injury and Arthritis Research, at the McCaig Centre, University of Calgary.<p></p>Dr. Corr&#039;s research addresses the experimental evaluation and theoretical modeling of biological soft tissues, such as skeletal muscle, skin, and ligament, and their healing respon Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Lucy T Zhang zhangl 505 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/505 2011-03-08 16:20 http://www.rpi.edu/~zhangl12 Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2003 Lucy T. Zhang, Ph.D. received her B.S from Binghamton University in 1998, and obtained her M.S and Ph.D from Northwestern University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Upon the completion of her Ph.D. in 2003, she joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Tulane University in New Orleans as an assistant professor. In 2006, she became a faculty in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI. Her research focuses on computational mechanics with special emphasis on fluid-structure interactions, computational biomechanics, and multiscale modeling of interfacial interactions. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/zhang_lucy_web.jpg Interface treatments for Immersed Finite Element Method (2006) Immersed Finite Element Method for Fluid-Structure Interactions (2006) Angioplasty stent modeling using Immersed Finite Element Method (2006) Immersed Finite Element Method and Applications to Biological Systems (2006) Bridging Scale Particle and Finite Element Methods (2005) Lucy T. Zhang, Ph.D. received her B.S from Binghamton University in 1998, and obtained her M.S and Ph.D from Northwestern University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Upon the completion of her Ph.D. in 2003, she joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Tulane University in New Orleans as an assistant professor. In 2006, she became a faculty in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI. Her research focuses on computational mechanics with special emphasis on fluid-structure interactions, computational biomechanics, and multiscale modeling of interfacial interactions. Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterScientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering biomechanicsComputational fluid dyanmicsFluid-structure interactionsNumerical modeling Engineering Xavier Intes intesx 506 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/506 2010-10-01 14:17 Ph.D. Physics (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (France), 1998)<br>M.S. Physics (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, 1994)<br>B.S. Physics (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, 1992) Xavier Intes received a Ph.D. degree in 1998 in physics from the University of Bretagne Occidentale (France) for his contributions in characterization of propagation of optical scalar waves in highly diffuse medium. He then joined Prof Chance laboratory in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He held simultaneously postdoctoral appointments in the departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, of Radiology under the mentorship of Prof Chance and the department of Astronomy and Physics under the mentorship of Prof Arjun Yodh. In 2001, he acted as the Director of Research of the Medical Diagnostic Research Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, and the Director of Research of Optical Devices Inc., Philadelphia, USA. In 2003 he joined Advanced Research Technologies Inc as as ART's Chief Scientist. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/intes_xavier_web.jpg Time Gated Perturbation Monte Carlo for Whole Body Functional Imaging in Small Animals (2009) Extended Kalman filtering for modeling and analysis of ICG pharmacokinetics in cancerous tumors using NIR optical methods (2006) Diffuse optical tomography with a-priori anatomical information (2005) Time-Domain Optical Mammography SoftScan: Initial Results (2005) Multi-frequency Diffuse Optical Tomography (2005) Simulation Study of Breast Tissue Hemodynamics During Pressure Perturbation (2005) Time Domain Fluorescent Diffuse Optical Tomography: Analytical expressions (2005) Development of high sensitivity near-infrared fluorescence imaging device for early cancer detection (2005) Diffuse Optical Tomography with physiological and spatial a-priori constraints (2004) Non-PET Functional Imaging Techniques: Optical (2005) Contrast-Enhanced NIR Optical Imaging for subsurface cancer detection (2004) Metabolism Enhanced Tumor Localization by Fluorescence Imaging: In Vivo Animal Studies (2003) Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Greg Hughes hugheg 507 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/507 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Princeton University, 1972), M.S. Chemical Engineering (Princeton University, 1969), B.S. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1967) Prior to joining the faculty of Rensselaer, Dr. Hughes spent 26 years at AT&T and its successor Lucent Technologies. He served in many capacities, most notably as Vice President for International Services and Program Management (1995-1997), President of the Transmission Systems Business (1992-1994), President of the Network Cable Systems Business (1989-1991) and Vice President of the Microelectronics Interconnection Business (1987-1988). His experience spans a number of business and functional areas including R&D, manufacturing, marketing, professional services and program management. During AT&Ts globalization, Mr. Hughes led Network Systems businesses in over 25 countries. Dr. Hughes received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from President Bush in 1992 as President of AT&Ts Transmission Systems Business. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hughes_greg_web.jpg <p>Prior to joining the faculty of Rensselaer, Dr. Hughes spent 26 years at AT&amp;T and its successor Lucent Technologies. He served in many capacities, most notably as Vice President for International Services and Program Management (1995-1997), President of the Transmission Systems Business (1992-1994), President of the Network Cable Systems Business (1989-1991) and Vice President of the Microelectronics Interconnection Business (1987-1988). His experience spans a number of business and functional areas including R&amp;D, manufacturing, marketing, professional services and program management. During AT&amp;Ts globalization, Mr. Hughes led Network Systems businesses in over 25 countries. Dr. Hughes received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from President Bush in 1992 as President of AT&amp;Ts Transmission Systems Business.</p> Engineering John E. Mitchell mitchj 508 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/508 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~mitchj/ Ph.D. Operations Research (Cornell University, 1988), M.S. Operations Research (Cornell University, 1986), B.A. Mathematics (University of Cambridge, 1983) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/mitchell_john_web.jpg Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Birsen Yazici yazicb 509 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/509 2010-09-30 09:40 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~yazici/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1994), M.S. Mathematics (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1990), B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988) After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on radar, transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before joining Rensselaer in 2003. She currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and SIAM Journal of Imaging Science. Prof. Yazıcı is the recipient of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007 School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. She holds 11 US patents.Prof. Yazıcı’s research interests span the areas of statistical signal processing, inverse problems in imaging, applied mathematics, remote sensing, biomedical optics, and radar. Specifically, her current projects involve synthetic aperture imaging, passive imaging, imaging in multi-pathing and dynamically changing environments, waveform design, interferometric and polarimetric techniques for remote sensing applications, image formation for X-ray Computed Tomography, diffuse optical image reconstruction, fluorescence diffuse optical tomography, adaptive meshing algorithms for PDE-based inverse coefficient problems, pharmacokinetic-rate imaging, and breast cancer diagnosis.Dr. Yazici's research interests are statistical signal and image processing, pattern recognition, noncommutative harmonic analysis, inverse problems in radar and medical imaging, in particular optical and X-ray imaging and breast cancer. She holds 11 US patents. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/yazici_birsen_web.jpg After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on radar, transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before joining Rensselaer in 2003. She currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and SIAM Journal of Imaging Science. Prof. Yazıcı is the recipient of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007 School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. She holds 11 US patents. Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)Inverse Problems Center at RPI Biomedical Engineering Dr. Yazici&#039;s research interests are statistical signal and image processinginverse problems in radar and medical imagingnoncommutative harmonic analysispattern recognition Engineering Birsen Yazici yazicb 510 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/510 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~yazici/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1994), M.S. Mathematics (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1990), B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988) After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before coming to Rensselaer. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/yazici_birsen_web.jpg <p>After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before coming to Rensselaer.</p> Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)Inverse Problems Center at RPI Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dr. Yazici&#039;s research interests are statistical signal and image processinginverse problems in radar and medical imagingnoncommutative harmonic analysispattern recognition Engineering Xi-Cheng Zhang zhangxc 511 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/511 2010-12-01 13:14 http://www.rpi.edu/~zhangxc/ Ph.D. Physics (Brown University, RI, 1986), M.S. Physics (Brown University, RI, 1983), B.S. Physics (Peking University, Beijing, China, 1982) THz science and technology photonics too many http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/zhang_xi-cheng_web.jpg citation more than 6000 H index > 50 Gwo-Ching Wang, Toh-Ming Liu, Saroj Nayak, Masashi Yamaguchi, Michael Shur, Ingrid Wilke fellow of APS, IEEE, OSA Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang – Eric Josson Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. X.-C. Zhang graduated from Peking University in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1983 and 1986. He was a visiting scientist at MIT in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, He worked in the Physical Technology Division of Amoco Research Center. From 1987 to 1991, he was in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University. Dr. Zhang joined Rensselaer in 1992. Now Dr. Zhang is the Professor and Acting Head at the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Department of Electrical, Computer and System, and the Founding Director of the Center for THz Research at Rensselaer. He leads of NATO SET Terahertz Task Group. Dr. Zhang receives 26 US patents, published 18 books and book chapters, authored and co-authored over 350 scientific papers, delivered over 400 colloquium, seminars, invited conference presentations, and 300 contributed conference talks (since 1990). He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physics Society. Center for Terahertz Research Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering are ideal for dry dielectric substances including papercalled functional imageslaseropticsoptoelectronicsplasticsT-rayultafast phenomena Engineering W. Randolph Franklin frankwr 512 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/512 2010-10-10 17:01 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/ ECSE-4750 Computer Graphics ECSE-2500 Engineering Probability ECSE-6800 Advanced Computer Graphics Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (Harvard University, 1978), M.A. Applied Mathematics (Harvard University, 1975), B.S. Computer Science (University of Toronto, 1973), 3 short courses from the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, 2001-2002. Dr. Franklin has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, the US Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft Belvoir, the Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita di Genova, Italy, the Dept. de Science Geodesique, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia, and the Institute of Systems Science, National Univer sity of Singapore. He also helped found two defunct hi-tech startups, Hudson Data Systems, and Attic Graphics, Inc. He is an incorporator and board member of the Institute for Infrastructure Asset Management.Detailed info, including a resume, long bio, and research and teaching interests, is on his website. He welcomes questions. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/franklin_randolph_web.jpg ACM IEEE SIAM ACSM Computer Graphics Pioneers Barb Cutler Tom Zimmie <p>Dr. Franklin has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, the US Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft Belvoir, the Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell&#039;Informazione, Universita di Genova, Italy, the Dept. de Science Geodesique, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia, and the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore. He also helped found two defunct hi-tech startups, Hudson Data Systems, and Attic Graphics, Inc. He is an incorporator and board member of the Institute for Infrastructure Asset Management.</p> <em>The Geo* project at RPI</em>, Dept of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 5 July 2010. Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering DARPANSF computational cartographycomputational geometrycomputer graphicsgeographic information sciences Engineering Partha Dutta duttap 513 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/513 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (Indian Institute of Science, 1996), M.S. Physics (Indian Institute of Technology, 1990), B.S. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (Bombay University, 1988) While completing his doctoral degree, Dutta worked as a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India. Subsequently, he served as a visiting scientist at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain and at the Solid State Physics Laboratory of Delhi, India. He joined Rensselaer in 1996 as a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics. Three years later, he was appointed as a research assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department. In 2000, he was offered a tenure track assistant professor position. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/dutta_partha_web.jpg <p>While completing his doctoral degree, Dutta worked as a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India. Subsequently, he served as a visiting scientist at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain and at the Solid State Physics Laboratory of Delhi, India. He joined Rensselaer in 1996 as a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics. Three years later, he was appointed as a research assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department. In 2000, he was offered a tenure track assistant professor position.</p> Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and III-V antimonide processing.and process development for large-scale manufacturing of high-qualityelectronic and optoelectronic device fabricationfree space optical communicationinfrared photodetectors and photovoltaic devicesnanomaterialsprocessing Engineering Burt Swersey swersb 514 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/514 2010-10-13 10:44 http://burtswersey.blogspot.com/ B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Cornell University, 1959) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/swersey_burt_web.jpg Lecturer Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Creativity in designDesign methodology Engineering Elmar Altwicker altwie 515 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/515 2010-08-06 10:47 http://www.rpi.edu/~altwie Ph.D. Chemistry (Ohio State University), B.S. Chemistry (University of Dayton, Ohio) 4/1957-1962, American Cyanamid Company, Bound Brook, N.J., Research Chemist1963-1965, Princeton Chemical Resarch, Inc., Princeton, N.J., Project Leader1966-1968, UOP, Chemical Division, E. Rutherford, N.J., Groupleader1968-1974, Associate Professor of Bio-Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute1974-1975, Sabbatical Leave at Dechema Institute, 6 Frankfurt/Main 97, BRD (West Germany)8/75 - 8/86, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute9/86-date, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, ibid1989-1990, Sabbatical Leave at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques, University of Nancy, Nancy, France http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/altwicker_elmar_web.jpg Effects of Additives of Nitric Oxide and Sulfur Oxides Emissions (1971) Construction and Performance of a Small Oil Burner and the Effects of Additives on Nitrogen Oxides and Sulfur Oxides Emissions (1972) Further Study on the Effects of Additives on Nitric Oxide and Sulfur Dioxide from Oil Combustion (1972) Effect of Metallic Additives on NOx-Emission from a Small Oil Burner (1974) Comment on Incineration of Hazardous Wastes (1987) Fundamental Aspects of Incineration Related to Pollutant Formation (1988) Formation of Polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and Polychlorodibenzofurans During Heterogeneous Combustion (1988) The Destruction and Removal Efficiency of Toluene in Combustion and Related Processes (1989) Polychlorinated Dioxin/Furan Formation in Incinerators, Haz. (1990) Some Laboratory Experimental Designs for Obtaining Dynamic Property Data About Dioxins (1990) Formation of Polychlorodibenzo-p-Dioxins and Polychlorodibenzo Furans during Heterogeneous Combustion (1990) Hydrodynamic Aspects of Spoute <ul> <li>4/1957-1962, American Cyanamid Company, Bound Brook, N.J., Research Chemist</li> <li>1963-1965, Princeton Chemical Resarch, Inc., Princeton, N.J., Project Leader</li> <li>1966-1968, UOP, Chemical Division, E. Rutherford, N.J., Groupleader</li> <li>1968-1974, Associate Professor of Bio-Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</li> <li>1974-1975, Sabbatical Leave at Dechema Institute, 6 Frankfurt/Main 97, BRD (West Germany)</li> <li>8/75 - 8/86, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</li> <li>9/86-date, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, ibid</li> <li>1989-1990, Sabbatical Leave at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques, University of Nancy, Nancy, France</li> </ul> Professor Emeritus Chemical and Biological Engineering analysis of incinerator measurementsand solid fuels:<br> Measurements of DRE (destruction and removal efficiency)liquid Engineering Arthur Fontijn fontia 516 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/516 2010-08-16 09:07 http://www.rpi.edu/~fontia Ph.D. Natural Sciences (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1957)M.S. Physical Chemistry (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1954)B.S. Physics and Chemistry (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1949) Professor Fontijn is Director of the High-Temperature Reaction Kinetics Laboratory, housed in the Chemical Engineering Building, where his graduate students are located. He earned his degrees from the University of Amsterdam. His undergraduate work was in Physics and Chemistry and thereafter he specialized in Physical Chemistry. He was an NRC of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiation Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, a Research Associate in the Upper Atmosphere Chemistry Research Group at McGill University, and was employed by AeroChem Research Laboratories, Inc., Princeton, NJ, initially as Physical Chemist, thereafter as Head of the Reaction Kinetics Group and Vice-President. He joined Rensselaer in 1981. He has held visiting appointments at: the Chemistry Department of Queen Mary College, London University, England; CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; the Photophysics and Photochemistry Laboratory of the University of Bordeaux, France; the Oxford University Centre for Applied Kinetics, England http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/fontijn_arthur_web.jpg Reactions of Small Transient Species, Kinetics and Energetics (1983) Gas-Phase Chemiluminescence and Chemi-Ionization (1985) Gas-Phase Metal Reactions (1992) Absolute Quantum Yield Measurements of the NO-O Reaction and its Use as a Standard for Chemiluminescent Reactions (1964) High-Temperature Photochemistry (HTP) Studies of the Reactions of Ground-State Oxygen Atoms with Chloro-ethylenes (1994) High-Temperature Fast-Flow Reactor Studies of Metal Atom Oxidation Kinetics (1973) High Temperature Flow Tubes. Generation and Measurement of Refractory Species (1979) Gas-Phase Oxidation Kinetics of Toxic Metals at Incinerator Temperatures. The reactions of Chromium Atoms with HCl, N2O , Cl2, and O2 (1994) High-Temperature Fast-Flow Reactor Kinetics Studies of the Reactions of Al with Cl2, Al with HCl, and AlCl with Cl2 over Wide Temperature Ranges (1989) Kinetics of the O(3P)+N2O Reaction 1. Direct Measurements at Intermediate Temperatures (2000) Transitions in Order and Molecularity with Temperature in G Professor Emeritus Chemical and Biological Engineering and kinetic spectrometry.gaseous metal species reactionshigh-temperature reactions Engineering Badrinath Roysam roysab 517 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/517 2010-09-30 09:53 http://www.rpi.edu/~roysab/ Sc.D. Electrical Engineering (Washington University, St. Louis, 1989), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Washington University, St. Louis, 1987), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, 1984) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/roysam_badri_web.jpg A New Method for the Analysis of Electron Microscopic Autoradiographs. (1987) Data Acquisition System for Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Electron Microscopic Autoradiographs (1987) A Personal Computer Based Implementation of theMaximum-Likelihood Method of Analysis of Electron Microscope Autoradiographs (1992) Bayesian Image Reconstruction for Emission Tomography Incorporating Good&#039;s Roughness Prior on Massively Parallel Processors (1991) Representing and Computing Regular Languages on Massively Parallel Networks (1991) Hierarchically-Structured Unit Simplex Transformations for Parallel Distributed Optimization Problems. (1992) A Genetic Optimization Algorithm for Intelligent Imaging with Quantum-Limited Data (1992) A Numerical Approach to the Computation of Light Propagation through Turbid Media: Application to the Evaluation of Lighted Exit Signs (1993) Combining Stochastic and Syntactic Processing with Analog Computation Methods (1992) Unsupervised Noise Removal Algorithms For 3-D Confocal Fluores Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and multi-spectral. Such images are particularly challenging to processassay automation.</p>automated neuron and vessel tracingbiological image change analysisdue to their extremely high variability and high dimensionality. The processing tasks are computationally demandingespecially those that are three-dimensional (3-D)laser retinal surgerymapping of gene transcription activitytime varying Engineering Badrinath Roysam roysab 518 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/518 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~roysab/ Sc.D. Electrical Engineering (Washington University, St. Louis, 1989), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Washington University, St. Louis, 1987), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, 1984) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/roysam_badri_web.jpg A New Method for the Analysis of Electron Microscopic Autoradiographs. (1987) Data Acquisition System for Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Electron Microscopic Autoradiographs (1987) A Personal Computer Based Implementation of theMaximum-Likelihood Method of Analysis of Electron Microscope Autoradiographs (1992) Bayesian Image Reconstruction for Emission Tomography Incorporating Good&#039;s Roughness Prior on Massively Parallel Processors (1991) Representing and Computing Regular Languages on Massively Parallel Networks (1991) Hierarchically-Structured Unit Simplex Transformations for Parallel Distributed Optimization Problems. (1992) A Genetic Optimization Algorithm for Intelligent Imaging with Quantum-Limited Data (1992) A Numerical Approach to the Computation of Light Propagation through Turbid Media: Application to the Evaluation of Lighted Exit Signs (1993) Combining Stochastic and Syntactic Processing with Analog Computation Methods (1992) Unsupervised Noise Removal Algorithms For 3-D Confocal Fluores Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and multi-spectral. Such images are particularly challenging to processassay automation.</p>automated neuron and vessel tracingbiological image change analysisdue to their extremely high variability and high dimensionality. The processing tasks are computationally demandingespecially those that are three-dimensional (3-D)laser retinal surgerymapping of gene transcription activitytime varying Engineering Jeffrey Braunstein braunj4 1082 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1082 2011-03-08 16:23 http:// Assistant Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Richard W. Siegel sieger 520 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/520 2011-03-04 15:30 MTLE 6960 Nanostructured Materials (Spring) Ph.D. Metallurgy (University of Illinois, 1965), M.S. Physics (University of Illinois, 1960), B.A. Physics (Williams College, 1958) Nanomaterials Nanostructure Metallurgy Biomaterials Dr. Siegel serves on the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has also chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study of nanostructure science and technology that led to the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy. Siegel was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995. He has been at Rensselaer since 1995, serving as Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering from 1995 to 2000. He has authored more than 260 publications and numerous patents (11 issued, 7 pending) in the areas of defects http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/siegel_richard_web.jpg American Physical Society Materials Research Society The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society American Association for the Advancement of Science Society for Biomaterials Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) Fellow of Materials Research Society 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award in Germany Dulgar-Tulloch, A. J., Bizios, R., and Siegel, R. W., “Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nano- and Micro-grainsize Titania Topography”, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications 31, 357-362 (2011) Mehta, R. J., Karthik, C., Jiang, W., Singh, B., Shi, Y., Siegel, R. W., Borca-Tasciuc, T., and Ramanath, G., “High Electrical Conductivity Antimony Selenide Nanocrystals and Assemblies”, Nano Letters 10, 4417-4422 (2010) Parker, K., Schneider, R. T., Siegel, R. W., Ozisik, R, Cabanelas, J. C., Serrano, B., Antonelli, C., and Baselga, J., “Molecular Probe Technique for Determining Local Thermal Transitions: The Glass Transition at Silica/PMMA Nanocomposite Interfaces”, Polymer 51, 4891-4898 (2010) Liu, T., Siegel, R. W., and Ozisik, R., “The Effect of Confinement in Nanoporous Polymers on the Glass Transition Temperature”, Polymer 51, 540-546 (2010) Nuffer, J. H., and Siegel, R. W., “Nanostructure–Biomolecule Interactions: Implications for Tissue Regeneration and Nanomedicine”, Tissue Engineering Part A 16, 423-430 (2010) INVITED Murday, J. S., Siegel, R. W., Stein, J., and Wright, J. F., “Translational Nanomedicine: Status Assessment and Opportunities”, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 5, 251-273 (2009) FEATURE ARTICLE Shang, W., Nuffer, J. H., Muñiz-Papandrea, V. A., Colón, W., Siegel, R. W., and Dordick, J. S., “Cytochrome c on Silica Nanoparticles: Influence of Nanoparticle Size on Protein Structure, Stability, and Activity”, Small 5, 470-476 (2009) Dulgar-Tulloch, A. J., Bizios, R., and Siegel, R. W., “Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion and Proliferation in Response to Ceramic Chemistry and Nanoscale Topography”, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A 90, 586-594 (2009) Professor Siegel has authored or coauthored 270 articles and several patents (11 issued in US, 6 pending), edited ten books, presented more than 480 invited lectures around the world <p>Dr. Siegel serves on the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the President&#039;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has also chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study of nanostructure science and technology that led to the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy. </p><p>Siegel was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995. He has been at Rensselaer since 1995, serving as Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering from 1995 to 2000. He has authored more than 260 publications and numerous patents (11 issued, 7 pending) in the areas of defects National Science Foundation Center for Directed Assembly of NanostructuresRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) Professor Materials Science and Engineering NSFNYSTAROther - CorporationState biomaterialsceramicscharacterizationcompositesinorganic nanoparticlesmetalspropertiesSynthesis and processing Engineering Nanotechnology Mark W. Steiner steinm2 521 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/521 2010-10-13 09:19 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/mane/deptweb/faculty/member/steinm2.html Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dr. Steiner worked at GE Corporate from 1987 to 1991, consulting and introducing world-class productivity practices throughout GE operations. In 1991 he joined GE Appliances and led product line structuring efforts resulting in $18 million annual cost savings to the refrigeration business. Later as a design team leader he led product development efforts and the initial 1995 market introduction of the Built-In Style line of GE Profile refrigerators. His last assignment at GE Appliances was in the Office of Chief Engineer in support of GE's Design for Six Sigma initiative. Dr. Steiner has taught advanced design methods to hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His research interests include; multidisciplinary design pedagogy, product architecture, mechanical reliability, design for manufacture, and quality. Mark W. Steiner is Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory and Clinical Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is responsible for over http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/steiner_mark_web.jpg <p>Dr. Steiner worked at GE Corporate from 1987 to 1991, consulting and introducing world-class productivity practices throughout GE operations. In 1991 he joined GE Appliances and led product line structuring efforts resulting in $18 million annual cost savings to the refrigeration business. Later as a design team leader he led product development efforts and the initial 1995 market introduction of the Built-In Style line of GE Profile refrigerators. His last assignment at GE Appliances was in the Office of Chief Engineer in support of GE&#039;s Design for Six Sigma initiative. </p><p>Dr. Steiner has taught advanced design methods to hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His research interests include; multidisciplinary design pedagogy, product architecture, mechanical reliability, design for manufacture, and quality. </p><p>Mark W. Steiner is Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory and Clinical Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is responsible for over Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Clinical Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Advanced design methodsMultidisciplinary designProduct architecture Engineering Yunfeng Shi shiy2 522 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/522 2011-03-08 16:30 http://www.rpi.edu/~shiy2/ MTLE 6030 Advanced Thermodynamics (Fall) ENGR 1600 Materials Science for Engineers Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2002), B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2000) Nanomaterials Energy Computational Modeling Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006. Prior to joining Rensselaer, he spent two years in North Carolina State University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Shi's research focuses on simulation and modeling of advanced materials systems. His recent interests include nanoporous carbon, molecular motors and energetic materials. Dr. Shi also received the Best Poster Award from the Materials Research Society in 2002 and the Albert Yee Award from the University of Michigan in 2005. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/Shi_Yunfeng_web.jpg American Physical Society (APS) Materials Research Society (MRS) Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) R. J. Mehta, C. Karthik, W. Jiang, B. Singh, Y. F. Shi, R. W. Siegel, T. Borca-Tasciuc, G. Ramanath, “High electric conductivity antimony selenide nanocrystals and assemblies”, Nano Letters, in press (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl1020848 Y. F. Shi, "Size-independent shear band formation in amorphous nanowires made from simulated casting", Applied Physics Letters, 96, 121909 (1-3) (2010) J. C. Palmer, A. Llobet, S. H. Yeon, J. E. Fischer, Y. F. Shi, Y. Gogotsi, K. E. Gubbins, "Modeling the structural evolution of carbide-derived carbons using quenched molecular dynamics", Carbon, 48, 1116-1123 (2010). E. A. Anumol, B. Viswanath, P. G. Ganesan, Y. F. Shi, G. Ramanath, N. Ravishankar, "Surface diffusion driven nanoshell formation by controlled sintering of mesoporous nanoparticle aggregates", Nanoscale, 2, 1423-1425 (2010). Y. F. Shi, L. P. Huang and D. W. Brenner, "Computational Study of Nanometer-Scale Self-Propulsion Enabled by Asymmetric Chemical Catalysis", Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014705 (1-12) (2009). Y. F. Shi, "A mimetic porous carbon model by quench molecular dynamics simulation", Journal of Chemical Physics, 98, 185505 (1-4) (2008) <p>Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006. Prior to joining Rensselaer, he spent two years in North Carolina State University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Shi&#039;s research focuses on simulation and modeling of advanced materials systems. His recent interests include nanoporous carbon, molecular motors and energetic materials. Dr. Shi also received the Best Poster Award from the Materials Research Society in 2002 and the Albert Yee Award from the University of Michigan in 2005.</p> Y. F. Shi, "Artificial Nanomotors Design via Molecular-level Simulations", Mechanics : Modeling, Experimentation, Computation Seminar Series, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (2009) Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering NSF energetic materialsmetallic glasses and metal-semiconductor interfacesnanoporous materials Engineering John Ting-Yung Wen wenj 523 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/523 2010-12-13 10:53 http://www.cats.rpi.edu/~wenj Robotics I Control Systems Engineering Ph.D. Computer and Systems Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985), M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981), B.S. Electrical Engineering (McGill University, 1979) Motion control Complex systems John Ting-Yung Wen received his B.Eng. from McGill University in 1979, M.S. from University of Illinois in 1981, and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1981-1982, he was a system engineer at Fisher Controls where he developed a plant-wide coordination control system for pulp and paper plants. From 1985-1988, he was a member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he developed new modeling and control algorithms for large space structures and space robots. Since 1988, he has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering. Since July 2005, he has been the Director of a New York State sponsored interdisciplinary center, Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS). He was the Interim Director of the Smart Lighting Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center involving six partner universities, from June 2009 to December 2009. He is the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Automation Science & Engineering (CASE) to be held in Toronto, Canada, 8/21-8/24/2010. Dr. Wen was an ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellow in 1993, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Senior Visiting Scientist in 1997, and an Oversea Assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004-2009. Dr. Wen has over 200 technical publications in leading journals and conferences. His research interest lies in the general area of dynamical systems modeling, control, and planning with applications to high performance motion systems, robot manipulation, opto-mechatronics systems, thermal management, and aerodynamic flow control. Dr. Wen is a Fellow of IEEE and member of ASME and SPIE. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/wen_john_web.jpg IEEE ASME IEEE Fellow, 2001 School of Engineering Outstanding Team Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010. School of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, Rensselaer Poytechnic Institute, 2007. Innovation in Optomechatronic Research Award, 2008 SPIE International Symposium on Optomechatronics Technology, for the paper, L.I. Rivera, B. Potsaid, J.T. Wen, "Multi-worm tracking using superposition of merit functions," Nov, 2008. Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2006, B.~Potsaid, J.T.~Wen, F. Finger, "Automation of Challenging Spatial-Temporal Biomedical Observations with the Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM)." Chinese Academy of Sciences Oversea Assessor, 2004-2009. Senior Visiting Scientist, 1997, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), visited universities and research laboratories in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, summer 1993. T.Zhang, J.T.Wen, Y.Peles, J.E.Catano, R.Zhou, M.K.Jensen,"Two-Phase Refrigerant Flow Instability Analysis and Active Control in Transient Electronics Cooling Systems," International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 37(1), Jan, 2011, pp.84-89. C.Scott, B.Potsaid, John T.Wen, "Wide Field Scanning Telescope using MEMS Deformable Mirrors," International Journal on Optomechatronics, 4(3), Sep, 2010, pp.285-305. H.Bai, M.Arcak and J.T.Wen, "Adaptive motion coordination: using relative velocity information to track a reference velocity," Automatica, 45, 2009, pp.1020-1025. H.Bai, M.Arcak, J.T.Wen, "An Adaptive Design for Reference Velocity Recovery in Motion Coordination," Systems & Control Letters, 57(8), August, 2008, pp.602-610. B.Potsaid, J.T.Wen, M. Unrath, D. Watt, M. Alpay, "HighPerformance Motion Tracking Control for Electronic Manufacturing," ASME Journal on Dynamics, Measurement, & Control, 129(6), November,2007, pp.767--776. B.Potsaid, Y.Bellouard, J.T.Wen, "Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM): a multidisciplinary optical microscope design for large field and high resolution imaging," Optical Express, 13(17), Aug., 2005, pp.6504-6518. W.Gressick, J.T.Wen, J.Fish, "Order Reduction for Large-Scale Finite Element Models: A Systems Perspective," International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 3(3), 2005, pp.337-362. B.-H. Kang, J.T. Wen, N.G. Dagalakis, J.J. Gorman, "Analysis and Design of Parallel Mechanisms with Flexure Joints," IEEE Transaction on Robotics, 21(6), Dec. 2005, pp.1179-1185. H.Kang and J.T.Wen, "Design and Implementation of a Robotic Assistant in Minimally Invasive Surgeries," IEEE Magazine Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 20(1), Jan/Feb, 2000. pp.94--104. J.T.Wen, L.S.Wilfinger, "Kinematic Manipulability of General Constrained Rigid Multibody Systems," IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, 15(3), June, 1999. pp.558-567. C.Dickinson, J.T.Wen, "Feedback Control Strategies for Shape Memory Alloy Actuators," Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 9(4), April, 1998, pp.242-250. R.Beard, G.N.Saridis, J.T.Wen, "Approximate Solutions to the Time-Invariant Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 96(3), March 1998, pp.589-626. John Ting-Yung Wen received his B.Eng. from McGill University in 1979, M.S. from University of Illinois in 1981, and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1981-1982, he was a system engineer at Fisher Controls where he developed a plant-wide coordination control system for pulp and paper plants. From 1985-1988, he was a member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he developed new modeling and control algorithms for large space structures and space robots. Since 1988, he has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering. Since July 2005, he has been the Director of a New York State sponsored interdisciplinary center, Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS). He was the Interim Director of the Smart Lighting Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center involving six partner universities, from June 2009 to December 2009. He is the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Automation Science & Engineering (CASE) to be held in Toronto, Canada, 8/21-8/24/2010. Dr. Wen was an ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellow in 1993, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Senior Visiting Scientist in 1997, and an Oversea Assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004-2009. Dr. Wen has over 200 technical publications in leading journals and conferences. His research interest lies in the general area of dynamical systems modeling, control, and planning with applications to high performance motion systems, robot manipulation, opto-mechatronics systems, thermal management, and aerodynamic flow control. Dr. Wen is a Fellow of IEEE and member of ASME and SPIE. Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering active opticsmechatronicsmodeling and controlthermal management Engineering Riccardo Bevilacqua bevilr 1026 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1026 2010-10-12 09:53 http://www.riccardobevilacqua.com Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Rome, "Sapienza", Italy, 2007 http://rpi.edu/academics/engineering/facultyheadshots/bevilr.jpg Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Autonomous AssemblyDifferential Drag ControlDockingGuidance Navigation and Control of Space Systems and Multi-spacecraft Systems; RendevousOn-the-ground hardware-in-the-loop testbedsOptimization of Spacesraft Relative TrajectoriesReal-time SystemsResponsive Space Engineering Achille Messac messac 525 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/525 2010-09-22 09:41 http://www.rpi.edu/~messac/ Ph.D. Dept. of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M.S. Dept. of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,, B.S. Dept. of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Prof. Achille Messac is with the Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his B.S. (1981), M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) from the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory until 1994, where he led and participated in numerous research and development efforts. His research topics included deployment and multibody dynamics, multidisciplinary design and modeling, structural optimization, and Control Structure Integrated Design, the latter of which he was a pioneer in the mid-1980s. Prof. Messac led such NASA efforts as the development of a large simulation for the dynamics and control of the Stabilized Payload Deployment System, a two-arm payload manipulator for the shuttle orbiter, for which he received an award. He also led the development of a large simulation to study the dynamics stability, the structural http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/messac_achille_web.jpg Smart Pareto Filter: Obtaining a Minimal Representation of Multiobjective Design Space Reconfiguring a Distribution Detwork: A Physical Programming Approach Normal Constraint Method with Guarantee of Even Representation of Complete Pareto Frontier Pareto Frontier Based Concept Selection Under Uncertainty, with Visualization Optimization of Large Scale Rigidified Inflatable Structures for Housing Using Physical Programming (2004) The Normalized Normal Constraint Method for Generating the Pareto Frontier Feasibility and Optimization of Rigidified Inflatable Structures for Housing Concept Selection Using s-Pareto Frontiers (2003) System Design through Subsystem Selection using Physical Programming (2003) Linear Physical Programming for Production Planning Optimization (2003) Feasibility of Rigidified Inflatable Structures for Housing (2003) Generating Well-Distributed Sets of Pareto Points for Engineering Design using Physical Programming (2002) Multiobjective Robust Design using Physical Programming <p>Prof. Achille Messac is with the Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his B.S. (1981), M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) from the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory until 1994, where he led and participated in numerous research and development efforts. His research topics included deployment and multibody dynamics, multidisciplinary design and modeling, structural optimization, and Control Structure Integrated Design, the latter of which he was a pioneer in the mid-1980s. </p><p>Prof. Messac led such NASA efforts as the development of a large simulation for the dynamics and control of the Stabilized Payload Deployment System, a two-arm payload manipulator for the shuttle orbiter, for which he received an award. He also led the development of a large simulation to study the dynamics stability, the structural Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering offline Engineering James A. Cooper coopej5 526 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/526 2010-10-01 14:08 Ph.D. Biomedical Science (Drexel University, 2002)M.S. Materials (Pennsylvania State University, 1993)B.A. Chemistry (Lincoln University, 1989) Dr. Cooper received his Ph.D. degree from Drexel University and was a National Research Council (NRC) Post-Doctoral Associate at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, he specialized in the area of tissue engineering that included investigations with bioreactors, bioimaging and 3-D scaffold fabrication. In 2007, he became an inaugural 2006 Hartwell Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory (TML) in the Department of Bioengineering. At the TML, he specialized in studies investigating the interaction between cells and their microenvironments. He used novel microfabrication tools to monitor the interactions of mesenchymal stem cells in order to better understand how the cells function under static conditions as they commit to chondrogenic and osteogenic lineages in the same cellular mass for the development of an osteochondral implant.Dr. Cooper reviews for several journals including the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Acta Biomaterialia and Journal of Polymer Research.Dr. Cooper’s interests and the general areas of research of his laboratory include the multidisciplinary areas of Biomaterials, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Orthopedics, Stem Cell Biology, Materials Fabrication, Bioimaging, Bioreactors and Biosensors. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/cooper_james_web.jpg Engineering controllable anisotropy in electrospun biodegradable nanofibrous scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering (2007) Osteogenic differentiation of dura mater stem cells cultured in vitro on three-dimensional porous scaffolds of poly( Perfusion Flow Bioreactor for 3-D In Situ Imaging: Investigating Cell-Biomaterial Interactions (2007) Systematic Investigation of Porogen Size and Content on Scaffold Morphometric Parameters and Properties (2007) A Systematic Study on Fabrication and Characterization of Electrospun Poly(alpha-hydroxy ester) based Nanofibrous Scaffolds (2006) Biomimetic Tissue-Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligament Replacement (2007) Tissue Engineering of Bone and Ligament A 15-year Perspective (2006) Encapsulated Chondrocyte Response to Pulsatile Flow Bioreactor (2007) Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Based on Photocured Dimethacrylate Polymers for In Vitro Optical Imaging (2006) Dr. Cooper received his Ph.D. degree from Drexel University and was a National Research Council (NRC) Post-Doctoral Associate at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, he specialized in the area of tissue engineering that included investigations with bioreactors, bioimaging and 3-D scaffold fabrication. In 2007, he became an inaugural 2006 Hartwell Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory (TML) in the Department of Bioengineering. At the TML, he specialized in studies investigating the interaction between cells and their microenvironments. He used novel microfabrication tools to monitor the interactions of mesenchymal stem cells in order to better understand how the cells function under static conditions as they commit to chondrogenic and osteogenic lineages in the same cellular mass for the development of an osteochondral implant.Dr. Cooper reviews for several journals including the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Acta Biomaterialia and Journal of Polymer Research. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering BioimagingBiomaterialsBioreactors and BiosensorsCell and Tissue EngineeringMaterials FabricationOrthopedicsStem Cell Biology Engineering Thomas C Sharkey sharkt 527 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/527 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~sharkt Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Florida, 2008), M.S. Mathematical Sciences (Johns Hopkins University,, B.S. Mathematical Sciences (Johns Hopkins University) Assistant Professor Thomas Sharkey received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida in August 2008, where he was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation focused on developing algorithms to solve several nonlinear supply chain optimization problems, with an emphasis on problems that integrate facility location and inventory planning decisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Sharkey received his B.S. and M.S.E in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. He is the recipient of an Excellence in Research award from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Florida in April 2007 and an Undergraduate Achievement award from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. At Rensselaer, Dr. Sharkey will teach courses on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for optimization problems. His re http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sharkey_thomas_web.jpg <p><strong>Assistant Professor Thomas Sharkey</strong> received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida in August 2008, where he was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation focused on developing algorithms to solve several nonlinear supply chain optimization problems, with an emphasis on problems that integrate facility location and inventory planning decisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Sharkey received his B.S. and M.S.E in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. He is the recipient of an Excellence in Research award from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Florida in April 2007 and an Undergraduate Achievement award from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. At Rensselaer, Dr. Sharkey will teach courses on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for optimization problems. His re Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Peter F Caracappa caracp3 528 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/528 2010-08-13 15:37 Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering & Sciences (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006), M.S. Nuclear Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001), B.S. Engineering Physics (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Clinical Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Henry J. Sneck sneckh 529 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/529 2010-10-07 15:10 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1962) During his fifty year association with RPI Professor Sneck has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering. A generalist, rather than a specialist, his career has focused on the practice of engineering. He has been a consultant to the General Electric Company, the Watervliet Arsenal, and Albany International among others. He has taught design as an invited Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy and West Point, and continues to assist teaching design in the Rensselaer Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sneck_henry_web.jpg <p>During his fifty year association with RPI Professor Sneck has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering. A generalist, rather than a specialist, his career has focused on the practice of engineering. He has been a consultant to the General Electric Company, the Watervliet Arsenal, and Albany International among others. He has taught design as an invited Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy and West Point, and continues to assist teaching design in the Rensselaer Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory.</p> Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Lealon L. Martin martin5 530 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/530 2010-08-06 10:26 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/design/ Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (University of California, Los Angeles, 2002), B.S. Chemical Engineering (Tuskegee University, AL, 1995) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/martin_lealon_web.jpg A Minimum Area (MA) Targeting Scheme for Single Component MEN and HEN Synthesis (2004) Total Annualized Cost Optimality Properties of State Space Models for Mass and Heat Exchange Networks (2001) Globally Optimal Power Cycle Synthesis via the Infinite Dimensional State Space Approach Featuring Minimum Area with Fixed Utility (2003) Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Caroline Y. Westort westoc 531 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/531 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Gregory Hampson hampsg 532 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/532 2010-09-22 09:58 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg <p style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoPlainText><font face=Centaur size=3>Dr. Gregory J. Hampson, received his BA from The Colorado College, his MSME from the Thermal Sciences Div at Stanford University and Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. <span>&nbsp;</span>He conducted his Ph.D. research on model development and experimental verification of the 3D CFD code KIVA used for modeling the dynamic processes within a fired diesel engine cylinder at the Engine Research Center at UW-Madison.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style=font-family: &#039;Calibri&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 11pt>He has worked for more than 20 years in the field of energy, combustion, air pollutant formation and control, within propulsion, automotive engine, gas turbine, wind turbine, and nuclear fields.<span>&nbsp; </span>He has worked for 3M, Chevron, Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL), GE Aircraft Engines, GE Nuclear, GE - Corp. Research &amp; Development (now GRC).<span>&nbsp; </s Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering offline Engineering Ishwara B. Bhat bhati 533 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/533 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/cie/faculty_bhat.html Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1981), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, 1980) Ishwara B. Bhat is a Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at RPI. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).Bhat joined Rensselaer in 1985 as a research associate and was promoted to full professor in 2000. He has published over 75 articles in refereed journals and edited several special issues of the Journal of Electronic Materials. Bhat has served as a member of the program committee of several national and international conferences, including serving as co-chair of the 1996 and 2000 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials held in Las Vegas, Nevada and Albuquerque, N.M., respectively. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Epitaxial growth of n-type SiC using phosphine and nitrogen as the precursors (2002) Copper drift in methyl-doped silicon oxide film (2002) Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of CdTe Films Grown by Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth (2001) In-situ monitoring of the growth of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 films and Bi2Te3-Sb2Te3 suprelattice using spectroscopic ellipsometry (2001) Selective growth of CdTe on Silicon and GaAs substrates (2000) Ishwara B. Bhat is a Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at RPI. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).<br/><br/>Bhat joined Rensselaer in 1985 as a research associate and was promoted to full professor in 2000. He has published over 75 articles in refereed journals and edited several special issues of the Journal of Electronic Materials. Bhat has served as a member of the program committee of several national and international conferences, including serving as co-chair of the 1996 and 2000 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials held in Las Vegas, Nevada and Albuquerque, N.M., respectively. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and high-voltage devicesand IV-IV semiconductors. His work includes growth of wide band gap semiconductors (such as GaNand others.and ZnSe) and narrow band semiconductors (such as HgCdTe and InGaSb). His current research is focused on the growth of silicon carbide epitaxial films for use in high-powerBhat has over 20 years of experience in epitaxial growth and characterization of several II-VIhigh-temperatureIII-VSiCTexas Instruments Engineering Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc borcad 534 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/534 2010-10-12 09:47 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 2005 D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc received her B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University in 1996, and M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and respectively 2005. She was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2002 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2003 and 2005. She joined RPI's Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant professor in 2006. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/borca_tasciuc_diana_web.jpg D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc received her B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University in 1996, and M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and respectively 2005. She was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2002 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2003 and 2005. She joined RPI&#039;s Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant professor in 2006. Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering heat transfer in nanosystemsMEMSmicrofluidicsNEMS Engineering Timothy Wei weit 535 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/535 2010-10-13 10:35 Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1986 Before joining Rensselaer in 2006, Professor Wei worked at Rutgers, most recently as professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. There, he oversaw the formation of multidisciplinary, university-industry research teams that focus on the fundamental issues behind key technological problems. The teams have developed joint proposals on such wide-ranging topics as advanced materials manufacturing research, clean-burning coal, and arterial disease. Professor Wei has pursued experimental fluid dynamics in a vast range of applications, from the effect of flow on endothelial cells to the use of polymer additives to reduce drag. His research has attracted millions in grant funding from such agencies as the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Together with USA Swimming, he employs state-of-the-art flow measurement techniques to improve the performance of swimmers in the 2008 Olympic Games. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/wei_tim_web.jpg <p>Before joining Rensselaer in 2006, Professor Wei worked at Rutgers, most recently as professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. There, he oversaw the formation of multidisciplinary, university-industry research teams that focus on the fundamental issues behind key technological problems. The teams have developed joint proposals on such wide-ranging topics as advanced materials manufacturing research, clean-burning coal, and arterial disease. </p><p><br />Professor Wei has pursued experimental fluid dynamics in a vast range of applications, from the effect of flow on endothelial cells to the use of polymer additives to reduce drag. His research has attracted millions in grant funding from such agencies as the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Together with USA Swimming, he employs state-of-the-art flow measurement techniques to improve the performance of swimmers in the 2008 Olympic Games.</p> Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Biological flowsFluid-structure interactionsTurbulence Engineering Assad Anshuman Oberai oberaa 536 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/536 2010-10-12 13:26 http://www.rpi.edu/~oberaa/ Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998 Assad Oberai received his PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. His doctoral work involved developing accurate and efficient finite element methods for solving time-harmonic, wave propagation problems in unbounded domains. As a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University he developed multiscale formulations of large eddy simulation for modeling turbulent flows and numerical methods for predicting noise generated by such flows. In 2001, Dr. Oberai joined Boston University as an Assistant Professor and in 2006 he moved to the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Department at RPI. Here, he continues to work on numerical methods for problems with multiple scales and inverse problems. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/oberai_assad_web.jpg Elastic modulus imaging: some exact solutions of the compressible elastography inverse problem. (2007) Coupling between elastic strain and interstitial fluid flow: ramifications for poroelasticity imaging. (2006) A Dynamic Multiscale Viscosity Method for the Spectral Approximation of Conservation Laws. (2006) Variational Formulation of the Germano Identity for the Navier-Stokes Equations. (2005) A Dynamic Approach for Evaluating Parameters in a Numerical Method (2005) Acoustic Eigenvalues of Rectangular Rooms with Arbitrary Wall Impedances using the Interval Newton/Generalized Bisection Method (2005) Evaluation of the Adjoint Equation Based Algorithm for Elasticity Imaging. (2004) Sensitivity of the Scale Partition for Variational Multiscale LES of Channel Flow (2004) An Application of Shape Optimization in the Solution of Inverse Acoustic Scattering Problems. (2004) A Krylov subspace projection method for simultaneous solution of Helmholtz problems at multiple frequencies. (2003) Assad Oberai received his PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. His doctoral work involved developing accurate and efficient finite element methods for solving time-harmonic, wave propagation problems in unbounded domains. As a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University he developed multiscale formulations of large eddy simulation for modeling turbulent flows and numerical methods for predicting noise generated by such flows. In 2001, Dr. Oberai joined Boston University as an Assistant Professor and in 2006 he moved to the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Department at RPI. Here, he continues to work on numerical methods for problems with multiple scales and inverse problems. Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Biomedical ImagingCompuational biomechanicsInverse problemsMultiscale modelingTurbulence modeling and simulation Engineering Daniel Lewis lewisd2 537 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/537 2011-03-04 12:44 http://www.rpi.edu/~lewisd2 MTLE 6080 Electron Microscopy of Materials (Alternate Fall) MTLE 4920 Application of Materials Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 2001), M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 1997), B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 1995) Thermodynamics Nanomaterials Fuel Cells Energy Systems/Multiphase Phenomena Energy Computational Modeling Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Lewis was a researcher at GE Global Research. His work focused on oxidation performance and deformation processing of advanced ferritic materials for SOFC interconnects. In addition, he studied the metallurgy and electrical properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline soft magnetic materials, oxidation resistant coatings for superalloys, and infrared heating technology development.Prior to joining GE Global Research, he was awarded a two-year National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship. Under this award, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to study eutectic solidification microstructures using experimental and computational techniques. While at NIST he co-developed a technique for quantifying solidification microstructures in ternary eutectics. He also studied the effect of solidification velocity on the phase distribution in low-volume fraction ternary eutectics containing intermetallic phases. His computational work involve http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/lewis_dan_web.jpg TMS - The Minerlas, Metals, & Materials Society ASM International Electrochemical Society A. Gennett, D. Lewis, and P. Dutta, “Low Temperature Growth of GaxIn1-x Bulk Crystals from InSn-rich Melt,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 312(8), p. 1080-1084, (2010) C. Calebrese, L. Schadler, and D. Lewis, “Modelling of single bubble growth in carbon nanofibre filled mesophase pitch during carbonization,” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 18(4), 045001 (2010) C. Calebrese, G. Eisman, D. Lewis, and L. Schadler, “Swelling and related mechanical and physical properties of carbon nanofiber filled mesophase pitch for use as a bipolar plate material,” Carbon 48(13), p. 3939-3946 (2010) M. Casteel, P. Willson, T. Goren, P. O&#039;Brien, and D. Lewis, “Novel Method for Measuring Chromia Evaporation from SOFC Interconnect Materials,” ECS Transactions, 25(2), p. 1411-1416 (2009) M. Glicksman, P. Rios, and D. Lewis, “Linear Measures for Polyhedral Networks,” International Journal of Materials Research, 100(4), p. 536-542 (2009) M. Glicksman, P. Rios, and D. Lewis, “Mean-width and Caliper Characteristics of Network Polyhedra,” Philosophical Magazine, 89(4), p. 389-403 (2009) <p>Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Lewis was a researcher at GE Global Research. His work focused on oxidation performance and deformation processing of advanced ferritic materials for SOFC interconnects. In addition, he studied the metallurgy and electrical properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline soft magnetic materials, oxidation resistant coatings for superalloys, and infrared heating technology development.</p><p>Prior to joining GE Global Research, he was awarded a two-year National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship. Under this award, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to study eutectic solidification microstructures using experimental and computational techniques. While at NIST he co-developed a technique for quantifying solidification microstructures in ternary eutectics. He also studied the effect of solidification velocity on the phase distribution in low-volume fraction ternary eutectics containing intermetallic phases. His computational work involve Cr Vaporization Rate Measurements from Ferritic Alloys in SOFC Environments, M. Casteel, D. Lewis: Presented at the 2010 Materials Science and Technology Meeting, Houston, TX, October 2010 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Interconnect Stability and Electrochemical Phase Field Modeling, D. Lewis: Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2010 Invited Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterScientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering NSFNYSERDA Materials for fuel cell systemsphase transformationsPhysical metallurgysolidificationwetting behavior Engineering Nanotechnology Jonathan S. Dordick dordick 538 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/538 2010-09-08 12:51 http://enzymes.che.rpi.edu/ Ph.D. Biochemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983), M.S. Biochemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983), B.A. Biochemistry and Chemistry (Brandeis University, 1980) Biocatalysis in Nonaqueous Media Molecular Bioprocessing Biocatalytic Materials and Coatings Combinatorial Biocatalysis Dordick joined the Rensselaer faculty as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1998 and is also the Howard P. Isermann Professor. He spent nine years at the University of Iowa. He joined their staff in 1987 as a member of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to full professor in 1994. He served as department chair from 1995 to 1998. He also served as associate director of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing at the University of Iowa and held a joint position in the university's Department of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. Dordick is the associate editor for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1996 to present), and is a member of the editorial boards for several publications, including Enzyme and Microbial Technology (1993 to present); the Journal of Industrial Microbiology (1996 to 2000); the Journal of Environmental Polymer Degradation (1996 to present); Metabolic Engineering ( http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/jonathan_dordick.jpg Structural diversity of peroxidase-catalyzed oxidation products of o-Methoxyphenols (2004) Silica Nanoparticules Size Influences the Structure and Enzymatic Activity o Adsorbed Lysozyme (2004) Periplasmic expression as a basis for whole cell kinetic screening of unnatural enzyme reactivities (2004) Hydration of Enzyme in nonaqueous media is consistent with solvent dependence of its activity (2004) Combinatorial Formulation of Biocatalyst Preparations for Increased Activity in Organic Solvents: Salt Activation of Penicillin Amidase (2004) Biocompatibility of chemoenzymatically derived dextran-acrylate hydrogels (2004) Solid-phase peptide synthesis by ion-paired alpha-chymotrypsin in nonaqueous media (2003) Si-Nanocolumns as Unique Nanostructured Supports for Enzyme Immobilization (2003) Self-assembled lipid nanotube materials from synthetic glycolipids (2003) Multienzyme Catalysis in Microfluidic Biochips (2003) Microfluidic Peroxidase Biochip for Polyphenol Synthesis (2003) Influence of Different S Dordick&#039;s group is looking at ways to combine biomolecules s, and 3D nanofabrication strategies for electronic, and nucleic acid into nanomaterial networks. The group uses biocatalysis and biorecognition, and photonic materials., catalyst arrays, for example, heavy metal sensors, magnetic, peptides, to create nanotube-protein structures, which could be used as nanometer-sized reactors for chemical/biological reactions. Dordick and his team are also working to use self-assembly techniques to create new organic-inorganic assemblies approaching biological complexity in architecture and function. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Richard Radke radker 539 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/539 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/rjradke/ Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Princeton University), M.A. Computational and Applied Mathematics (Rice University,, B.A. Computational and Applied Mathematics (Rice University) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/radke_richard_web.jpg Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and three-dimensional modeling and tracking from video and range sensors. At RensselaerDr. Radke&#039;s current research interests include distributed computer vision problems on large camera networkshe is associated with the NSF ERC for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) as well as the Center for Next Generation Video(CNGV) and the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN). Dr. Radke received an NSF CAREER award in March 2003 Engineering Ricardo Dobry dobryr 540 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/540 2010-10-07 14:36 http://www.nees.rpi.edu/article.php3?id_article=34 Sc.D. Civil Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971)M.S. Soil Mechanics (National University of Mexico, 1964)B.S. Structural Engineering (University of Chile, 1963) Soil Mechanics Geotechnical Earthquakes Simulation Dr. Dobry's research interests include soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering and geotechnical dynamic centrifuge testing. He was a leading participant of the group that wrote the new seismic provisions on local site amplification in the 1990's now incorporated in U.S. building codes. He is one o, one of 15 interconnected experimental nodes funded by NSF to revolutionize earthquake engineering research in the U.S. He has written more than 200 technical papers and research reports and has directed 40 PhD and MS theses at Rensselaer. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/dobry_ricardo_web.jpg Member, National Academy of Engineering Dobry has served as consultant and member of consulting boards of important and prestigious civil engineering projects, including offshore oil platforms in Venezuela and Australia, earth dams and dikes in California, Puerto Rico and South America, seismic retrofitting of several large bridges in NYC, seismic guidelines for design of new bridges in NYC, and design of the new Rion-Antirion bridge in Greece. Dobry has been an invited state-of-the-art and keynote speaker at international meetings in the U.S., Mexico, South America, Europe, Japan and Australia. He earned the J. James Croes Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985, and was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004, for fundamental contributions to multiple aspects of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Dobry is the recipient Rensselaer&#039;s William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award for 2008. Pile Response to Lateral Spreads: Centrifuge Modeling (2003) Single Piles in Lateral Spreads: Field Bending Moment Evaluation (2003) Centrifuge Modelling for Seismic Retrofit of an Immersed Tube Tunnel (2003) Intl. J. of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 3 (2) (2002) Post-Triggering Response of Liquefied Soil in The Free Field and Near Foundations (1998) Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Mona Hella hellam 541 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/541 2010-05-18 01:00 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Ohio State University, 2001), M.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1996), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1993) From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Hella was a teaching and research assistant at Ain Shams University. From 1997-2001 she was a research assistant at the Ohio-state University, working on RF circuits for wireless applications. In the summer of 1998, she was with the Helsinki university of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland as a visiting scholar working on 2GHz BiCMOS Local oscillator generating circuits. From June 1999-December 1999, she was with the analog group at Intel cooperation, Chandler, AZ working on the design of transmitters for cable modems. She was also a designer at Spirea AB, Stockholm, Sweden working on CMOS power amplifiers for Bluetooth technology (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2003, she was a senior designer at RFMD Inc, Billerica, MA working on Optical communication systems, as well as power amplifier for IEEE802.11b. Her research interests include the areas of mixed-signal VLSI and design of RF circuits for wireless and wire-line applications. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hella_mona_web.jpg From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Hella was a teaching and research assistant at Ain Shams University. From 1997-2001 she was a research assistant at the Ohio-state University, working on RF circuits for wireless applications. In the summer of 1998, she was with the Helsinki university of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland as a visiting scholar working on 2GHz BiCMOS Local oscillator generating circuits. From June 1999-December 1999, she was with the analog group at Intel cooperation, Chandler, AZ working on the design of transmitters for cable modems. She was also a designer at Spirea AB, Stockholm, Sweden working on CMOS power amplifiers for Bluetooth technology (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2003, she was a senior designer at RFMD Inc, Billerica, MA working on Optical communication systems, as well as power amplifier for IEEE802.11b. Her research interests include the areas of mixed-signal VLSI and design of RF circuits for wireless and wire-line applications. Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and efficiency enhancement techniquesand methods required to make the silicon technology more suitable for the implementation of a low cost Engineering Koushik Kar kark 542 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/542 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/koushik/ Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Maryland) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/kar_koushik_web.jpg Minimum Interference Routing of Bandwidth Guaranteed Tunnels with MPLS Traffic Engineering Applications (2000) Low-Overhead Rate Control for Multirate Multicast Sessions (2002) Routing Restorable Bandwidth Guaranteed Connections Using Maximum 2-route Flows (2003) Scheduling Algorithms for Optical Packet Fabrics (2003) Achieving Proportionally Fair Rates using Local Information in Aloha Networks (2004) Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Rate Allocation of Multipath Traffic Flows&#039;&#039; (2003) OMNI: An Efficient Infrastructure for Real-time Applications&#039;&#039; (2004) MPLS Traffic Engineering Using Enhanced Minimum Interference Routing: An Approach Based On Lexicographic Max-Flow (2000) Reduced Complexity Input Buffered Switches (2000) Optimization Based Rate Control for Multirate Multicast Sessions (2001) A Simple Rate Control Algorithm for Maximizing Total User Utility (2001) Optimization Based Rate Control for Multipath Sessions (2001) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering ad-hoc and sensor networksand multicasting.congestion control and resource allocationDr. Kar&#039;s research involves routing and traffic engineering Engineering Leila Parsa parsal 543 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/543 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~parsa Ph.D. Texas A&M University http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/parsa_leila_web.jpg Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Renewable Energy Systems Engineering Richard Alben albenr 544 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/544 2010-10-12 09:38 Ph.D. Harvard University http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/alben_richard_web.jpg Dr. Alben received his PhD in Physics in 1967. In 1968, after a postdoctoral year in Japan, he joined the faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University as an Assistant Professor, becoming an Associate Professor in 1973. His teaching and research were in the areas of magnetism, semiconductors and engineering thermodynamics. &nbsp;In 1974 he had a Fellowship leave of absence to study amorphous ice at the CNRS lab in Grenoble, France. He joined General Electric Corporate Research and Development in 1977 working on heat pumps, solar energy, and energy systems. In 1979 he became Manager of the Technology Evaluation Operation in where he led a group of 15 energy systems analysts doing evaluations of the business attractivene Clinical Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Patrick T Underhill underp3 545 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/545 2010-08-06 10:41 http://www.rpi.edu/~underp3 B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2001, Washington UniversityB.S. Physics, 2001, Washington UniversityPh.D. Chemical Engineering, 2006, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral: 2006-2008, University of Wisconsin - Madison Complex fluids Coarse-grained simulations Microfluidics Biopolymers Swimming microorganisms http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/underhill_patrick_web.jpg In our lab, we study materials called complex fluids, encompassing things as diverse as polymer solutions, colloidal suspensions, biomaterials and active materials. The term complex fluid includes everyday materials like paints, food, and plastics as well as biological systems like DNA, the interior of cells, and the extracellular matrix. A unifying theme among these systems is that microstructure influences the macroscopic behavior. We understand these materials and develop new applications through use of experimental, theoretical, and computational methods. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Wai Kin (Victor) Chan chanw 546 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/546 2010-05-18 01:00 http://sigma.dses.rpi.edu/ROSL Ph.D. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (University of California, Berkeley, 2005), M.Eng. Electrical Engineering (Tsinghua University, 2000), B.E. Electrical Engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1997) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/chan_victor_web.jpg <p>Dr. Chan&#039;s research interests are in the areas of simulation, optimization, and statistics. Current research topics include </p><ul><li>Agent-based simulation, </li><li>Discrete-event simulation, </li><li>Robust simulation,</li><li>Multiscale simulaiton, </li><li>Intelligent agent simulation of electricity power markets, </li><li>Semiconductor manufacturing (scheduling of cluster tools), and</li><li>Queueing networks with blocking.</li></ul><p>We are looking for highly motivated graduate&nbsp;students with a master degree in statistics, mathematics, or operations research/industrial engineering&nbsp;(mathematical programming, stochastic programming, and agent-based simulation).</p> Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger oehlsm 547 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/547 2010-10-12 13:27 http://www.rpi.edu/~oehlsm/ Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/oehlschlaeger_matthew_web.jpg Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering and materials synthesis sytems.combustionhydrocarbon growth chemistrypropulsionshock wave physics and chemistry Engineering Douglas B Chrisey chrisd 548 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/548 2011-03-08 13:45 http://www.rpi.edu/~chrisd/ MTLE 4150 Kinetics in Materials Systems (Sprng) MTLE 4961 Materials & Engery (Alternate Fall) MTLE 4961 Processing of Biomaterials (Alternate Fall) Ph.D. Engineering Physics (University of Virginia, 1988), B.S. Physics (State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983) Biomaterials Novel laser-based processing of materials Nanomanipulation and fabrication Professor Chrisey started his research and teaching career as a teaching assistant in the Department of Physics at the University of Virginia. He finished his Ph.D. entitled "Sputtering of Molecular Gas Solids" in 1987 and joined the US Naval Research Laboratory as an Office of Naval Technology postdoctoral research associate studying radiation damage in high temperature superconductors. One year later, in 1988, he joined NRL as a research physicst and quickly became a supervisory research physicist of the Plasma Processing Section. His group there studied laser-based processing of materials ranging from oxide ceramics for electronics, protective coatings, and biomaterials, to organics, polymers, and even living mammalian cells for tissue engineering. At NRL, he was an advising professor to students at George Washington University (Materials Science, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department), Georgia Tech. (Material Science Dept.) and North Carolina State University (Dept. of Biomedica http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/chrisey_doug_web.jpg APS: American Physics Society AVS: American Vacuum Society MRS: Material Research Society OSA: Optical Society of America SPIE: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers TMS: The Metallurgical Society David T Corr C. Popescu, A.C. Popescu, I.N. Mihailescu, A.A. Ciucu, A. Andronie, S. Iordache, I. Stamatin, E. Fagadar-Cosma, D.B. Chrisey, Functional Porphyrin Thin Films Deposited by Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation, Materials Science and Engineering B. (2010) 169 (2010) 106 Y.F. Lin, G.H. Huang, Y. Huang, T.R.J. Tzeng, and D. Chrisey, Effect of Laser Fluence in Laser-Assisted Direct Writing of Human Colon Cancer Cell, Rapid Prototyping Journal 16 (2010) 202 Z. Yan, R. Bao, C.Z. Dinu, Y. Huang, A.N. Caruso, and D.B. Chrisey, Laser Ablation Induced Assembly of Cu Nanoparticles in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Aqueous Solution, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 12 (2010) 437 Z. Yan, R. Bao, and D.B. Chrisey, Hollow Pt Particles Obtained by Laser Ablation in Water: The Observation of Hollow Particles, Nanotechnology 21 (2010) 1456009 K.S. Ellison, D.B. Chrisey, and D.M. Thompson, Laser-Machining of Elastomeric Microstencils, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 12 (2010) 659 Z. Yan, R. Bao, Y. Huang, A. Caruso, S. Qadri, C.Z. Dinu, and D.B. Chrisey, Excimer Laser Production, Assembly, Sintering and Fragmentation of Novel Fullerene-Like Permalloy Particles in Liquid, Journal of Physical Chemistry 114 (2010) 3869 A. Hynes, B. Mohanraj, N. Schiele, D.T. Corr, C.Z. Dinu, and D.B. Chrisey, Cell-Based Detection of Bacillus Cereus Using Cell Impedance Sensing, Sensor Letters 8 (2010) 528 <p>Professor Chrisey started his research and teaching career as a teaching assistant in the Department of Physics at the University of Virginia. He finished his Ph.D. entitled &quot;Sputtering of Molecular Gas Solids&quot; in 1987 and joined the US Naval Research Laboratory as an Office of Naval Technology postdoctoral research associate studying radiation damage in high temperature superconductors. One year later, in 1988, he joined NRL as a research physicst and quickly became a supervisory research physicist of the Plasma Processing Section. His group there studied laser-based processing of materials ranging from oxide ceramics for electronics, protective coatings, and biomaterials, to organics, polymers, and even living mammalian cells for tissue engineering. At NRL, he was an advising professor to students at George Washington University (Materials Science, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department), Georgia Tech. (Material Science Dept.) and North Carolina State University (Dept. of Biomedica Laser Processing Applied to Biological Systems, Venice International School on Lasers in Materials Science, Venice, Italy, July 2010 Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Spectroscopy for Synthetic Pathogen Detection, 16th International Conference on Biodetection Technologies 2010, Washington, DC, June, 201 Professor Biomedical EngineeringMaterials Science and Engineering NSF advanced materialsbiomaterialselectronic materialslasersNanotechnology Engineering Biotechnology Shayla Maya Sawyer sawyes 549 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/549 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~sawyes Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Hampton University, 2003) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sawyer_shayla_web.jpg <p>Dr. Shayla Sawyer received her BS in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Hampton University as a student-athlete.&nbsp;&nbsp; She then pursued her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.&nbsp; She was awarded the Department of Homeland Security fellowship for her investigation of ultraviolet light emitting diodes and terahertz for detection of harmful biological agents.&nbsp; Her thesis work focused on low frequency noise characterization of deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes for input into material growth methods and determining a light source signal-to-noise ratio for sensitive systems.&nbsp; She continued with a post doctoral position at Rensselaer in studying degradation of deep ultraviolet LEDs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Dr. Sawyer has worked with several industries throughout her education including GE Rail, GE Healthcare, GE Research and Development and National Securities Technologies (NSTec).&nbsp; She also participated in leadership roles with association Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Lester A Gerhardt gerhal 550 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/550 2010-05-18 01:00 After 10 years with Bell Aerospace Corporation where he was Director of Avionics Research, Dr. Gerhardt joined Rensselaer in 1970. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1974, and was selected as Chairman of the newly merged Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department in 1975, a position he held through 1986. The ECSE Department growth and development during these years was nationally recognized in a National Academy of Science report receiving the top rating in the most improved program category, as well as being rated in the top 10 percent in other categories. In 1986, he was appointed Director of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, which subsequently won the worldwide SME/CASA LEAD Award for Excellence in CIM.Since the early 90s, he has been Associate Dean of Engineering, responsible for research and graduate programs in the School of Engineering, now at a reported annual expenditure level above $35 million. He also served as Founding Director of the Center for Manufacturing Productivit http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/gerhardt_lester_web.jpg <p>After 10 years with Bell Aerospace Corporation where he was Director of Avionics Research, Dr. Gerhardt joined Rensselaer in 1970. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1974, and was selected as Chairman of the newly merged Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department in 1975, a position he held through 1986. The ECSE Department growth and development during these years was nationally recognized in a National Academy of Science report receiving the top rating in the most improved program category, as well as being rated in the top 10 percent in other categories. In 1986, he was appointed Director of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, which subsequently won the worldwide SME/CASA LEAD Award for Excellence in CIM.</p><p>Since the early 90s, he has been Associate Dean of Engineering, responsible for research and graduate programs in the School of Engineering, now at a reported annual expenditure level above $35 million. He also served as Founding Director of the Center for Manufacturing Productivit Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering communicationscomputer integrated manufacturingdigital signal processingDr. Gerhardt&#039;s areas of interest include pattern recognition and adaptive systems Engineering Peter M Tessier tessip 551 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/551 2010-09-02 15:14 http://www.rpi.edu/~tessip B.S. Univ. of Maine 1998Ph.D. Univ. of Delaware 2003Postdoctoral: MIT Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 2003-2007 Biotechnology Protein engineering Protein aggregation Prions Antibodies Amyloids Tessier joined the Rensselaer faculty in 2007 following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maine, and went on to earn his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/peter_tessier.jpg The precise folding of proteins into complex, three-dimensional structures is required for their proper function. Despite the remarkable fidelity of this folding process, defects do occur that are the basis of disorders ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to cancer. The Tessier lab is investigating fundamental aspects of protein misfolding and aggregation related to three classes of proteins (prions, amyloids and antibodies). We combine protein engineering with a variety of cutting-edge biochemical and biophysical methods to understand the molecular underpinnings of misfolding and aggregation processes. We aim to elucidate how protein misfolding can be prevented, reversed or redirected with the long-term goal of developing new therapeutic candidates to treat disease and therapeutic antibodies with enhanced stability. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Sastry R. Sreepada sreeps 552 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/552 2010-10-06 09:43 Eng.Sc.D. Nuclear Engineering (Columbia University, 1979), B.E. Mechanical Engineering (Andhra University, India, 1963) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sreepada_sastry_web.jpg <p><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial>Dr. Sreepada worked at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory for the Navy Nuclear Program for several years. He held several technical, managerial and advisory positions at the laboratory. He had experience in nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and reactor fuel design. His experience covers methods development, design and thermal-hydraulic testing. </span><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial>&nbsp;</span><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial>Prior to that he worked at the Heat Transfer Research Facility of Columbia University, New York (with the last position as the Manager of the facility) conducting thermal hydraulic testing in support of Nuclear Industry around the world. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the university in nuclear reactor safety and thermal hydraulics.</span><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial>&nbsp;</span><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial>His experience includes</span><span style=font- Clinical Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Cynthia H Collins ccollins 553 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/553 2010-09-08 12:45 B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (University of Toronto, 2000)Ph.D. Chemistry and Biochemistry (California Institute of Technology, 2006)Postdoctoral: 2006-2008, University of Calgary Synthetic Biology Biochemical Engineering Microbial Communities Human Microbiome Protein Engineering Directed Evolution Biofilms Cynthia Collins joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI in March 2008 as an assistant professor. Cynthia grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She obtained her Honours B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Caltech in 2006. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Michael Surette’s lab at the University of Calgary, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Alberta Ingenuity Post-Doctoral Fellowship. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/cynthia_collins.jpg A synthetic <i>Escherichia coli</i> predator-prey ecosystem (2008) Dual selection enhances the signaling specificity of a variant of the quorum-sensing transcriptional regulator LuxR (2006) A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation (2006) Directed evolution of <i>Vibrio fischeri</i> LuxR for increased sensitivity to a broad spectrum of acyl-homoserine lactones (2005) Evolutionary design of genetic circuits and cell-cell communications (2003) Adenosine to inosine editing by ADAR2 requires formation of a ternary complex on the GluR-B R/G site (2002) Engineering proteins that bind, move, make and break DNA (2003) Communities of microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature and play important roles in processes that directly impact human life, from environmental remediation, wastewater treatment and assistance in food digestion to biofouling, biofilm-related corrosion and hospital-acquired infections. The Collins Lab focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of microbial consortia and combines multiscale modeling of biological networks (from gene to protein to organism to community), metabolic and biochemical engineering, synthetic biology and engineered cell-cell communication with the complexities of coexisting communities of bacteria. Applications range from engineering biosensors, to bioprocessing, bioremediation and bio-energy production, and may also include the development of therapeutics that specifically target the balance between good and bad bacteria in the human body. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Fuming Zhang zhangf2 554 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/554 2010-09-02 10:10 Ph.D. Microbiology (University of Leeds, Leeds City, UK, 1997)B.E. Biochemical Engineering (HuaQiao University, China, 1986) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/Zhang_Fuming_web.jpg Biochemical analysis of pathogenic ligand-dependent FGFR2 mutations suggests distinct pathophysiological mechanisms for craniofacial and limb abnormalities. (2004) Heparin accelerates gelsolin amyloidogenesis. (2006) Microscale isolation and analysis of heparin from plasma using an anion-exchange spin column. (2006) Viral and cellular determinants of the hepatitis C virus envelope-heparan sulfate interaction. (2006) Kinetic and structural studies on interactions between heparin or heparan sulfate and proteins of the hedgehog signaling pathway. (2007) Analysis of mutations in fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and a pathogenic mutation in FGF receptor (FGFR) provides direct evidence for the symmetric two-end model for FGFR dimerization. (2005) Affinity, kinetic, and structural study of the interaction of 3-O-sulfotransferase isoform 1 with heparan sulfate. (2006) Analysis of the biochemical mechanisms for the endocrine actions of fibroblast growth factor-23. (2005) Metabolic alteration of the N-glycan stru Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Research Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Analytical and Structural BiochemistryCEPAGE Engineering Thomas C. Haley haleyt2 555 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/555 2010-10-12 10:19 Ph.D. Nuclear Science and Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000 Technical strengths:Nuclear criticality safety analysisMonte Carlo and deterministic simulations of systems, experiments, and testsMathematical and statistical modeling and software developmentAnalysis of nuclear power generation, operation, and controlDeveloping and implementing quality assurance methodologies and proceduresTeaching award-winning blended/hybrid university coursesPrior to returning to Rensselaer, Thomas Haley was a nuclear engineer for sixteen years with Northeast Technology Corporation. Major projects involved criticality safety analysis, material and neutronic characterization of neutron absorbers, radiation transport and energy deposition, spent fuel storage design, spent fuel pool chemical kinetics, qualifying and evaluating in-situ non-destructive neutron absorber diagnostics, core refueling design, fuel thermal-mechanical analysis, thermal hydraulics, statistical and numerical analysis, and software development. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/haley_thomas_web.jpg CADAM and EMAD-special (1988) Designing Faculty Workshops, Blending Face-to-Face and WebCT Technologies (2005) A characteristic analysis of void waves using two-fluid models (1993) Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (2005) Use of an old technology in engineering design education: the design notebook (1995) Design, Build, and Test Projects for Engineering Design Education: Project Experience at Rensselaer (1995) BI for an undergraduate engineering course: an interactive model (1994) Designing Faculty Workshops for the New Millennium -- Walking the Talk (2005) Yes, engineers can talk! Blended instruction in the engineering classroom (2006) LWR Plant Water Silica Database, Revision 4 (2000) The Performance of Irradiated Boraflex under Seismic Conditions (1998) The Surface Composition and Solubility of Irradiated Boraflex and Silica Treated in Metal Ion Solutions (1999) RACKLIFE Version 1.10: Nuclear Spent Fuel Pool Boraflex Rack Life Extension Rack Management Tool -- User&#039;s Manual (2000) Benchmarking and <p>Technical strengths:</p><ul><li>Nuclear criticality safety analysis</li><li>Monte Carlo and deterministic simulations of systems, experiments, and tests</li><li>Mathematical and statistical modeling and software development</li><li>Analysis of nuclear power generation, operation, and control</li><li>Developing and implementing quality assurance methodologies and procedures</li><li>Teaching award-winning blended/hybrid university courses</li></ul><p>Prior to returning to Rensselaer, Thomas Haley was a nuclear engineer for sixteen years with Northeast Technology Corporation. Major projects involved criticality safety analysis, material and neutronic characterization of neutron absorbers, radiation transport and energy deposition, spent fuel storage design, spent fuel pool chemical kinetics, qualifying and evaluating in-situ non-destructive neutron absorber diagnostics, core refueling design, fuel thermal-mechanical analysis, thermal hydraulics, statistical and numerical analysis, and software development.</p Clinical Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Wei Zhou zhouw3 556 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/556 2010-10-06 09:42 Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering (University of California at Berkeley, 1992), M.S. Mechanical Engineering (San Jose State University, 1986), B.S. Thermal Energy Engineering (Beijing Polytechnic University, 1982) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Performance Assessment: the Risk-informed Approach to Safe Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Geological Media (2007) The Tono Natural Analogue Project: an overview. (2006) The Tono Natural Analogue Project: a system model for the origin and evolution of the Tono uranium deposit, Japan (2006) Flow Barrier System for Long Term High-Level Waste Isolation: Experimental Results (1998) <p><span style=font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;,&#039;serif&#039;>Dr. Zhou has more than 15-year experience in technical consultancy primarily in the field of nuclear waste management for clients from industry, government agencies, and research institutes located in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.<span>&nbsp; </span>Her main expertise in this area includes total system performance assessment, risk, and safety assessments for disposal of High-Level radioactive wastes (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and Low- to Intermediate-level radioactive wastes (L/ILW).<span>&nbsp; </span>In this regard, she helps her clients to develop general methodologies relevant to their regulatory frames and/or disposal concepts as well as develop models/codes used in assessments for various decision-making purposes such as site selection, design evaluation, license application, or independent technical review, etc.<span>&nbsp; </span>These models deal with radionuclide release and transport from the source all the way Clinical Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Jennifer K Ryan ryanj6 557 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/557 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.rpi.edu/~ryanj6/ Ph.D. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (Northwestern University, 1997), M.S. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (Northwestern University, 1996), B.A. Mathematics and the Social Sciences (Dartmouth College, 1986) Associate Professor Jennifer K. Ryan holds a B.A. in Mathematics and the Social Sciences from Dartmouth College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. Prior to joining RPI, she served as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University College of Dublin (Ireland), the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. Her research interests are in the areas of inventory and supply chain management with a particular focus on coping with uncertainty and the role of information and information sharing in supply chains. Her research has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics and IIE Transactions. She has received several National Science Foundation (USA) grants, including an NSF CAREER grant. She currently served as an associate editor for Naval R http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/ryan_jen_web.jpg Optimal Dynamic Production and Inventory Transshipment Policies for a Two-Location Make-to-Stock System (2008) Emergency Transshipments in Decentralized Dealer Networks: When to Send and Accept Transshipment Requests (2006) The Cost Impact of Using Simple Forecasting Techniques in a Supply Chain (2003) Why Do We Observe Stockless Operations on the Internet? - Stockless Operations under Competition (2008) Inventory Sharing and Rationing in a Decentralized Dealer Networks (2005) Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect: The Impact of Forecasting, Lead Times and Information (2000) Residual Life Distributions from Component Degradation Signals: A Bayesian Approach (2005) Exponential Smoothing Forecasts and the Bullwhip Effect (2000) Minimax Analysis for Finite Horizon Inventory Models (2001) <p><strong>Associate Professor Jennifer K. Ryan</strong> holds a B.A. in Mathematics and the Social Sciences from Dartmouth College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. Prior to joining RPI, she served as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University College of Dublin (Ireland), the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. Her research interests are in the areas of inventory and supply chain management with a particular focus on coping with uncertainty and the role of information and information sharing in supply chains. Her research has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics and IIE Transactions. She has received several National Science Foundation (USA) grants, including an NSF CAREER grant. She currently served as an associate editor for Naval R Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Sanford S Sternstein sterns 558 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/558 2011-03-04 15:59 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961), B.S. Chemical Engineering (University of Maryland, 1958) http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/sternstein_sanford_web.jpg American Physical Society Fellow, American Physical Society Nanofiller-Polymer Interactions At and Above the Glass Transition Temperature (2001) Modulus Recovery Kinetics and other Insights into the Payne Effect for Filled Elastomers (2000) High Temperature Dynamic Mechanical Testing of Ceramic Fibers: Apparatus and Preliminary Results (1996) &#039;Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Glass Fiber Reinforced UV-Cured Composites from Epoxidized Vegetable Oils (1997) Experiments to Reveal the Role of Matrix Properties and Composite Microstructure in Longitudinal Compression Strength (1994) Mechanical Properties of Glassy Polymers (1977) Inhomogeneous Swelling in Filled Elastomers (1972) A Micrographic Study of Bending Failure in Five Thermoplastic-Carbon Fiber Composite Laminates (1988) Dynamic Mechanical Response of Graphite/Epoxy Composite Laminates and Neat Resin (1983) Thermoplastic Matrix Composites: Finite Element Analysis of Mode I and Mode II Failure Specimens (1989) Thermoelastic Analysis of Composite CVD SiC Fibers (1993) Professor Emeritus Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Glenn Eisman eisman 559 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/559 2011-03-04 12:42 Ph.D. Physical Inorganic Chemistry (Northeastern University, 1980), B.S. Chemistry (Temple University, 1975) Fuel Cells Energy http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/eisman_glenn_web.jpg Stress Relaxation of PBI-based Membrane Electrode assemblies (2008) Platinum Black Polymer Electrode Membrane Based Electrodes Revisited (2008) Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership: Third Report (2010 Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Adjunct Professor Materials Science and Engineering Biofuel Cellsfuel cellsMaterials and processes for hydrogen storage and generation Engineering Stanley M Dunn dunns6 560 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/560 2010-05-18 01:00 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Biomedical Engineering Engineering Agung Julius juliua2 561 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/561 2010-08-16 08:54 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~agung Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2005), M.S. Applied Mathematics (University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2001), B.E. Electrical Engineering (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, 1998) A. Agung Julius joined the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in December 2008. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the GRASP Lab., University of Pennsylvania since June 2005. He received the B.Eng. (cum laude) degree in electrical engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1998, and the M.Sc. (with distinction) and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.Dr. Julius' research interests include systems and control, systems biology, stochastic models in systems biology, control of biological systems, hybrid systems, reduction of complex systems, verification and robust testing of hybrid systems, and mathematical systems theory. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/Agung_Julius_web.jpg <p><strong>A. Agung Julius</strong> joined the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in December 2008. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the GRASP Lab., University of Pennsylvania since June 2005. </p><p>He received the B.Eng. (cum laude) degree in electrical engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1998, and the M.Sc. (with distinction) and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.</p> <p>Dr. Julius&#039; research interests include systems and control, systems biology, stochastic models in systems biology, control of biological systems, hybrid systems, reduction of complex systems, verification and robust testing of hybrid systems, and mathematical systems theory.</p> Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Joshua L Hurst hurstj2 562 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/562 2010-09-29 09:39 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering offline Engineering Energy and the Environment 563 Please select from the fields below to refine your search. http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/563 2010-05-24 00:41 564 You are logged in! http://faculty.rpi.edu/login 2010-08-10 13:07 Jason Vollen vollej 565 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/565 2010-09-15 12:06 Focus on energy effective systems design and integration in the built environment with an emphasis on how buildings metabolize energy. Jason Oliver Vollen is a Registered Architect and researcher focused on emerging material technologies, specifically, the integration of energy per-formative structural ceramics and envelope systems, dynamic and environmental simulation, and digital fabrication. Prior to joining RPI, Vollen was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona working in the Emerging Material Technologies Research Group focusing on next generation design strategies based on the integration of emerging technical systems. Vollen is a principal with Binary design, a collaborative practice focusing on energy effective architecture and emerging material processes. He has worked with Matter Architecture Practice in New York and as a project manager, designer, and fabricator with the Cranbrook Architecture Office. Vollen received his Bachelors (B.Arch) from The Cooper Union Institute for the Advancement of Science and Art and his Masters (M.Arch II) from Cranbrook Academy of Art. D. Clifford (Carnegie Mellon University) J. Simmons (AzRISE; The University of Arizona) M. Gindleparger (AzRISE) A. Malo (The University of Arizona) B. Horn, (CCNY) M. Jensen K. Winn A.H. Dyson T. Ngai P. Mankiewicz (Gaia Institute) C. Galioto (HOK) L. Montoya M. Amitay M. Zeghal A. Julius U.S. Green Building Council Excellence Award 2009 Archtiect Magazine R&D Award 2009 Solar Decathalon PI 2005, Distinguished Teaching and Service Award, School of Architecture, University of Arizona 2000, Mississippi AIA Design Honor Award, Jackson Community Design Center J.O. Vollen, A.H. Dyson, K. Van de Riet, “Investigation of mangrove compliant structural systems inassociation with human coastal development.” (RE)building: Flood Architecture. ACSA Proceedings.March , 2010 A.H. Dyson, J.O. Vollen, T. Ngai, L. Montoya. “Active Modular Phytoremediation System.” SOMJournal, Vol. 6. 2009. J.O. Vollen, D. Clifford. “Smart and Sustainable Built Environments,” Climate Change, SASBE. 2009 Jason Oliver Vollen is a Registered Architect and researcher focused on emerging material technologies, specifically, the integration of energy per-formative structural ceramics and envelope systems, dynamic and environmental simulation, and digital fabrication. Prior to joining RPI, Vollen was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona working in the Emerging Material Technologies Research Group focusing on next generation design strategies based on the integration of emerging technical systems. Vollen is a principal with Binary design, a collaborative practice focusing on energy effective architecture and emerging material processes. He has worked with Matter Architecture Practice in New York and as a project manager, designer, and fabricator with the Cranbrook Architecture Office. Vollen received his Bachelors (B.Arch) from The Cooper Union Institute for the Advancement of Science and Art and his Masters (M.Arch II) from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) Architecture AIADOENYSERDA bio analysisbiofiltrationbuilding systemscarbon reductioncircadian rhythmsecologyemerging material technologiesenergyenergy efficiencyenergy systemsenvironmental engineeringlightingnonlinear analysisresidential lightingtechnical systems integration Architecture Energy and the Environment 566 Using this interface allows you to create a sublist from the entire Faculty Interest Inventory database. For example, you can create a sublist of all faculty in a department or find everyone with a grant from a particular sponsor.Generate a list using multiple variables with the Advanced Search function, or type in a keyword below for a simple search.Information is provided by individual faculty members who can update it as often as they like. http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/566 2010-09-11 10:52 Bill Siegmann siegmw 903 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/903 2010-08-16 09:36 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Frank Spear spearf 904 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/904 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science David L Spooner spoond 905 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/905 2010-12-03 10:04 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~spoonerd/ CSCI-1100 Computer Science I ITEC-1150 Introduction to UML B.S. in IT and Web Science M.S. in IT B.S. (Computer Science) Penn State University, 1975; M.S. (Computer Science) Cornell University, 1978; Ph.D. (Computer Science) Penn State University, 1981 information security computer science education http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~spoonerd/Spooner05.jpg IEEE Computer Society ACM David L. Spooner earned his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University. He has been at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1981. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department and holds the position of Acting Dean of Science. Prior to becoming the acting dean, he was Associate Dean of Science and Information Technology. In this position he was responsible for Rensselaer’s educational programs in information technology. His research interests are in the areas of database systems and information security. He is the author of numerous publications in these areas and has co-authored a book on the architecture of distributed computer systems. Professor Science Computation & Information Technology Paul Stoler stolep 906 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/906 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Donald W Schwendeman schwed 902 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/902 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Steven W Roecker roecks 898 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/898 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Harry Roy royh 899 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/899 2010-12-06 14:23 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/roy.html Introductory Biology Evolution BS, MS and Ph.D. in Biology A.B., Sc. M., Brown UniversityPh.D., The Johns Hopkins UniversityPostdoctoral Appointment, Cornell UniversitySenior Research Fellow, Harvard University Plant Biology Molecular Chaperones Teaching Educational Software The Roy laboratory discovered the role of ATP in the action of the chloroplast molecular chaperone, a homologue of GroEL, and worked out many of the details of the assembly of the key photosynthetic enzyme, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The field of molecular chaperones has continued to expand, reaching into many areas of biochemistry and medicine, including the presentation of antigens in the immune system. Since 2005, the Roy laboratory has been closed.Professor Roy has collaborated with Drs. Alan Day and Robert L Dean of the University of Western Ontario on producing an update of their Visual Genetics software package. An online version of this that plays on Windows can be found by clicking on the link.Professor Roy and his colleagues at Rensselaer have conducted research on educational methods. Their work has focused on demonstrating the effectiveness of studio teaching techniques. The metric used to monitor this is to assess the gain in learning , which is the proportion of what the students do not know that they learn during the semester, as determined by objective pre- and post-course testing. T. John Andrews http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/roy.jpg American Society for Plant Biology Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer Class of 1951 Teaching Fellowship, 2006. Selected Recent PublicationsMonographsRoy, H. (1992) Chaperonins- What do they really do? Plant Physiol (Life Sci Adv) 11: 75-78.Roy, H. and Gilson, M. Chaperonin Mediated Assembly of Plant Rubisco. Handbook of Photosynthesis. M. Pasararakli, ed. 295-304.Roy, H., and Gilson, M. Rubisco and the Chaperonins. X International Congress of Photosynthesis, From Light to Biosphere, V, 553-558. (1995)Roy, H., and Gilson, M. 1996 The Chloroplast Chaperonins, in Recent Advances in Plant Molecular Biology, Oxford and IBH Publishing Company, India. In press.Roy, H. and Andrews, T.J. (2000) Rubisco: Assembly and Mechanism. Advances in Photosynthesis 9: 53-83, R.C. Leegood, T.D. Sharkey, and S. von Caemmerer, Eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.Roy, H (2009) Genetics- The Blueprint of Life. In: Grzimek’s Encyclopedia of Science, Cengage Learning. In press.Journal ArticlesRoy, H., Diwan, J., Segel, L.D., and Segel, I.H. 2001. Computer-assisted simulations of phosphofructokinase-1 kinetics using simplified velocity equations. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 29: 3-9.Roy, H. (2001) "Use of Web-based Testing of Students as a Method for Evaluating Courses" Bioscene 27(3) pp. 3-7.Roy, H. (2003) “Studio vs Interactive Lecture Demonstration as Effective Teaching Tool” Bioscene 29(1): 3-6.Balaji, B, Gilson, M., and Roy, H. (2006) Binding of a transition state analog to newly synthesized Rubisco. Photosynthesis Research, 89, 43-48.McDaniel, CN, Lister, BC, Hanna, MH, and Roy, H (2007) Increased learning observed in redesigned introductory biology course that employed web-enhanced, interactive pedagogy. CBE – Life Sciences Education 6: 243-249. Dr. Roy received his Ph.D. with Van Moudrianakis at The Johns Hopkins University, performed his postdoctoral studies with André Jagendorf at Cornell University, and joined Rensselaer in 1976. He worked with Lawrence Bogorad during a sabbatical at Harvard in 1983-1984.Dr. Roy is a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Biology plant molecular biochemistry teaching interactive learning evolution genetics Science Lester Rubenfeld rubenl 900 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/900 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Science John Schroeder schroj 901 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/901 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science John E. Mitchell mitchj 893 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/893 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Gregor Kovacic kovacg 894 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/894 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Jim Moore moorej 895 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/895 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer nierzs 896 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/896 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Wayne Roberge roberw 897 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/897 2010-12-01 15:58 http://www.rpi.edu/~roberw BA valedictorian, Williams College, in physics and astronomyPhD, Harvard University, in theoretical astrophysics origin of life http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics astrobiologyinterstellar mattermagnetohydodynamics Science Joyce R. McLaughlin mclauj 892 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/892 2011-02-03 14:02 http://www.iprpi.rpi.edu/index.html Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, 1968 M.A., Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park B.S., Mathematics, Kansas State University Career Highlights:McLaughlin is the Ford Foundation Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the director of IPRPI, the Inverse Problems Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She frequently lectures on her work, where applications include medical imaging, ocean acoustics, and inverse problems in vibrating systems. Her distinguished research on inverse problems in vibrating systems was the subject of an invited lecture for the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994 and for a Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series of eight lectures in 2001. She was awarded the SIAM/AWM Kovalevsky prize and lecture in 2004.McLaughlin serves on the boards of trustees for the following two organizations: the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2002-'05; the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), located at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2003-'06; and on the Scientific Board of the American Institute of Mathematics 2004-. From 1994-'03 she was a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Board of Trustees where she was chair from 1996-'98. Now she is a member of the National Research Council Board of Mathematical Sciences and its Application.In addition to being an active contributor to her research area, McLaughlin also served as an organizer for special institute semesters on inverse problems at MSRI in 2001, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in 2002, and IPAM in 2003. She also participated in the special institute semesters as a lecturer and long-term participant at MSRI and IPAM. Furthermore, McLaughlin has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, Australian National University, UC Berkeley, and New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Since 1998, McLaughlin has been serving on the international advisory board for the journal Inverse Problems. Previously, she was a member of the journal's editorial board from 1992-'97. She is a survey editor, beginning January, 2004, for the European Journal of Applied Mathematics. Her community service includes spending nine years on the Averill Park Central School District Board of Education.Research Areas:Professor McLaughlin's main research area is in nonlinear analysis as it is applied to parameter identification in inverse problems. Her work on the inverse problem of transient elastography and supersonic imaging has the goal of creating images of stiffness properties in biological tissue for use as medical diagnostic tools. She currently leads a National Science Foundation (NSF) Focused Research Group that includes applied mathematicians, engineers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. The team's goal is to create images of the variations of shear wave speed in biological tissue. These images extend the doctor's palpation exam where the doctor presses against the skin to feel the presence of abnormal tissue, which is stiffer than normal tissue. Researchers are developing well-posedness results and fast algorithms for this wave speed recovery. Data measured in a waves and acoustics laboratory at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Universite Paris VII – as well as synthetic data – are being tested in wave speed recovery algorithms. A significant breakthrough was established with Dan Renzi and Jeong-Rock Yoon with the development of the arrival time algorithm. This algorithm uses the position of a propagating wave front or the position of a distinguishing feature of the wave as it propagates forward. Initial results with both synthetic and laboratory data are very promising.McLaughlin's team also investigates inverse problems and wave propagation algorithms in waveguides. In this work, her group develops exact one-way algorithms for calculating the solution of the Helmholtz equation in a range and depth dependent ocean. For inverse problems, the researchers are using their knowledge of waveguides to develop efficient methods for identification of objects and inhomogeneities in waveguides, as well as for time reversal problems where interfaces are identified. McLaughlin's newest project is the application of time reversal techniques to the identification of fault locations in geophysics. There recorded seismic data from many minor earthquakes are collectively combined, time reversed and used, together with a rough wave speed background map, to sharpen estimates of fault locations.Furthermore, she studies inverse spectral problems, where the data includes natural frequencies and eigenmode measurements. The inverse problem solution is material parameters such as density, sound speed, or elasticity coefficients. Mathematical models are second or fourth order partial and ordinary differential equations. Well-posedness results are obtained and algorithms are developed and tested. Solution techniques are aimed at maintaining the full nonlinearity of the inverse problem without employing linearization methods. Specific eigenmode measurements that surprisingly yield explicit formulas are the nodal sets of eigenfunctions. http:// Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics Director, IPRPI, Inverse Problems Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mclaughlin, J., J-R Yoon, “Arrival times for the wave equation”,Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (CPAM), March 2011, (64)issue 3, pp. 313-327. J. McLaughlin and K. Lin. "An error estimate on the direct inversion model in shear stiffness imaging", Inverse Problems, Vol 25(7), July, 2009. J. McLaughlin, K. Lin, N. Zhang."Log-elastographic and non-marching full inversion schemes for shear modulus recovery from single frequency elastographic data", Inverse Problems, Vol 25(7), July, 2009. J. McLaughlin, D. Renzi, K. Parker, C. Wu. "Shear Wave Speed recovery using moving interference patterns obtained in sonoelastography experiments", JASA, Vol. 121 (4), 2007, pp.2438-4226. J. McLaughlin, Daniel Renzi, Jeong-Rock Yoon. "Anisotropy reconstruction from wave fronts in transversely isotropic acoustic media" SIAM J. Appl. Math Vol. 68, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 24-42. J. McLaughlin (with Daniel Renzi, Jeong-Rock Yoon, R. L. Ehman, A. Manducca), "Variance Controlled Shear Stiffness Images for MRE Data", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, 2006, pp. 960-963. Joyce McLaughlin (with S. Dediu), "Recovering inhomogeneities in a waveguide using eigensystem decomposition", Inverse Problems, vol.22, June, 2006, pp.1227-1246. J. McLaughlin (with D.Renzi) "Shear Wave Speed Recovery in Transient Elastography and Supersonic Imaging Using Propagating Fronts", Inverse Problems, 22 , pp. 681-706, (2006). J. McLaughlin (with D.Renzi) "Using Level Set Based Inversion of Arrival Times To Recover Shear Wavespeed In Transient Elastography And Supersonic Imaging " Inverse Problems, 22 , pp. 707-725, (2006). J. McLaughlin and J.-R. Yoon, "Unique Identifiability of Elastic Parameters from Time Dependent Interior Displacement Measurement," Inverse Problems, 20, (1) 25-45, (2004). L. Ji and J. McLaughlin, "Recovery of the Lamé Parameter µ in Biological Tissues," Inverse Problems, 20, (1), 1-24, (2004). L. Ji and J. McLaughlin, "Using a Hankel Function Expansion to Identify Stiffness for the Boundary Impulse Input Experiment," AMS Contemporary Mathematics (CONM) Book Series: Proceedings of the Conference on Inverse Problems and Applications, eds. G. Allessandrini and G. Uhlman, Pisa, Italy; (2003). L. Ji, J. McLaughlin, D. Renzi, and J.-R. Yoon, "Interior Elastodynamics Inverse Problems: Shear Wave Speed Reconstruction in Transient Elastography," Inverse Problems, Special Issue on Imaging, 19, (6), S1-S29, (2003). Center for Inverse Problems (IPRPI) Professor Mathematical Sciences Science Harry McLaughlin mclauh 891 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/891 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Curt Breneman brenec 890 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/890 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Kristin P Bennett bennek 889 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/889 2010-08-16 14:21 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Toh-Ming Lu lut 888 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/888 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Jeffrey F. Durgee durgej 730 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/730 2010-11-02 10:08 Ph.D. and M.S. in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh;B.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Marketing Marketing Research New Product Development http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/durgej.jpg <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/pdf/2008%20New%20Product%20Designs%20for%20the%20Age%20of%20HyperConsumerism%20ABSTRACT.pdf">"New Product Designs for the Age of HyperConsumerism," 2008</a> <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/pdf/2006%20Freedom%20for%20Superstar%20Designers%20ABSTRACT.pdf">"Freedom for Superstar Designers," 2006</a> Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology David H. Goldenberg goldenb 731 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/731 2010-11-02 12:30 Ph.D. in Financial Economics, University of Florida;M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Brown University;B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Toronto Derivatives Markets Investments and Corporate Finance Professor Goldenberg&rsquo;s research explores derivatives markets and mathematical finance. Many of his articles have been featured in the top-tier finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, and the Journal of Futures Markets. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/goldenb.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Albert S Paulson paulsa 732 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/732 2010-11-11 15:17 Ph.D. and M.S. in Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute;B.A., Kings College Risk Management and Insurance Finance Innovation Economic Modeling Statistical and Quantitative Methodology for Business and Management Financial Engineering Paulson has served as a consultant to international firms and government agencies. Dr. Paulson holds the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Chair in the Technologies of Management.Prof. Paulson's research interests range across risk management, applied statistics, innovation and radical innovation, information processing, finance, insurance, engineering, and statistical arbitrage. Dr. Paulson’s work has been widely published. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/paulsonas.jpg Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Susan Sanderson sandes 733 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/733 2011-01-13 09:52 Ph.D. in Sociology and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh;M.A., University of Pittsburgh;B.A., University of Pittsburgh Marketing and Innovation Management Entrepreneurship International Business http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/sandes.jpg Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Pier A. Abetti abettp 734 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/734 2010-11-02 10:37 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology;Doctorate in Industrial and Electrical Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy) Entrepreneurship Strategy and Technology Management Dr. Abetti, listed in Who&rsquo;s Who in America, builds upon a previous managerial career at General Electric across the globe. Professor Abetti is recipient of the Kaufmann Foundation Award for Entrepreneurship Professor of the Year and is an internationally recognized lecturer who has taught students in universities throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.Dr. Abetti focuses his research efforts on planning and management of technology, technological entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and new business incubators. Dr. Abetti&rsquo;s development of the electromagnetic model was awarded GE&rsquo;s Coffin Award. He has published 150 papers in five languages and authored two books, including Linking Technology and Business Strategy. He is an Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.View Prof. Abetti&rsquo;s CV http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/abettp.jpg <a href="pdf/2008%20One%20Hundred%20Years%20of%20Superconductivity%20-%20workihng%20paper.pdf">"One Hundred Years of Superconductivity: Science, Technology, Products, Profits and Industry Structure," 2008 (working paper)</a> <a href="pdf/2007%2010%2022%20Dual%20Case%20Study-%20working%20paper.pdf">"Dual Case Study: The Influence of Cultural Dimensions on the Evolution of Two Family Chemical Companies in Italy and Taiwan," 2008 (working paper)</a> <a href="pdf/2007%20THE%20GLOBALIZATION%20OF%20AN%20ITALIAN%20FAMILY%20COMPANY%20-%20Zobele.pdf">"The Globalisation of an Italian Family Company: Zobele Chemical Industries (1919-2006)," 2007</a> <a href="pdf/2007%2009%2020%20University%20incubators%20as%20agents%20for%20technology%20transfer%20and%20economic%20growth.pdf">"University Incubators as Agent for Technology Transfer and Economic Growth: Case Studies in U.S.A., Ukraine and Finland," 2006</a> Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Gina O&#039;Connor oconng 735 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/735 2010-11-11 15:12 Ph.D., Marketing and Corporate Strategy, New York University;M.S., Marketing, New York University;M.B.A, St. Louis University;B.A., Psychology, St. Louis University; Management Processes for Breakthrough Innovation New Market Creation Opportunity Identification for Novel Technologies Commercialization of Advanced Technology Corporate Entrepreneurship Marketing Management New Product Development Professor O&rsquo;Connor has published more than thirty journal papers, twenty-five conference papers, and more than 10 books and book chapters. She has been named one of the top twenty five scholars in the field of innovation in a study recently published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Her most recent book, Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breatkthough Innovation (Jossey Bass, 2008) describes a research program she has led for five years that focuses on how firms can develop management systems for innovation, leading to Innovation as a business function in companies.View Prof. O'Connor's CV Prof. O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s Grabbing Lightning blog http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/oconng.jpg <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/pdf/2008_major_innovation_as_dynamic_capability_abs.pdf">"Major Innovation as a Dynamic Capability," 2008</a> <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/pdf/2008_implementing_learning_plan_to_counter_project_uncertainty_abs.pdf">"Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty," 2008</a> <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/pdf/2006_organizing_for_radical_innovation_abs.pdf">"Organizing for Radical Innovation," 2006</a> Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Lois S Peters peterl 736 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/736 2010-11-15 12:15 Ph.D., New York University;B.S. Cum Laude, Washington Square University College Entrepreneurship Organizational Behavior Innovation Commercialization of Emerging Technology Emotional Underpinning of Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Business - Global Studies of Innovation National Innovation Systems Globalization of R and D, Science and Technology Policy View Prof. Peters' CV http://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/academics/lally/faculty/photo/peterl.jpg <em>Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation</em>, Jossey-Bass, 2008 (with G. O&#039;Connor, A. Paulson and R. Leifer) &quot;Outsourcing a Core Competency,&quot; Research Technology Management, 2007 (with Shreefal Mehta) &quot;Rejoinder to Establishing an NPD Best Practices Framework,&quot; Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2006 &quot;The Role of Incubators in the Entrepreneurial Process,&quot; Journal of Technology Transfer, 2004 (with M. Rice and M. Sundararajan) &quot;Acquisition of Resources for Commercializing Emerging Technologies: Comparing Large Firms with Startups,&quot; PICMET &#039;03, 2003 (with M. Sundararajan) &quot;Managing Interdisciplinary, Longitudinal Research on Radical Innovation: Methods for the Study of Complex Phenomena,&quot; Organization Science, 2003 (with G. Colarelli O&#039;Connor, M.P. Rice, and R.W. Veryzer) &quot;Intra-Organizational Networking for Innovation-Based Corporate Entrepreneurship,&quot; submitted , Journal of Business Venturing,2008 (with D. Kelly and G. Colarelli O&#039;Connor) &quot;Drivers of Growth for Firms in Different Sub-sectors of the Nanotechnology Industry: Implications for R&amp;D Management,&quot; working paper, 2007 (with M. Sundararajan) &quot;Role of Emotions in the Entrepreneur&#039;s Opportunity Recognition Process,&quot; working paper, presented at AOM, August 2007, (with M. Sundararajan) &quot;Corporate Transformation Through Radical Innovation,&quot; working paper, 2007 &quot;Corporate Growth and Renewal through Radical Innovation,&quot; working paper, 2006 &quot;A Dynamic Capability Model for Radical Innovation, working paper,&quot; 2006 (with G. Colarelli O&#039;Connor) &quot;Impact of Sub-Sector Differences &amp; R&amp;D Intensities on Nanotech Firms&#039; Growth-Size Relationships,&quot; working paper, 2005, (with Malavika Sundararajan) Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Iftekhar Hasan hasan 737 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/737 2010-11-02 13:04 Ph.D., University of Houston;M.A., University of Houston;B.S.S., University of Dhaka http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/hasan.jpg Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Chris McDermott mcderc 738 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/738 2010-11-11 13:38 Ph.D., University of North Carolina;B.S., Duke University Operations Management Healthcare Management New Product Development Project Management Operations Strategy http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/mcderc.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology T. Ravichandran (Ravi) ravit 739 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/739 2011-01-13 09:39 Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale;PG Diploma (Industrial and System Engineering) National Productivity Council, India;B.E. (Production Engineering) University of Madras, India Professor Ravichandran is an associated faculty member in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department in the School of Engineering and a faculty for the IT program in the School of Science. He teaches course in the graduate and doctoral programs at RPI. He periodically teaches some of these courses in top business schools in Asia and Europe and brings a global perspective to his teaching.Professor Ravichandran's long term research interests focus on four broad areas: 1) strategic implication of information technology and organizational capabilities to manage information technology; 2) supply chain management and business-business electronic markets; 3) innovation diffusion and assimilation; and, 4) organizational renewal and growth through innovation. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Singapore.He has published more than eighty articles in academic journals and conference proceedings. His research articles have been published in journals such as the Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information Systems Research, Information Technology Management, Logistics Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly.He currently serves as a Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, as an Associate Editor of Information Systems Research, and as a Senior Editor of Information & Management. He recently completed a four year term as an Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/academics/lally/faculty/photo/ravit.jpg Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Aparna Gupta guptaa 740 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/740 2010-11-02 12:50 Ph.D. Stanford University;M.S., Stanford University;B.Sc., M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Quantitative Finance Risk Management Financial Decision Support Optimization Simulation http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/guptaa.jpg Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Timothy D. Golden goldent 741 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/741 2010-11-02 12:45 Ph.D. in Management, University of Connecticut;M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Connecticut;M.A. in Psychology, Brandeis University;M.S. in Engineering Management, The Gordon Institute of Tufts University;M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Northrop University;B.S. in Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force Academy; Negotiations Organizational Behavior Human Resources Behavioral Research http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/goldent.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Satish Nambisan nambis 742 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/742 2011-03-08 16:04 Ph.D., Syracuse University;M.B.A., XLRI (India);B. Tech, University of Calicut (India) Innovation Management Information Technology Business Policy and Strategy Technology Strategy Product Development http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/nambis.jpg Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Adrian Choo chooa 743 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/743 2010-11-02 08:52 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Bill B. Francis francb 744 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/744 2010-11-02 10:42 Ph.D., University of Toronto;M.A., York University;B.A., University of Toronto Corporate Finance International Finance Quantitative Methods in Finance Professor Francis conducts his research on issues in initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, and international asset-pricing. He has published numerous articles in reputed finance and economic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Macroeconomics.He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Stability. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/francb.jpg Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Lei Chi chil2 745 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/745 2010-11-02 10:31 Ph.D., University of Kentucky;M.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology;B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology Management Information Systems Research Methods for Organizational Studies Statistical Methods Telecommunications and Computer Networks http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/chil2.jpg Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Hao Zhao zhaoh 746 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/746 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Anna Cui cuis 747 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/747 2010-11-02 13:32 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Jason Nicholas Kuruzovich kuruzj 748 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/748 2010-11-02 14:07 http://www.jasonkuruzovich.com/ Ph.D. in Information Systems, University of Maryland;B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College Information Systems Electronic Commerce Database Management Management Information Systems Organizational Research Methodologies Professor Kuruzovich&rsquo;s course on database management integrates the technical challenges of managing data with the business challenges of deriving value through statistical analysis, visualization, and data mining.Professor Kuruzovich&rsquo;s research broadly examines the means through which both individuals and organizations derive value from information systems and focuses on the intersection between information systems and marketing. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Marketing, Information Systems Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.Professor Kuruzovich&rsquo;s previous work experience includes consulting experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies and several high-technology startups.View Prof. Kuruzovich&rsquo;s CV http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/kuruzj.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Jonathan H. Story storyj 749 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/749 2011-01-13 09:47 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Transition Economies European Integration Political Economy European/Global Politics Markets and Business http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/storyj.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Yawen Jiao jiaoy 750 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/750 2010-11-02 13:53 Ph. D., Boston College;M.A., University of Western Ontario;B.A., Renmin University, China Theoretical and Empirical Corporate Finance Entrepreneurial Finance Professor Jiao&rsquo;s research interests span many topics in theoretical and empirical corporate and entrepreneurial finance, with primary focus on: initial public offerings (IPOs), corporate governance, seasoned equity offerings, corporate disclosure and financial analysts, institutional trading, capital structure and debt issues, and venture capital. Her research has been presented at a number of prestigious national and international conferences.Professor Jiao has also taught corporate finance courses at Boston College.View Prof. Jiao&rsquo;s papers http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/jiaoy.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Jong Chool Park parkj 751 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/751 2010-11-11 15:14 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Muge Yayla-Kullu yaylah 752 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/752 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Margaret A McDermott mcderm3 753 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/753 2010-11-11 13:39 Ph.D. in Management, University at Albany;B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Duke University Strategic Management Professor McDermott brings to the classroom significant industry experience in technical/business fields, having held positions in Marketing with Fairchild Space Company, as well as several years in product development at Alcatel Network Systems.Professor McDermott's research explores the measurement of organizational competencies, as well as the strategic implications of decision making in hospitals, examining firm competencies, hospital focus, and their relationship with organizational performance. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/mcderm3.jpg "Strategic Implications of Payer&#039;s Influence on Hospital Performance" (with G. Stock and C. McDermott). <em>Decision Sciences National Conference, </em>San Diego 2010. "The Impact of Value Chain Activities on Performance” (with D. Prajogo and M. Goh). <em>International Journal of Operations and Production Management</em>, Vol. 28 No.7, 2008. "Inimitability: The Development of a Resource and Competence Based Measure” (with T.Coates). <em>Eastern Academy of Management Conference</em>, Saratoga Springs, NY 2006. "Core Competence: Beyond a Concept Towards a Measure" (with T. Coates). <em>Academy of Management National Conference</em>, Hawaii, 2005. Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Pengfei Ye yep 754 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/754 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Chang Y Ha hac2 755 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/755 2010-11-02 13:00 Ph.D., Columbia University;M.S., Columbia University;B.A. Korea University Managerial Finance Investment Asset Pricing Theory Information Economics Market Microstructure International Finance Professor Ha&rsquo;s expertise lies in the valuation of financial assets and information economics. His current research involves modeling of international term structure/foreign exchange rate. He also explores how asymmetric information affects the dynamic trading behavior and welfare of investors at equilibrium.Professor Ha previously taught Statistics and Quantitative Methods at Columbia University.View Prof. Ha&rsquo;s CV http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/hac2.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology M.V. Shyam Kumar kumarm2 756 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/756 2010-11-02 14:03 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore;B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Joint Ventures and Alliances Diversification Theories of the Firm Corporate Strategy View Prof. Kumar&rsquo;s CV http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/kumarm2.jpg Asymmetric Wealth Gains in Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence, <em>Finance Research Letters</em>, 2007 The Value from Acquiring and Divesting a Joint Venture: A Real Options Approach, <em>Strategic Management Journal</em>, 2005 Knowledge, Absorptive Capacity, and the Theory of the Diversified Firm, <em>Best Paper Proceedings</em>, Academy of Management, 2001 (with A. Seth) Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Greg Hughes hugheg 757 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/757 2010-11-02 13:51 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology John L Teall tealj2 758 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/758 2011-01-13 10:06 Ph.D., M.Phil., New York University;M.B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;B.S., Towson State University Corporate Finance Investments Prof. Teall has previously served on the faculties of Pace University, New York University, Dublin City University, and University of Melbourne, as well as other institutions in the United States and Europe. Dr. Teall teaches courses in corporate finance, investments, microeconomics and international finance.Dr. Teall's primary research and publications are in the areas of corporate finance and financial institutions. He has published papers in the fields of mergers & acquisitions, financial institution distress, financial engineering and corporate governance. He is the author of the Financial Market Analytics, Governance and the Market for Corporate Control and coauthor of Quantitative Methods for Finance and Investments. Dr. Teall is a former member of the American Stock Exchange where he traded stock options as a market maker and has consulted with numerous financial institutions.View Prof. Teall&rsquo;s CVVisit Prof. Teall&rsquo;s Web Page http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/tealj2.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology William M. Tracy tracyw 759 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/759 2011-01-13 10:48 Ph.D. in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management;B.A. in Economics (Honors), Swarthmore College Disequilibrium Strategic Behavior Applied Evolutionary Computation Agent-based Modeling International Strategy Firm Learning Chinese Business Environment Professor Tracy&rsquo;s research is dedicated to the development of data-driven, predictive, computational models of strategic behavior.For over 150 years, economists have exploited analytical mathematics to better understand the behavior of economic agents. The contribution this approach has made to human knowledge is undeniable. However, there are also limitations to this approach. For example, mathematical economics was unable to successfully predict the optimal strategy for economic transition; nations that followed the "shock therapy" strategy supported by mathematical economics have lagged behind nations like China, which took a heterodox approach to their economic transition. Additionally, the equilibrium orientation of mathematical economics seems ill-equipped to guide us through the disequilibrium of the current financial crisis.Over the last 33 years, researchers in the fields of computer science and cognitive science have made significant strides in the development of computational solution paradigms. These paradigms often identify the same equilibria as analytical mathematics. However, many computational solution paradigms employ an observable disequilibrium process. This should allow computational (agent based) modelers to better understand disequilibrium in economic systems.More details on Professor Tracy&rsquo;s research and previous experience can be found on his personal website. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/tracyw.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Dongling Huang huangd3 760 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/760 2010-11-02 13:50 Ph.D.,University of Texas at Dallas;M.S.,University of Texas at Dallas;M.A., Peking University;B.A., Peking University Advertising Models Database Marketing Data Analysis Business Statistics Dr. Huang&rsquo;s research interest includes advertising models, pricing and marketing issues in high-tech markets. She is also interested in marketing application of Bayesian Econometrics. &ldquo;What Happens When Demand is Estimated with a Misspecified Model,&rdquo; a paper she&rsquo;s written with Christian Rojas and Frank Bass, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Industrial Economics.Professor Huang has taught Marketing Principles at University of Texas at Dallas. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/huangd3.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Jonathan Paul O&#039;Brien obriej8 761 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/761 2010-11-11 14:53 http://www.rpi.edu/~obriej8/Res/index.html Ph.D., Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University;M.S., J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University;B.A., University of New Brunswick Strategic Management Professor O'Brien's research interests include real options, corporate governance, and the strategic implications of capital structure. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/obriej8.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Jim Murtagh murtaj 762 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/762 2010-11-11 13:36 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Andrew C. Corbett corbea 763 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/763 2010-11-02 10:06 Ph.D. in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado;M.B.A./International Business, Bentley College;B.S., Suffolk University Strategic Management Entrepreneurship http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/corbea.jpg <a href="pdf/thecognitiveperspectiveinentrepreneurship.pdf">"The Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Future Research,"</a> <em>Journal of Management Studies</em>, by D.A. Gregoire, A.C. Corbett and J.S. McMullen.&nbsp; In press for 2011 publication. <a href="pdf/findyourownway.pdf">"Find Your Own Way: Entrepreneurship Course Development, Strategic Fit, and the Problems of Benchmarking,"</a> <em>International Journal of Entrepreneurship &amp; Small Business</em>, by A.C. Corbett. In press for 2010 publication. <a href="pdf/createthreedistinctcareerpaths.pdf">"Create Three Distinct Career Paths for Innovation,</a><a href="http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/files/createthreedistinctcareerpaths.pdf">"</a>&nbsp; <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, by G.C. O&rsquo;Connor, A.C. Corbett, and R. Pierantozzi. December 2009. Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology James P. Stodder stoddj 764 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/764 2011-01-13 14:03 B.A., Economics, Harvard University;M.S., Economics, University of Essex;Ph.D., Economics, Yale University Economics Finance http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Ed Arnheiter arnhee 765 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/765 2010-11-02 08:51 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology David Rainey rained 766 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/766 2010-11-15 12:20 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.S., Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.S., Business Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sustainable Development Strategic Leadership Product Innovation Technology, Innovation, and Business Policy http://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/academics/lally/faculty/photo/rained.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Randy Peteros peterr 767 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/767 2010-11-15 12:17 B.S. Political Science and Economics, Northeastern University;M.B.A., Finance, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;J.D., Taxation, Western New England College School of Law Financial Management Investment Analysis http://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/academics/lally/faculty/photo/peterr.jpg Clinical Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Louis Gingerella gingel 768 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/768 2010-11-02 12:26 B.S.B.A., Roger Williams University;M.B.A., Rensselaer at Hartford Accounting Finance and Financial Management http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/gingel.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Leonard Kelly kellyl2 769 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/769 2010-11-02 13:59 B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy;M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.S., University of Connecticut;Ph.D., University of Connecticut Data Analysis and Decision Making Statistical Analysis Quantitative Methods http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/kellyl2.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology John Maleyeff maleyj 770 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/770 2010-11-10 09:13 Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, University of Massachusetts Decision Science Operations Management http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/maleyj.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Bob Albright albrib 772 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/772 2010-11-02 10:30 B.S., Management, U. S. Coast Guard Academy;M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh;Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business Enterprise Management and Organization Strategy Organization Marketing http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/albrib.jpg Clinical Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Lael B. Peters petela 773 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/773 2010-11-15 11:48 B.S., Industrial Management, Clarkson University;M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Organizational Behavior Information Technology http://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/academics/lally/faculty/photo/petela.jpg Clinical Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Lynn Chipperfield chippl 774 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/774 2010-11-02 10:31 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Frank X. Wright wrighf 1072 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1072 2011-01-13 14:12 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School;B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New Mexico General Management Business Policy and Strategy Entrepreneurship and R&D Management http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/wrighf.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Edward George O&#039;Donovan odonoe 776 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/776 2010-11-11 15:13 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Ronald F. Larity laritr 777 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/777 2010-11-02 14:08 http:// Lally School of Management and Technology Russ Leslie leslir 778 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/778 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Mark S Rea ream 779 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/779 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Mariana G. Figueiro figuem 780 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/780 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Mark Steven Mistur mistum 781 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/781 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture David Bell belld 782 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/782 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Nadarajah Narendran narenn2 783 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/783 2011-03-08 16:05 http:// Professor Architecture Architecture Anna Dyson dysona 784 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/784 2010-08-17 10:27 http:// Architecture Architecture Michael James Oatman oatman 785 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/785 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture David J. Riebe riebed 786 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/786 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Jonas Braasch braasj 787 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/787 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Jefferson A Ellinger ellinj 788 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/788 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Ted Krueger krueger 789 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/789 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Ning Xiang xiangn 790 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/790 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Andrew Saunders saunda2 791 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/791 2010-08-16 09:02 http:// Architecture Architecture Ted T.C. Ngai ngait 792 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/792 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Gustavo Enrique Alberto Crembil crembg 793 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/793 2011-03-08 15:51 http:// Assistant Professor Architecture Architecture Fareh E. Garba garbaf 794 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/794 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Pravin S. Bhiwapurkar bhiwap 795 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/795 2010-08-17 09:11 http:// Architecture Architecture Jason O. Vollen vollej 796 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/796 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Thomas Mical micalt 797 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/797 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Ivan Markov markoi 798 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/798 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Michael A. Stein steinm6 799 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/799 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Anthony Titus titusa 800 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/800 2010-08-16 09:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Zbigniew Oksiuta oksiuz 801 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/801 2011-01-05 11:22 http:// Architecture Architecture Demetrios Comodromos comodd2 802 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/802 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Architecture Architecture Roger Grice gricer 803 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/803 2010-08-18 15:18 http://www.rpi.edu/~gricer/ Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// <p>Roger Grice is a clinical associate professor of technical communication and interface design. He is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and Assistant to the STC President for Membership. He is a senior member of IEEE and past president of IEEE&rsquo;s Professional Communication Society; he currently serves on IEEE&#039;s Publication Services and Products Board. He has received STC&rsquo;s Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication and IEEE Professional Communication Society&rsquo;s Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Contributions to Engineering Communication.<br /><br />Roger is retired from IBM, and now conducts HCI research as a member of the Rensselaer faculty, as well as teaching on-campus and distance-education courses on human-computer interaction, communication design for the World Wide Web, information usability, and technical communication. </p> Clinical Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Ellen Esrock esroce 804 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/804 2010-08-18 15:10 Ph.D. New York University literature http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/1940 <p>Ellen Esrock is an Associate Professor of Literature at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University (1984) and a B.A. in Philosophy from Washington University St. Louis (1972).&nbsp; Professor Esrock teaches courses in modern and postmodern literature and visual art, psychology and literature, visual culture, women writerrs, and theory/history of photography. Working with graduate and undergraduate RPI students, she has completed several photo documentaries of Troy&rsquo;s YWCA. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Esrock&#039;s first book is a translation of Umberto Eco&#039;s <em>The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Poetics of James Joyce</em> (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.) &nbsp;In 1994 she published <em>The Reader&#039;s Eye: Visual Imaging as Reader Response</em> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), which was supported by a Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowship. Currently she is working on <em>Touching Art: Empathy and the Somatosensory System</em>, for which she received a grant from the Italian Academy of Columbia University. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <h2>Research Statement</h2> <p> My research explores how spectators and readers use their somatosensory/motor systems to create boundary changes that enhance their cognitive and affective experience of visual art and literature. To these ends I propose the concept of the <em>transomatization</em>, which operates in parallel to the notion of the <em>simulation</em>, as formulated within philosophy and the cognitive sciences. &nbsp;The models of bodily spectatorship and reading that I am developing are informed by cultural histories of bodily empathy and imagination and are attuned to current scientific research in emotion, perception, language processing, and motor theories.</p> <h2>Under Review </h2> <p> "Reading through the Body:&nbsp; Narratives and the Somatosensory System."</p> <h2>Selected Articles</h2> <p> "Embodying Art: The Spectator and the Inner Body," Poetics Today, 31, 2 (2010): 217-250. <br />"Embodying Literature."&nbsp; <em>Journal of Consciousness Studies</em>, Special Issue on Literature and the Brain, 11, No. 5-6 (2004): 79 &ndash;89.<br />"Touching Art: Intimacy, Embodiment, and the Somatosensory System." <em>Consciousness and Emotion</em>, 2:2 (2001): 233-254. <br />"Visualization," in <em>The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory</em> (London: Routledge Press, 2005).<br /> "The Princess and the Pea: Touch and the Private/Public Domains of Women&rsquo;s Knowledge." <em>Knowledge and Society,</em> 12. Volume on Gender and Work (Stamford, Connecticut: JAQI Press Inc., 2000) 17-29. </p> <h2>Interviews</h2> <p> "Interview with Northrop Frye" in <em>Collected Works of Northrop Frye</em>, Volume 24, edited by Jean O&rsquo;Grady (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). <br /> "The Inner Space of Reading: Interviews with John Hawkes, Carlos Fuentes, and William Gass."&nbsp; <em>Journal of Mental Imagery,</em> 10 (1986): 61-68.</p> <h2>Grants/Awards</h2> <p> 2009&nbsp;&nbsp; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute FishbachTravel Grant<br /> 2008&nbsp;&nbsp; NSF funded Grant <em>Reforming Advancement Processes through University </em><em>Professions</em> (Ramp-Up) through Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br /> 2003-4 Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America at Columbia University, NY, NY. Project on Art and the Neurosciences.<br /> 1986-7 Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.&nbsp; </p> Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences John Gowdy gowdyj 805 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/805 2010-10-14 15:50 http://www@rpi.edu/~gowdyj Ph.D. Ecological Economics Ph.D. Economics West Virginia UniversityM.C.P. Community Planning University of Rhode IslandB.A. Anthropology American University climate change behavioral and evolutionary economics David Sloan Wilson - Binghamton University Lisi Krall - SUNY Cortland Jeroen van den Bergh - Autonomous University Barcelona Charles Hall - Syracuse University http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/614 International Society for Ecological Economics Greg DeAngelo Rittenhouse Chair Herman Daly Award - US Society for Ecological Economics 2009 <p><strong>Degrees:</strong> Ph.D., West Virginia University</p> <p> M.A., West Virginia University<br /> M.C.P., University of Rhode Island<br /> B.A., American University </p> <p> <strong>Research:</strong> Ecological economics including the economic valuation of biodiversity and climate change, behavioral economics and public policy, evolutionary economics. </p> <p> <strong>Selected Publications:</strong><br /> <em>Economic Theory Old and New: A Students Guide</em>, Stanford University Press, 2010</p> <p><em>Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature</em>, University of California Press,January 2000 (with Carl McDaniel). <br /> <br /> &ldquo;Global Warming Economics in the Long Run&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Land Economics</span> <strong>86 </strong>(2010): 117-130 (with Roxana Julia). <br /><br /> &ldquo;A Group Selection Perspective on Economic Behavior, Institutions and Organizations&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">of Economic Behavior and Organization</span> <strong>72 </strong>(2009): 1-20 (with Jeroen van den Bergh)<br /><br /> &ldquo;Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of Economic Behavior and </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Organization</span> <strong>68 </strong>(2008): 632-644.&nbsp; <br /><br /> &ldquo;Technology and Petroleum Exhaustion: Evidence from two Mega-Oilfields&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Energy</span> <strong>32 </strong>(2007)<strong>:</strong> 1448-1458 (with Roxana Julia).<br /><br /> &ldquo;Environmental Awareness and Happiness&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ecological Economics</span> <strong>60 </strong>(2007)<strong>: </strong>509-516 (with Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell).<br /><br /> &ldquo;Toward a New Welfare Foundation for Sustainability&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ecological Economics</span> <strong>53 </strong>(2005): 211-222.<br /><br /> &ldquo;The Approach of Ecological Economics&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cambridge Journal of Economics</span> <strong>29 </strong>(2005): 207-222 (with Jon Erickson).<br /><br /> &ldquo;The Revolution in Welfare Economics and its Implications for Environmental Valuation&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Land </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Economics</span> <strong>80</strong> (2004), 239-257.&nbsp; </p> Professor Economics BiodiversityClimate ChangeEcological EconomicsEnvironmental Valuation Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences David Hess hessd 806 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/806 2010-10-08 18:03 www.davidjhess.org MA, PhD Cornell AnthropologyBA Harvard Economics energy, sustainability public participation See web site: www.davidjhess.org http:// Merton Prize in the sociology of science Forsythe prize in the anthropology of science see www.davidjhess.org Interests - Social movements, environment and health, and science and technology Science and Technology Studies energysustainability Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Larry Kagan kaganl 807 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/807 2010-08-18 11:41 http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~kagan/ sculpting http:// <p> Larry Kagan is a sculptor working in a unique medium that combines steel with shadows. He received a BS from RPI in 1968 and an MA in Studio Arts from the University at Albany in 1970. He has taught at the Bezalel academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and at Haifa University in Israel before joining the Arts faculty at RPI in 1972. In addition to teaching, he served as chair of the Arts department for 13 years, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education for the school of Humanities and Social Science and most recently President of the Faculty Senate. Professor Kagan&rsquo;s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented in numerous private and public collections. &nbsp; </p> Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Linda Layne laynel 808 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/808 2010-08-18 12:05 http://www.rpi.edu/~laynel/ Ph.D. Princeton cultural construction of pregnancy http:// Interests - The cultural construction of pregnancy loss, new reproductive technologies in western and non-western settings, medical and religious discourses, popular representations of nature, neonatal intensive care, feminist methods. <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <br /> </font> Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Lee Odell odellc 809 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/809 2010-08-18 15:14 Composition Theory Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, HASS http:// <p> Lee Odell is Professor of Composition Theory and Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His recent publications discuss ways visual and textual information interact, both in print and on-line.<br /> <br /> Other publications include <em>Evaluating Writing, Research on Composing</em> (both with Charles Cooper), <em>Writing in Non-Academic Settings</em> (with Dixie Goswami), and <em>Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing</em>. He has served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Assembly for Research.<br /> <br /> He serves on a number of editorial boards of scholarly journals, including the <em>Journal of Business and Technical Communication</em> and the <em>Journal of Advanced Composition</em>. His articles have received the CCCC Richard Braddock Award and the NCTE Publication Award for research on technical communication. </p> Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Bill Puka pukab 810 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/810 2011-01-31 10:53 Cognition, Cognitive Development, Moral Reasoning <p > <strong>Position:</strong>Professor of Philosophy and Psychology </p> <p> <strong>Classes:</strong> Anarchism, Democracy, Cognitive-Moral Development, Ethics, Wisdom, Love and Character, Cognitive Science and Education </p> <p> <strong>Background:&nbsp; </strong>My teaching, like my research, combines philosophy and psychology, usually related to ethical values and public policy. For two decades I worked at Harvard&#039;s Center for Moral Development and its related "Just Community" program in the Connecticut prison system. This mission continues through service on the executive board of the AME (The Association for Moral Education), and the Ark Community Charter School in Troy. My public policy work began in the US Senate where I was an APA/AAAS Congressional Fellow. There I worked for the Senate Small Business Committee and in Senator Hart&#039;s Office on issues of urban economic development, employee ownership, budget and taxation (including tax resistance). A few years ago I directed a Sloan Foundation grant for Troy and Capitol District socio-economic redevelopment. For many years before and after I have run two ongoing community programs: "Be Your Own Hero: Careers in Commitment" (a character education program for the public schools) and The Umuluwe Sister-City Program (partnering certain RPI faculty and students with villagers in Nigeria) </p> <p> <strong>Current focus:</strong> The guiding question: Can a full regimen be worked out for developing radical integrity and self-determination in ourselves, also for developing a full appreciation of what is valuable and democratic in our world? How can we become motivated and able to make a ruthlessly honest critical evaluation of our hypocrisies and rationalizations regarding injustice and dehumanization around us? And how can we nurture a powerful and unswerving passion for working against these intolerables while at the same time celebrating life? My current quartet of courses in ethics, moral psychology (development), the social entrepreneurship/civic engagement of anarchy and democracy, is designed to answer these questions and evolve such a regimen. On the conceptual or philosophical side of this quest, radical integrity implies non-ideological approaches to beliefs and viewpoints. Two models and methods are posed for doing so. The Savings Approach suggests that no current view is worth considering unless it at least encompasses the strengths of all major current views, including major rivals. It provides a model for integrating conflicting and complementary viewpoints. The Right Mix consists of various combinations of such views in theory and practice.(This includes accommodating dogmas and one-way ideologies that oppose to eclecticism.) Moral and politically speaking, to be less than a Kantian-Utilitarian-egoistic perfectionist, as well as a conservative-liberal-socialistic individualist libertarian is not to take views or one&#039;s comrades&nbsp; seriously enough. </p> <p> <strong>Current Research Interests: </strong>In addition to ongoing theoretical research in ethics and moral development, I conduct a long-term empirical research program in cognitive science, investigating ethical problem-solving processes using protocol analysis. An on-line ethical coaching system has been developed by my student and colleague, Russell Robbins. And the development of ETHICALADVISOR software is foreseen. More nascent research probes psychological and social&nbsp; mechanisms for resisting authoritarianism and becoming "civically engaged." The RPI campus provides a handy laboratory for this project through its seemingly inexhaustible top-down disputation between faculty, administration and trustees. </p> <p> <strong>In his own words: </strong>I consider myself post-academic in that academics has become increasingly focused on careerism and success-oriented professionalism. Philosophy and psychology, by contrast, aim at wisdom and perspective, grounding one in what is really important and valuable, including trying to live and worthy life. Ethics originally concerned how to flourish as a person in life--how to develop an admirable personality and character, a circle of excellent relationships, and a socially contributing lifestyle. It concerned how to be excellent as a person and create a life masterpiece. The aim was to become expert in one&#039;s thinking (philosophy), one&#039;s emotional sensitivity to self and others (psychology) and the authentic, socially apt expression of one&#039;s understanding (community organizing and engagement). Promoting these original and perennial concerns is the focus of my teaching, and teaching--partnering with students in learning--is my focus. Social activism is my focus outside of teaching.&nbsp; </p> <p> <strong>Writing and Publications:</strong> <a title="http://Google.com" href="http://google.com/">Google.com</a> lists several of my academic publications and, for some reason, lush information my recording and songwriting career with Columbia (CBS/Sony) Records. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moral Development: A Compendium</span>, contains 7 books I edited on moral psychology. The On-line <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Encyclopedia of Philosophy</span> contains my long entry summarizing the field. A newer entry in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics contains a long entry on The Golden Rule, portrayed as the heart of western ethics. The first version of my Right Mix Theory is published in my volume <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Toward Moral Perfectionism</span>. In the last few years I have been completing books on Martin Luther King&#039;s interpersonal problem-solving methods and like methods derived from research in cognitive development. An additional&nbsp; book manuscript, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">For Goodness Sake</span>, counterposes ideal and irreverent outlooks on ethics. It includes descriptions of exemplary people, love, ultimate integrity, posed alongside "The Good of Evil," "The Virtues of Hypocrisy," "Offending People: A Lost Art," and a critique of forgiveness as unjust, impossible, and near-incomprehensible.) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Of, By and For: An Allegiance Beyond Patriotism and Good Citizenship</span> is my most recent book project, responding to perennial US foreign policy and the undue power of political ideology in democracy. It locates democracy in social organization, not political systems, and exposes the objectionably authoritarian features of political republics. While also continuing to publish in academic journals I&#039;ve most recently been invited to contribute chapters to volumes in philosophy and popular culture. A first essay will appear in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Philosophy and College Sex</span> (of all things) while simultaneous publications come out on robotics, "caring" in business, and technologically induced eugenics. </p> <p> <strong>Stands: </strong>What someone stands for or endorses often is more informative than descriptive sketches. Hence the following tidbits on academic fraud (trumping student cheating), spiritual principles, and spirited resistance to oppression. These are followed by my curriculum vitae, which, like the photo of my family above, I usually do not keep up to date. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~pukab/Bill%20Puka%20Resume.pdf">Bill Puka Resume</a> | <a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~pukab/Unitarian%20Universalist%20Principles.pdf">Unitarian Universalist Principles</a> | <a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~pukab/V%20Speech%20to%20London.pdf">V Speech to London</a> | <a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~pukab/Puka%20finalist%20ever.pdf">Fraudulent integrity</a></p> Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Larry D Reid reidl 811 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/811 2010-08-16 14:25 http:// Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Sal Restivo restis 812 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/812 2010-08-17 09:27 http://www.salrestivo.org/ http:// Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Neil B Rolnick rolnick 813 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/813 2010-08-18 11:45 http://www.neilrolnick.com Music Composition and Performance http://www.rpi.edu/files/214 <p> During the Fall 2009 semester I&#039;m teaching two classes: </p> <p> ARTS 6080:&nbsp; Electronic Arts Practice, for MFA students only<br /> ARTS 1010:&nbsp; Media Studio Audio/Video,&nbsp; the department&#039;s gateway course for music and video studio courses. </p> <p> Info on my courses is on my academic web site.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~rolnick" target="_blank" class="autolink">http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~rolnick</a> <br /> <br /> For information about my music, performances and recordings, please take a look at <a href="http://www.neilrolnick.com/" target="_blank" class="autolink">http://www.neilrolnick.com&nbsp;</a> </p> <p> I will be on sabbatical during the Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 semesters. </p> Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Patricia Search searcp 814 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/814 2010-08-18 15:17 MA, Goddard College http:// <p> Patricia Search is a Professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication. She teaches courses in visual design theory and user interface design for interactive multimedia computing. In her current art work and multimedia research, she is designing multimedia installations that explore the aesthetics of space, time, and action in computer interface design. </p> <p> Professor Search is currently the President of the International Visual literacy Association (IVLA).&nbsp;She has also served on the Executive Board of the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. She has had&nbsp;31 solo exhibitions of her art,&nbsp;ten of which took place in New York City. She has participated in over 150 juried exhibitions throughout the world including several SIGGRAPH Art Shows, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) symposia, and the first United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China.<br /> <br /> Her artwork has been published in twenty international journals and three documentaries. She received the Creative Achievement Award from the International Visual Literacy Association. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant and a&nbsp;New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Art. She&nbsp;received&nbsp;best paper awards from the&nbsp;World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia as well as IVLA for her innovative research in digital art and multimedia interface design. </p> <p> Some of Professor Search&#039;s work may be found on the New York Foundation for the Arts website at:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=4889" class="secTitle">http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=4889</a> </p> Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Donald F Vitaliano vitald 815 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/815 2010-08-18 14:30 Ph.D., City University of New York 1970 http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/619 <p>Degrees: Ph.D., City University of New York, 1970</p> <p> B.B.A., The City College of New York, 1963 </p> <p> <strong>Research:</strong> My research agenda focuses on efficiency and productivity measurement, with particular interest in the public sector. Both Stochastic Frontier Regression and Data Envelopment Analysis are employed in these studies. In addition, some recent papers deal with Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Capital. </p> <p> <strong>Selected Publications:</strong> </p> <p> "Corporate Social Responsibility and Labor Turnover" forthcoming October 2010 in Corporate Governance.&nbsp; </p> <p> " A Frontier Approach to Testing the Averch-Johnson Hypothesis," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol 16, No 3, November 2009, 347-363.</p> <p> " Engel Curves and the Unitary Theory of the Household," International Journal of&nbsp; Consumer Studies," electronic version published July 2009.&nbsp; </p> <p> "Gender Wage Differences and Human Capital in the Early 20th Century," Review of Economics of the Household, Vol 7, No 2, June 2009, 178-188. </p> <p> "An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility," (with Donald S. Siegel), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy," Vol 16, No 3, Fall 2007, 773-792.&nbsp; </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Professor Economics Private and public sector efficiency Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Christopher A. VerWys verwyc 816 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/816 2010-08-16 10:06 http://www.rpi.edu!verwyc/ Cognitive Science http:// Lecturer Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Ned Woodhouse woodhe 817 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/817 2010-08-16 15:24 http://www.rpi.edu/~woodhe/ Ph.D. Yale University decision making http:// Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences James P. Zappen zappenj 818 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/818 2010-11-25 01:25 http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/ Ph.D. University of Missouri http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/jpzphoto4c.jpg Jim Zappen has research interests in contemporary rhetoric, digital rhetoric, and the design of web-based information systems. He recently published <em>The Rebirth of Dialogue</em> and is currently at work on a book tentatively titled <em>Rhetoric and Digital Media from Burke to Baudrillard</em>.Jim teaches courses in Rhetoric, Culture, and Technology; Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media; and Technical Writing for Print and Digital Media. Recent Publications:Zappen, James P. “Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence.” <em>Philosophy and Rhetoric</em> 42 (2009): 279-301.Burke, Kenneth. “On Persuasion, Identification, and Dialectical Symmetry.” Edited with Introduction by James P. Zappen. <em>Philosophy and Rhetoric</em> 39 (2007): 333-39.Zappen, James P. “Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory.” Special Issue: The State of Rhetoric of Science and Technology. Ed. Laura Gurak and Alan Gross. <em>Technical Communication Quarterly</em> 14 (2005): 319-25.Zappen, James P. <em>The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition</em>. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Professor Language Literature and Communication digital mediadigital rhetoric Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Michael J Zenzen zenzem 819 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/819 2010-08-16 15:03 http:// Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Sharon Anderson-Gold anders 820 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/820 2010-08-18 11:58 Kandian ethics; history of modern philosophy Department Head http:// Interests - Kantian ethics, history of modern philosophy, social and political philosophy, human rights, bioethics.<br /><br /><br /> <h3>Courses</h3> <ul> <li>Spring 2003 - Philosophy of Law, Law Values and Public Policy</li> <li>Fall 2003 - Philosophy of Law, Environmental Philosophy<br /><br /> </li> </ul> <h3>Invited Lectures and Conference Papers</h3> April 24-26, 2002. International Society of Environmental Ethics, invited commentator, American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming, at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Cleveland.<br /><br />April 24-26, 2002. North American Kant Society, invited commentator &ldquo;Corrupt and Dependent Agency&rdquo; at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Cleveland.<br /><br />October 4, 2002. &ldquo;Prophetic History, Kant and Cosmopolitanism&rdquo;, Pacific Meeting of the North American Kant Society, San Diego.<br /><br />July 2002. &ldquo;Sustainable Development: Towards a Politics of Place&rdquo;, 19th International Conference on Social Philosophy, Eugene Oregon.<br /><br />April, 2002. &ldquo;Uprooting Evil: Building Ethical Communities&rdquo; invited presentation, international conference on &ldquo;The Anatomy of Evil&rdquo;, Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.<br /><br /><br /> <h3>Recent Publications</h3> Anderson-Gold, Sharon. &ldquo;Objectivity in Environmental Ethics&rdquo;. Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics . Vol. 18 Social Philosophy Today, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003<br /><br /> Anderson-Gold, Sharon. &ldquo;Prophetic History&rdquo;. Geschichtsphilosophie, ed. by Johannes Rohbeck and Herta Nagl-Docekal. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), 2003<br /><br />Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Development in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, published by State University of New York Press, 2001.<br /><br />Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, published by University of Wales Press, 2001.<br /><br />&ldquo;Ambivalence and Identity in Black Culture&rdquo; in Race, Social Identity and Human Dignity, Vol. 16, Social Philosophy Today Book Series, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center, July 2002.<br /> Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Selmer Bringsjord brings 821 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/821 2010-08-17 09:33 http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/ http:// Department Head Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Linnda Caporael caporl 822 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/822 2010-08-18 12:01 http://www.rpi.edu/~caporl/ Ph.D. California - Santa Barbara http:// Interests - Human evolutionary theory, naturalistic epistemology, group coordination and dynamics, culture and cognition, the ecology of cognition, social psychology, social robots. Professor Science and Technology Studies human evolutionary theory Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences June Deery deeryj 823 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/823 2010-10-12 18:38 http://www.rpi.edu/~deery/ BA Trinity College, DublinD.Phil. Oxford University Television and new media Advertising and cultural studies Reality TV http:// <p> June Deery (B.A. Trinity College, Dublin; D.Phil Oxford, Literature), is an associate professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Communication.<br /> <br /> She has published a book on Aldous Huxley and Huxley and the Mysticism of Science and several articles, one of which received a national award. She teaches courses in Advertising and Culture, Media and Popular Culture, Women Writers, Utopian Literature, and Science and Fiction in the Twentieth Century. </p> Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication advertisingcultural studiesgenderMedia studiesnew mediatelevision Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Tamar Gordon gordot 824 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/824 2010-08-18 15:23 Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley Anthropology http:// <p> Tamar Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology in LL&amp;C. Her work focuses on the cultural analysis of contemporary religions and their intersections with local and global modernities; themed environments; Polynesian and American societies; <br /> <br /> Her graduate courses include Ethnography and Cultural Analysis. Her undergraduate courses include colonial and postcolonial representation; religion, culture and media; and the EMAC Senior Capstone Design class.<br /> <br /> She is the author of a book in press, Mormons and Modernity in Tonga, and the editor of a collection of articles on ethnic theme parks, also forthcoming, and the director of a documentary film on ethnic theme parks entitled &quot;Global Villages: the Globalization of Ethnic Display.&quot; </p> Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Branda Miller milleb 825 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/825 2010-08-18 11:42 http://www.rpi.edu/~milleb/ cutting edge videographer http:// Branda Miller has been a cutting-edge videographer for over 20 years. She has developed a portfolio of intriguing, award-winning works, examining topics in areas such as environmentalism, consumerism, social behavior and cyber culture. Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Michael L. Century century 826 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/826 2010-08-18 11:38 M.A. Music, history and theory http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/213 <p> Michael Century, M.A. (music history and theory), Berkeley, was educated in musicology, piano performance&nbsp; at the Universities of Toronto , and California at Berkeley, and science/technology policy at Sussex University (U.K.). In his scholarly work, he studies the history and sociology of art-technology interactions in the twentieth century, highlighting the dynamics of innovation in creative software cultures. Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Century founded the Centre&#039;s Media Arts Division in 1988, and headed the Inter-arts program and Jazz workshop there from 1981-87. From 1993-2002 he was a program manager, consultant, and policy advisor for art and technology, serving public institutions, foundations, and research laboratories in Canada.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pioneering&nbsp; work in the field of new media art, included The Art and Virtual Environments project (1991-94), one of the first large-scale and sustained investigations of virtual reality technologies as a new medium for artists,&nbsp; also one of the organizers of International Symposium on Electronic Art in Montreal, 1995. Century wrote Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture for the&nbsp; Rockefeller Foundation, which was published by Leonardo Journal as an Electronic Monograph.&nbsp; He was panelist and co-author for the U.S. National Academy of Science 2003 report on information&nbsp; technologies and creative practices, Beyond Productivity. Century is also a pianist and composer with a broad interest in solo and chamber classical repertoire, and he composed a series of works for piano and computer-processed voice that have been performed at music festivals in Canada and the U.S., and broadcast nationally on the CBC. </p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/user1962311">Video documentation of musical projects</a></p> <p> <strong>Research Interests</strong></p> <p> In his scholarly work, Michael Century studies the history and sociology of art-technology interactions in the 20th century, highlighting the dynamics of innovation in creative software cultures. In progress is a monograph on the &ldquo;emergence of the creative user&rdquo; of computer animation software, based on the interactions between artists, engineers and scientists from the 1960s to 1980s. Growing out of this interest is a research program with a more institutional and policy focus, concerned with the development of the&ldquo;Studio Laboratory&rdquo; as a distinctive site for techno-cultural innovation. A second research field is the new intellectual property conventions for the new kinds of distributed authorship arising in networked digital culture. As well, Century is a pianist and composer , with a broad interest in solo and chamber classical repertoire and authors software for computer-improvisation systems. </p> <p> <strong>Teaching Links, 09-10</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century/eao10/eao10.htm"><strong>Electronic Arts Overview, Fall 2010</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century/MMC10/SyllMMC10.htm">Multimedia Century, Arts 2540, Fall 2010</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century/eao09/eao09.htm">Electronic Arts Overview, Fall 2009</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century//MMC09/SyllMMC09.htm">The Multimedia Century, Fall 2009</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/public_html/century/public_html/nmt10/nmt10.htm">New Media Theory, Spring 2010</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/public_html/century/public_html/mh10/mh10.htm">History Western Music, Spring 2010</a></p> <p><strong>Short biography,</strong> click <a href="http://www.nextcentury.ca/bio.html">here</a> for more detail. </p> <p> Long associated with <a href="http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/">The Banff Centre for the Arts</a>, Century founded the Centre&#039;s Media Arts Division in 1988. In this position, he was the instigator of The <em>Art and Virtual Environments</em> project (1991-94). This project was the first large-scale and sustained investigation of virtual reality technologies as a new medium for artists; the completed installations have been been displayed in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, and the entire project documented in a book-length collection <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262631830/o/qid%3D980545689/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Daps%5Fsr%5Fb%5F1%5F1/102-2137230-6945750"><em>Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments</em></a> (MIT Press, 1996).From 1993-1996, Century was a program manager at the Canadian Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), a federal research laboratory located in Montreal, with responsibility for new media arts funding. From 1996&mdash;98, he served as policy advisor to the federal department of <a href="http://www.pch.gc.ca/">Canadian Heritage</a>. Since September 1997, he has been the principal of Next Century Consultants, focusing on new media and cultural policy for various public and university sector clients. For the Rockefeller Foundation, he researched and wrote a report in 1999 entitled <a href="http://www.nextcentury.ca/PI/PI.html">Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture.</a> He was panelist and co-author for the U.S. National Academy of Science 2003 report on information technologies and creative practices, <a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_creativity.html">Beyond Productivity</a>. He was educated in humanities, piano performance, and musicology at the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Iowa. </p> Professor Arts Steve Breyman breyms 827 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/827 2010-08-18 11:59 http://www.rpi.edu/~breyms/ Ph.D. California-Santa Barbara environmental politics and policy http:// Interests - Environmental politics and policy, environment and development, international relations, and comparative politics. Associate Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Kathy High highk 828 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/828 2010-08-18 11:40 media artist curator http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/122 <p> <br /> KATHY HIGH is a media artist, curator, and teacher living and working in upstate New York and Brooklyn. She produces videos and installations around issues of gender and technology, pursues queer and feminist inquiries into various areas of medicine/bio-science, and is engaged with science fiction, and studies animal behavior. For the past twenty years, High has produced experimental documentaries that look at a wide spectrum of issues dealing with &ldquo;care&rdquo; from women&rsquo;s health to interspecies telepathic communications. Her video works touch on topics including body politics and the paranormal, and have been shown in festivals, galleries and museums both nationally and abroad, including the Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland, Time Based Arts, Hull, U.K., Videotage Art Space, Hong Kong, as well as aired on PBS. She has received numerous awards for her video works including grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been an independent curator for a number of years, having started the video exhibition program at Hallwalls Gallery in Buffalo, NY, and curated the Microwave Festival in Hong Kong, as well as television series (REEL NEW YORK on WNET) and video exhibitions internationally. Her work, &ldquo;Embracing Animal&rdquo;, was exhibited in &ldquo;Becoming Animal&rdquo; at MASS MoCA, North Adams (www.embracinganimal.com). Also See Video Data Bank for information on this video work and others by Kathy High: <a href="http://www.vdb.org/">http://www.vdb.org/ </a><br /> <br /> High joined the Department of Arts at Rensselaer in 2002, a department specializing in integrated electronic arts practices. She taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union prior to teaching at Rensselaer. She teaches digital video production and post production and has been working in the area of film, video and photography for over twenty years. Being at a university known for science and engineering has had its effect, as High is participating more in bio-arts activities. She started the BioArts Initiative at Rensselaer, a collaboration between the Department of Arts and the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. She was the editor of the critical journal, FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, encouraging dialogue among radical media makers since 1991 <a href="http://www.e-felix.org/">http://www.e-felix.org/</a> An upcoming publication entitled &ldquo;TOOLS: Analogues and Intersections: Video and Media Arts Histories&rdquo; with coeditors Sherry Miller Hocking (ETC) and Mona Jimenez (NYU, Moving Image Arching and Preservation Program) looks at the history of tools used in creating media arts, the collaboration between artists and engineer designers, and the preservation of these tools. The basis of this project comes out of the archives of the Experimental Television Center. <br /> &nbsp; </p> Associate Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Jim Fahey faheyj2 829 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/829 2010-08-16 13:17 http://www.rpi.edu/!faheyj2 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Christopher L Hubbell hubbec 830 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/830 2010-08-16 10:10 cognitive science http:// Clinical Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Robert W. Jones jonesr2 831 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/831 2010-08-17 09:21 Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Langdon Winner winner 832 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/832 2010-08-18 12:07 http://www.rpi.edu/~winner/ Ph.D. California-Berkley social and political issues http:// Interests - Social and political issues generated by modern technological change. <h3>Recent Publications</h3> Winner, Langdon. 2003 <strong>&ldquo;The Internet and Dreams of Democratic Renewal,&rdquo;</strong> The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, edited by David Anderson and Michael Cornfield (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), ), pp. 167-183. <br /> <br /> Winner, Langdon. 2003 <strong>&quot;Social Dimensions of Engineering Design: Observations from Mudd Design Workshop III,&quot;</strong> Clive Dym, John Wesner and Langdon Winner, Journal of Engineering Education, January 2003.<br /> <br /> Winner, Langdon. <strong>&ldquo;Design: An Arena of Choice,&rdquo;</strong> in The International Journal of Engineering Education, January 2003. Clive Dym and I edited the entire issue of this journal with articles taken from the Workshop on Social Dimensions of Design (see Books).<br /> Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Mary Anne Staniszewski stanim 833 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/833 2010-08-18 11:46 Acting Head http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/1261 <p> Staniszewski (center) with Professors Kathy High (left) and Pauline Oliveros (right).<br /> photo credit: Don Moore </p> <p> <strong>Mary Anne Staniszewski,</strong> Associate Professor, <br /> Ph.D., Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York </p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves /> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> 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Accent 4" /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4" /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4" /> <w: Associate Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Marc Destefano destem 834 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/834 2010-08-16 14:42 http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/people/marc/ http:// Game design, game development, cognitive engineering Clinical Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Kim Fortun fortuk 835 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/835 2010-08-18 12:03 www.fortuns.org?pageid+3 Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology Rice University Cultural Anthropology http:// <p> Kim Fortun received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Rice University in 1993 and is author of <em>Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders</em> (Chicago 2001). She co-edits (with Mike Fortun) <em>Cultural Anthropology</em> (<a href="http://www.culanth.org">culanth.org</a>), the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. &nbsp;<br /> <br /> Fortun&#039;s research and teaching focus on environmental health problems, and on developing ethnography as a way to understand and engage the complexities of the contemporary world.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her research has examined how people in different geographic and organizational contexts understand environmental problems, uneven distributions of environmental health risks, developments in the environmental health sciences, and factors that contribute to, and reduce, vulnerability to environmental risk and disaster. <br /> &nbsp;<br /> Fortun&#039;s undergraduate teaching contributes to our new Sustainability Studies Program, and to the development of student capacity for independent research. Her graduate teaching focuses on research design and methods, on cultural analysis of science and technology, and on critical theories of language, knowledge and communication. <br /> <br /> Her <a href="http://www.sts.rpi.edu/cms/fileaccess.php?fileID=1579">Curriculum Vitae (CV)</a> is also available for download. </p> <p> Her website is located at <a href="http://www.fortuns.org/?page_id=3">http://www.fortuns.org/?page_id=3</a>. </p> <p> <u><strong>CURRENT PROJECTS</strong></u><br /> <em>Informating Environmentalism</em>, a book manuscript that examines how information technology, theory and culture have shaped the environmental field over the last two decades. <br /> <br /> <em>The Asthma Files</em>, a collaborative, web-based project to draw together and explicate multiple perspectives on asthma &ndash; from different scientific disciplines, from health care providers and patients, and from different geographic locales. <br /> <br /> <em>Strategizing Transdisciplinarity: From Exposure Assessment to Exposure Science</em>, an NSF funded study focused on recent developments in environmental exposure science. <br /> <br /> <em>Experiments in Ethnography</em>, a collection of essays that explicates the methods and potential of ethnography.<br /> <br /> <br /> <u><strong>RECENT PUBLICATIONS</strong></u><br /> <br /> <u>edited volumes</u><br /> <br /> <strong>2009:</strong> <em>Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1-4: Moorings, Modernities, Emergence, Engagements.</em> Sage (co-edited with Mike Fortun). <br /> <br /> essays<br /> <br /> <strong>2009:</strong> &quot;Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law,&quot; <em>Catastrophe: Law, Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse</em> edited by Austin Sarat. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. <br /> <br /> <strong>2009:</strong> &quot;Figuring Out Ethnography,&quot; <em>Fieldwork Is Not What It Used To Be: Learning Anthropology&#039;s Method in a Time of Transition </em>edited by James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. <br /> <br /> <strong>2009:</strong> &quot;Scaling and Visualizing Multi-sited Ethnography,&quot; <em>Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research</em> edited by Mark Falzon. London: Ashgate. <br /> <br /> <strong>2009:</strong> &quot;Introduction,&quot; <em>Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1-4: Moorings, Modernities, Emergence, Engagements</em> edited by Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun. Sage (co-authored with Mike Fortun). <br /> <br /> <strong>2006:</strong> &quot;Poststructuralism, Technoscience and the Promise of Public Anthropology,&quot; <em>India Review</em> Vol 5. No 2-3.&nbsp; Fall. <br /> <br /> <strong>2005:</strong> &quot;Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology,&quot; <em>American Anthropologist.</em>&nbsp; Vol 107. No 1.&nbsp; March. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)<br /> <br /> <strong>2004:</strong> &quot;Environmental Information Systems and Appropriate Technology,&quot; <em>Design Issues</em> Vol 20. No.3. Fall. &nbsp;<br /> <br /> <strong>2004:</strong> &quot;From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmental Health: Risk Communication in Historical Perspective,&quot; <em>OSIRIS</em> (Special issue: Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, edited by Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers) Vol 19. <br /> <br /> <strong>2003:</strong> &quot;Ethnography In/Of/As Open Systems,&quot; p171-190 <em>Reviews in Anthropology</em> Vol 32/2. <br /> <br /> <strong>2002:</strong> &quot;Review Essay: Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof.&quot; <em>Ethics, Place and Environment.</em> Vol 5/1. March. </p> Associate Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences John J. Heim heimj 836 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/836 2010-08-16 13:57 Ph.D. SUNY; MPA Harvard macroeconomics; econometrics; parameter estimates http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/615 Clinical Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dean Nieusma nieusma 837 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/837 2010-10-27 11:19 Interdisciplinary Programs in Design and Innovation (PDI) Science, Technology, and Society Sustainability Studies PhD in STS, RPI (2004)MS in STS, RPI (2001)BS in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), cum laude, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991)Bachelors of General Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991) design and social studies of design http:// Society for Social Studies of Science ASEE IEEE In press. “Middle-out Social Change: Expert-led EJ Initiatives in Sri Lanka’s Energy Sector.” Technoscience, Environmental Justice, and the Spaces Between: Transforming Expert Cultures through Grassroots Engagement. MIT Press. In Press. “Materializing Nano Equity: Lessons from Design.” In The 2009 Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Jameson Wetmore and Susan Cozzens, editors. Springer. 2010. “Designs on Development: Engineering, Globalization, and Social Justice” (Nieusma and Riley). Engineering Studies. 2007. “Challenging Knowledge Hierarchies to Achieve Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka.” Sustainability: Science, Policy, Practice 3.1 (Spring): 32-44. 2004. “Alternative Design Scholarship: Working toward Appropriate Design.” Design Issues 20.3 (Summer): 13-24. Interests - Design and social studies of design, development and appropriate technology, renewable energy technology, and the relationship between expertise and democratic process. Assistant Professor Science and Technology Studies democratic theorydemocratic theorydesign researchdevelopmentengineering educationengineering educationexpertiseexpertiseinterdisciplinary designinterdisciplinary designsocial justicesocial justicesustainability Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Curtis Bahn bahnc2 838 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/838 2010-10-08 16:36 http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb/ Ph.D. Princeton live interactive electronic performance robotics human computer interaction http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/112 <p> Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser who specializes in live interactive electronic performance. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Music Composition/ Performance, and Director of the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University. From 1986-1993 he was the Technical Director of the Center for Computer Music of the City University of New York working with composer Charles Dodge.<br /> <br /> His music has been presented internationally at venues including Lincoln Center, India International Centre - Delhi, Sadler&#039;s Wells - London, Palais Garnier - Paris, Grand Theatre de la Ville - Luxembourg, as well as numerous festivals, conferences and clubs. Curtis was the composer for a major residency project entitled &quot;Motione,&quot; in interactive dance and graphics with Choreographer Trisha Brown and Visual Artists Paul Kaiser, Marc Downey and Shelly Eshkar hosted by the ASU&nbsp; Arts Media and Engineering Program. He released a solo recording of live electronic performance on his extended string bass entitled &quot;R!g,&quot; on the EMF label, a duo recording entitled &quot;./swank&quot; with Dan Trueman on the cycling 74 label, and a DVD with Pauline Oliveros and Tomie Hahn on the Deep Listening label. </p> Associate Professor Arts artsdanceelectronic artshuman computer interactionmusicphysical computingrobotics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Kathleen Ruiz ruiz 839 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/839 2010-10-21 23:38 http://www.rpi.edu/~ruiz Experimental Game Design Advanced Integrated Arts Advanced Digital Imaging Intermediate Digital Imaging Media Studio Imaging Electronic Arts Games & Simulation EMAC eARTS IT Ruiz holds a Master of Arts from New York University and is a doctoral candidate (abd) at the European Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies in Switzerland art and empathic simulation and visualization systems expressive simulation multiperspective simulation Kathleen Ruiz is a media artist who creates simulations, games, sculpture and photography. Her work explores issues about perception, behavior, interaction and the confluence of the imaginary and the real, inviting inquiry into how conceptual constructs are built and how they serve to shape ethics and power. Ruiz poses questions about the oxymoron of virtual violence, catharsis, and desensitization in simulated space. She provides us with simulated places where multiple viewpoints can be explored and expanded, while challenging us to simultaneously perceive the perspectives of the observer, the observed and the process of observation. Ruiz is an Associate Professor of Integrated Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she develops and teaches courses in simulation, experimental game design, photography, digital imaging, and emerging genres. She is a founding member of the ErGoGenics Game Research Group and the CapAbility Games Research Project.Ruiz holds a Master of Arts from New York University and is a doctoral candidate (abd) at the European Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies where she studied with French sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist Jean Baudrillard; political philosopher and media aesthetics theorist Jean Luc Nancy; media philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher; French film maker Chantel Ackerman; British sculptor Antony Gormley; Palestinian/Israeli filmmaker Elia Suleiman; British photographer, and critic Victor Burgin; performance artist, researcher in neurology and anthropologist of the virtual world, Sandy Stone; and German philosopher of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen; and others. She is the recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award, a New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Commission, the New York State Council on the Arts exhibition grant, the Experimental Television Center Grant, and the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award. Her work was recently sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe. Ruiz's art has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, Europe, South America, and Asia and has been reviewed/published in the New York Times, Aperture, Art News, ARTI, Jornal do Brasil, The College Art Journal, The MIT Press, Reuters Video News International, Computer Graphics, Yale University Art Gallery, Wired, USA Today, arteTV, Kultur:Deutsche Welle, TeknoKultura, and others.Ruiz's current research is centered on simulation, perspective and empathy. Sarah Plant, composer Lisa Naugle, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Chair, Clair Trevor School of Dance and Technology Sarah Plant, composer Syb Jennings, Ph.D., Sage College http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/211 CAA ACM SIGGRAPH Wands, Bruce. "Art in the Digital Age". Thames and Hudson Ltd., UK., 2007 Heartney, Eleanor and Gopnik, Adam. Heiferman, Marvin, ed. "City Art: New York&#039;s Percent for Art Program". Merrell Publishers, 2005, pgs. 78-79. Freudenberger. Sylvia. ArteTV, "GameArt" (in the arts-series Metropolis), European culture television. Jan.10, 2004 Brienschenk, Astrid, SWR Sudwesterundfunk, television interview, "Stunt Dummies", Volklinger, Germany, Nov. 21, 2003 Verwirrung zum Mitmachen, Kultur, Deutsche Welle, November 25, 2003 Figueroa, Heidi Sarriena, Ph.D. "Lo politico en Interactiva &#039;03", TeknoKultura, August 1, 2003 LatinArt.com, InteractivA&#039;03, July, 2003 Whitney ArtPort, The Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art, InteractivA http://artport.whitney.org/resources/netartexhibitions.shtml Nanda, Samira. "The Ava Project" Reuters Video News interview June 28, 2002, Reuters, 3 Times Square, New York City. Gitahy, Ana Carolina. "Dancando com um avatar", Jornal do Brasil, June 24, 2002, pg. 1-3 "Interacão entre real e virtual", Jornal do Brasil, June 24, 2002, pg. 3. "Uma bailarina feita de bits ENTREVISTA / Kathleen Ruiz", Jornal do Brasil, June 24, 2002. Dean, Katie. "May I Have This Avatar?" Wired, June 14, 2002. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52986,00.html "Virtual Shooter", All Things Considered, Maine Public Radio interview with Charlotte Renner, Portland, Maine, March 15-16, 2001 "Blown Away: Seduced by Video Games", Allen Dammann, Casco Bay Weekly, March 8, 2001, Portland, Me. Kornblum, Janet. "&#039;Bang&#039; offers not too violent alternative", eBriefing, USA Today, Sept. 19, 2000, pg. 3D. Brown, Steven, PC Gamer, Eyewitness News, "But is it Art?", Aug 31, 2000 World OnLine, "Een pacifictische 3D-shooter?", Aug 8, 2000 Pisani, Francis, "Disparar para resucitar", ElPais Digital, August, 2000 Dean, Katie. "Bang Bang you&#039;re not dead", Wired, Aug. 30, 2000 http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,38314,00.html Wilson, Beth Elaine, "The Mind&#039;s Eye", Chronogram, 8/2000, pgs. 28-29. Gray, Andrew. "New Fashioned Shoot &#039;em Up", Chronogram, 8/2000, pg. 63. Spalter, Anne M. The Computer in the Visual Arts, Addison Wesley, 1998, pgs. 106,108, 212, 467, color plate 18. NYFYI, New York Foundation for the Arts, "Sequence", Recent New York City Percent for Art Projects", Jan., 1998. Art Journal, College Art Association, Spring 1997 vol. 56, no.1, pg. 26. Cotter, Holland "Techno Seduction," Art in Review, The New York Times, Feb. 7, 1997, pg. C26. Mirapaul, Matthew, "Techno Seduction: Artists Encounter the Computer", The New York Times, CyberTimes, Arts@Large, Jan. 16, 1997. Technoseduction, curated by Robert Rindler & Deborah Willis, The Cooper Union, New York, N.Y. 1997, pg. 45. http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno Sozanski, Edward J., Art Museum Exhibit Examines Photographs in the Computer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 1996. Hirsch, Robert. Exploring Color Photography. 3rd Edition, Dubuque, Ia.: Brown & Benchmark, 1997, pg. 151. Norman, Julyan. "The Computer as Artist&#039;s Tool: An Example from the Visual Arts Residency Program," ArtsInk, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Winter 1996, Volume 7, Number 1, pg. 4. Weintraub, Annette. "Artifice, Artifact, The Landscape of the Constructed Digital Environment," Leonardo, The MIT Press, 1995, Volume 28, Number 5, pgs. 365 & 366. Dashkin, Michael. "From Drawing to Montage," Leonardo, The MIT Press, The Leonardo Gallery, 1995, Volume 28, Number 1, pgs. 6, & color plate A. Michael Yatsevitch, RPI Computer Science 2003 Marc Destefano, Ph.D., Cognitive Science Ralph Noble, Ph.D., Cognitive Science Sony Computer Entertainment New York State Council on the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Commission Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Residency Award "Conditions of Engagement in Game Simulation: Contexts of Gender, Culture and Age", Ralph Noble,Ph.D., Kathleen Ruiz, Ph.D. abd,Marc Destefano,PhD., Jonathan Mintz Juried paper presented at the International Digital Games Research Association, "Level Up" University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 2003We advocate a research approach to determining the conditions of engagement in game simulation that is a multi-disciplinary cultural and scientific inquiry at the juncture of psychological, artistic, and programming perspectives. What are the factors that cause some people to become enthralled with detail-oriented simulation game-play, while others are captivated by more abstracted, symbolic styles of play? How are theconditions of engagement influenced by gender, culture, and age?Keywords:Research methodology, psychology of engagement, intuition, decision making, gender,culture, real world psychology and game worlds, game aesthetics, game composition,logistics of perception, synthesis of factors "Imaginary Homelands: Reconstituted Narratives in the Digital Landscape", The Photography Quarterly, #85, Vol. 20, No.4. 2003 Published paper and curated exhibition,by Kathleen RuizImaginary Homelands: Reconstituted Narratives in the Digital Landscape is an exhibition exploring the notion of "homeland" within the context of the transience, portability, and flexibility of digital media. The exhibition includes the work of a diverse group of nine artists who investigate this subject using digital media ranging from photographic and video methodologies to interactive virtual environment installations. Each artist presents a strong personal, political or psychological discourse on the preservation, reflection, exploration, and longing for a home that may or may not be actual. The works presented are created by artists from Ghana, Latvia, Israel, Malaysia, Spain, America, Brazil, and Bulgaria. The title is taken from Salman Rushdie&#039;s collection of essays and criticism of the same name - his ten-year personal and intellectual odyssey that records the politics and irony of culture, film, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice, and the preciousness of the imagination and free expression. The common theme seen throughout the work included in the Imaginary Homelands exhibition is coping with transience, a topic that is especially relevant in our current times of displacement, globalization, and the turmoil of unresolved conflicts worldwide. Web3D RoundUp: Looking Backwards and ForwardsVol.34 No.2 May 2000 ACM SIGGRAPHComputer Graphics World, May, 2000, vol. 34, no.2, pgs 60-61. "Physically Interactive Gaming: What Appeals to Adolescent and Undergraduate Women?" by Julie G. McIntyre , Sybillyn Jennings (The Sage Colleges) and Kathleen Ruiz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) at the Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference in Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 4-5, 2007 Kathleen Ruiz is an internationally exhibiting media artist who creates simulations, games, installations, sculpture and photography. Her work explores issues about perception, behavior, interaction and the confluence of the imaginary and the real, inviting inquiry into how conceptual constructs are built and how they serve to shape ethics and power. She has won numerous awards and grants internationally for her work. Portraying the promise of technology as well as its frightening, fascinating and humorous contradictions, Ruiz poses questions about the oxymoron of virtual violence, catharsis, and desensitization in simulated space. Her work shows multiple viewpoints which can be explored and expanded, while challenging us to simultaneously see perspectives of the observer, the observed and the process of observation. Ruiz&#039;s current research is centered on simulation, perspective and empathy. "Physically Interactive Gaming: What Appeals to Adolescent and Undergraduate Women?" by Julie G. McIntyre, Sybillyn Jennings (The Sage Colleges) and Kathleen Ruiz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) at Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference in Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 4-5, 2007 "Simulation and Empathy" invited guest artist/lecturer at the Games-Simulation-Conflict, Tech/Action Conference Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, May 19, 2007 "Flash Stories", co-curated an international on-line exhibition of short study flash projects from my Rensselaer Intermediate Digital Imaging students and students at the University of Zhaoqing, Guangdon Province, China. From China: http://zquart.tomrchambers.com/flash_stories.html From the US: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/IDIflashstoriessp07/idi/index.htm (To be able to understand many of the Zhaoqing University students&#039; stories translation from the Chinese language is needed. Please allow for download time coming in from China.) May 2007 "Camargo Cibernético", Invited artist and panelist, Camargo, Cantabria, Bilbao, Spain, May 29 to June 2, 2006 "Video Juegos y El Cine", invited artists and panelists, Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, Balladolid, Spain with Roman Gubern, Professor of Cinema History at the UCLA and University of Madrid; Margarita de la Vego-Hurtado, Director of the Robert Flaherty Film Festival; Hipolito Vivar Zuirita, Professor of New Technologies at the Complultense University of Madrir; Eusebio Sanchez Blanco, Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, and Luis Marin Arias, Chair of Cinema at the University of Valladolid, October 24, 2006 "Camargo Cibernético", invited artists and panelists, Camargo, Cantabria, Bilbao, Spain, May 29 to June 2, 2006 "Impressions of China", co-curated an international on-line exhibition of Rensselaer and University of Zhaoqing students, May 2006 http://www.arts.rpi.edu/public%5Fhtml/ruiz/public%5Fhtml/IDI%2Dspring2006/ss6.html "Future Applications of Immersive Displays, 3D Visualizations, & Live Image Processing" Keynote panelist with Michael Naimark, Luke DuBois, & Jaanis Garancs at the Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo at The Chelsea Art Museum, April, 16, 2005 "Interactive 3D works for the Arts & Scientific Visualization", featured artist in the panel discussion at the Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo at The Chelsea Art Museum with fellow artist and colleague at NYU, Jean-Marc Gauthier. April 15, 2005 "Blended Realities: Creativity, Simulation, & Art", guest artist/lecturer, the University of Richmond. sponsored by the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, and the University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery, Richmond, Va., September 14, 2004 "The Significance of Game Art in Contemporary Culture", guest artist/lecturer, European Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur, Völklingen, Germany, November 20, 2003 "Stunt Dummies and Hieronymus Bosch&#039;s, The Seven Deadly Sins", Guest Artist/ Lecturer, the Museum of Contemporary Arts Yucatan, Merida, Mexico, July 14, 2003 "The AVA Project: the Camaraderie of Invention", Guest Artist/Scholar, Bridges II: Collaboration, Communication, Convergence, The Banff Centre, Banff New Media Institute, and The University of Calgary in collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, October 4, 2002 File 2002: The International Festival of Electronic Language, Guest Artist/Scholar, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Terra Incognita: Human Nature/Technology, The AVA Project", August 10, 2002 "Digital Art/changing Paradigms" Guest Artist/Scholar, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham Me., March 15, 2001 "Virtual Violence: Does our recreation re-create us?", Panelist, University of Southern Maine, Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland, Me., March 14, 2001 "Alternative Gaming Paradigms: Redefining Design, Theory, and Gaming for OnlineGames", Panelist, The International Web3D Conference, Heinz-Nixdorf Museumforum, Paderborn, Germany, Feb 22, 2001 "Bang, Bang (you&#039;re not dead?), Gallery lecture, The Phoebe & Belmont Towbin Wing, The Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, N.Y., August, 2000 VRML Art/Web3D 2000, ACM SIGGRAPH, Guest Artist/Scholar, Monterey, California, 2000 "Technoseduction", The Cooper Union, Panelist, New York, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1997 "Imaging the Self: Art & Medicine", Panelist, Womens&#039; Caucus for Art, Philadelphia, Pa. Feb., 1997 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, N.Y. studio lecture at VOID, Nov. 2, 1996 "Postmodernism & Technology", The Cooper Union, Guest Artist/Lecturer, New York, N.Y., 1996 Associate Professor Arts and photographyart and simulationartscomputer simulationempathic simulation and visualization systemsempathic simulation systemsexpressive simulationgamesintegrated artsmixed mediamultiperspective simulationphotographyphotographysculpturesculpturesculpturesimulation Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Carlos Godoy godoyc 840 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/840 2011-01-29 02:08 http://www.rpi.edu/~godoyc/index.html Human Media Interaction Communication Theory Interpersonal Communication Designing Characters for Computer Games Ph.D. University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication J.D. University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law health communication pegagogical agents with theory of mind Lynn Miller Stacey Marsella Stephen Read http://www.rpi.edu/~godoyc/img/carlos-godoy.jpg International Communication Association National Communication Association Audrey Bennett Mei Sei Miller, L.C., Appleby, R. P., Christensen, J.L., Godoy, C., Corsbie-Massay, C., Read, S. J., Marsella, S., & Si, M.. (2011) Virtual agents and virtual sexual decision-making: Interventions for on-line applications that change real-life risky sexual choices. In S. Noar & Harrington, N. (Eds.) Interactive Health Communication Technologies: Promising Strategies for Health Behavior Change. (Due in Press 2011: Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates)Assistant Professor of Communication Carlos Godoy has been commissioned by the prestigious Institute of Medicine (http://www.iom.edu/ ), headed by former Provost and Dean of Harvard University&#039;s School of Public Health (Harvey V. Fineberg) and an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, to write a white paper assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy will be: 1) examining the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; 2) The opportunities that technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, including hard to reach subgroups; 3) the utilization of electronic health records to assure that health systems can track outcomes for populations at risk for unequal treatment; And 4) the use of internet technology for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and management of chronic disease among LGBT populations. Miller, L.C., Christenson, J.L., Godoy, C.G., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C., & Read, S.J. (2009). Reducing Risky Decision-Making in the Virtual and in the Real World: Serious Games, Intelligent Agents, and a SOLVE approach. In U. Ritterfield, M. Cody, P. Vorderer (Eds.) Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects. Routledge/LEA Press.Appleby, P.R., Godoy, C., Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (2007). Increasing healthy behavior through the use of interactive video technology. In T. Edgar, S. M. Noar, V.S. Freimuth (Eds.). Communication perspectives for HIV/AIDS in the 21st century. Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. <p>Carlos G. Godoy is an assistant Professor of Communication and a senior research associate at the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory&rsquo;s Center for Games Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.&nbsp; Dr. Godoy has performed postdoctoral research and taught previously at the University of Southern California.&nbsp; He holds an M.A. &amp; Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California&rsquo;s Annenberg School for Communication and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the role that virtual environments may play in diagnosing and changing real life decision making and behavior. Other research interests include: modeling realistic personality in virtual agents,&nbsp;pedagogical agents within virtual environments, and the relationship between immersive tendencies, narrative, and sense of presence. &nbsp;This line of research seeks to socially optimize learning within virtual environments in order to reduce real-life risking taking among at-risk populations.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Recent News: 6/8/10</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Assistant Professor of Communication Carlos Godoy has been commissioned by the prestigious Institute of Medicine (<a href="http://www.iom.edu/">http://www.iom.edu/</a> ), headed by former Provost and Dean of Harvard University&rsquo;s School of Public Health (<a href="http://www.iom.edu/About-IOM/Leadership-Staff.aspx">Harvey V. Fineberg</a>) and an arm of the <a href="http://www.nas.edu/">National Academy of Sciences</a>, to write a white paper assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy will be: 1) examining the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; 2) The opportunities that technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, including hard to reach subgroups; 3) the utilization of electronic health records to assure that health systems can track outcomes for populations at risk for unequal treatment; And 4) the use of internet technology for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and management of chronic disease among LGBT populations. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This work will then be compiled into a larger framework of recommendations to be forwarded to the National Institute of Health to help set the priorities for the coming years with regard to setting research grant priorities within the agency, the white paper will also be used by members of congress, and the Obama administration to assess the state and role technology may play with regard to reducing health disparities among LGBT people of color. Professor Godoy&rsquo;s groundbreaking funded research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute using interactive video delivered online via the internet as an HIV prevention tool, led to his recent commission by the IOM. For more information about his current study please contact him at <a href="mailto:godoyc@rpi.edu">godoyc@rpi.edu</a>. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Personal website and contact information: </p> <p>Carlos Godoy, Ph.D., Esq.</p> <p>Assistant Professor of Communication</p> <p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</p> <p>110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180</p> <p>Russell Sage Laboratory 4208</p> <p>Work: 1-518-276-8262</p> <p>Fax: 1-518-276-4092</p> <p>Cell: 1-909-576-1884</p> <p><a href="http://www.hass.rpi.edu/%7Egodoyc/">http://www.rpi.edu/~godoyc/index.html</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Curriculum Vitae</p> <p><strong>CARLOS GUSTAVO GODOY, PH.D., ESQ.</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://www.hass.rpi.edu/%7Egodoyc/">http://www.rpi.edu/~godoyc/index.html </a></p> <p><a href="mailto:godoyc@rpi.edu">godoyc@rpi.edu</a> </p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p align="right">Assistant Professor of Communication</p> <p align="right">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</p> <p align="right">110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180</p> <p align="right">Russell Sage Laboratory 4208</p> <p align="right">Cell: 1-909-576-1884</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Education</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>University</strong><strong> of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication</strong></p> <p>Ph.D. Communication, 2007</p> <p>M.A. Communication, 2003</p> <p>Honors: Recipient of All-University Doctoral Fellowship<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>University</strong><strong> of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)</strong></p> <p>J.D. May 1998, Admitted to the State Bar of California, December 1998 </p> <p><em>Honors</em>: High Honors Corporations; Honors Criminal Law; Honors Sex, Gender &amp; The Law; Honors Legal Profession; Saul Leifkowitz Regional Moot Court Competition Finalist (Intellectual Property Law) </p> <p><em>Activities:</em> La Raza Law Journal, practiced federal civil rights law for the County of Imperial and civil litigation for various corporate clients</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>University</strong><strong> of California, Riverside</strong></p> <p>B.A. Political Science, <em>Cum Laude</em>, March 1995 (graduated in two years)</p> <p><em>Honors</em>: Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Chancellor&#039;s Scholarship,</p> <p>Golden Key National Honor Society, Honor&#039;s Residential Fellowship Recipient</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Professional Development</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>APA Advanced Training Institute&nbsp; </strong></p> <p>American Psychological Association</p> <p>Conducting Social Psychology Experiments via the WWW</p> <p>August, 2005</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Oxford</strong><strong> University</strong></p> <p>Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program</p> <p>United Kingdom. July, 2004 <a href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/">www.oii.ox.ac.uk</a></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Universite de Paris I (Pantheon- Sorbonne)-Cornell Law School</strong></p> <p>Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law</p> <p>July - August, 1997</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Research Interests</span></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Health Communication</em></strong> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>HIV Prevention Intervention Design &amp; Evaluation</li> <li>Socially Optimized Learning in Virtual Environments</li> <li>Using new technology to reduce drug, alcohol use and sexual risk taking</li> <li>Developmental factors in risk-taking</li> <li>The role cognitive &amp; non-cognitive factors play in risk-taking</li> <li>Message framing</li> <li>Possible Selves</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Communication and technology</em></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Modeling Realistic Personality in Virtual Agents</li> <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Pedagogical Agents in virtual environments </li> <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Interactive Media as an Unobtrusive Behavioral Measure</li> <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Narrative, Presence, and Immersive Tendencies</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Communication Law &amp; Public Policy</em></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>The role regulation plays in fostering/hindering technological innovation</li> <li>Media convergence and conglomeration as threats to alternate viewpoints</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Philosophy of Communication</em></strong> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>How does controlling objects through technology distort the subject?</li> <li>What role does a researcher&rsquo;s philosophy of technology play in the </li> </ul> <p>research questions that are ultimately posed? </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publications</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Miller, L.C., Christenson, J.L., Godoy, C.G., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C., &amp; Read, S.J. (2009). Reducing Risky Decision-Making in the Virtual and in the Real World: Serious Games, Intelligent Agents, and a SOLVE approach. In U. Ritterfield, M. Cody, P. Vorderer (Eds.) <em>Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects.</em> Routledge/LEA Press.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Appleby, P.R., Godoy, C., Miller, L.C., &amp; Read, S. J. (2007). Increasing healthy behavior through the use of interactive video technology.&nbsp; In T. Edgar, S. M. Noar, V.S. Freimuth (Eds.). <em>Communication perspectives for HIV/AIDS in the 21st century</em>.&nbsp; Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Commissioned Works</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>The Institute of Medicine (<a href="http://www.iom.edu/">http://www.iom.edu/</a>) , an arm of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a white paper from me to write a white paper assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, I will be: 1) examining the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; 2) The opportunities that technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, including hard to reach subgroups; 3) the utilization of electronic health records to assure that health systems can track outcomes for populations at risk for unequal treatment; And 4) the use of internet technology for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and management of chronic disease among LGBT populations.<br /> <br /> This work will then be compiled into a larger framework of recommendations to be forwarded to the National Institute of Health to help set the priorities for the coming years with regard to setting research grant priorities within the agency, the white paper will also be used by members of congress, and the Obama administration to assess the state and role technology may play with regard to reducing health disparities among LGBT people of color. Professor Godoy&#039;s groundbreaking funded research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute using interactive video delivered online via the internet as an HIV prevention tool, led to his recent commission by the IOM. June 2010-August 2010 (deliverable timeframe)<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Manuscripts in Preparation</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p>Been There Done That: Virtual Risk Taking and the Theory of Planned Behavior: </p> <p>Godoy, C.G., Appleby, P.R., Miller, L. C., Christensen, J.C., Read, S.J.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Using Virtual Environment to Unobtrusively Predict Past &amp; Future Risk Taking.</p> <p>Godoy, C., Appleby, P.R., Christensen, J., Miller, L.C., and Read, S.J.</p> <p>International Communication Association, San Francisco, U.S.A.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Peer Reviewed Published Proceedings<br /> <br /> </span></strong></p> <p>Godoy, C.G., Christensen, J.L., Miller, L.C., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C., &amp; Read, S.J. (2008). Guilty Pleasures: Using Virtual Environments to Reduce Risk-Taking. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35, s63</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Godoy, C.G., Appleby, P.R., Miller, L.C., Christenson, J.L., Read, S.J., &amp; Corsbie-Massay, C. (2008). Been There, Done That: Virtual Risk-Taking and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35, s63.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Grant Work</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Funded Research Grants</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>PI Lynn Miller, Co-PI Carlos Godoy: Funded April 2009, $226,117, Dur Assistant Professor Language Literature and Communication State cognitive modelingcommunicationinteractive health interventionspedagogical agentssocial psychology Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Nancy Campbell campbn2 841 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/841 2010-08-18 12:00 http:// <h3>Interests</h3> <ul> <li>History of scientific research on drug addiction</li> <li>History and sociology of bioethics</li> <li>Global public health</li> <li>U.S. drug policy</li> <li>Science and technology policy</li> <li>Feminist science and technology studies</li> <li>Postcolonial science and technology studies</li> </ul> <h3>Courses</h3> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <strong>Graduate courses</strong> <ul> <li>&ldquo;Discourse Analysis&rdquo; </li> <li>&ldquo;Policy Studies&rdquo; </li> <li>&ldquo;Postcolonial and Feminist Science Studies&rdquo;</li> <li>&ldquo;Science, Technology, and Social Justice&rdquo; </li> </ul> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <strong>Undergraduate courses</strong> <ul> <li>&ldquo;Drugs in History&rdquo;</li> <li>&ldquo;Gender, Science, and Technology&rdquo; &nbsp;</li> <li>&ldquo;Law, Values, and Public Policy&rdquo;&nbsp; </li> <li>&ldquo;Medicine and Society&rdquo; </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Major Publications&nbsp;</h3> <p><a title="Discovering Addiction - The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research" href="http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=269246"> </a></p> <div> <img title="Using Women - Gender, Drug Policy and Social Injustice" src="../files/979/w/120" border="0" alt=" " width="120" height="177" /><a title="Discovering Addiction - The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research" href="http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=269246"> <br /> <img title="Discovering Addiction - The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research" src="../files/980/w/120" border="0" alt=" " width="120" height="181" /></a> </div> <p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Using-Women-Gender-Policy-Justice/dp/0415924138">Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice</a> (New York: Routledge, 2000). </p> <p><a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=269246">Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research</a> (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007).</p> <p><a href="http://www.narcoticfarm.com/">The Narcotic Farm: A History in Photographs</a> . Co-edited with J.P. Olsen and Luke Walden (New York: Abrams, 2008).</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/01/14/segments/120950">WNYC Radio Interview on "The Leonard Lopate Show"</a> (Jan, 2009) </li> <li><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96437766">NPR Coverage of "The Narcotic Farm"</a> (Nov, 2008)</li> <li><a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&amp;ARTICLE_ID=1409419&amp;sectionID=231">WAMC Roundtable with Joe Donahue</a> (Nov, 2008)&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=narcotics-recovery-farm">Scientific American Story &amp; Photo Slideshow</a> (Oct, 2008)</li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/30/article-about-united.html">BoingBoing Blog Coverage</a> (Oct, 2008)</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.anthrosource.net/Abstract.aspx?issn=0886-7356&amp;volume=23&amp;issue=4&amp;supplement=0&amp;article=238371&amp;jstor=False">"Incitements to Discourse: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Production of Ethnographic Subjects."</a> co-authored with <a href="http://anthropology.arizona.edu/people/display_fac_details.php?id=45">Susan Shaw</a>. Journal of Cultural Anthropology. 23.4 (November, 2008): 688-717.</p> <p>&ldquo;Science, Technology, and Social Movements,&rdquo; co-authored with Steve Breyman, David Hess, and Brian Martin for the New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, eds. Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, Judy Wajcman (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 473-498).</p> <p>&ldquo;Everyday Insecurities: The Micro-Behavioral Politics of Intrusive Surveillance.&rdquo; In Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life, ed. Torin Monahan, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006).</p> <p><a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112579635/abstract?CRETRY=1&amp;SRETRY=0">&ldquo;&rsquo;A New Deal for the Drug Addict&rsquo;: The Addiction Research Center (ARC), Lexington, Kentucky."</a> Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 42.2 (Spring 2006): 135-157.</p> <p><a href="http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/3/374">&ldquo;Suspect Technologies: Scrutinizing the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Policy.&rdquo;</a> Science, Technology, and Human Values. v. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 374-402. </p> <p><a href="http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(1)/suspicion.pdf">&ldquo;Technologies of Suspicion: Coercion and Compassion in Post-disciplinary Surveillance Regimes.&rdquo;</a> Surveillance and Society. v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 2004).</p> <p><a href="http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/34/3/433">&ldquo;Credible Performances: The Performativity of Science Studies.&rdquo;</a> Social Studies of Science. V. 34, no. 3 (June 2004): 433-442.</p> <p>&ldquo;Reading the Rhetoric of Compassionate Conservatism,&rdquo; in Fundamental Differences: Feminists Reply to Social Conservatives, eds. Cynthia Burack and Jyl Josephson (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).</p> <p> "Regulating &#039;Maternal Instinct&#039;: The Governing Mentalities of U.S. Drug Policy in the Late Twentieth Century." Signs: Journal of Women, Culture, and Society, v. 24, no. 4 (Summer 1999).<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> </span></p> <h3>&nbsp;Selected Lectures and Conference Papers</h3> <p>&ldquo;Governing Mentalities: Harm Reduction Drug Policy as a Mode of Governance.&rdquo; Panel on&nbsp;&ldquo;Hidden Histories of Harm Reduction.&rdquo; Annual conference of the Drug Policy Alliance. New Orleans, Louisiana. December 2007.</p> <p>&ldquo;The Laboratory Logics of Pain and Addiction Research.&rdquo; Organized panel &ldquo;Knowing Pain: The Cultural Logics of Pain and Drug Addiction Research.&rdquo; Society for the Social Studies of Science. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 2007.</p> <p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Situating Bioethics: Making Sociological Sense of the History of Bioethics.&rdquo; University of Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut. April 2007.</p> <p>&ldquo;Can Science Serve Social Justice? The Consequences of Cutting Relevant Social Groups Out of Science and Technology Policy.&rdquo; Science and Inequity Workshop. Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO). Arizona State University. May 2006.</p> <p>&ldquo;Active Practices and Hidden Histories: Harm Reduction in the United States.&rdquo; Co-authored with Susan Shaw for the panel, &ldquo;Healthcare Ethics, Ethnographic Insights.&rdquo; American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 2005.</p> <p> &ldquo;Multiple American Methadones: The Historical Travails of a Controversial Molecule.&rdquo; Society for the Social Studies of Science. Pasadena, California. October 2005. </p> <p>&ldquo;&lsquo;Between Coercion and Seduction&rsquo;: The Ethical and Political Climate of Substance Abuse Research in the Ford Era.&rdquo; Invited paper, University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center and the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. March 2005.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Science and Technology Studies Audrey Bennett bennett 842 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/842 2011-01-31 11:46 http://www.rpi.edu/~bennett Yale University School of Art, M.F.A. Graphic Design (terminal degree)Dartmouth College, B.A. Studio Art graphic design, human-centered design participatory design http:// AIGA, the professional association for design <p>Audrey Grace Bennett is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication. She teaches courses in design theory, research and practice and conducts research on collaborative and participatory design as methods for cross-cultural communication.</p> <p>Bennett is&nbsp;editor of "Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design" published by Princeton Architectural Press that chronicles historical and contemporary efforts of designers to broaden the scope of the profession of graphic design to include user research.&nbsp;</p> <p>Her current research--funded by Rensselaer, the Society for Technical Communication, and the National Science Foundation--includes the development of a theory of interactive aesthetics (IA) that democratizes the design process and places designers in virtual collaboration with lay audiences. IA facilitates the participation of remote participants in various stages of the design process through the use of new or existing communication technologies.&nbsp;</p> <p>Her papers are published in the Journal of Design Research, Visible Language, Design Issues, The Journal of Graphic Design and various international design research conference proceedings. More information about her research can be found via &ldquo;<a href="http://baohouse.org" target="_blank">BaoHouse</a>&rdquo;&mdash;a virtual design studio that she directs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.baohouse.org/bennett.cv.10.pdf">View</a> Audrey Grace Bennett&#039;s CV.</p> Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication communication designdesign researchgraphic artgraphic designgraphicsuser-centered design Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences David R. Gibson gibsod2 843 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/843 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Michael F Lynch lynchm2 844 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/844 2010-08-18 15:16 Ph.D. University of Connecticut http:// <p>Research Interests:&nbsp;Interactive Storytelling, especially the design of better game world and story world characters through the use of appropriate cognitive architectures; artificial intelligence (AI) in games, including in the emerging areas of social intelligence, conversational agents, and the modeling of emotion in non-player characters; game design/development; the history and culture of games.</p> Clinical Assistant Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Brett Fajen fajenb 845 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/845 2010-08-16 09:46 http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/pandalabs/people/fajen.h perception and action http:// Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Bram Van Heuveln heuveb 846 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/846 2011-03-08 16:14 http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~heuveb/ Introduction to Cognitive Science Minds and Machines Introduction to Logic Intermediate Logic Computability and Logic Cognitive Robotics Philosophy of AI Critical Thinking Introduction to Philosophy Cognitive Science ITWS Games B.S. Computer Science, University of Twente, the Neth, erlandsM.S., PhD, Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence Philosophy of Mind Logic and Reasoning Critical Thinking Cognitive Robotics Situated Cognition Educational Technology http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~heuveb/Bram.jpg Van Heuveln, B. Existential Graphs as a Natural Integration of Mental Logic Theory and Mental Model Theory, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2006 Van Heuveln, B. Review of Reason!Able: An Argument Diagramming Software Package, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2004 Cognitive Robotics, Advacing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Faculty Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, June 8-10, 2009. Cognitive Engineering, General Electric Center for Research and Development Lecture Series, General Electric Global Research Center Headquarters, Niskayuna, NY, June 2008 Clinical Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Artificial IntelligenceCognitionCognitiveCognitive ScienceCriticalLogicMindPhilosophyReasoningRoboticsSituatedThinking Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Yingrui Yang yangyri 847 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/847 2010-08-17 10:08 http:// Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Wayne Gray grayw 848 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/848 2010-10-09 17:07 http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ Acting Dean, HASS http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/1688 <p> Wayne Gray seeks to understand how goal-directed cognition is shaped by the accommodation of basic cognitive, perceptual, and motor operations to the cost-benefit structure of the designed task environment. These basic elements of integrated behavior, interactive routines, occur over a time span of 1/3 to 3 seconds and are typically beneath the level of our conscious awareness and deliberate control. Hence, non-deliberate forces that dynamically react to our task environment without our conscious awareness shape a large part of our mental life. </p> <p> There is a basic and applied component to this research agenda. The Cognitive Science side focuses on the control of interactive behavior, resource allocation, dynamic decision-making, memory, attention, and motor movement. The Cognitive Engineering side can be characterized by the terms visual-analytics, human-computer interaction (HCI), cognitive workload, and human error. The two types of research feed into each other and are supported by a core of common techniques and methods including computational cognitive modeling, cognitive task analysis, and detailed collection and analysis of behaviors that take less than 1000 milliseconds to occur (e.g., keystrokes, mouse movements, and eye gaze). </p> <p> Professor Gray earned his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in 1979. His first position was with the U. S. Army Research Institute where he worked on tactical team training (at the Monterey Field Unit) and later on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to training for air-defense systems (HAWK) (at ARI-HQ Alexandria, VA). He spent a post-doctoral year with Prof. John R. Anderson&#039;s lab at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the AI Laboratory of NYNEX&#039; Science &amp; Technology Division. At NYNEX he applied cognitive task analysis and cognitive modeling to the design and evaluation of interfaces for large, commercial telecommunications systems. His academic career began at Fordham University and then moved to George Mason University. He joined the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002. </p> <p> He is an active member of his professional communities. Dr. Gray is a current Associate Editor for the Cognitive Science journal and the Cognitive Systems ResearchHuman Factors journal (1998-2006) as well as for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1995-2003). He Chaired the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-2001) and co-Chaired the Cognitive Science Society Conference in 2002. He is the founding Chair of HFES&#039; Human-Performance Modeling Technical Group (HPM-TG). In 2001 he was elected to a 6-yr term on the Board of Governors for the Cognitive Science Society where he served as Chair and member of the Executive Committee from 2003-2006. journal. He is a past Associate Editor for the </p> Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Ron Eglash eglash 849 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/849 2010-10-08 18:00 http:// <p><strong>Interests</strong>: My interests&nbsp;are at the intersection between issues of culture (anthropolgy of race,&nbsp;class and gender, low-income community development, minority&nbsp;student education) and technoscience (complexity theory, cybernetics, design,&nbsp;nanotechnology). Much of my work approaches this intersection through <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/csdt.html">cultually situated math and science education</a>. Also of interest is the <a href="http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/apptech.htm">appropriation of science and technology</a> by under-served groups.</p> Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Mike Fortun fortum 850 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/850 2010-08-18 12:03 http:// <p> Mike Fortun is an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insititute, Troy, New York, USA.&nbsp; He is co-editor (with Kim Fortun) of Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.&nbsp; A historian of the life sciences, his current research focuses on the contemporary science, culture, and political economy of genomics. His work in the life sciences has covered the policy, scientific, and social history of the Human Genome Project in the U.S., the history of biotechnology, and the growth of commercial genomics and bioinformatics in the speculative economies of the 1990s. His most recent work is Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (University of California Press 2008), an ethnographic account of deCODE Genetics in Iceland.&nbsp; His other recent ethnographic work on toxicogenomics, and on the use of race variables in genetics research on complex conditions (nicotine use and asthma), is based in ongoing involvement with &quot;transdisciplinary&quot; groups of geneticists, physicians, historians, legal and policy scholars, and anthropologists centered at the Insitutute for Health Care Research at Georgetown University and the Institute for Health Policy at Harvard University.<br /> </p> <p> His <a href="http://www.sts.rpi.edu/cms/fileaccess.php?fileID=1578">Curriculum Vitae (CV)</a> is also available for download. </p> <p> RECENT PUBLICATIONS:<br /> <br /> <em>Promising Genomics: Iceland and DeCODE Genetics In a World of Speculation.</em> University of California Press, September 2008.<br /> <br /> <em>Major Works in Cultural Anthropology (4 vols.).</em> 2009. Edited with Kim Fortun.&nbsp; London: Sage.<br /> <br /> &quot;Genes In Our kNot.&quot;&nbsp; 2009. <em>Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era, </em>Paul and Margaret Lock (eds.).&nbsp; London: Routledge.<br /> <br /> &quot;For An Ethics of Promising, Or, A Few Kind Words About James Watson.&quot; <em>New Genetics and Society </em>24/2:157-173. August 2005.<br /> <br /> &quot;Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S.&nbsp; Toxicology&quot; (with Kim Fortun), <em>American Anthropologist </em>107(1):43-54. March 2005.<br /> <br /> &quot;The Use of Race Variables in Genetic Studies of Complex Traits and the Goal of Reducing Health Disparities&quot; (with Evelynn Hammonds, Patricia King, Caryn Lerman, Rayna Rapp, Alexandra Shields, and Patrick Sullivan), <em>American Psychologist</em> 60 (1):77-103. January 2005.<br /> <br /> &quot;Celera Genomics: The Race for the Human Genome Sequence.&quot;&nbsp; <em>Encyclopedia of Human Genetics.</em>&nbsp; London: Macmillan, 2003. (http://www.naturereference.com/ehg/ehg.htm) </p> Associate Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Igor Vamos vamosi 851 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/851 2010-08-18 11:49 http:// Igor Vamos is a media artist and culture jammer living and working in New York. Vamos is well-known for his collaborative public art projects such as the Barbie Liberation Organization and the Center For Land Use Interpretation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the increase and dissemination of knowledge about the nature of human interaction with the Earth. Currently, Vamos is teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Atsushi Akera akeraa 852 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/852 2011-01-26 10:24 http://www.rpi.edu~akeraa/ Interests -Early history of scientific and technical computing in the United States, history of invention and innovation. http:// Interests -Early history of scientific and technical computing in the United States, history of invention and innovation. Associate Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Holly A Traver traveh 853 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/853 2010-08-16 12:40 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Michael J Kalsher kalshm 854 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/854 2010-08-16 15:02 http://www.kalsher.com/ http:// Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Ralph G Noble nobler 855 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/855 2010-08-17 09:15 http://www.rpi.edu/~nobler/ http:// Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nao Bustamante bustan 856 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/856 2010-08-18 11:37 http://www.naobustamante.com http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/491 <p> Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California.&nbsp; Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. </p> Associate Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pauline Oliveros olivep 857 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/857 2010-10-10 00:11 Http://arts.rpi.edu and http://paulineoliveros.us Arts 4410 Deep Listening Arts 4963 Experimental Telepresence Arts 4962 Composition, Improvisation, Performance Arts MFA Arts Ph.D. DeMontfort University – Doctor of Arts (honorary) 2010Mills College – Doctor of Music (honorary) 2005University of Maryland Baltimore County – Doctor of Music (honorary) 1986San Francisco State College - BA Music Composition Cum Laude 1957University of Houston undergraduate in Music 1949-1952(2) Non-degree preparationJohn H. Reagan High School Graduated 1949 Composition Improvisation network performance Artist’s statement:"As a musician, I am interested in the sensual nature of sound, its power of synchronization, coordination, release and change. Hearing represents the primary sense organ - hearing happens involuntarily. Listening is a voluntary process that through training and experience produces culture. All cultures develop through ways of listening. __Deep Listening ® is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening."BioPauline Oliveros (1932) is widely recognized as one of America's most important composers of the 20th century. A leader of the avant-garde and a pioneer of improvisatory music, alternate tuning systems, contemporary accordion playing, electronics and multi-media events, Oliveros continues to be a vital force through continuing performances, and through Deep Listening®, a lifetime practice fundamental to her work. She has been celebrated worldwide. During the 1960's John Rockwell named her work Bye Bye Butterfly as one of the most significant of that decade. In the 70's she represented the U.S. at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80's she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and the 1990's began with a letter of distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York. Since 2000 the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors with the performance of her Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_tunes and in San Francisco with Sounding the Margins: a forty year retrospective. Oliveros received the Resounding Vision Award for Life Time Achievement from Nameless Sound in Houston TX, April 2007. Most recently she received an honorary membership in the Society for American Music and an honorary Doctor of Music from Mills College, an honorary Doctor of Arts from DeMontfort University in the UK and the William Schuman award for lifetime achievement from Columbia University. Oliveros’ work is available on numerous recordings produced by companies internationally. Current research interests include Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged and Experimental Telepresence for performance and teaching. The National Science Foundation CreativeIT and the RPI Office of Research fund her work.She is Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA and executive director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. in Kingston NY Chris Chafe, Stanford University Pedro Rebelo, SARC, Queensland University, Belfast Ireland Mark Dresser, Vista Muse, University of California San Diego http://paulineoliveros.us/site/?q=taxonomy/term/13 ASCAP American Music Center Society for American Music Mockus, M. Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality, Routledge 2008 Von Gunden, H., The Music of Pauline Oliveros, ScareCrow Press, 1983 Elaine Barkin, Lydia Hamessley, Benjamin Boretz, Audible traces: gender, identity, and music, Carciofoli Verlagshaus - 1999 Sitsky, L., Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde: a biocritical sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group Bernstein, D., The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960&#039;s Counter ulture and the Avant Garde, University of California Press, 2008 Jonas Braasch Ted Krueger Curtis Bahn Jim Hendler Selmer Bjornstrand William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement, Columbia University 2010 Honorary Doctor of Arts, DeMontfort University UK 2010 Honorary member of Society of American Music 2005 Honorary Doctor of Music, Mills COllege, 2005 Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009, Deep Listening Publications 2010 Deep Listening: A Composer&#039;s Sound Practice, iUNIVERSE 2005 Pauline Oliveros is acclaimed internationally as a composer, performer and humanitarian. An important pioneer in American Music, she has explored sound for five decades, forging new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly affects those who experience it and eludes many who try to write about it. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;On some level, music, sound consciousness and religion are all one, and she would seem to be very close to that level.&quot; <br /> <br /> John Rockwell <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Oliveros has been honored with awards, grants and concerts internationally. Whether performing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., in an underground cavern, or in the studios of West German Radio, Oliveros&#39; commitment to interaction with the moment is unchanged. Through Deep Listening Pieces and earlier Sonic Meditations Oliveros introduced the concept of incorporating all environmental sounds into musical performance through listening. She can make the sound of a sweeping siren into another instrument of the ensemble. To make a pleasurable experience of this requires focus, concentrated, musicianship and strong improvisational skills, which are the hallmarks of Oliveros&#39; form. <br /> In performance Oliveros plays an accordion that has been re-tuned in two different systems of just intonation. Additionally she uses electronics to alter the sound of the accordion and to incorporate and transform room acoustics. <br /> <br /> <br /> Pauline Oliveros has built a loyal following in response to her many concerts, recordings, and publications. She has written numerous musical compositions for soloists and ensembles in music, dance, theater and inter-arts companies. She has also provided leadership within the music community. <br /> She was the first Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (formerly the Tape Music Center at Mills College), and she was Director of the Center for Music Experiment during her 14 year tenure as professor of music at the University of California at San Diego. She frequently acted in an advisory capacity for organizations such as The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, and many private foundations. <br /> She now serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College and mentor in the Bard College summer MFA program. <br /> Oliveros has been vocal about representing the needs of individual artists of all ages, about the need for diversity and experimentation in the arts, and promoting cooperation and good will among people. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony is.... It&rsquo;s about the pleasure of making music.&quot; John Cage 1989 2009 11/13 - Pauline Oliveros on Dance, , Brown Bag Lecture, sponsored by UI Department of Dance: "On Stage – On Site – Online, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana IL Invited 11/16: - "Telematics: An Expanded Venue for Performance and Education," Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Lecture is part of the Center for Advanced Study initiative, Interpreting Technoscience,. University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana IL Invited 11/17 - Oliveros Music, Composer’s Forum, Music Department , University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana IL Invited 11/27 – The Expanded Instrument System, Seminar at Notam Oslo Norway - Invited 10/23 Lecture/Demo with Triple Point on NSF related research at HarvestWorks NYC. Invited 9/15 From Analog to Digital - Lecture to Creativity & IT class - West Hall 326 instructor Dr. Curtis Bahn – invited 8/16-17 - Lecture and workshop on the history, theory and practice of Deep Listening for Goddard College graduate students and the community of Port Townsend. The Goddard campus is at Ft. Worden, Port Townsend, WA. Deep Listening was born in the cistern at Ft. Worden in 1988 when a three person band made a recording there. The CD Deep Listening was released by New Albion in 1989. Deep Listening was defined and described in the liner notes by Pauline Oliveros - a member of the band. Goddard students were taken down into the cistern to experience the 45 second reverberation time and to record their experiences. 4/9 The Tuning Meditation - Lecture to Ph.D. candidates in Music Education, Northwestern University. 2/13-14 The Tuning Meditation - ICASP conference Gender and the Body research group, Montreal QC 2.23 Improvisation and Composition - Lecture for students of Myra Melford at CNMAT, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 1/22 - paper - The Collective Intelligence of Improvisation presented during Sons d&#039;hiver Festival, ICASP PARIS L&#039;Improvisation: Ordres et Désordres/Faits d&#039;Art et Faits de Sociétié Colloquium at Université Paris Diderot -Paris 7 U.F.R. Lettres, Arts et Cinéma 1/ 27, Pre-concert round table for the Focus Festival: California, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Julliard, New York City. Arts compositioncompositioncomputer musiccomputer musiccontemporarydeep listeningdeep listeningelectronic musicelectronic musicimprovisationimprovisationmusic Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Michael J. Schoelles schoem 858 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/858 2010-08-16 15:06 http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/?view=modules.u http:// Research Associate Professor Associate Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Ken Simons simonk 859 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/859 2010-08-18 11:53 http://www.rpi.edu/files/617 Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon Industrial organizatino and industry dynamics http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/617 <p><a href="http://www.rpi.edu/~simonk"></a><strong>Degrees:</strong> Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1995</p> <p> M.Sc., Carnegie Mellon University, 1993<br /> B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990 </p> <p> <strong>Research:</strong> Prof. Kenneth L. Simons is an expert in the dynamics of industrial organization and technological change. His work has probed the causes of industry shakeouts, testing between alternative theories and exploring issues including sources of advantage to surviving firms and the role of technological innovation. He also explores related empirical topics, including the frequency of disruptive technological change, the ability of new information technologies to provide advantage to upstart companies, estimation methods for the need for environmentally beneficial technologies, and the mechanisms by which corporate governance changes affect firm productivity. </p> <p> He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, is an editorial board member of the Journal of Technology Marketing, and has served as Chairman of the Network of Industrial Economists. He has organized numerous conferences related to industrial organization and technological change. His work is primarily empirical but also includes theoretical industrial organization, as well as simulation and computational methods, and he has taught graduate-level courses in Advanced Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Advanced Quantitative Analysis, and Econometrics. </p> <p> <strong>Selected Publications:</strong><br /> Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons, "The Making of an Oligopoly: Firm Survival and Technological Change in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 108 no. 4, August 2000, pp. 728-760. </p> <p> Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons, "Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Radio Producers and Competitive Ramifications in the U.S. Television Receiver Industry," Strategic Management Journal, vol. 21 no. 10-11, October-November 2000, pp. 997-1016. </p> <p> Andrew Seltzer and Kenneth L. Simons, "Salaries and Career Opportunities in the Banking Industry: Evidence from the Personnel Records of the Union Bank of Australia," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 38 no. 2, April 2001, pp. 195-224. </p> <p> Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons, "Industry Shakeouts and Technological Change," International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 23 no. 1-2, February 2005, pp. 23-43, with Steven Klepper. </p> <p> Jody Overland, Kenneth L. Simons, and Michael Spagat, "Political Instability and Growth in Dictatorships," Public Choice, vol. 125 no. 3-4, December 2005, pp. 445-470. </p> Associate Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences James Adams adamsj 860 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/860 2010-08-18 11:49 http://www.rpi.edu/~adamsj Ph.D. University of Chicago research, technological change and research and development http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/612 <strong>Degrees:</strong> Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976<br /> <p> M.A., University of Chicago, 1969<br /> B.A., University of New Mexico, 1967 </p> <p> <strong>Research:</strong> James D. Adams is Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. In addition, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Rensselaer he was Professor of Economics at the University of Florida. He has also held visiting appointments at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. He recently served on the Telecommunications R&amp;D Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC and currently advises the Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology on issues of data quality and policy evaluation. He received a BA in economics from the University of New Mexico in 1967 and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1976. </p> <p> Dr. Adams has published numerous articles on the economics of technical change, with emphasis on the causes and consequences of industrial and academic research and development, as well as a range of articles in the fields of labor and public economics. His current research focuses on the limits of the firm in research and development, the measurement of scientific influence, the identification of alternative channels of knowledge externalities in the economy, the structure and meaning of scientific teams and collaborations, the speed of diffusion of scientific research, the interaction between investment in industrial research and development and investment in physical capital, and the determinants of research and teaching productivity in academia. </p> <p> <strong>Selected Publications:</strong><br /> &quot;Learning, Internal Research, and Spillovers: Evidence from a Sample of R&amp;D Laboratories,&quot; forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2005. </p> <p> &quot;The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&amp;D on Industrial Research,&quot; Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (November 2003): 1003-1020. </p> <p> &quot;The Structure of Firm R&amp;D, the Factor Intensity of Production, and Skill Bias,&quot; Review of Economics and Statistics 81 (August 1999): 499-510. </p> <p> &quot;Bounding the Effects of R&amp;D: An Investigation Using Matched Establishment-Firm Data,&quot; RAND Journal of Economics 27 (Winter 1996): 700-721. </p> <p> &quot;Fundamental Stocks of Knowledge and Productivity Growth,&quot; Journal of Political Economy (August 1990): 673-702. </p> Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dan Veksler vekslv 861 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/861 2010-08-16 10:23 http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/?view=modules.u http:// Lecturer Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Ron Sun sunr 862 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/862 2011-03-08 16:13 http:// Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Katya Haskins haskie 863 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/863 2010-08-18 15:09 Rhetoric http:// <p>Ekaterina Haskins, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, holds a Ph.D. in rhetorical studies from the University of Iowa (1999), a M.A. in communication from Wake Forest University (1993), and a B.A. in English from Moscow State University, Russia (1991).<br /> <br /> She is the author of <em>Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle</em> (U of South Carolina Press, 2004; paperback edition 2009). Her research on classical and contemporary rhetoric has been published in the <em>Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, History and Memory, Space and Culture, Journal of Communication Inquiry, American Communication Journal</em> as well as in a number of edited collections.<br /> <br /> Haskins&#039; scholarship received numerous awards, including Karl Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association in 2007, the Eastern Communication Association&#039;s 2005 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship in recognition of her book, Rhetoric Society of America&rsquo;s Kneupper Award for Best Article published in 2000 in the <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>, and Best Dissertation award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric in 1999.<br /> <br /> Haskins is Book Review Editor for the <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>. She also serves on editorial boards of the <em>Quarterly Journal of Speech</em>,<em>Advances in the History of Rhetoric</em>, <em>Controversia</em>, and the <em>New Antigone</em>. In 2007, she served as local arrangements chair for the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<br /> <br /> Haskins&#039; research interests include theory and history of rhetoric, visual rhetoric, and rhetorics of public memory and national identity.</p> Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Shawn Lawson lawsos2 864 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/864 2010-10-13 12:33 http://www.shawnlawson.com Animation 1 Animation 2 ADV 3D Digital Projects Fundamentals of Animation EART - BS EART - MFA EART - PhD EMAC - BS GSAS - BS MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago<br>BFA Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts interactive art realtime graphics locative mobile art visualization art and computation Shawn Lawson is a visual artist & media programmer exploring the edges of perceptual and experiential consciousness. He works with concepts that manifest just on the fringes of what appears perceivable or believable. His artworks have exhibited at Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Koltsovo International Airport, Albany Institute of History and Art, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Art Interactive Gallery, Art Chicago, ACM Siggraph, IEEE Procams, ACM Multimedia, Immedia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Ohio State University, Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and more. Lawson's artwork has toured to Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Turkey, and Malaysia. Lawson's collaborative, Crudeoils, is represented by Dean Jensen Gallery and Flatfile Galleries. His artwork has been funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and the Experimental Television Center's Finishing Funds Program. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Before becoming an Assistant Professor of Computer Visualization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, an Artist in Residence in the virtual reality research group Stage3 at Carnegie Mellon University, and an intern at Walt Disney Imagineering with the DisneyQuest project Wafaa Bilal Katherine Isbister http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/215 Leonardo 2008 Individual Artists Grant. New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) The Death of Sardanapalus project. 2007 Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and Experimental Television Center&#039;s Finishing Funds Program. The Death of Sardanapalus project. 2006 Best Overall Gallery Show 2006, Casting Bread. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 2009 "Subliminal Wiretapping." Proceedings of the 7th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, New York: ACM Press, 2009, 429-430. 2008 "New Media and Education." New Media New Idea New Life: National New Media Art Forum of University Deans, ed. Li Wang, et al., Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2008, 3-11. 2006 "Ray Tracings of the In Between." ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches, Sketches Chair Hanspeter Pfister. New York: ACM Press, 2006, 60. <p>Shawn Lawson is a visual artist &amp; media programmer exploring the edges of perceptual and experiential consciousness. He works with concepts that manifest just on the fringes of what appears perceivable or believable. </p><p>His artworks have exhibited at Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Koltsovo International Airport, Albany Institute of History and Art, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Art Interactive Gallery, Art Chicago, ACM Siggraph, IEEE Procams, ACM Multimedia, Immedia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Ohio State University, Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and more. Lawson&#039;s artwork has toured to Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Turkey, and Malaysia. Lawson&#039;s collaborative, Crudeoils, is represented by Dean Jensen Gallery and Flatfile Galleries. His artwork has been funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and the Experimental Television Center&#039;s Finishing Funds Program. </p><p>Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Before becoming an Assistant Professor of Computer Visualization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, an Artist in Residence in the virtual reality research group Stage3 at Carnegie Mellon University, and an intern at Walt Disney Imagineering with the DisneyQuest project</p> 2008 "New Media and Education" panel within the "New Media Art and the Development of the Discipline" panel. National New Media Art Forum of University Deans, Shanghai, The People’s Republic of China. 2008 "What is Interactive Media?" University of Vermont. Burlington, VT. 2006 “Raytracings of the In Between” within the “Transforming the Image Plane: New Processes for Artistic Expression” grouping. ACM Siggraph. Boston, MA. Associate Professor Arts animationcomputer artdigital artgamesinteractive artmobile computingvisualization Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nicholas L Cassimatis cassin 865 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/865 2010-10-18 18:08 http://www.cassimatis.com Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics http:// Associate Professor Cognitive Science Barbara J Lewis lewisb2 866 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/866 2010-08-18 15:02 http://www.ccp.rpi.edu/ Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// <p>Director, Center for Communication Practices</p> <p>The Center for Communication Practices (formerly the Writing Center) is located in Folsom Library, Lower Level (Rooms 154A &amp; 154B). </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Clinical Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Paul A Miyamoto miyamp 867 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/867 2010-08-18 15:17 MFA Otis Art Institute visual communication http:// <p>Research Interests:&nbsp;Visual communication design theory and practice; exploration of paint-based medium as an expressive art form.</p> Clinical Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Jan Fernheimer fernhj 868 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/868 2010-08-18 15:11 http://www.fernheimer.org Ph.D. and M.A. in English, University of Texas at Austin rhetorical history and theory, Jewish rehtorical http:// <p> Janice Fernheimer is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication. <br /> <br /> Professor Fernheimer&#039;s current book project, <em>Rhetoric, Race, Religion: Hatzaad Harishon and Black Jewish Identity from Civil Rights to Black Power</em><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt"></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt">, </span>is based on her nationally recognized dissertation which was supported by a Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies, sponsored by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2007 Rhetoric Society of America&rsquo;s Dissertation of the Year. Analyzing primary archival documents (letters, memos, proposals) housed at the Schomburg Center in New York and interviews conducted in Harlem and Israel, she argues that we need a new concept, interruptive invention, to describe and evaluate the important work rhetors do when they begin to shake up a dominant discourse, even if those in power do not immediately recognize or accept the changes wrought by the interrupters. Focusing on Black Jews, their interactions with other Jews, and the resulting conflicts over legitimate identity, her project theorizes from practice to extend Perelman and Burke Studies by further developing concepts of identification, dissociation, and communion to better account for their practical application when the parties involved do not share equal access to power (institutional or otherwise). Parts of this theory are detailed more fully in her forthcoming article in Rhetoric Society Quarterly. <br /> <br /> She has published on issues of cross audience communication in journals such as <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>,<em> Argumentation and Advocacy</em>, and <em>Computers and Composition Online. </em>Her articles and book chapters address diverse issues: public responses to Holocaust films, collaboration in the classroom, teaching with technology, and arguing from difference. A full list is available on her <a href="http://www.fernheimer.org/?page_id=9">vita</a>. Professor Fernheimer is currently guest editing a special issue of <em>College English</em> examining the intersectios of Rhetoric and Jewish Studies, forthcoming in July 2010. </p> Assistant Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Mark Changizi changm 869 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/869 2010-08-16 14:47 http://www.changzi.com/ theoretical neuroscience and vision http:// Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Arturo Estrella estrea 870 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/870 2010-08-18 12:10 Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Financial Modeling http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/1681 <p><strong>Degrees:</strong> Ph.D., Harvard University, Economics </p> <p> M.A., University of Michigan, Applied Mathematics<br /> M.A., University of Puerto Rico, Mathematics<br /> A.B., Columbia University, Philosophy </p> <p> <strong>Research:</strong> <br /> Arturo Estrella has published extensively in various fields within economics, including macroeconomic theory, empirical macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial regulation, econometric theory, applied econometrics, and financial markets, instruments, and institutions. In 1988-89, he developed (with Gikas Hardouvelis) a probit model of the probability of a future recession. Since then, the model has correctly forecasted the last four U.S. recessions in real time with a lead time of about one year and no false positives. </p> <p> Professor Estrella has also written extensively about financial regulation, proposing in 1995 an innovative system for bank capital regulation that has the potential to prevent systemic problems arising from the failure of large financial institutions. From 1991 to 2001, he represented the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in international negotiations on bank regulation under the auspices of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. </p> <p> In econometrics, Professor Estrella derived a pseudo R-squared for dichotomous dependent variable models that outperforms other alternatives, including the classic McFadden measure. The measure has become part of the standard output in many widely-used econometric packages. He has also provided exact critical and probability values for use in time-series breakpoint tests in connection with generalized method of moments estimates. </p> <p> <strong>Selected Publications:</strong><br /> "Monetary Tightening Cycles and the Predictability of Economic Activity" With Tobias Adrian, Economics Letters, May 2008. </p> <p> "Why Does the Yield Curve Predict Output and Inflation?" Economic Journal, July 2005. </p> <p> "Bank Capital and Risk: Is Voluntary Disclosure Enough?" Journal of Financial Services Research, October 2004. </p> <p> "Critical Values and P Values of Bessel Process Distributions: Computation and Application to Structural Break Tests" Econometric Theory, December 2003. </p> <p> "Dynamic Inconsistencies: Counterfactual Implications of a Class of Rational Expectations Models" With Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, American Economic Review, September 2002. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.arturoestrella.com/EstrellaCV.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Arturo Estrella&#039;s CV</strong></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://www.financeecon.com/" target="_blank">Finance &amp; Economics Web Site</a></strong> </p> Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Timothy Coffey coffet 1013 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1013 2010-08-18 15:23 http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>WRIT-2110 Rhetoric and Writing</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Abby J. Kinchy kincha 872 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/872 2010-08-18 14:59 http://abbykinchy.weebly.com/ Ph.D., 2007, SociologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> Abby Kinchy joined the STS Department in 2007, after receiving a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a variety of research interests, including: food, agriculture, biotechnology, and rural communities; environmental politics and history; social movements and participatory science; and expertise and democracy. Professor Kinchy teaches courses for the Sustainability Studies minor, including "Environment and Society," "Food, Farms, and Famine," and "A Century of Environmental Thought."&nbsp; She is also a co-instructor for "Product Design and Innovation Studio II," a required course for the Design, Innovation, and Society major.&nbsp; At the graduate level, she teaches "Science, Technology, and Social Movements" and "Concepts in STS." She lives in Troy with her husband, two-year-old son, and two rabbits. </p> <p> List of recent publications and other information available at&nbsp;<a href="http://abbykinchy.weebly.com/">http://abbykinchy.weebly.com/.</a> </p> Professor Tetherless World Science and Technology Studies expertisefood and agriculturesocial movements Energy and the Environment Michael Mascarenhas mascam 873 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/873 2010-08-18 12:09 http:// <p>Michael Mascarenhas joined the Science and Technology Studies Department&#8232; in 2007. Dr. Masarenhas completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in 2006, and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University in 2005. His current research examines the relationship between recent environmental governance regimes and their impacts on social relationships and structural hierarchies. In over a dozen publications, he has written on water, wolves, seed-saving, standards, supermarkets, family farms, and forests.<br /> <br /> Professor Mascarenhas teaches courses for the undergraduate Sustainability Studies minor, including "Politics of the Global Environment," "Environment and Society," and "Environmental Justice." Professor Mascarenhas also teaches "Inequality in America," (an upper division undergraduate course) and, "Contemporary Social Theory and Trans-nationalism" (graduate course).<br /> <br /> Michael lives in Saratoga Springs with his partner, Kelly Grindstaff, and three sons, James, Sam and Ashwin.<br /> <br /> A list of recent publications and other information is available at Michael&#039;s personal Web Page: <a href="http://www.sts.rpi.edu/~mascam/">http://www.sts.rpi.edu/~mascam/</a>.</p> Assistant Professor Science and Technology Studies Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dan Shawhan shawhd 874 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/874 2010-08-16 10:21 http://shawhd.wp.rpi.edu/files/2010/03/CV-2010-03- Assistant Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences David D. Seelow seelod 875 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/875 2010-08-18 15:08 BA in English SUNY Stony BrookPh.D. http:// <p>David Seelow received his B.A. in English from SUNY Stony Brook in 1977, his M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1987, and his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from SUNY Stony Brook in 1990.<br /><br /><br />His book, <em>Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud/Reich/DH Lawrence &amp; Beyond</em>, was published in January 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan and reviewed by<br />CHOICE (September 2005), English Literature in Transition (September 2006)and in Psychoanalysis, Culture &amp; Society (December 2007). In Fall 2006, Professor Seelow had two articles published in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literaure (Oxford University Press). One article was on Sigmund Freud, Founder of Psychoanalysis, and the other on D.H. Lawrence, Controversial Modern Novelist and Poet.<br /><br />He has published several articles on youth and American culture and he reviews on a regular basis for CHOICE. Dr. Seelow&#039;s pioneering new course: The Graphic Novel, will be offered for the first time during the Summer 2008 semester.<br /><br />Professor Seelow is the Divison Coordinator for Humanities at Excelsior College in Albany. This is a distance education institution.<br /><br />He is alo a consulting editor for Scientific Journals International. </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</span></p> <p>LITR-2110 Introduction to Literature</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Julie Gutmann gutmaj 876 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/876 2010-09-15 12:21 http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>LITR-2961 Creative Writing: Poetry</p> <p>LITR-2962 Creative Writing: The Short Story</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Xi-Cheng Zhang zhangxc 877 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/877 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Science Donald A Drew drewd 878 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/878 2010-08-13 13:37 http:// Professor Mathematical Sciences Science Michael H Hanna hannam 879 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/879 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Martin Hardwick hardwm 880 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/880 2010-10-07 12:27 CSCI 1100 Computer Science 1 CSCI 4380 Database Systems CSCI 6740 Database Systems for Engineering Applications Computer Science BSc. - Bristol University, UK, June 1978Ph.D. - Bristol University, UK, June 1982 CAD/CAM/CNC Databases Data sharing for engineering applications Sid Venkatesh, Boeing David Odendahl, Boeing Fred Proctor, NIST Leon Xu, Boeing Fiona Zhao, NIST/U Auckland, New Zealand Xun Xu, U Auckland, New Zealand Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden Magnus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden Mickael Hedlind, KTH, Sweden Steven Newman, U. Bath, UK http:// IEEE ISO TC184 ACM David Spooner Jon Wen Steve Rock M. Hardwick and D. Loffredo, “Challenges and Choices in the Specification and Implementation of the STEP-NC AP-238 Standard”, ACM/ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol.7, No.3, September 2007. M. Hardwick and D. Loffredo, “STEP-NC AP-238 Deployment”, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 19, No.6, September 2006. M. Hardwick, “On STEP-NC and the Complexities of Product Data Integration”, ACM/ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol.4, No.1, March 2004. M. Hardwick, D. Spooner, T. Rando P. Denno and K. Morris, “Lessons Learned Developing Protocols for the Industrial Virtual Enterprise,” CAD Journal, January 2000. M. Hardwick, D. Spooner, T. Rando and K. Morris, “Data Protocols for the Industrial Virtual Enterprise,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, January/February, 1997. M. Hardwick, D. Spooner, T. Rando and K. Morris, “Sharing Manufacturing Information between Heterogeneous Corporations,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 2, February, 1996. M. Hardwick and D. Spooner, "Comparison of Data Models for CAD Objects," Computer Graphics and Applications, editor L. Hatfield, IEEE Computer Society Press, March 1987, pp. 56-66. M. Hardwick, "Why ROSE is Fast: Five Optimizations in the Design of an Experimental Database System for CAD/CAM Applications", Proceeding of the SIGMOD&#039;87 International Conference, ACM Press, 1987. As a specialist in data semantics for engineering applications, Dr. Hardwick has supervised ten Ph.D. students and numerous masters students. Dr. Hardwick joined RPI in 1989 as an Assistant Professor and has risen through the ranks to be a tenured Full Professor with more than 60 referred papers. Currently he is Acting Head of the department. He has won several NSF grants, was a principle investigator for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering project, the National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) project and the NIST ATP Model Driven Intelligent Control of Manufacturing project. Software written by Dr. Hardwick is included in the libraries of many Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing systems where it is used to read and write data defined by the ISO 10303 STEP standards. He received his bachelors and doctorate degrees from Bristol University in the UK. Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Professor Computer Science CADCAMCNCDatabase Systems for Engineering applicationsModel based designModel based manufacturingSTEPSTEP-NC Science Computation & Information Technology Mark H Holmes holmes 881 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/881 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science David Isaacson isaacd 882 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/882 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Ashwani Kumar Kapila kapila 883 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/883 2010-08-16 09:14 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Gerald Korenowski koreng 884 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/884 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Jane Koretz koretj 885 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/885 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Moorthy Krishnamoorthy krishm 886 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/886 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science Chjan C Lim limc 887 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/887 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Bruce Watson watsoe 907 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/907 2011-03-08 16:18 http://www.rpi.edu/~watsoe Ph.D.: MIT (Geochemistry)B.S.: University of New Hampshire (Geology) http:// Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Douglas CB Whittet whittd 908 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/908 2010-12-06 17:02 http://douglaswhittet.net/ Origins of Life: A Cosmic Perspective Earth and Sky Observational Astronomy Tour of the Solar System Bachelor of Science (Physics) Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) Doctor of Philosophy (Multidisciplinary Science) Ph.D. Astronomy (University of St. Andrews) Astrophysics Astrobiology http:// Royal Astronomical Society Astrobiology Society American Astronomical Society International Society for Studies on the Origins of Life American Institute of Physics Dust in the Galactic Environment (Institute of Physics Monographs in Astrophysics, 2003) Professor of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDirector, New York Center for Astrobiology Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics AstrobiologyAstrochemistryAstronomyAstrophysicsInterstellar dustInterstellar molecules Science Ronald Bailey bailer 909 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/909 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Gary S Adams adamsg 910 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/910 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Chuck Boylen boylec 911 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/911 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Margaret Cheney cheney 912 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/912 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Daniele J Cherniak chernd 913 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/913 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Alan R Cutler cutlea 914 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/914 2010-08-16 08:57 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science David A Schmidt schmid 915 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/915 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Richard Bopp boppr 916 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/916 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Chang Ryu ryuc 917 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/917 2011-03-08 16:08 http://www.rpi.edu/~ryuc/ Education:Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1998B.S., M.S., Chemical Technology, Seoul National University, 1990, 1992 Polymer Separation Self Assembly Career Highlights:Upon earning his Ph.D. with Tim Lodge at the University of Minnesota , Dr. Ryu served as a postdoctoral researcher with Ed Kramer and Glenn Fredrickson at the University of California , Santa Barbara for nearly two years. He joined Rensselaer in November, 2000 as an assistant professor of chemistry,and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2006. He has won the NSF CAREER Award (2005), Mettler-Toledo Thermal Analysis Education Grant (2001), the Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (1998), and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Scholarship (1993 – 1998).Research Areas:Macromolecular Separation and Adsorption:Our group is studying macromolecular separation and adsorption using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We study polymer separation by HPLC and explore its unique applications for rigorous analysis and purification of polymers, block copolymers and functional oligomers. We also pursue a molecular level understanding of polymer/copolymer adsorption in confined geometries in order to gain insights on macromolecular interactions during HPLC. We are mainly interested in separating (co)polymers and oligomers that are synthetically very challenging to obtain as pure samples and/or can have technological implications in nanoscale self-assembly, electro-optical applications, and carbon nanotube fabrication.Block Copolymer Self-Assembly in Solution and Thin Films:We are interested in developing a polymer research program in structure-property relationships of multiphase polymer systems, where their performance and applications are closely related to the mesoscopic morphologies. The central theme of my research effort will be the design, synthesis, and characterization of model polymers and the study of their structure-property relationships as in bulk and thin films. We will combine the polymer separation technique using HPLC to obtain pure block copolymers and study their self-assembly in solution and thin films. The ultimate aim will be to guide the rational design of polymeric materials, thus gaining a fundamental understanding in the correlation between properties and structures in multiphase polymers. http:// After receiving Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering under the guidance of Professor Tim Lodge at the University of Minnesota, and working with Professors Ed Kramer and Glenn Fredrickson as a postdoc in the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at UCSB, I joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department in 2000 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2006. New York State Center for Polymer SynthesisRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Associate Professor Chemistry and Chemical Biology NSF-MPSNSF-OISE Microscopy and SynthesisPolymer HPLCrheology Science Nanotechnology Jim Napolitano napolj 918 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/918 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Mark Wentland wentmp 919 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/919 2010-12-17 17:01 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/chem_faculty/profiles/wentland.html CHEM-4300 Medicinal Chemistry CHEM-6300 Medicinal Chemistry CHEM-4330 Drug Discovery CHEM-6330 Drug Discovery CHEM-4340 Drug Discovery Laboratory Doctoral: Rice University, Houston, TX, 1966-1970Ph.D., Organic Chemistry [Thesis Advisor: Dr. R. V. Stevens (deceased)]Undergraduate:Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, 1962-1966B.S., Chemistry (Mathematics-minor) Design and synthesis of novel therapeutics to treat cocaine dependence and other additive disorders. Design and synthesis of probe molecules useful in the identification of novel analgesic mechanisms. Current Position:Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology110 8th StreetTroy, NY 12180-3590518-276-2234; wentmp@rpi.edu (email): http://www.rpi.edu/~wentmp/ (homepage) 1994-presentProfessor 1971-1994Adjunct Professor of ChemistryResponsibilities include a) NIH-funded research in the medicinal and organic chemistry of opioid-receptor interactive agents (R01 DA12180-07; Wentland PI) and novel mechanisms of pain control (R01 DA015915-02; Hough-PI, Wentland-coPI) and b) teaching drug discovery, medicinal and organic chemistry courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.Concurrent Position:Albany Medical College, 47 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 1997-present Adjunct Professor - Center for Neuropharmacology & NeuroscienceResponsibilities include collaborative neuroscience research with AMC scientists and presentation of lectures related to medicinal chemistry.Other Related Experience:Sterling Winthrop Inc. - Medicinal Chemistry Department(Now named Sanofi-Aventis, 9 Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, PA 19355) 1970-1994 - Last position: Sterling Winthrop Fellow Professor Jean Bidlack, Universiy of Rochester Professor Lindsay Hough, Albany Medical College American Chemical Society American Association for Cancer Research College on the Problems of Drug Dependence AAAS Wentland, M. P.; Lou, R.; Lu, Q.; Bu, Y.; Denhardt, C.; Jin, J.; Ganorkar, R.; VanAlstine, M. A.; Guo, C.; Cohen, D. J.; Bidlack, J. M. " Syntheses of novel high affinity ligands for opioid receptors" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19, 2289–2294. Conroy, J. L.; Fang, C.; Gu, J.; Zeitlin, S. O.; Yang, W.; Yang, J.; VanAlstine, M. A.; Nalwalk, J. W.; Albrecht, P. J.; Mazurkiewicz, J. E.; Snyder-Keller, A.; Shan, Z.; Zhang, S.; Wentland, M. P.; Behr, M.; Knapp, B. I.; Bidlack, J. M; Zuiderveld, O. P.; Leurs, R.; Ding, X.; Hough, L. B. "Opioids Activate Brain Analgesic Circuits Through Cytochrome P450/Epoxygenase Signaling." Nature Neuroscience, 2010, 13, 284-286. Plus 109 others (see SciFinder Scholar) Mark Wentland began his career in drug discovery in 1970 when he joined the medicinal chemistry department at Sterling Winthrop Inc. He earned his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry in 1970 at Rice University under the direction of the late Professor Robert V. Stevens. During his 24 years at Sterling Winthrop, he held various positions of scientific and administrative responsibility with his last positions being Sterling Winthrop Fellow and Oncology Discovery Co-Chair. During the period 1971-1994, he was Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he taught over 30 graduate-level organic and medicinal chemistry courses.In 1994, he joined the chemistry faculty at Rensselaer as Professor of Chemistry. At Rensselaer, he maintains a federally-funded research program in medicinal chemistry aimed at identifying novel, long-acting oral agents to treat cocaine addiction in humans. He recently developed the course Drug Discovery, where students learn and practice modern techniques of drug discovery. He holds the concurrent position of Adjunct Professor - Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience at Albany Medical College where his responsibilities include collaborative neuroscience research with AMC scientists and presentation of lectures relating to medicinal chemistry. Wentland, M. P.; Bidlack, J. M.; Bu, Y.; Cioffi, C. L.; Cohen, D. J.; Dehnhardt, C. M.; Duan, W.; Ganorkar, R.; Gargano, J.; Guo, C.; Jaber, J.; Jin, J.; Jia, X.; Jo, S.; Knapp, B. I.; Kucejko, R.; Lou, R.; Lu, Q.; Parkhill, A. L.; Richardson, G. P.; Sun, X.; VanAlstine, M.; Xu, G.; Ye, Y.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, S.-Z.; Zhou, Q. "Discovery of carboxamide bioisosteres of the phenolic-OH of opioids." Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 22-26, 2010; MEDI-300. Plus approx. 130 others Professor Chemistry and Chemical Biology NIH-NIDA Drug discoveryDrug discovery; medicinal chemistrymedicinal chemistryundefined Science Biotechnology Peter Persans persap 920 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/920 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Chuck Stewart stewart 921 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/921 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science James Crivello crivej 922 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/922 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Joseph G Ecker eckerj 923 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/923 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Mark K Goldberg goldbm 924 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/924 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science Isom Herron herroi 925 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/925 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Rob McCaffrey mccafr 926 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/926 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Bruce Piper piperb 927 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/927 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Joseph Warden wardej 928 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/928 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Bolek Szymanski szymab 929 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/929 2010-09-30 13:19 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk Computer Operating Systems Parallel Programming CS Physics IEM M.Sc. (Electronics) – Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 1973;Ph.D. (Computer Science) – The Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1976Postdoc (Computer Science) - University of Aberdeen, U.K., 1979. network science computer networks seehttp://www.cs.rpi.edu//~szymansk/files/B.K.Szymanski-Vitae.pdf David Anderson, UC Berkeley Dinesh Verma, IBM Brian Uzii, Northwestern Zoltan Toroczkai, Notre Dame http://www.cs.rpi.edu//~szymansk/index.php IEEE Computer Society ACM Communicatrion Society http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=%22Szymanski+B%22&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=author%3Aszymanski&sort=cite Gyorgy Korniss Sibel Adali Malik Amgdon-Ismail Mark Goldberg Chjan Lim William Wallace Frank Spear Foreign member, National Academy of Science in Poland IEEE Fellow ACM National Lecturer Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award seehttp://cgi2.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/papers.php Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. Dr. Szymanski published over three hundreds scientific articles and is the Editor-in-Chief of Scientific Programming. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Science in Poland, an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and Association for Computing Machinery for which he was National Lecturer. He received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003 and the Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society in 2009. His research interests cover the broad area of distributed and parallel computer systems and algorithms with current focus on wireless and sensor networks. See also Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaw_Szymanski several hundred guest lecures all over the world Center for Pervasive Computing and NetworkingCenter for Social and Cognitive Networks Professor Computer Science ARLNSFONROther - Corporation algorithm designcomputer networksnetwork scienceparallel and distributed computing Science Computation & Information Technology Chris Bystroff bystrc 930 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/930 2010-12-06 12:21 http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/bystrc Bioinformatics 1 Bioinformatics 2 Protein Structure Determination Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Biochemistry and Biophysics Biology Computer Science http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/bystrc/currentphoto Protein Society Union of Concerned Scientists Jon Dordick Wilfredo Colon Steven Cramer Chunyu Wang Mohammed Zaki Mark Platt Cynthia Collins Fulbright Fellow NSF Career Award My lab studies the folding of proteins via structural bioinformatics, molecular simulations, and protein design. We are focused on the folding of green fluorescent protein and its application as a computationally programmable peptide biosensor. We use Hidden Markov models, kinetic simulations, data mining, machine learning, whole gene assembly and other molecular biology techniques, and Xray crystallography. Biology biochemistrybioinformaticsbiosensorscomputational biologygreen fluorescent proteinpopulation issuesprotein designprotein foldingsequence analysis Science Wilfredo Colon colonw 931 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/931 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Heidi Jo Newberg newbeh 932 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/932 2010-12-01 11:41 http://www.rpi.edu/~newbeh http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics astronomyastrophysicscomputational physicsGalactic structureInference and Search on Volunteer Computing Platforms Science Ingrid Wilke wilkei 933 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/933 2010-12-02 15:26 http://www.rpi.edu/~wilkei PHYS1100 Physics I PHYS1200 Physics II PHYS2330 Intermediate Mechanics PHYS2350 Experimental Physics PHYS2370 Methods of Theoretical Physics PHYS6100 Methods of Theoretical Physics PHYS Habilitation, Physics, University of Hamburg, 2002.M.Sc. Higher Education, University of Hamburg (Germany), 2001.Ph.D., Physics, ETH Zuerich (Switzerland), 1993.Diploma in Physics, University of Wuerzburg (Germany), 1988.M. Sc., Physics, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, USA, 1986. Terahertz Science and Terahertz Technology Ultrafast Laser Applications Since 2008 Associate Professor of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY (USA).2002-2008 Assistant Professor of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY (USA).2002 Habilitation in Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg.2001 Certificate in Higher Education, University of Hamburg.1995-2002 Senior Research Associate (C1) at the Universitaet Hamburg (Germany), Institute of Applied Physics.1994-1995 Post-Doc at the University of Tokyo (Japan), Institute of Industrial Science.1993-1994 Post-Doc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA (USA).1993 Doctoral Degree in Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuerich.1988-1992 Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuerich (Switzerland), Institute of Quantum Electronics.1988 Diplom in Physics, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany).1986 M. Sc. in Physics, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, USA. William Schaff (Cornell University) QPeak Incorporated Physical Sciences Inc. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/wilke.html Optical Society of America American Physical Society German Physical Society News release Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Nano Technique Allows Precise Injection of Living Cells (June 2007) Biophotonics International: Femtosecond near-infrared pulses used for microinjection (p.24, July 2005) Nature news and views in brief : A new source of terahertz radiation? (Nature vol. 429, p. 519, 3 June 2004) Optics in 2002: Time-domain terahertz science improves relativistic electron-beam diagnostics (OSA Optics & Photonics News, vol. 13, p. 16, December 2002) Partha Dutta Robert Palazzo James Ferris Xi-Cheng Zhang Michael Shur Masashi Yamaguchi Gwo-Ching Wang Toh-Min Lu 2007 Career Campaign Award, RAMP-UP, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007 Faculty recognition, School of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2001 7 th German-American Frontiers in Science Symposium organized by the National Academy of Sciences / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 1993 Post-doctoral fellowship Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland. 1985 Graduate Fellowship of the State University of New York at Albany Suranjana Sengupta, Ingrid Wilke, Partha S. DuttaFemtosecond carrier dynamics in native and high resistivity iron-doped GaxIn1-xAsJournal of Applied Physics *107*, 033104 (2010). Suranjana Sengupta, Ingrid Wilke, Partha S. DuttaUltrafast carrier mobilities in high-resistivity iron-doped Ga0.69In0.31As photoconducting antennasApplied Physics Letters *95*, 211102, (2009). Ingrid Wilke, R. Ascazubi, H. Lu, W. J. SchaffTerahertz emission from silicon and magnesium doped indium nitrideApplied Physics Letters *93*, 221113 (2008). Ingrid WilkeTerahertz SpectroscopyEncyclopedia of Analytical ChemistryEdited by R. A. Meyers, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2008). Y. Ko, S. Sengupta, S. Tomasulo, P. Dutta, Ingrid WilkeEmission of terahertz-frequency electromagnetic radiation from bulk GaxIn1-xAs crystalsPhysical Review B 78, 035201 (2008). Ingrid Wilke, S. SenguptaNonlinear Optical Techniques for Terahertz Pulse Generation and Detection – Optical Rectification and Electrooptic Samplingin Terahertz Spectroscopy : Principles and Applications, edited by S. L. Dexheimer, Optical Science and Engineering vol. 131, 41, CRC Press (2007). C. Peng, R. E. Palazzo, Ingrid WilkeLaser intensity dependence of femtosecond near-infrared optoinjectionPhysical Review E 75, 041903 (2007). R. Ascazubi, Ingrid Wilke, K. J. Kim, Partha DuttaTerahertz emission from GaIn SbPhysical Review B 74, 075323 (2006). R. Ascazubi, Ingrid Wilke, S. Cho, H. Lu, W. SchaffUltrafast recombination in Si-doped InNApplied Physics Letters 88, 112111 (2006). R. Ascazubi, C. Shneider, Ingrid Wilke, R. Pino, P. DuttaEnhanced terahertz emission from impurity-compensated GaSbPhysical Review B, 72, 045328 15. (2005). R. Ascazubi, Ingrid Wilke, K. Denniston, H. Lu, W. SchaffTerahertz emission by InNApplied Physics Letters, 84, 4810 (2004). Ingrid Wilke, A. M. MacLeod, W. A. Gillespie, G. Berden, G. M. H. Knippels, A. F. G. van der MeerSingle-shot electron-beam bunch length measurementsPhysical Review. Letters 88, 124801 (2002). T. Korn, A. Jaye, S. Schnüll, Ingrid WilkeCharacterization of nanometer As-clusters in low-temperature grown GaAs by transient reflectivity measurementsJournal of. Applied. Physics 91, 2333 (2002.) M. Khazan, R. Meissner, Ingrid WilkeConvertible transmission-reflection time-domain terahertz spectrometerReview of Scientific Instruments 72, 3427 (2001.) Ingrid Wilke, M.Khazan, C.T.Rieck, T.Kaiser, P.Kuzel, C.Jaekel, H.KurzTerahertz surface resistance of high temperature superconducting thin filmsJournal of Applied Physics 87, 2984 (2000). C.Nowak, Ingrid Wilke, U.Wollmer (Hg.)Kiss The Future ! Physikerinnen stellen sich vor, Tagungsband der Deutschen Physikerinnentagung 1998Verlag Hoffmann und Hoyer 1999. S.D.Ganichev, E.Ziemann, Th.Gleim, W.Prettl, I.N.Yassievich,V.I.Perel, Ingrid Wilke, E.E.HallerCarrier tunneling in high-frequency electric fieldsPhysical Review Letters, 80 (11), 2409 (1998). O.D.Dubon, Ingrid Wilke, J.W.Beeman, E.E.HallerDependence of the hole lifetime on uniaxial stress in Ga-doped GePhysical Review B51, 7349 (1995). Ingrid Wilke, Y.Oppliger, W.Herrmann, F.K.KneubuehlNanometer thin-film Ni-NiO-Ni diodes for 30THz radiationApplied Physics A 58, 329 (1994). Ingrid Wilke, W.Herrmann, F.K.KneubuehlIntegrated nanostrip dipole antennas for coherent 30THz infrared radiationApplied Physics. B 58, 87 (1994). Ingrid Wilke’s research is Ultrafast and Terahertz Spectroscopy. She develops THz radiation sources and investigates the dielectric properties of materials in the Terahertz frequency range. Another area of research is applications of femtosecond lasers in biology and medicine. Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Dielectric properties of materialsLaser ApplicationOpticsTerahertz (THZ) ScienceTerahertz (THz) Technology Science Dave Goldschmidt goldsd3 934 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/934 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science Sibel Adali adalis 935 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/935 2010-08-23 14:31 www.cs.rpi.edu http:// Center for Social and Cognitive Networks Associate Professor Computer Science ARLNSF Science Computation & Information Technology Donna L Bedard bedard 936 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/936 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Jun Abrajano Jr. abrajt 937 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/937 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Malik Magdon-Ismail magdon 938 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/938 2010-10-07 13:12 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon Machine Learning Computational Finance Introduction to Computer Science Introduction to Algorithms Computer Science Information Technology Computational Molecular Biology <strong>B.S.</strong>, Physics, Yale University, 1993.<strong>M.S.</strong>, Physics California Institute of Technology, 1995.<strong>PhD.</strong>, EE/Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1998. Learning from Data; theory and applications. Computational Finance Social and Communication Networks; Hidden Groups. Inference and Search on Volunteer Computing Platforms Collective Wisdom in Multi-agent Systems; Prediction Markets. After degrees at Yale and Caltech, Dr. Magdon-Ismail was a research schollar at Caltech before joining Rensselaer as Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2000. His interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance and social and communication networks. He enjoys poker, bridge, squash, tennis and badminton.For a full bio and more details, please visit my web page. Costas Busch Amir Atiya http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon/images/malik/webpic.jpg IEEE ACM Mark Goldberg Sanmay Das William Wallace Bolek Szymanski Heidi Newberg Carlos Varela Petros Drineas Malik Magdon-Ismail, "Permutation Complexity Bound on Out-Sample Error",Proc. 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010. Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail"Atomic Routing Games on Maximum Congestion",Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 410, Issue 36, Pages 3337-3347, 2009. Malik Magdon-Ismail, Konstantin Mertsalov,"A Permutation Approach to Validation",Proc. 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages 882-983, Columbus Ohio, April 29-May 1, 2010. Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail,"Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs",ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC 2010), pages 231-240, June 7-8 , Cambridge Massachusetts, 2010. Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Marios Mavronicolas,"Universal Bufferless Packet Switching",Siam Journal on Computing, Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 1139-1162, 2007. Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Joseph Sill"A Linear Fit Gets the Correct Monotonicity Directions",Machine Learning, Volume 70, Number 1 / January, 2008, pages 21-43. Volkan Isler, Malik Magdon-Ismail"Sensor Selection in Arbitrary Dimension",IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 5, No. 4, pages 651-660, 2008. Ali Civril, Malik Magdon-Ismail"On Selecting a Maximum Volume Sub-Matrix of a Matrix and Related Problems",Theoretical Computer Science, 2009. Nathan Cole, Heidi Joe Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Xinyang (Fred) Liu, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, James Wisniewski,"Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails",the Astrophysical Journal, Vol 683, pages 750-766 (2008). Jeffery Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Mykola Hayvonovych, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William Wallace, Mohammed Zaki,"Finding Hidden Group Structure in a Stream of Communications", <strong>[Top 3 Paper Award]</strong>,Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 06), San Diego, CA, May 23-24 2006. After degrees at Yale and Caltech, Dr. Magdon-Ismail was a research schollar at Caltech before joining Rensselaer as Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2000. His interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance and social and communication networks. He enjoys poker, bridge, squash, tennis and badminton. Computer Science Collective Wisdom in Multi-agent SystemsComputational FinanceInference and Search on Volunteer Computing PlatformsMachine LearningPrediction MarketsSocial and Communication Networks Science Donna E. Crone croned 939 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/939 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Christopher D. Carothers carotc 940 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/940 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science Lee Ligon ligonl 941 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/941 2010-12-16 12:13 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/ligon.html Advanced Cell Biology Biology Biochemistry and Biophysics Cell Biology Neurosocience http:// American Society for Cell Biology Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Assistant Professor Biology Other - Foundation Cell AdhesionCell BiologyCytoskeleton Science Biotechnology Bulent Yener yener 942 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/942 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Computer Science Science Yuri V Lvov lvovy 943 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/943 2010-08-17 10:10 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Mohammed J. Zaki zakim 944 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/944 2010-10-09 15:12 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/ Database Mining Computational Biology and Bioinformatics B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics (dual), May 1993, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TexasM.S., Computer Science, May 1995, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Ph.D., Computer Science, July 1998, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Data Mining Bioinformatics Mohammed J. Zaki is a Professor of Computer Science at RPI. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1998. His research interests focus on developing novel data mining techniques, especially in bioinformatics. He has published over 200 papers and book-chapters on data mining and bioinformatics. We was the founding co-chair for the BIOKDD series of workshops. He is currently an Executive Editor for Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and an Associate Editor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Knowledge and Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Social Networks and Mining, and International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics. He was the program co-chair for SDM'08, SIGKDD'09 and PAKDD'10. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 and the Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator Award in 2002. He also received the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2003 & 2009, and an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation in 2005. He received the HP Labs Innovation Award in 2010. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and was recently designated as an ACM Distinguished Scientist. http:// ACM IEEE HP Labs Innovation Award, 2010. ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2010-present. ACM SIGKDD PhD Dissertation Award for my student Mohammad Al Hasan, 2010. Program Co-chair, 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Hy- derabad, India, June 2010. Senior Member, IEEE, 2010-present. Program Co-chair, 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France, August 2009. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Recognition of Service Award, 2009. Best Paper Award, 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009. IEEE Computer Society, Certificate of Appreciation, 2005. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Recognition of Service Award, 2003. DOE Office of Science Early Career Principal Investigator Award in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and High-Performance Networks, 2002. NSF Faculty Early Development Award (CAREER Award), 2001. Mohammed J. Zaki, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lizhuang Zhao, Mining Frequent Boolean Expressions: Application to Gene Expression and Regulatory Modeling, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, Jason T.L. Wang (ed.), 2010 (accepted, to appear) Hilmi Yildirim, Vineet Chaoji, Mohammed J. Zaki, GRAIL: Scalable Reachability Index for Large Graphs, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol3 ̇, No1 ̇, pp mm-nn, 2010 (Proceed- ings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore, September 2010). Karam Gouda, Mosab Hassaan, Mohammed J. Zaki, PRISM: An Effective Approach for Frequent Sequence Mining via Prime-Block Encoding, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, special issue on Intelligent Data Analysis, Radim Belohlavek and Rudolph Kruse (eds.), Vol. 76, No. 1, pp 88-102, February 2010. Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki and Chris Bystroff, FlexSnap: Flexible Non-Sequential Pro- tein Structure Alignment, Algorithms in Molecular Biology, Vol. 5, Article 12, 2010. Mohammed J. Zaki, Christopher D. Carothers, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, VOGUE: A Vari- able Order Hidden Markov Model with Duration based on Frequent Sequence Mining, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, Vol. 4, No. 1, Article 5, January 2010. Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Hasan, Saeed Salem, and Mohammed J. Zaki, SPARCL: An Ef- fective and Efficient Algorithm for Mining Arbitrary Shape-based Clusters, Knowledge and Information Systems, invited as one of the best papers of IEEE Int’l Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’08), Vol. 21, No. 2, pp 201-229, November 2009. Mohammad Al Hasan, Mohammed J. Zaki, Output Space Sampling for Graph Patterns, Pro- ceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol2 ̇, No1 ̇, pp 730-741, 2009 (Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Lyon, France, August 2009). Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki and Chris Bystroff, Iterative Non-Sequential Protein Struc- tural Alignment, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, special issue on the best of CSB’08, Ying Xu and Peter Markstein (eds.), Vol. 7, No. 3, pp 571-596, June 2009. Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki, An integrated,generic approach to pattern mining: data mining template library, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 457-495, December 2008. Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Saeed Salem, Jeremy Besson, Mohammed J. Zaki, ORIGAMI: A Novel and Effective Approach for Mining Representative Orthogonal Graph Pat- terns, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 67-84, (DOI: 10.1002/sam.10004) June 2008. Mohammed J. Zaki is a Professor of Computer Science at RPI. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1998. His research interests focus on developing novel data mining techniques, especially in bioinformatics. He has published over 200 papers and book-chapters on data mining and bioinformatics. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)Center for Pervasive Computing and NetworkingRensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCS) Professor Computer Science DHSDOENIHNSFOther - Corporation bioinformaticscomplex graphs and networksData miningdata sciencehigh performance computing Science Maya Kiehl kiehlm 945 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/945 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Michael Zuker zukerm 946 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/946 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Gyorgy Korniss korniss 947 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/947 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Saroj K. Nayak nayaks 948 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/948 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Peter Kramer kramep 949 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/949 2010-08-17 07:59 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Deborah L. McGuinness mcguid 950 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/950 2010-08-16 11:51 http:// Professor Computer Science Science Petros Drineas drinep 951 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/951 2010-08-17 09:09 http:// Computer Science Science Jeff Trinkle trinkj 952 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/952 2010-08-12 18:45 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~trink/ http:// Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Professor Computer Science NSF multibody dynamicsrobotic grasping Science Gwo Ching Wang wangg 953 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/953 2010-12-05 14:17 http://www.rpi.edu/~wangg Studio phys I, Studio phys II, Quantum physics, Solid state physic, Surface physics Physics Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, Physics, B.S., 1968Northern Illinois University, Physics, M.S., 1973 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Materials Physics, Ph.D., 1978 Growth, characterization, and physics of thin films and nanostructures using state-of-art techniques Development of RHEED surface pole figure analysis for monitoring textures in thin films and nanostructures S. Lee, Y.P. Zhao, T, Karabacak, P. Morrow, J. Drotar, http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/wang.html APS, AVS, MRS Papers have been cited over 4000 times. Toh MIng Lu, I. Bhat, C. Picu, M. Yamaguchi, N. Koraktar, T. Borca 1978Nottingham prize winner, 38th Annual Conference on Physical Electronics 1988Early Career Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1996Fellow, American Physical Society 1997Fellow, American Vacuum Society 2006William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, Rensselaer 2006Fellow, AAAS 2009 Travelstead Institute Professor, Rensselaer Over 220 publications and two books, see web sitehttp://www.rpi.edu/~wangg/ Surface pole figures by reflection high-energy electron diffraction, F. Tang, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 241903 (2006). Small angle grain boundary Ge films on biaxialCaF2/glass substrate, C. Gaire, P.C. Clemmer, H.-F. Li, T.C. Parker, P. Snow, I. Bhat, S. Lee, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, Journal of Crystal Growth 312, 607 (2010). 2000-DateHead of Physics Department, Rensselaer1991-DateProfessor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute1988Granted tenure1984-90Associate Professor, Physics Department, Rensselaer 1980-84Physicist, Surface Physics Group, Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN1978-80Physicist, Electron Physics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Over 100 national and international invited talks and over 100 contributed talks. Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics atomic force microscopyelectron diffractiongrowth of nanostructuresSurface abd thin film physicssurface and thin film physics Science Carlos A Varela varelc 954 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/954 2010-10-07 12:30 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cvarela/ Programming Languages Distributed Computing over the Internet Computer Science Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Programming Languages and Software Engineering Distributed Computing and Middleware Computational Science and Engineering Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Varela is Associate Editor and Information Director of the ACM Computing Surveys journal, and has served as Guest Editor of the Scientific Programming journal. Dr. Varela is a recipient of several research grants including the NSF CAREER award, two IBM SUR awards, and two IBM Innovation awards. His current research interests include web-based and internet-based computing, middleware for adaptive distributed systems, concurrent programming models and languages, and software development environments and tools. For more information on Prof. Varela's group's research, please visit the Worldwide Computing Lab at http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/ Gul Agha, UIUC John Field, IBM Research Rajkumar Buyya, U. Melbourne Kenjiro Taura, U. Tokyo David Anderson, U. Berkeley http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cvarela/varela-web.jpg ACM IEEE Ambient-oriented programming in ambienttalk. J Dedecker, T Van Cutsem, S Mostinckx, TD&#039; … - ECOOP 2006 Computational Collective Intelligence TM Szuba - 2001 Scala actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming. P Haller, M Odersky - Theoretical Computer Science, 2009 - Elsevier Stabilizers: a modular checkpointing abstraction for concurrent functional programs. L Ziarek, P Schatz, S Jagannathan - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 2006 Smawl: A small workflow language based on ccs. C Stefansen - CAiSE Short Paper Proceedings, 2005 Event-based programming without inversion of control. P Haller, M Odersky - Modular Programming Languages, 2006 Lana: An approach to programming autonomous systems. C Bryce, C Razafimahefa, M Pawlak - ECOOP 2002 Characterizing fault-tolerance of genetic algorithms in desktop grid systems DL Gonzalez, JLJ Laredo, FF de Vega, … - … 2010, Istanbul, Turkey An algebraic theory of actors and its application to a simple object-based language. G Agha, P Thati - From Object-Orientation to Formal Methods, 2004 - Springer More citations at: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=carlos+varela Heidi Newberg Bolek Szymanski Malik Magdon-Ismail NSF CAREER Award 2005 IBM Innovation Awards 2004, 2003 ACM Computing Surveys Associate Editor, 2007-Present IEEE e-Science Best Paper (Finalist) Award, 2007 IEEE CC-Grid Best Paper Award (Nomination), 2007 IEEE HPDC HPC-GECO Best Paper Award, 2006 ACM/IEEE CCGrid Program Chair, 2011 Carlos Varela and Gul Agha. Programming Dynamically Reconfigurable Open Systems with SALSA. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. OOPSLA&#039;2001 Intriguing Technology Track Proceedings, 36(12):20-34, December 2001. J. Field and C. Varela. Transactors: A Programming Model for Maintaining Globally Consistent Distributed State in Unreliable Environments. In ACM Conference on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2005), Long Beach, CA, pages 195-208, January 2005. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. The Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Distributed Computing. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), Special Issue on Scheduling Techniques for Large-Scale Distributed Platforms, 20(4):467-480, 2006. Carlos A. Varela. Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach. MIT Press, 2011. All publications available at:http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/bib/Author/VARELA-CA.html Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Varela is Associate Editor and Information Director of the ACM Computing Surveys journal, and has served as Guest Editor of the Scientific Programming journal. Dr. Varela is a recipient of several research grants including the NSF CAREER award, two IBM SUR awards, and two IBM Innovation awards. His current research interests include web-based and internet-based computing, middleware for adaptive distributed systems, concurrent programming models and languages, and software development environments and tools. 9 invited plenary lectures, 3 invited panels, 8 invited conference/workshop presentations, 4 invited conference tutorials, 25 invited colloquia and seminars 35 other contributed talks Computer Science Computational Science and EngineeringComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsMiddlewareProgramming LanguagesSoftware Engineering Science Lee Newberg newbel 955 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/955 2010-08-17 07:56 http://www.rpi.edu/~newbel/ S.B. Mathematics, MIT;S.B. Physics, MIT;M.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley;Ph.D. Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Computational biology Statistical biology Charles Lawrence, Brown University Bill Thompson, Brown University Lee Ann McCue, PNNL http://www.rpi.edu/~newbel/Newberg0311.jpg ISCB Wadsworth Center Luis E. Carvalho and Charles E. Lawrence (2008) Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105(9), 3209-3214. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712329105. Eric S. Lander and Philip Green (1987) Construction of multilocus genetic linkage maps in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 84(8), 2363-2367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.84.8.2363 Boleslaw Szymanski Malik Magdon-Ismail Heidi Newberg NSF Graduate Fellowship NIH Mentored Career Award Lee A. Newberg (2009) Error statistics of hidden Markov model and hidden Boltzmann model results. BMC Bioinformatics, 10, article 212. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-212 Lee A. Newberg and Charles E. Lawrence (2009) Exact calculation of distributions on integers, with application to sequence alignment. Journal of Computational Biology, 16(1), 1-18. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0137 Lee A. Newberg (2008) Significance of gapped sequence alignments. Journal of Computational Biology, 15(9), 1187-1194. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0125 Lee A. Newberg (2008) Memory-efficient dynamic programming backtrace and pairwise local sequence alignment. Bioinformatics, 24(16), 1772-1778. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn308 Lee A. Newberg, William A. Thompson, Sean Conlan, Thomas M. Smith, Lee Ann McCue, and Charles E. Lawrence (2007) A phylogenetic Gibbs sampler that yields centroid solutions for cis regulatory site prediction. Bioinformatics, 23(14), 1718-1727. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm241 Research Professor Computer Science DOENIHNSF algorithmsBayesian confidence limitscentroidscomputational biologygenomicshidden Markov modelsp-valuessequence analysisstatistics Science Fern Finger fingef 956 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/956 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Blanca L. Barquera barqub 957 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/957 2010-12-07 21:30 http:// Biology bacterial pathogenesBiochemistryBioenergeticsmechanistic enzymologymembrane proteinmicrobial physiology Science Robert J. Linhardt linhar 958 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/958 2011-01-05 15:52 http://www-heparin.rpi.edu GLYCOCHEMISTRY, GLYCOBIOLOGY AND GLYCOTECHNOLOGY Marquette University, B.S. 1975 ChemistryThe Johns Hopkins University M.A., Ph.D. 1977, 1979 Organic ChemistryMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral1979-1982 Biochemical Engineering Biocatalysis Glycoscience Robert J. Linhardt received his Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University (1979) and was a postdoctoral student with Professor Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979-1982) and served on the faculty of University of Iowa from 1982-2003. He is currently the Ann and John H. Broadbent, Jr.'59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, holding joint appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY. His honors include the American Chemical Society Horace S. Isbell, Claude S. Hudson and Melville L. Wolfrom Awards, the AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award, the USP Award for an Innovative Response to a Public Health Challenge, is a Fellow of the AAAS, and one of the Scientific American Top 10. His research focuses on glycobiology, glycochemistry and glycoengineering. He has recently been actively involved in the emerging field of nanobiotechnology and is focused on developing an artificial Golgi and cellulose-based energy storage devices. Professor Linhardt has published over 525 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds over 50 patents. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/linhardt.jpg American Chemical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science Society for Glycobiology American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jonathan Dordick Fuming Zhang 2010 Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the American Chemical Society, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry for outstanding service to the Carbohydrate Division and to the field of carbohydrate chemistry 2010Elected to the rank of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow 2010USP Award for an Innovative Response to a Public Health Challenge 2009Scientific American 10 - Recognized for contributions to American science and technology 2006Gisvold Award in Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry from the University of Minnesota 2003RPI Ann and John H. Broadbent Senior Constellation Chair in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering awarded 2003American Chemical Society Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry 1999 Volwiler Research Achievement Award sponsored by Abbott, awarded by the AACP 1996University of Iowa F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professorship Awarded 1992Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence - Awarded for a sustained record of excellence across the spectrum of faculty endeavors. 1989University of Iowa Excellence in Teaching Award 1981MIT/Johnson & Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow - A competitive award given for exceptional biomedical research. 1979The Johns Hopkins University/Ernst M. Marks Award - Presented for excellence in teaching and research in organic Robert J. Linhardt research focuses on the structure and activity of heparin and the pharmaceutical application of enzymology in the fields of glycobiology, glycochemistry and glycoengineering. Dr. Linhardt has published over 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds over 50 patents. He is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Constellation Chair in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering . Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Professor Biocatalysis & Metabolic Engineering BiologyBiomedical EngineeringChemical and Biological EngineeringChemistry and Chemical Biology NIHNIH-NHLBINIH-NIGMSNSF-ENGOther - FoundationState biocatalysiscarbohydratesglycobiologyglycomicsheparinnanomaterialssignal transductionvaccines EngineeringScience BiotechnologyNanotechnology Andrea W. Page-McCaw pagema 959 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/959 2011-01-06 10:00 http:// Biology Science Ana L. Milanova milana2 960 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/960 2010-08-16 09:00 http:// Tetherless World Computer Science Science Masashi Yamaguchi yamagm 961 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/961 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Chunyu Wang wangc5 962 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/962 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Doug Swank swankd 963 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/963 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Angel Garcia angel 964 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/964 2010-09-11 10:20 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/angel_garcia.jpg Professor Applied Physics & AstronomyChemical and Biological EngineeringPhysics Science Christian M. Wetzel wetzel 965 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/965 2011-03-08 16:19 http:// Professor Future Chips Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Linda B. McGown mcgowl 966 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/966 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Shawn Yu Lin sylin 967 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/967 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Swastik Kar kars 968 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/968 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Sang-Kee Eah eahs 969 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/969 2010-12-01 12:56 www.rpi.edu/~eahs/ 2001, PhD, Physics, Seoul National University2001-2002, Postdoc, Physics, University of Pittsburgh2002-2005, Postdoc, Physics, Chemistry, & Materials, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory ultra-fast chemical synthesis of gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters ultra-simple 2D self-assembly of gold nanoparticles catalysis by gold nanoclusters single-molecule sensitive substrate for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) next generation memory device using a monolayer film of gold nanoparticles http://www.rpi.edu/~eahs/scientists.htm "Nano Focus: 2D self-assembly of a monolayer film of gold nanoparticles achieved in 10-min synthesis", MRS Bulletin (September, 2010). "Golden Film Opportunity", Chemistry & Industry (July 12, 2010). "Ultrafast, 2-minute synthesis of monolayer-protected gold nanocluster (d<2 nm)",Matthew N. Martin, Dawei Li, Amala Dass, and Sang-Kee Eah, (preprint available). "Charged gold nanoparticles in non-polar solvents: 10-min synthesis and 2D self-assembly",Matthew N. Martin, James I. Basham, Paul Chando, and Sang-Kee Eah, Langmuir 2010, 26, 7410–7417. "Monolayer Film of Gold Nanoparticles on a 3 inch or Larger Silicon Wafer",Matthew N. Martin and Sang-Kee Eah,Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1113E, 2009, 1113-F03-01. Before joining RPI in 2005, my expertise area was nano-optics, more specifically "spectroscopy and microscopy of single Xs (X=molecule, nanoparticles, and quantum dot). Since 2005, I have been working on nano-chemistry projects devoloping ultra-fast chemical synthesis methods for gold nanoparticles. The size distribution is uniform and the diameter can be reproducibly and precisely tuned as <2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 nm. I also developed an ultra-simple method for 2D self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into a monolayer film covering any sized substrate such as a 3 inch silicon wafer by drying a toluene droplet. These breakthroughs at the fundamental level have enabled me to provide easy-to-follow solutions to challenging problems: 1) 10-min synthesis of gold nanoparticles (d>2 nm), 2) 2-min synthesis of gold nanoclusters (d<2 nm) for catalysis, 3) ultra-simple 2D self-assembly of gold nanoparticles using a toluene droplet, 4) single-molecule sensitive substrate for surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), and 5) next generation memory device using a monolayer film of gold nanoparticles. I will give an invited talk, “Ultra-fast and greener synthesis of gold nanoparticles” at the symposium on “Nanotechnology and Environment: Green Nanotechnology” in the 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 27-31, 2011. Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics catalysisfilmgoldmemorymonolayernanoparticleRamanself-assemblysingle-molecule Science Jianming Dai daij3 970 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/970 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Science Barbara Mary Cutler cutleb 971 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/971 2010-08-28 14:44 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler CSCI 4530/6530 Advanced Computer Graphics CSCI 1200 Data Structures CSCI 4972 Introduction to Visualization CSCI 4963 Architectural Daylighting Tools Computer Science Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences PhD Computer Science 2003 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMEng Computer Science 1999 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science & Engineering 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer graphics visualization architectural design tools http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler/images/barb_web.jpg ACM IEEE Interpreting Physical Sketches as Architectural ModelsBarbara Cutler and Joshua NasmanAdvances in Architectural Geometry 2010, September 2010. Dynamic Projection Surfaces for Immersive VisualizationTheodore C. Yapo, Yu Sheng, Joshua Nasman, Andrew Dolce, Eric Li, and Barbara CutlerPROCAMS 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, June 2010. Global Illumination Compensation for Spatially Augmented RealityYu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, and Barbara CutlerComputer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2010, April 2010. A Spatially Augmented Reality Sketching Interface for Architectural Daylighting DesignYu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, and Barbara CutlerIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, accepted October 2009. Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center (EMPAC) Assistant Professor Computer Science NSF Science Media & the Arts Jim Kempf kempfj2 972 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/972 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Kim Michelle Lewis lewisk2 973 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/973 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Elliot I. Anshelevich anshee 974 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/974 2010-08-18 15:39 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~eanshel/ http:// Assistant ProfessorProfessor Computer Science NSF Science Computation & Information Technology Fengyan Li lif 975 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/975 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Jim Hendler hendlj2 976 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/976 2010-12-01 17:43 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler ITWS CSCI COGS PhD Computer Science, Brown Univ, 1986. Semantic Web Artificial Intelligence World Wide Web / Web Science James Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Web Science, at Rensselaer. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Experimental Multimedia Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), serves as a Director of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. Hendler has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing and high performance processing. One of the inventors of the “Semantic Web,” Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society and the IEEE. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is the Editor-in-Chief emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was named an “Internet Web Expert” by the US government. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/hendler2008.jpg Fellow AAAS, BCS, IEEE James Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Web Science, at Rensselaer. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Experimental Multimedia Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), serves as a Director of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center (EMPAC) Professor Tetherless World Cognitive ScienceComputer ScienceIT and Web Science ARLDARPADHSDOENISTNSFOther - CorporationOther - Foundation Data IntegrationGovernment ITInformation TechnologySemantic WebvisualizationWebWeb 3.0Web Science Science Computation & Information Technology Eric Rutledge rutlee 977 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/977 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science K. V. Lakshmi lakshk 978 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/978 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Mark Platt plattm 979 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/979 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Peter Henry Dinolfo dinolp 980 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/980 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Mimi Katz katzm 981 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/981 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Susan P. Gilbert gilbes2 982 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/982 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Biology Science Sanmay Das dass2 983 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/983 2010-10-08 07:35 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sanmay/ E-Commerce, Social Networks, and Collective Intelligence (CSCI 4963/6963) Machine Learning (CSCI 4100/6100) Introduction to Algorithms (CSCI 2300) Computational Social Science Machine Learning Multi-Agent Systems Please see website http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sanmay/images/sanmay-suited.jpg ACM INFORMS http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sanmay+das NSF CAREER Award (2010) See website Sanmay Das received his Ph.D (2006) and S.M. (2003) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a student of Tomaso Poggio and Andrew Lo. Prior to that, he received his A.B. in Computer Science fromHarvard College (2001). He joined Rensselaer after a year as a postdoc at UC San Diego with Charles Elkan. His research focuses on learning in social and economic systems. Computer Science Computational Social Science; Machine Learning; Multi-Agent Systems Science Joel T. Giedt giedtj 984 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/984 2010-12-01 13:16 http://www.rpi.edu/~giedtj/ lattice field theory beyond the standard model Simon Catterall (Syracuse U.) Erich Poppitz (U. Toronto) http:// Dept. of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics lattice field theory Science George I. Makhatadze makhag 985 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/985 2010-12-12 07:54 BIOL, BCBP, CHEM http:// Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Professor Biocomputation & Bioinformatics BiologyChemistry and Chemical Biology NIH-NIGMSNSF-BIO Science Biotechnology Theeradetch Detchprohm detcht 986 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/986 2010-12-06 17:00 www.rpi.edu/~detcht/ Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (Mar 1991)Master of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (Mar 1993)Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (Mar 1996) Highly efficieny green light emitting diode based on GaInN compound semiconductor http:// Japan Society of Applied Physics, regular member, 1991 - 2001 Material Research Society, regular member, 2000-present The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), regular member, 2008 - present Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, regular member, 2007 - present T. Detchprohm, M. Zhu, Y. Li, L. Zhao, S. You, C. Wetzel, E. A. Preble, T. Paskova, and D. Hanser, “Wavelength-stable cyan and green light emitting diodes on nonpolar m-plane GaN bulk substrates”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 051101 (2010). T. Detchprohm, M. Zhu, Y. Li, Y. Xia, L. Liu, D. Hanser , and C. Wetzel: “Growth and Characterization of Green GaInN-Based Light Emitting Diodes on Free-Standing Non-Polar GaN Templates”, J. Cryst. Growth 311, 2937 (2009). T. Detchprohm, M. Zhu, Y. Li, Y. Xia, C. Wetzel, E. A. Preble, L. Liu, T. Paskova, and D. Hanser: “Green Light Emitting Diodes on a-Plane GaN Bulk Substrates”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 241109 (2008). T. Detchprohm, M. Zhu, W. Zhao, Y. Xia, Y. Li, J. Senawiratne, and C. Wetzel: “Improved Performance of GaInN Based Deep Green Light Emitting Diodes through V-Defect Reduction”, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 5, 2207 (2008). C. Wetzel, T. Salagaj, T. Detchprohm, P. Li, and J.S. Nelson: “GaInN/GaN growth optimization for high-power green light-emitting diodes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 866 (2004). T. Detchprohm, S. Sano, S. Mochizuki, S. Kamiyama, H. Amano, and I. Akasaki: “Growth Mechanism and Characterization of Low-Dislocation-Density AlGaN Single Crystals Grown on Periodically Grooved Substrates” Phys. Stat. Sol. (a)188, 799 (2001). T. Detchprohm, M. Yano, S. Sano, R. Nakamura, S. Michiduki, T. Nakamura, H. Amano, and I. Akasaki: “Heteroepitaxial Lateral Overgrowth of GaN on Periodically Grooved Substrates: A New Approach for Growing Low-Dislocation-Density GaN Single Crystal” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Lett. 40, L16 (2001). T. Takeuchi, T. Detchprohm, M. Iwaya, N. Hayashi, K. Isomura, K. Kimura, M. Yamaguchi, H. Amano, I. Akasaki, Yw. Kaneko, R. Shioda, S. Watanabe, T. Hidaka, Y. Yamaoka, Ys. Kaneko, and N. Yamada:” Improvement of far-field pattern in nitride laser diodes” Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 2960 (1999). P. Hacke, T. Detchprohm, K. Hiramatsu, N. Sawaki, K. Tadatomo, and K. Miyake: “Analysis of deep levels in n-type GaN by transient capacitance methods”, J. Appl. Phys. 76, 304 (1994). T. Detchprohm, H. Amano, K. Hiramatsu, and I. Akasaki: “Hydride vapor phase epitaxy growth of high quality GaN film using ZnO buffer layer”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 61, 2688 (1992). Current appointments02/2008 – PresentResearch Associate Professor, RPI12/2004 – PresentChief Technology Officer, LumIonics, Troy, NY12/2004 – 01/2008Research Associate, RPIPast appointments04/2004 – 10/2004Senior Epi Engineer, Blue Photonics, Walnut, CA06/2003 – 04/2004Epi Department Manager, Uniroyal Optoelectronics, Tampa, FL09/2001 – 05/2003R&D Scientist, Uniroyal Optoelectronics, Tampa, FL05/1998 – 03/2001Postdoctoral Researcher, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan09/1997 – 03/1998Visiting Lecturer, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand05/1996 – 09/1997Senior Diffusion Process Engineer, Alpha-TI Semiconductor, ThailandHonors and awards04/1993 – 03/1996Doctoral Fellowship from the Japanese Society of Promotion Science04/1986 – 03/1993Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics AlGaInNAlGaNdevice fabricationepitaxyGaInNGaNIII nitride semiconductorsemiconductor device physics Science Shengbai Zhang zhangs9 987 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/987 2010-09-15 12:11 http:// Professor Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky &#039;70 Constellation in Physics, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship Science Yiyang Sun suny4 988 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/988 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Peter Fox foxp 989 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/989 2010-12-11 12:03 http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Peter_Fox Data Science Xinformatics Semantic eScience ERTH ITWS CSCI B.Sc. (Hons I), Monash University, MathematicsPh.D. Monash University, Mathematics Xinformatics Data Science Semantic eScience http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Image:PeterFox.jpg AGU EGU Peter Fox is Tetherless World Constellation Chair and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he spent 17 years at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research as Chief Computational Scientist. Fox&#039;s research specializes in the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics, computational and computer science, information technology, and grid-enabled, distributed semantic data frameworks. This research utilizes state-of-the-art modeling techniques, internet-based technologies, including the semantic web, and applies them to large-scale distributed scientific repositories addressing the full life-cycle of data and information within specific science and engineering disciplines as well as among disciplines. Fox has spent over 25 years bridging science and distributed data and information systems to support community activities utilizing use case driven design. Fox is chair of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Union Commission on Data and Information and past chair of the AGU Special Focus Group on Earth and Space Science Informatics, is an associate editor for the Earth Science Informatics journal, is a member of the editorial board for Computers in Geosciences. Fox serves on the International Council for Science&#039;s Strategic Coordinating Committee for Information and Data. http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Peter_Fox Professor Tetherless World Computer ScienceEarth and Environmental SciencesIT and Web Science DOENASANSF-CISENSF-GEONSF-OCI data scienceenvironmental informaticsgeoinformaticshelio informaticsinformaticssemantic eSciencevisualization Science Computation & Information TechnologyEnergy and the EnvironmentMedia & the Arts Michael J Trinkala trinkm 990 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/990 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Applied Physics & AstronomyPhysics Science Mohamed Boudjelkha boudjm 991 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/991 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Mathematical Sciences Science Kurt Marshall Wicks wicksk2 992 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/992 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Sukumar Nagamani nagams2 993 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/993 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Chemistry and Chemical Biology Science Brad Lister listeb 994 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/994 2010-09-15 12:19 http:// Science Dick Siegel sieger 995 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/995 2011-01-05 11:15 http:// Morris A Washington washim 996 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/996 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Michael Bak bakm 997 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/997 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Eelco Scholte schole2 998 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/998 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Robert Araujo 999 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/999 2010-06-13 01:05 http:// Francine Berman bermaf 1000 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1000 2011-01-16 19:52 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bermaf/ Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Washington; M.A. in Mathematics from University of Washington; B.A. in Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles Data cyberinfrastructure High Performance Computing Grid Computing Parallel Computing Data Preservation Dr. Francine Berman is Vice President for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2009, Dr. Berman was the inaugural recipient of the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award for influential leadership in the design, development, and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure.Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Berman was Professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and first holder of the High Performance Computing Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering. From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Berman served as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) where she led a staff of 250+ interdisciplinary scientists, engineers, and technologists. Dr. Berman is one of the two founding Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, and also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a consortium of 41 research groups, institutions, and university partners with the goal of building national infrastructure to support research and education in science and engineering.Dr. Berman has served on a broad spectrum of national and international leadership groups and committees including the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health's NIGMS Advisory Committee, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Board of Trustees, the National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information, and others. From 2007-2010, she served as co-Chair of the US-UK Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. For her accomplishments, leadership, and vision, Dr. Berman was recognized by the Library of Congress as a Digital Preservation Pioneer, as one of the top women in technology by BusinessWeek and Newsweek, and as one of the top technologists by IEEE Spectrum. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bermaf/fran_smile_sm.jpg IEEE ACM AAAS 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award ACM Fellow (since 1999) IEEE Senior Member (since 2005) Named a "Digital Preservation Pioneer" by Library of Congress in 2008 IEEE Fellow (since 2010) Berman, F., “Making Cyberinfrastructure in Research and Education Real,” Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 4 (July/August 2008). Berman, F., “Got Data? A Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age,” Communications of the ACM, December 2008. Berman, F., Fox, G., and Hey. T., editors, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality”, 1st Edition, John Wiley and Sons, LTD, England, 2003. Berman, F., Wolski, R., Casanova, H., Cirne, W., Dail, H., Faerman, M., Figueira, S., Hayes, J., Obertelli, G. Schopf, J., Shao, G., Smallen, S., Spring, N., Su, A. and Zagorodnov, D., “Adaptive Computing on the Grid Using AppLeS,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14:4, 369-382, 2003. Berman, F., "We Need a Data Census," Communications of the ACM, December 2010 See http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bermaf/ VP Computer Science cyberinfrastructuredata preservationdigital datagrid computinghigh performance computingparallel computing Science Computation & Information Technology B. Wayne Bequette bequette 1001 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1001 2010-09-02 16:04 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/bequette.jpg Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Marc-Olivier Coppens coppens 1002 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1002 2010-09-08 12:48 B.S. 1993 University of Ghent, BelgiumPh.D. 1996 University of Ghent, BelgiumPostdoctoral: 1996-1998, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley Nature inspired chemical engineering Hierarchically structured functional materials Energy Diffusion Statistical mechanics and multiscale simulations MARC-OLIVIER COPPENS is professor in chemical engineering at Rensselaer. He holds MSc (1993) and PhD (1996) degrees in chemical engineering from Univ. Ghent, Belgium, was visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1996), and postdoctoral fellow at Yale (1996-1997) and UC Berkeley (1997-1998). He joined the TU Delft faculty in the Netherlands in 1998, was named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in 2001, and Chair of Physical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics, 2003–2006. His multidisciplinary research combines fundamental theoretical work with experiments, centering on nature-inspired chemical engineering, to design and build efficient chemical processes, porous catalysts and separation systems, guided by efficient biological systems. Awards include DSM Prize Laureate (1996), Young Chemist (2001) and PIONIER Awards (2002) from the Dutch National Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) and a Visiting Professorship at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan (1998) and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2008). His group is involved in many international collaborations, including the U.S.A., the Netherlands (TU Delft), Germany, Japan (NIMS), China and Norway. He has given over one hundred invited lectures worldwide. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/coppens.jpg Our research revolves around the theme of nature-inspired chemical engineering (NICE). By studying natural systems – trees, lungs, cell membranes – from the perspective of a chemical engineer, we draw clues to design better performing, more sustainable and efficient chemical processes and materials for technological applications. We seek guidance from nature as a starting point in theoretically and computationally based, and experimentally validated designs. These designs are optimized for criteria such as maximum chemical yield, selectivity and stability over time. We apply this approach to catalysis and reactor engineering, energy and membrane separation technology.At the heart of these nature-inspired designs lies a better fundamental understanding and control of physico-chemical phenomena spanning multiple length and time scales. We study effects of heterogeneity and confinement on diffusion and reaction phenomena. We aim to preserve a desired functionality at the micro- or nanoscale up to scales that are of technological relevance. Therefore, we especially focus on patterns and symmetries that are omnipresent in nature, such as fractal structures, which link microscopic with macroscopic scales in a very efficient and intrinsically scalable way. Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Steven Cramer crames 1003 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1003 2010-09-03 06:46 B.S. 1978 Brown UniversityPh.D. 1986 Yale University Bioseparations Bioprocessing Chromatography Proteomics Microfluidics Multiscale modeling Affinity precipitation Biosensors Professor Steven Cramer is one of the recognized leaders in chromatographic bioprocessing worldwide. For the past twenty three years, Professor Cramer and his students have combined elegant theoretical models and rigorous experimentation to make dramatic advances in several areas of preparative protein chromatography. He serves as a consultant and/or member of the scientific board for several biotechnology and separations companies. In addition, Professor Cramer is known worldwide for his expertise in separations in general. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International journal Separations, Science and Technology. Professor Cramer was the awarded the prestigious Alan S. Michaels Award for the Recovery of Biological Products (ACS Division of Biochemical Technology). He was also awarded Rensselaer’s School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, the Early Career Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as several teaching awards. Professor Cramer was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has also chaired several prestigious meetings including the International HIC/RPC Bioseparations Conference, the ACS Recovery of Biological Products Meeting and the Gordon Conference on Reactive Polymers. He is also the U.S. coordinator of the NSF sponsored Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference Series. Prof. Cramer has published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 9 patents. Importantly, he has produced over 33 Ph.D. students who have gone on to leadership positions in the biotechnology industry and academia. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/steven_cramer.jpg The research in the Cramer laboratory involves state of the art experimental and theoretical investigations into novel bioseparations systems. Topics include: prediction of protein binding affinity and multiscale modeling of chromatographic systems, design of chemically selective displacers, development of efficient antibody separation systems, fundamental studies in multimodal chromatography, novel proteomics platform using carrier displacement chromatography, novel chromatographic and diode based electrophoretic lab on chip systems, protein unfolding in chromatographic systems, chemometrics for process analytical technology, multilevel automated peptide synthesis/screening system for design of affinity peptides and smart biopolymer affinity precipitation systems. Recent work that combines protein libraries, NMR studies, molecular dynamics simulations and high throughput chromatographic investigations has shed significant insight into the design of a new generation of mixed mode chromatographic systems. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Pankaj Karande karanp 1004 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1004 2010-09-03 05:52 B.S. 2000 University of MumbaiPh.D. 2006 University of California, Santa BarbaraPostdoctoral 2008 MIT/Center for Cancer research Drug discovery Drug delivery Peptide engineering High throughput screening Vaccine design Biomaterials design Prof. Pankaj Karande joined the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Rensselaer in January 2008. Before joining Rensselaer, Dr. Karande was a postdoctoral scholar in the Chemical Engineering Department and Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Karande has received numerous awards for his work including The Edison Award for best Product in Science and Medicine (2009), The Anna Fuller Fellowship in Molecular Oncology (2006-2007), Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper by the Controlled Release Society (2005) and the Fionna Goodchild Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring (2004). Dr. Karande is an inventor on several patents in the area of Transdermal Formulation Discovery and Novel High Throughput Screening Platforms. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/karande.jpg Prof. Karande’s research program is focused on engineering peptides as novel drugs, drug carriers and multifunctional biomaterials for medical applications. Peptides play vital roles in various biological functions including membrane assembly, cell regulation and immunity. Inspired by their roles in physiological processes, the Karande Lab is evaluating the potential of short peptide sequences as therapeutics for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, immune disorders and as sub-unit vaccines against infectious diseases.The basic paradigm in contemporary peptide design is based on mimicking and conserving structural themes available in nature. Although such techniques have shown some success they are inherently limited in their potential as they fail to encompass possible structural motifs associated with a broader range of functionalities not seen in nature. Additional limitation of these approaches is the confinement to natural diversities of motifs. Inclusion of synthetic diversities (non-canonical amino acids) in engineered peptide frameworks provides added flexibility in tailoring physical, chemical and biological properties. The lab is interested in exploring the functional landscape of synthetic peptides comprised of a mix of canonical and non-canonical amino acids. While there is evidence that inclusion of non-canonical amino acids can improve the therapeutic endpoint in vitro, the in vivo or physiological response to such constructs (immunogenicity, toxicity, half-life, metabolism, etc.) is unknown.Prof. Karande’s lab combines the group’s core expertise in design of novel high throughput screening platforms along with the advances in parallel peptide synthesis to rapidly synthesize and screen large (O(1000)) peptide libraries designed from canonical and non-canonical amino acids for predefined biological endpoints. Rational and iterative screening of multiple libraries provides leading hits that are subsequently evaluated in vitro for toxicity, immunogenicity and metabolism in complementary high throughput screening assays. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Joel L. Plawsky plawsky 1005 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1005 2010-09-11 10:22 B.S. U. Michigan 1980MSCEP MIT 1982Ph.D. MIT 1986 Interfacial phenomena Transport Processes Thin Films Microelectronics Photonics Joel L. Plawsky received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and his MSCEP and ScD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, Joel worked for Corning Inc. in their applied physics research division before returning to academia at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a professor of chemical engineering at RPI. Joel was a NASA Faculty Fellow in 1999 and 2000 and a visiting professor of chemical engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2002. In 2003 Joel spent 6 months at Marshall Space Flight Center where he helped in the investigation of what caused the disintegration of the space shuttle, Challenger, and developed repair materials to help prevent another catastrophic loss. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has served as the chairman of the Transport and Energy Processes Division of AIChE, is a recipient of AIChE’s Herb Epstein Award, and serves on the editorial board of Chemical Engineering Communications. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/plawsky.jpg Joel works primarily in the areas of interfacial and transport phenomena. He is the author of Transport Phenomena Fundamentals, 2nd edition. Joel’s work spans a wide range of topics including describing the mechanisms behind dielectric breakdown in gate, interconnect and LED materials, understanding the fundamental processes governing change-of-phase heat and mass transfer, developing novel porous materials for microelectronics and photonics applications, developing new composite thermal interface materials for semiconductor and LED applications, and on a much larger scale, designing and developing pneumatic conveying equipment that has been used for producing high performance concrete, for blending nutraceuticals, for coating aerogel insulation particles, and for purification and decontamination of water.Joel has two space experiments. One long-term experiment is on the International Space Station and is focused on the effect of microgravity on change-of-phase heat transfer and especially the operation and stability of heat pipes. The second experiment that is due to fly on the Space Shuttle is aimed at understanding the effects of microgravity and transport on the formation of biofilms. Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering William N. Gill 1006 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1006 2010-09-11 10:24 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/gill.jpg Professor Emeritus Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Marlene Belfort 1007 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1007 2010-09-11 11:19 B.S. 1965, Univ. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaPh.D. 1972, Univ. of California, Irvine, CAPostdoctoral: 1977, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel1978, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Molecular Biology Bioseparations Sensors Introns Inteins Dr. Marlene Belfort currently holds the positions of Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany, NY and Distinguished Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. She also has adjunct professorships in the Departments of Biology (SUNY) and both Biology and Biological and Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). After graduating with a B.S. degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Dr. Belfort received her Ph.D. degree in molecular biology at the University of California at Irvine, and performed post-doctoral work at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, where she holds an honorary doctorate. Dr. Belfort chaired the NIH Microbial Genetics study section, the NIH Pioneer Award Study Section, served on the board of directors of the RNA Society and served on the Board of Advisors of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Evolutionary Biology Program. She is currently an advisor to the Megatools Collaborative of the European Union and to the Northeast Genome Engineering Consortium of the NIH. She has organized international meetings in nucleic acid dynamics and evolution, for the Keystone Conferences, FASEB and Gordon Research Conferences. Dr. Belfort has served on the editorial board of Gene, Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biology, RNA, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology, Mobile DNA and Journal of Bacteriology. Dr. Belfort is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests are in splicing, mobility and evolution of self-splicing introns, and their application to biotechnology. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/ww2/images/faculty/marlene_belfort.jpg Our laboratory studies the biology of introns and inteins, dynamic sequences that interrupt genes and therefore disrupt the flow of genetic information. Our work runs the gamut from answering fundamental questions about intron and intein function and how they are removed to preserve genetic integrity, through how introns and inteins might have evolved, to ways in which they could be exploited in biotechnology. Adjunct Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering George Dalakos 1008 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1008 2010-09-02 16:08 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Adjunct Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering William Gill gillw2 1009 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1009 2010-10-21 10:45 http:// this is our test faculty user Adjunct ProfessorClinical Professor Caren Canier caniec 1010 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1010 2010-08-18 13:18 http://www.rpi.edu/~caniec/ Caren Canier, M.F.A., Boston University, B.F. http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/212 <p> Caren Canier, M.F.A., Boston University, B.F.A. Cornell University. <br /> Caren Canier has won numerous awards for her work, including the<br /> Pollack/Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant,<br /> two Artist&#039;s Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and<br /> the Rome Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome. One person<br /> exhibitions include Robert Schoelkopf Gallery and Bowery Gallery in New<br /> York, Boston University, University of New Hampshire and the American<br /> Academy in Rome. </p> Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Tomie Hahn hahnt 1011 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1011 2010-08-18 12:52 http:// <p>Tomie Hahn is a performer and ethnologist whose activities span a wide range of topics including: Japanese traditional performing arts, Monster Truck rallies, issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial individuals, and relationships of technology and culture; interactive dance/movement performance; and gestural control and extended human/computer interface in the performing arts. She holds degrees in Art History, Music Performance, and Ethnomusicology. She is a teacher/performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and of nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) holding the professional stage name, Samie Tachibana.</p> <p>Hahn has performed and lectured at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Japan Society, Asia Society, The Freer-Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, MIT Media Lab, Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, Mobius, and Galapagos Art Space.</p> <p>She has collaborated with Curtis Bahn, for several decades in the development of new experimental intermedia works and new performance technologies. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Art Byte, and the Rensselaer magazine.</p> Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Liz Blum blume 1012 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1012 2010-08-18 13:10 http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/492 <p class="MsoNormal">Liz Blum is a visual artist whose work encompasses installations, image composites, neon, photography and video. She exhibits both nationally and internationally, and is currently living in Troy, New York, and teaches part-time at various colleges and institutions in the area. <br /><br /></p> <h4><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Artist Statement</span></h4> <p class="MsoNormal">My work is about resource musing, particularly as image monger and scavenger. I recreate images from appropriated material either through slight edits, or a total recall of the pictorial structure. Recent narrative and content, or thematic matter follows a metaphysical journey into time, alternate realities, channel wisdom and other mysterious subjects, j<span style="color: black">ourneying into the world of instability and urban pleasures. The concept behind most of the research is to elicit the response and reaction as one of pleasure and entertainment, bemusement and ambiguity.</span></p> Adjunct Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Noam Cohen cohenn 1014 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1014 2010-08-18 13:27 http:// Adjunct Professor Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Ken Denberg denbek 1015 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1015 2010-08-18 15:12 D.A., Rhetoric and Composition, SUNY at Albany http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>WRIT-1110 Writing for Classroom and Career</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Binary/Image Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Faye Duchin duchin 1016 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1016 2010-08-18 13:40 http://www.rpi.edu/~duchin/ Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/613 <strong>Degrees:</strong> Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1973<br /><p>B.A., Cornell University, 1965 </p><p><strong>Research:</strong> I have been engaged for many years in formulating alternative scenarios about technological change and analyzing their implications for employment and economic well-being as well as for resource use and the environment. The research makes use of mathematical models of individual economies and the world economy implemented with input-output databases. Based on the results of my empirical studies, I became convinced of the need for changes not only in technologies but also in household lifestyles, in particular household decisions regarding diet, housing and transportation. The plausibility and implications of such scenarios need to be explored in a global framework, and I have developed a new model of the world economy for this purpose. </p><p>A sustainable development research agenda requires cross-disciplinary collaborations and needs to engage not only the policy community and corporate decision-makers but also civil society. In addition to my research, which involves collaborations with colleagues in several countries, I am involved in building scholarly networks through my leadership roles in several international professional societies and scholarly journals. At the present time I am especially active in the integration of input-output economics and industrial ecology, mainly input-output models of economies and engineering-based life cycle analysis. </p><p><strong>Recent Publications:</strong><br /><!--StartFragment--></p><p style="margin-left: 0.2in; text-indent: -0.2in" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px"></span></p><p>Duchin, F. and S. H. Levine, 2010. &quot; Embodied Resource Flows and Product Flows: Combining the Absorbing Markov Chain with the Input-Output Model,&quot; <em>Journal of Industrial Ecology</em>.</p><p>MacLean, H., F. Duchin, C. Hagel&uuml;ken, K. Halada, S.Kesler, Y. Moriguchi, D. Mueller, T. Norgate, M. Reuter, and E. van der Voet, 2010. &quot;Mineral Resources: Stocks, Flows, and Prospects.&quot; Chapter 11 in Graedel, T. and E.van der Voet, eds., <em>Linkages ofSustainability</em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</p><p>He, L. and F. Duchin. 2009. &quot;Regional Development in China: Interregional Transportation Infrastructure and Regional Comparative Advantage,&quot; <em>Economic Systems Research</em>, 21(1).</p><p>Duchin, F. and A. E. Steenge, 2009. &quot;Mathematical Models in Input-Output Economics,&quot; in W. Zhang, ed.,<em> Mathematical Science,UNESCO</em> <em>Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)</em>.</p><p>Str&oslash;mman, A., E. Hertwich, and F. Duchin. 2009. &quot;Shifting Trade Patterns as a Means to Reduce Global CO₂ Emissions: A Multi-objective Analysis,&quot; &nbsp;<em>Journal of Industrial Ecology</em>. </p><p>Duchin, F. 2008. &quot;Input-Output Economics and Material Flows,&quot; Chapter 2 in Sangwon Suh, ed., <em>Handbook on Input-Output Analysis in Industrial Ecology, </em>Cheltenham,UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.</p><p>Duchin,F. and S. Levine. 2008. &quot;Human Ecology: Industrial Ecology,&quot; in S. E. Jorgensen, ed., <em>Encyclopedia of Ecology</em>,Elsevier, pp. 1968-1975.</p><p>Julia, R. and F. Duchin, 2007. &quot;World Trade as the Adjustment Mechanism of Agriculture to Climate Change,&quot; <em>Climatic Change</em>.</p><p>Duchin,F. 2007. &quot;Energy.&quot; Essay In: Wm. A. Darrity, Editor-in-Chief, <em>International Encyclopedia of the SocialSciences</em>, 2^nd edition, Macmillan.</p><p>Duchin, F. 2007. &quot;Energy and the Global Economy,&quot;in: Aloys Prinz, Albert E. Steenge and J&ouml;rg Schmidt (Eds.), <em>The Rules of the Game: Institutions, Law andEconomics</em>, Lit Verlag, M&uuml;nster.</p><p>Duchin, F.,May 2006. &quot;Resource Efficiency and Sustainability,&quot; Topic of the Month, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI). <a href="http://www.nachhaltigkeit.at/reportagen.php3">http://www.nachhaltigkeit.at/reportagen.php3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Str&oslash;mman, A. and F. Duchin. 2006. &quot;A World Trade Model with Bilateral Trade Based on Comparative Advantage,&quot; <em>Economic Systems Research</em>, 18(3): 281-297.</p><p>Weisz, H. and F. Duchin. 2006. &quot;Physical and Monetary Input-Output Analysis: What Makes the Difference?&quot; <em>Ecological Economics,</em> 57(3): 534-541. </p><p>Duchin F. 2005. &quot;Sustainable Consumption of Food,&quot; <em>Journal of Industrial Ecology</em>, 9(1-2): 99-114. Reprinted in J. Martinez-Allier and I. Ropke, Eds., 2008, <em>Recent Developments in Ecological Economics</em>, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.</p><p>Duchin F. 2005. &quot;A World Trade Model based on Comparative Advantage with m Regions, n Goods, and k Factors,&quot; <em>Economic Systems Research</em>, 17(2): 141-162. </p><p>Duchin, F.2005. &quot;Input-Output Analysis.&quot;&nbsp;Essay in: C. Cleveland and C. Morris, Editors-in-Chief, <em>Dictionary of Energy,</em> Elsevier Science.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> Professor Economics Economic developmentResource use and pollution Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Blaise Farina farinb2 1017 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1017 2010-08-18 15:03 http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>WRIT-2110 Rhetoric and Writing</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Merrill Whitburn whitbm 1018 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1018 2010-08-18 15:15 http://www.rpi.edu/~whitbm/ Ph.D., University of Iowa http:// <p> Merrill D. Whitburn is Louis Ellsworth Laflin Professor of English. He teaches courses in the history of rhetoric, technical communication, speech, and the novel. He was awarded the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication by the Society for Technical Communication and the Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award from Texas A&amp;M University.<br /> <br /> He is currently completing a book entitled <em>Rhetorical Scope and Performance: The Example of Technical Communication</em>, which was funded by a Mina Shaughnessy Scholars Award from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and the Carnegie Corporation.<br /> <br /> One of his prior articles on style in technical and scientific communication won a Technical and Scientific Communication Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. For 13 years he was chair of the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, and at Texas A&amp;M he was awarded the Faculty Distinguished Service Award for his service activities.<br /> <br /> Prior to his academic career, Whitburn held positions in communication with Western Electric and the Gelman Instrument Company, and throughout his career he has served as a consultant to industry and other academic institutions. </p> Language Literature and Communication Edward Woodhouse woodhouse 1019 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1019 2010-09-15 12:22 http://www.rpi.edu/~woodhe/ Ph.D., Yale University http:// <p><strong>Interests - </strong>Decision making, science and technology policy, energy/environment/risk, science as a political phenomenon, knowledge utilization in politics. </p><h3>Recent Publications</h3>Woodhouse, Edward. <strong>&ldquo;OVERCONSUMPTION AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: CONFRONTING ENDLESS VARIETY AND UNLIMITED QUANTITY,&rdquo;</strong> INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION, VOL. 19, NUMBER 1, 2003, 124-131. <br /><br />Woodhouse, Edward. <strong>&ldquo;OVERCONSUMPTION AS AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION,&rdquo;</strong> INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION VOL. 31, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 2003, 15-31 (WITH J.C. SWEARENGEN).<br /><br />Woodhouse, Edward. <strong>&ldquo;CHANGE OF STATE?: THE GREENING OF CHEMISTRY,&rdquo;</strong> IN MONICA J. CASPER, ED., SYNTHETIC PLANET, NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE, 2003, 177-193.<br /><br /><strong>&ldquo;DECISION MAKING, RATIONAL,&rdquo;</strong> IN JACK RABIN, ED., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY, NEW YORK: MARCEL DEKKER, 2003, 333-338. <br /><br />Woodhouse, Edward. <strong>&ldquo;SMALL IS POWERFUL&rdquo;</strong> (NANOTECHNOLOGY), PP. 63-83 IN LIVING WITH THE GENIE: ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY AND THE QUEST FOR HUMAN MASTERY, ALAN LIGHTMAN, DANIEL SAREWITZ, AND CHRISTINA DESSER, EDS., WASHINGTON, D.C.: ISLAND PRESS, 2003 (WITH DANIEL SAREWITZ). <br /><p>&nbsp;</p> Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Eddie Ade Knowles knowle 1020 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1020 2010-08-19 13:12 http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/1648 Adjunct Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Elizabeth Gordon gordoe3 1021 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1021 2010-08-18 15:09 http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>LITR-2963 Creative Writing: Fiction</p> <p>WRIT-1110 Writing for Classroom and Career</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts John Heim heimj 1022 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1022 2010-08-18 14:44 Ph.D., MPAState University of New York at Albany, Harvard http://www.hass.rpi.edu/files/615 "<p><strong>Degrees:</strong> M.P.A., Harvard University, 1986</p><p>Ph.D., Political Economy, SUNY Albany, 1972<br />M.S., Political Economy, SUNY Albany, 1969<br />B.S., Social Studies, SUNY Geneseo 1964 </p><p><strong>Research:</strong> Current research focuses on converting Hick&#039;s IS-LM version of Keynesian theory into a system of mechanics by finding stable and unambiguous estimates of the parameters in the IS and LM equations. Work to date on the IS curve is substantially progressed and suggests that with the addition of accelerator, crowd out, and Tobin&#039;s q variables the IS curve predicts most of the variance in the real GDP quite well. Work on the LM curve in in a more preliminary stage. Work on determining the mechanism that brings the system into equilibrium at the intersection of the two curves is well progressed. </p><p>A second area of research interest is the east Asian economic recovery after the 1997-1998 economic crisis. Preliminary investigation of whether the recovery was generated by the effects classical mechanics or Keynesian mechanics is underway. </p><p><strong>Awards/Citations/Honors:&nbsp;</strong> </p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><em>Gordon Award, 2000</em> - Given in recognition of outstanding contributions made to </span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">the RPI&nbsp; Economics Department.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><em>Who&rsquo;s Who Among America&rsquo;s Teachers, 2005.</em></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;</span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">2010<span> ""</span>Best Paper&rdquo; of the Year- General Economics Track.<span>&nbsp; </span>Awarded by <em>American&nbsp;</em></span><em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Society Of Business and Behavioral Sciences</span></em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">, February 2010. (Title:&ldquo; <span style=""color: black"">&ldquo; Does Consumer Confidence Affect Demand (Or Just Proxy for Things That do?): Testing the Michigan Consumer Confidence Survey&rdquo;</span> )</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span>2009<span> </span>&ldquo;Best Paper&rdquo; of the Year- General Economics Track.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Awarded by <em>American</em></span><em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span> </span>Society Of Business and Behavioral Sciences</span></em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">, February 2009. (Title:&ldquo;Which Interest Rate Seems Most Related To Business Investment?&rdquo;)</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span>&ldquo;Top 4%&rdquo; (of 21,904) Authors: Number of Abstracts Viewed in Past Year. Cited Nov.<span>&nbsp; </span>2009 in IDEAS (A Central Index of Economics and Finance Research)&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span>&ldquo;Top 6%&rdquo; (of 21,904) Authors: Number of Papers Downloaded in Past Year. Cited Nov.<span>&nbsp; </span>2009 in IDEAS (A Central Index of Economics and Finance Research)</span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Chair, Macroeconomic and Monetary Issues Session, <em>American Academy of Business and Behavioral Sciences Annual Conference, Feb. 2009.</em></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Chair, General Economics Session, <em>International Academy of Economics and Business Annual Conference, Oct. 2009.</em></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Based on the average number of<strong> </strong>downloads (per downloadable paper) in the RePEc system, an international library of economics working papers,<span>&nbsp; Dr. Heim was rated</span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # 93 of the top 1,000 economics authors&rsquo; works downloaded in September 2007</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;#110 of the top 1,000 economics authors&rsquo; works downloaded in the three m</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">onth&nbsp;period</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;July-September, 2007</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span> </p><p><strong>Selected Publications:</strong><br /><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/rpirpiwpe/0806.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">(2009)&ldquo; Does Consumer Confidence Affect Demand (Or Just Proxy for Things That do?): Testing the Michigan Consumer Confidence Survey&rdquo; <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences E-Journal</span></em>. Vol. 6(1). (In Press)</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;The Effect of Import Prices On U.S. Demand For Domestically Produced Consumer Goods&rdquo;.<span>&nbsp; </span><em>Journal of Applied Econometrics and International Development.</em> Vol. 9(2).<span>&nbsp; </span>2009. (Note: Lawrence Klein, Nobel laureate in econometrics, is an honorary member of the advisory board of this journal and publishes in it.)<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;U.S. Demand for different Types of Imported and Domestic Investment Goods&rdquo;. </span><em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">Journal of Applied Econometrics and International Development.<span style=""color: black"">&rdquo; Vol.10(1). (in press)</span></span></em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">.&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/rpirpiwpe/0806.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">(2009)&ldquo; Which Interest Rate Seems Most Related to Business Investment?&rdquo; <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences E-Journal</span></em>. Vol. 5(1). February 2009.&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;The Impact of Falling Exchange Rates on Demand for Goods in the U.S. 2000-2007&rdquo;. <em>American Journal of Business Research</em>.<span>&nbsp; </span>Nov. 2009&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009)</span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;&ldquo;The Declining American Dollar: Econometric Estimates of Its Impact on the GDP and Trade Deficit&rdquo;. <em>Journal of Applied Business and Economics</em>. Vol.10(3). 2009</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;Do Declining Exchange Rates Help the U.S. Economy?&rdquo; <em>Journal of Finance and Accountancy. Vol. 2(1). 2009</em>&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;Consumer Demand for Durable Goods, Nondurable Goods and Services&rdquo;.<span>&nbsp; </span><em>Journal of the Academy of Business and Economics</em>. Vol. 9 (2) Oct. 2009</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">Heim, John J. (2009) &ldquo;A Method for Separating Income and Substitution Effects of Exchange Rate Changes&rdquo;. <em>Journal of International Finance and Economics</em>. Vol. 9 (3). Oct. 2009.</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/rpirpiwpe/0806.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""> &ldquo; What Determines Market Demand for Investment Goods?&rdquo; <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">International Journal of Business Strategy</span></em>. Vol 6 (1).October <span>&nbsp;</span>2008.&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp; </span>&ldquo;How Falling (Nominal) Exchange Rates have Affected the U. S. Economy and Trade Deficit&rdquo;. <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">Journal of International Business and Economics.</span></em> Vol 8 (1).October 2008.&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""> (2008).&rdquo;The Consumption Function&rdquo;. <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">Review&nbsp;of Business Research</span></em>. Vol 8 (2) June 2008.</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""> (2008).&rdquo; Does the Exchange Rate Really Affect Consumer Spending?&rdquo;. <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">The ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics.</span></em>&nbsp; ICFAI University Press. Vol VI (2) May 2008.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 8pt""> </span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span>&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;Do Friedman/Modigliani - Type Consumption Functions Explain Consumer Demand As Well As Keynesian Functions?&rdquo;, <em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">Review of Business Research</span></em>, Gale Group/Thomson Publishing, Vol.7(1) Oct. 2007.&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""> <span>&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;How Much Does the Prime Interest Rate Affect U.S. Investment?&rdquo;,<span>&nbsp; </span><em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">Journal of the Academy of Business and Economics</span></em>, Gale Group/Thomson Publishing, Vol. VII (1) Oct. 2007.&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""><a href=""http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe199.htm""><span style=""color: black"">Heim, John J.</span></a></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""> <span>&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;Does A Strong Dollar Increase Demand for Both Domestic and Imported Goods?&rdquo;, &nbsp;<em><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;"">Journal of International Business and Economics</span></em>, Gale Group/Thomson Publishing, Vol. VII (3) Oct. 2007. </span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt""></span> </p><p><span style=""font-family: &#039;Verdana&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; font-size: 8pt"">(A full list of working papers published as part of the&nbsp;the economics department&rsquo;s working papers series is available at the department working papers site.&nbsp; Publications above do not include 40 additional publications and reports&nbsp;issued before 2007.)</span> </p><p>&nbsp;</p>" Clinical Professor Economics EconometricsMacroeconomicsParameter estimate Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Sara Tack tacks2 1023 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1023 2010-08-18 14:51 http://www.createwanderlust.com M.F.A., Electronic ArtsRensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// <p>Senior Art Director and Principal at Smith &amp; Jones, a brand consultancy in Troy, NY.<br /><br />Executive VP of Image and Identity at Wanderlust, an ad agency that specializes in travel marketing &amp; destination branding.<br /><br />Awards: American Corporate Identity, Aster Awards, Creativity, Creative Excellence in Business Advertising Awards (CEBA), Graphic Design USA, Macromedia People&#039;s Choice Awards, Marcom Awards, One Show, Rebrand 100 </p> <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>COMM-4730 Graphic Design for Corporate Identity</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Integration of spoken word andMotion typography Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Barry Young youngb2 1024 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1024 2010-08-18 14:55 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// <p><strong>Spring 2010 Course Offering(s):</strong></p> <p>COMM-1510 Introduction to Communication Theory</p> Adjunct Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts S. Michael Halloran hallos 1025 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1025 2010-08-18 15:22 http://www.rpi.edu/~hallos/ Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http:// <p>Born Cohoes, NY, 1939.<br /><br />Educated at St. Agnes School, Cohoes; Vincentian Institute, Albany; Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA; Rensselaer.<br /><br />Served in the US Navy, 1960-63.<br /><br />Joined the Rensselaer faculty 1969. Served as Chair, Department of LL&amp;C; Associate Dean, School of H&amp;SS. Named a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America, 2002. Retired from the Rensselaer faculty 2003, but remain an active Professor Emeritus.<br /><br />Currently serve as Recording Secretary of the Rensselaer Retirees Forum. </p> Professor Emeritus Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Vincent Meunier meuniv 1027 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1027 2010-09-20 16:02 http://rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/meunier.html Ph.D., Physics, University of Namur, Belgium, 1999.M.S., Physics and Chemistry, University of Namur, Belgium, 1998.B.S., Physics, University of Namur, Belgium, 1996. http:// 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate, North Carolina State University2002-2004 Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory2004-2010 R&D Staff member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Associate Professor Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky &#039;70 Constellation in Physics, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship computer simulationelectrical quantum transportenergy storagemetal oxide surfacesnanosciencetheoretical physics Science Nanotechnology Michael Amitay amitam 1028 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1028 2010-09-29 09:00 D. Sc. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology My research interests are in developing active flow control technologies for single and multi-phase flows with applications in macro- and micro-scale aeronautical/mechanical systems, and in medical/dentistry applications. In the field of flow control of single-phase flows, I apply various active flow control techniques on miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These vehicles, which are essentially small scale flying robots, lately became an area of interest in the aerospace community with the initiation of the MicroUAV program by DARPA. Such miniature flying robots are envisioned for a variety of applications, from military intelligence gathering to more mundane civil applications such as security patrol; anywhere the extension of human perception is of value. In multi-phase flows, I implement the new approach of directed jet technology in micro-dentistry. I envision it as the basis for a new unified dental treatment device, providing the dentist with a more efficient approach to routine dental caries treatment. Conceivably, one tool can be used to perform all of the steps required in routine dental treatment. Furthermore, this technique can be easily applied to control of mixing in combustion and for noise reduction. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/amitay_michael_web.jpg Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering aerodynamic flow controlmini- and micro-aerial bvhiclestwo-phase flowwind turbine performance enhancement Engineering David V. Rosowsky rosowd 1029 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1029 2011-03-08 16:30 http://eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/deans-office/the-deans-page Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Civil EngineeringM.S., B.S., Tufts University Civil Engineering Structural reliability performance of wood structural systems subject to natural hazards loading stochastic modeling of structural and environmental loads probability-based codified design. David V. Rosowsky was appointed the 15th Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer in 2009. From 2004-2009, Dr. Rosowsky served as Head of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he also held the A.P. and Florence Wiley Chair in Civil Engineering. Since 1990, Dr. Rosowsky has conducted research in the areas of structural reliability, performance of wood structural systems, design for natural hazards, stochastic modeling of structural and environmental loads, and probability-based codified design. His current research addresses three topics: (1) behavior of the built environment subject to natural hazards, (2) modeling and analysis of load effects on buildings and other structures, with particular emphasis on complex environmental phenomena, and (3) performance-based engineering for design, post-disaster condition assessment, and loss estimation studies. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Structural Safety and is a past editorial board member of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering and the journal Natural Hazards Review.Dr. Rosowsky has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 papers appearing in conference proceedings. A recognized expert in the field of structural reliability, he has been invited to present his research work around the world including invited lecturers in France, Italy, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He has supervised more than 20 Masters and Doctoral students. He is the recipient of the ASCE Walter L. Huber Research Prize, the T.K. Hseih Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), and the ASCE Norman Medal. Dr. Rosowsky maintains an active research program in wind and earthquake engineering and continues to supervise graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. He is a member of numerous editorial boards, national technical committees, is a registered Professional Engineer, and holds the rank of Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. http://eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/stories/people/rosowsky_david_web.jpg Zhong, J., Gardoni, P. and Rosowsky, D. (2009), “Bayesian Updating of Seismic Demand Models and Fragility Estimates for Reinforced Concrete Bridges with Two-column Bents,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering. Choe, D.E., Gardoni, P., Rosowsky, D. and Haukaas, T. (2009), “Seismic Fragility Estimates for Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subject to Corrosion,” Structural Safety. Pang, W.C., Rosowsky, D.V., Ellingwood, B.R. and Yue, W. (2009), “Seismic Fragility Analysis and Retrofit of Conventional Residential Wood Frame Structures in the Central United States,” ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering Pang, W.C. and Rosowsky, D.V. (2009), “Direct Displacement Procedure for Performance-based Seismic Design of Mid-rise Woodframe Structures,” EERI Earthquake Spectra Zhong, J., Gardoni, P. and Rosowsky, D. (2009), “Stiffness Degradation and Time to Cracking of Cover Concrete in Reinforced Concrete Structures Subject to Corrosion,” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics Choe, D.E., Gardoni, P. and Rosowsky, D. (2009), “Fragility Increment Functions for Deteriorating Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns,” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. Zhong, J., Gardoni, P. and Rosowsky, D. (2009), “Seismic Fragility Estimates for Corroding Reinforced Concrete Bridges,” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. Yue, W., Rosowsky, D.V. and Pang, W. (2010), “Toward a Performance-Based Procedure for Direct Displacement Design of Engineered Woodframe Structures,” ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Zhong, J., Gardoni, P. and Rosowsky, D.V. (2010), “Closed-form Seismic Fragility Estimates, Sensitivity Analysis and Importance Measures for Reinforced Concrete Columns in Two-column Bents,” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. Pang, W. and Rosowsky, D.V. (2010), “Semi-rigid Diaphragm and Shear Wall Deflections: Beam-Spring Analog Model,” Structures and Bridges. David V. Rosowsky was appointed the 15th Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer in 2009. From 2004-2009, Dr. Rosowsky served as Head of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he also held the A.P. and Florence Wiley Chair in Civil Engineering. Since 1990, Dr. Rosowsky has conducted research in the areas of structural reliability, performance of wood structural systems, design for natural hazards, stochastic modeling of structural and environmental loads, and probability-based codified design. His current research addresses three topics: (1) behavior of the built environment subject to natural hazards, (2) modeling and analysis of load effects on buildings and other structures, with particular emphasis on complex environmental phenomena, and (3) performance-based engineering for design, post-disaster condition assessment, and loss estimation studies. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Structural Safety and is a past editorial board member of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering and the journal Natural Hazards Review. Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Thierry Blanchet blanct 1030 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1030 2010-10-12 09:44 Ph.D. Dartmouth College Dr. Blanchet is the recipient of ASME's Burt L. Newkirk Award (2002), as well as the Al Sonntag Award (1993 and 1998) and the Walter D. Hodson Award (1997) from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, and the Ralph R. Teetor Award (1998) from the Society of Automotive Engineers. He was a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1994, and RPI's Early Career Award in 1999. Dr. Blanchet is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology, STLE's Tribology Transactions, and Tribology & Lubrication Technology. He is currently serving on STLE's Fellows Committee and the ASME Tribology Division's Committee on Honors & Awards, with previous service including chairmanship of STLE's Awards Committee and Solid Lubricants Technical Committee, as well as ASME/STLE's International Joint Tribology Conference in 2004. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/blanchet_thierry_web.jpg Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering contact mechanicssolid lubricantssurface scienceTribology Engineering Theodorian Borca-Tasiuc borcat 1031 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1031 2010-09-29 09:47 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Jie Lian lianj 1032 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1032 2010-10-12 13:14 Ph.D. University of Michigan http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Advanced nuclear materialsIon beam techniqueNano-scale characterization and nanofabricationRadiation effects Engineering Li (Emily) Liu liue 1033 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1033 2010-10-12 13:16 Ph.D. Massachusetts Instititute of Technology http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Dynamics of waterNeutron scatteringRadiation damageStructure and dynamics of nano-materials and macro-molecules Engineering Michael Podowski podowm 1034 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1034 2010-10-12 14:10 Ph.D. Warsaw University of Technology http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Applied mathematicsReactor dynamics and safetySystem stabilityTwo-phase flow and heat transfer Henry Scarton scarton 1035 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1035 2010-10-13 10:32 Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering acoustics and vibrationsbiomechanicsFluid and solid mechancisUltrasonic communication Engineering George Xu xug2 1036 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1036 2010-10-06 09:47 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Sandipan Mishra mishrs2 1037 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1037 2010-10-12 13:24 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Data-driven control system designDynamic systems and controlManufacturing processesModeling and Control of Micro/Nano scaleSmart Building Systems Engineering Ryan Gilbert gilber2 1038 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1038 2010-09-30 14:25 Ph.D., Case Western Reserve UniversityBiomedical EngineeringB.S.E., University of Michigan – Ann ArborChemical Engineering While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gilbert received a National Science Foundation (NSF) research experience for undergraduates (REU) summer fellowship to study hybridoma cell viability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos. This experience fueled his desire to pursue research as a career. During his Ph.D. studies in the laboratory of Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, he determined how sulfation patterns of glycosaminoglycans within chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans varied after central nervous system injury. Then, he fabricated novel biomaterial scaffolds that consisted of various types of sulfated and unsulfated glycosaminoglycans. Neurons were placed within these models to determine which glycosaminoglycan(s) most inhibited axonal extension from dorsal root ganglia.After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Gilbert accepted an Assistant Professor position at Michigan Technological University. While there, his research focus shifted towards the development of novel biomaterial constructs for tissue repair. Various constructs have been employed within experimental models of bone and lymph injury. However, the main focus of his research is in the development of biomaterials for the treatment of acute and chronic phase spinal cord injury. Dr. Gilbert’s current research is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and past research support was funded by NIH, the Department of Energy (DOE), and commercialization initiatives from the State of Michigan. Work from Dr. Gilbert’s laboratory is featured on two recent journal covers, and a 2009 Journal of Neural Engineering article from his laboratory was selected for the journal’s “Highlights” of 2009. Dr. Gilbert is an ad hoc reviewer for several biomaterial, biomedical engineering, and neuroscience journals, as well as an ad hoc grant reviewer for funding agencies (NSF, Department of Veterans Affairs). Dr. Gilbert is a member of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and the Society for Neuroscience (SFN). In addition to his research efforts, Dr. Gilbert is active in the development of undergraduate curricula and research experiences for undergraduates. Undergraduates from his laboratory have won prestigious undergraduate awards (Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, NSF Graduate Student Fellowship), been first authors on scientific journal articles, successfully gained employment at biomedical companies (Boston Scientific, Epic, Plexus), and gained entry into graduate, medical, or law schools. For his teaching efforts, Dr. Gilbert was named a finalist for the Michigan Technological University distinguished teaching award and is active in improving classroom experiences for students. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Robert Spilker 1039 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1039 2010-10-01 14:32 http://www.rpi.edu/~spilker/ Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAeronautical EngineeringM.S., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAeronautical EngineeringB.S., University of IllinoisAeronautical Engineering Robert L. Spilker received his undergraduate training in the Department of Aeronautics, University of Illinois, B.S. 1971, and his graduate training in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. 1972, Sc.D. 1974. After spending two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Spilker joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering, Mechanics, and Metallurgy at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976. In 1984, he joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Professor of Computational Mechanics, and served as Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department from 1994 - 2004.He is a member of a number of professional societies including the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Orthopedic Research Society, and American Society for Engineering Education, and has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the US National Committee of Biomechanics. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals in the areas of bioengineering and computational mechanics. Dr. Spilker is a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Inaugural Class), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering."Understanding human physiology at all levels will require that biological and bioengineering approaches be integrated to characterize and quantify physiological function. Mathematical models will provide the framework for quantification of behavior, and because human physiology is inherently complicated, will be too complex for simple solutions. The scales of physiology are linked (from organ to tissue to cell to molecule &) and they involve, among other factors, biomechanical, biochemical, and bioelectrical behaviors. Because of this multiscale and mathematical complexity, computational methods are required to provide accurate numerical solutions to the mathematical models. The development of these computational tools is the foundation of our research program.Our research is aimed at developing computational methods and computer simulation tools that are based on realistic and validated mathematical models of human physiology. Our current focus is on modeling the biomechanical behavior of soft tissues such as articular cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral discs in the musculoskeletal system. We use multiphase continuum mathematical models to represent the tissues, and our methods are aimed at understanding the loads, deformation and fluid flow in tissues in human joints. Some specific projects include: modeling the nonlinear behavior of soft tissues in human joints; solving three-dimensional contact of soft tissues using penetration-based methods and full contact methods; modeling of cells using multiphase models; coupling of tissue and cellular responses.Our long-range plans involve coupling biomechanical behaviors with biochemical, bioelectric and biotransport phenomena for broader classes of tissues, and to represent cellular behaviors, and coupling both the biophysical phenomena and the physiological scales. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Biomedical Engineering Engineering Shiva Kotha 1040 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1040 2010-10-01 12:54 Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2000 Dr Kotha obtained his undergraduate training in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now NIT, Trichy) and his Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering from Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He served as a post-doctoral researcher in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and in Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University in St Louis. Dr Kotha served as faculty at the dental school of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut prior to joining Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr Kotha has worked on the experimental and theoretical aspects of bone tissue damage, adaptation and repair, as well as the development of novel materials that can be used to support implants. Dr Kotha’s research interests lie broadly in the area of developing novel multi-functional materials and devices to understand and control cell/ tissue function. His research areas include cell and tissue mechanics, multi-functional materials, and the development of minimally invasive modalities for imaging and treatment.For example, in the area of bone biomechanics, Dr Kotha’s group studies the role of mechanical loading on damage and repair to bone at multiple length scales. They characterize how mineral and organic in bone support its deformation as load is applied. When this is combined with novel non-invasive ultrasound based technologies being developed, the overall goal is to make devices that can be used to monitor the risk of bone failure at specific sites. They also evaluate how cells sense deformation of bone and what molecular pathways are activated in response to loading. These studies can be used to develop therapeutics that can be used to create new bone at sites where it is required. In summary, his research on bone will enable the development of novel devices that can enhance new bone formation at specific sites while assaying its fracture risk. http:// Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Hiroki Yokota 1041 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1041 2010-09-30 14:31 Ph.D., Indiana UniversityMolecular, Cellular and Developmental BiologyPh.D., University of TokyoAstronauticsM.S., University of TokyoAstronauticsB.S., University of TokyoAeronautics and Astronautics Hiroki Yokota received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo, and worked for lunar and planetary missions at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences in Japan. He then studied molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the Department of Biology at Indiana University. After his post-doctoral training in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at University of Washington School of Medicine, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis in 1998. From 2010, he is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Yokota is a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, an Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Systems Biology, an Editor-In-Chief of Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, and an editorial board member of several journals in the areas of orthopedics and bioinformatics. He serves as a reviewer of many journals as well as a review panel member of NIH, NASA, DOD, etc.Research InterestsDr. Yokota’s research is focused on biomechanics and gene regulation of skeletal systems using a multi-disciplinary approach. He is interested in developing hardware and software tools to conduct global systems analyses of bone and joints. Specific topics of interest include: •Analysis of molecular and cellular mechanisms in bone remodeling•Development of mechanical loading devices for strengthening bone•Building mathematical models to evaluate mineral metabolisms for patients with osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, and chronic kidney disease•Development of therapeutic agents for enhancing bone formationThe current research activities are supported by NIH/NIAMS and NASA. http:// Hiroki Yokota received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo, and worked for lunar and planetary missions at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences in Japan. He then studied molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the Department of Biology at Indiana University. After his post-doctoral training in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at University of Washington School of Medicine, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis in 1998. From 2010, he is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Glenn Monastersky 1042 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1042 2010-10-01 12:49 Ph.D. - Rutgers University and UMDNJ (1986) Glenn Monastersky joined Rensselaer in 2006. His priorities include the design, development and supervision of the CBIS Research Cores, the facilitation of interdepartmental faculty and student collaborations, the management of CBIS operations, the successful recruitment of faculty and the acquisition of external research collaborations and partnerships. His career research interests have included human embryonic stem cell biology, mammalian gene regulation and expression, transgenic animal disease models, cancer cell biology, pharmacogenomics and reproductive biology.Monastersky received his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Rutgers University followed by postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and Integrated Genetics. He has held international positions in research and corporate management at Genzyme, Charles River Laboratories, AviGenics and Hoffmann-La Roche. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Biomedical Engineering Engineering Stanley Reisman 1043 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1043 2010-10-01 12:32 Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of NY, BioegineeringM.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical EngineeringB.S., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Electrical Engineering Dr. Reisman joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI in 2009 after having spent 38 years at the NJIT. His career at NJIT began in the ECE department where he became associate chair for Graduate Studies. He then moved to the newly formed BME Department in 2000 and became the Graduate Advisor in the new department. His research interests are in the instrumentation and signal processing area and particularly in cardiovascular instrumentation and signal processing.Dr. Reisman is a senior member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, as well as a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi.Research InterestsDr. Reisman has investigated the use of time-frequency analysis of heat rate variability to understand the action of the autonomic nervous system during stress and relaxation. He has used signal processing techniques such as wavelet analysis to examine autonomic activity during exercise and recovery from exercise. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Biomedical Engineering Engineering Philippe Baveye baveyp 1044 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1044 2011-01-05 14:42 Ph.D, Soil Science, University of California, Riverside. M.S. Continuum Mechanics Johns Hopkins University Soil Engineering Water Engineering http://www.rpi.edu/academics/engineering/facultyheadshots/baveye.jpg Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Tarek Abdoun abdout 1045 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1045 2011-03-07 14:14 http://www.nees.rpi.edu/article.php3?id_article=35 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteGeotechnical EngineeringM.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteGeotechnical EngineeringB.S., Cairo UniversityStructural Engineering Earthquakes Geotechnical Dr. Abdoun is a Professor and the NEES Technical director and Associated Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering. of Rensselaer's NEES facility. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from RPI in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Abdoun primary research interests are centrifuge modeling, soil-structure interaction, soil remediation, field advanced sensing and data visualization. He has conducted, and/or advised other researchers on several hundreds of successful high-quality centrifuge model tests conducted at the RPI centrifuge. The centrifuge experiments supplemented by high-quality reliable measurements have been used to develop or calibrate new design or retrofit engineering methods.Professor Abdoun led Rensselaer's physical modelling research team that clarified the failure mechanisms of some of the New Orleans levees during Hurricane Katrina, providing critical feedback to the corresponding numerical analyses. He worked closely on this with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the corresponding US National Academies Oversight Committee, and his work was shown on national networks (CNN, NBC, Discovery, ASCE News, Times, etc.) and cited in great detail in an article evaluating the lessons from Hurricane Katrina in the Spring 2007 issue of The Bridge, published by the National Academy of Engineering.Professor Abdoun designed & developed this novel wireless shape-acceleration sensor array, taking advantage of new advances in fiber optic and MEMS sensor technologies. The sensors are capable of measuring ground acceleration and permanent deformation to a depth of about 15 m, at a cost 1/10th or 1/20th of existing inclinometer and borehole technologies. In situ 3D ground deformation and 2D soil acceleration are measured at close intervals. Each sensor array is connected to a wireless sensor node to enable real time monitoring and informed assessment of pending failure.He is a member of several technical committees and the editorial board of technical Journals, including ASCE Geo Institute Committee for Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Canadian Journal, etc. Dr Abdoun is the recipient of Rensselaer's 2004, 2006 & 2007 School of Engineering Excellence in Research & Teaching Award, and the 2004 prestigious Casimir Gzowski awarded by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. He has over 120 publications and technical reports. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/abdoun_tarek_web.jpg Rensselaer Early Career Award (May 2007) Shamsher Prakash Research Award for Excellence in the Practice of Geotechnical Engineering from the Shamsher Prakash Foundation Medal and Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service from the Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers NEES 2007 Award for “Best IT Innovation” for the development of an interactive “3D data viewer” Recipient of the 2007 School of Engineering Outstanding Team Award Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Gianluca Cusatis cusatg 1046 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1046 2010-10-08 07:56 Ph.D., M.S., Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, ItalyStructural EngineeringB.S., Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, ItalyStructural Engineering Computational Solid Mechanics Solid Mechanics The long term goal of the activity of Gianluca Cusatis’ research group is to develop effective computational technologies for the simulation of concrete mechanical behavior. Cusatis aims at formulating constitutive models and numerical methods with real predictive capability that will enable new generations of engineers to design safer, more reliable, and more durable reinforced concrete structures.In particular, the research group is currently involved in various research projects that deal with the development of new theories and algorithms for the prediction of the performance of concrete and reinforced concrete structures under high impulsive loadings, such as blasts and penetrations. Reliable computer simulations of failure under these types of loadings require an accurate description of various fracture phenomena including crack initiation, propagation along complex three-dimensional paths, interaction and coalescence of distributed multi-cracks into localized continuous cracks, temperature and humidity effects, loading rate effects, effect of confining pressure, interaction between damaged and undamaged material, etc.The classical continuous (tensor based) representation of solids, although it has been used traditionally to address some of these aspects, is inherently incapable of modeling the loss of continuity associated with damage and fracture. For this reason Cusatis uses a “discrete approach” based on an “a priori” discretization of the solids of interest into particles whose interaction is governed by vectorial constitutive laws. Typically he links such a discretization to the features of the internal structure of the material by defining size and position of the particles according to the size and position of the main material heterogeneities (aggregate pieces in concrete). This approach has already demonstrated its potentialities in a wide variety of applications and his group is certain that it will become dominant for dynamic applications.At the moment his research activity is mainly related to concrete mechanics. However, the scientific relevance of his developments is much broader. A wide variety of other materials, including cementitious composites, macromolecular based polymers, biomaterials, nanomaterials, sea-ice, cohesive soils, wood, toughened ceramics, and other engineered materials, share with concrete many aspects of their behavior. An example is the quasi-brittle character shown by many new and engineered materials at the micro- and nano-scale. Many recent studies show that, at these scales, micro- and nano-size heterogeneities play the same role, and induce the same effects, of aggregate pieces in concrete at macro-scale. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/cusatis_gianluca_web.jpg Industry Stipend of Excellence Award. This award is sponsored by Lafarge Group and Electricite de France. Evaluation Committee: Prof. F.H. Wittmann, Dr. P. Acker and Dr. B. Gerrard. ConCreep6@MIT, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Aug. 2001. Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Michael O’Rourke orourm 1047 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1047 2010-10-05 14:45 Ph.D., Northwestern UniversityCivil EngineeringM.S., Northwestern UniversityCivil EngineeringB.S., Illinois Institute of TechnologyCivil Engineering Engineering Snow Loads Lifeline Earthquake Engineering: * Wave propagation effects on buried pipe * Permanent ground deformation effects on buried pipe * Centrifuge testing of buried pipe * Fragility relations for above ground tanksSnow Loading on Roofs: * Ground Snow Loads * Drift loads on stepped roofs * Drift loads on gable roofs * Eave icingSeismic Response of Buried Pipeline: Earthquake damage to buried lifelines such as water, sewer and natural gas lines can be caused by either wave propagation or Permanent Ground Deformation (PGD). Research on both these topics is on-going at Rensselaer. This includes an analytical evaluation of the relationship between seismic damage (repairs per kilometer of pipe) and ground strain, as well as numerical and centrifuge evaluation of buried pipe subject to abrupt PGD at a fault crossing or the margin of a lateral spread. The 1999 MCEER Monograph by O’Rourke and Liu entitled “Response of Buried Pipeline Subject to Earthquake Effects”provide background information and a summary for the topic. An updated Buried Pipeline Monograph is expected early in 2011.Snow and Ice Loads on Buildings: Snow loading is a structural design consideration for roofs in most states and the controlling load for at least some structural component in about half the states. Although not a significant load from a structural standpoint ice dams frequently lead to infiltration and costly water damage to interior walls and ceiling surfaces. Research on both issues is ongoing at Rensselaer. Of the many types of snow loads; uniform, sliding snow from a higher roof, etc drifted snow results in higher loads and more potential for structural damage. The Rensselaer water flume is being used to simulate snow drift loading and establish relationships for use in national codes. A guide explaining the ASCE 7-10 snow load provision through design examples and frequently asked questions has been published by ASCE Press. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/orourke_michael_web.jpg Rensselaer Distinguished Teaching Fellow C. Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering ASCE Jerome Fischbach Travel-Rensselaer Standard Oil-University of Wisconsin-Parkside Teaching Award Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Jose Holguin-Veras jhv 1048 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1048 2010-12-21 10:06 http://www.rpi.edu/~holguj2/ Ph.D., University of Texas at AustinTransportationM.S., Universidad Central de VenezualaTransportationB.S., Universidad Autonoma de Santo DomingoCivil Engineering Decision Support Systems Operations Research Transportation Professor Holguin-Veras’s research emphasizes: the integration of state of the art economic principles into transportation modeling, so that a complete picture could be developed on the broader impacts of transportation activity on the economy and the environment; and the study of the behavior of the participating agents to support sustainable policies. His work includes a broad spectrum of research tracks ranging from: basic research on transportation modeling, research on the behavioral responses of agents to pricing and other sustainable policies, research on simplified modeling techniques, i.e., to estimate demand using secondary data. The latter techniques are bound to benefit developing countries because they minimize the need for expensive data collection efforts.His leadership positions at key international research organizations include: Vice-President for Logistics of the Pan-American Conferences of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elected Member of the Council for the Association for European Transport, member of the International Organizing Committee of the City Logistics Conferences, member of three Technical Committees and invitational Task Forces on freight modeling at the Transportation Research Board. He is member of a number of editorial boards, Review Chair for freight transportation at the Transportation Research Board, and Transportation Editor at Networks and Spatial Economics.Holguin-Veras is the author of dozens of articles on transportation modeling and economics. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/holguin_veras_jose_web.jpg Recipient of the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2001) Recipient of a Proclamation from the City Council of New York honoring his research accomplishments and contributions to local communities (April 17, 2001) Recipient of the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award, 1996 (Council of University Transportation Centers) Recipient of a 2007 School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies (CITS) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Michael Symans symans 1049 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1049 2010-10-05 15:51 Ph.D., University at BuffaloCivil EngineeringM.S., University at BuffaloCivil EngineeringB.S., University at BuffaloCivil Engineering Structural Dynamics Signal Processing Sensors Earthquakes Control Systems Dr. Symans' research interests include: * Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering * Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation Systems * Smart Structures * Structural Vibration Control * Constitutive Modeling * System Identification Professor Symans' general field of research is structural earthquake engineering with a primary emphasis on the development of advanced seismic protection systems for application to building and bridge structures. In addition, he has investigated methods of analysis for evaluating the seismic performance of structures, methods for identifying the dynamic properties of structural systems, and approaches for predicting the seismic performance of buried lifelines. The overarching goal in all of his research is to improve the performance of the built infrastructure such that losses are reduced in future earthquakes. The majority of Professor Symans' research is conducted within the Rensselaer School of Engineering Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES). http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/symans_michael_web.jpg Early Career Award, National Science Foundation Outstanding Research Team Award, Rensselaer School of Engineering Invited speaker and delegate of United States at Fourth Passive Control Symposium, Tokyo, Japan Member, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon and Pi Mu Epsilon Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering William Wallace wallaw 1050 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1050 2011-02-24 09:29 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Transportation Simulation Modeling Infrastructure His research interests are generally in: * Analytical Approaches to Emergency Management: Research focuses on the development of models for disaster management, including transportation of hazardous materials. Investigating the development of Decision logic for crisis management. * The Process of Modeling: The acquiring of an expert's judgment and experience and its subsequent codification in a form amenable to representation by a complex model is the objective of this research. Present work is concerned with (i) designing an automated means of support for this process, (ii) the use of visual, both 2D and 3D, and (iii) studying ways and acquiring knowledge about the usual or exceptional occurrence. On-going research includes Decision Support for Group Improvisation; the development and assessment of a blackboard architecture for supporting improvisation by emergency response teams supported by NSF, Visualization and the Process of Modeling (with Professor Willemain) supported by NSF; Trust and Knowledge Management: The Develop and Implementation of Graph-Theoretic Models for the Assessment of Trust in Sources of Knowledge -- supported by NSF. The Impact of the World Trade Center Attack on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies, supported by NSF, and Wireless Advanced Travelers Information Systems, supported by FHA and NYSDoT. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/wallace_william_web.jpg Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Excellence in Research Award, SoE INFORMS President&#039;s Award Fellow, IEEE DSES Faculty Award for Excellence IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Engineering Management Society Best Student Paper (with R.G. Arunasalam, J.T. Richie, W. Regan, and O. Gur-Ali), Portland International Conference on Management and Engineering and Technology Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize, DSES International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference Award Horwood Critique Prize for Outstanding Paper, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Conference Outstanding Case Award, Rand Graduate Institute/Duke University Public Policy Curricular Materials Development Program Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies (CITS) Professor Civil and Environmental EngineeringIndustrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Mourad Zeghal zeghal 1051 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1051 2010-10-08 15:08 http://www.rpi.edu/~zeghal/ Ph.D., Princeton UniversityCivil EngineeringM.A., Princeton UniversityCivil Engineering Soil Mechanics Geotechnical Earthquakes Dr. Zeghal research interests include: Computational Soil Micro-Mechanics, Geotechnical-System Identification, Seismic Response Monitoring, and Information Technology Applications in Geomechnics. He is active with the Center for Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES), Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) and the Inverse Problems Center (IPRPI).Failure of geosystems due to natural or man-made hazards such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, or terrorist attacks may have monumental repercussions, sometimes with dramatic and unanticipated consequences on human life and the country’s economy. Dr. Zeghal’s research focuses on three areas that are central to the national effort to reduce the impact of these hazards: (1) multiscale modeling of geosystems, (2) model validation and calibration, and (3) development of improved optimal design tools.The methodology of evaluating and predicting the performance of geosystems is undergoing a significant paradigm shift. Computational simulations are destined to become more prominent than empirical approaches and will ultimately become the main tool for analysis and design of civil systems. A hierarchy of adaptive and cost-effective computational models capable of accurately predicting the multiscale and multiphysics response of geosystems is being developed. This hierarchy enables a seamless handling of the initiation and evolution of the various response and failure mechanisms of soils under extreme loading conditions. The hierarchical models range from homogenized continuum to discontinuous coarse-particle formulations. A class of innovative system identification and inverse problem tools are being developed to calibrate these models using experimental data ranging from soil sample and centrifuge tests to full-scale and field tests. This new generation of computational procedures is being translated to practice through careful interactions with practitioners (from industry and government laboratories) and the introduction of changes in the educational curricula of our students. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/zeghal_mourad_web.jpg Early Career Award, National Science Foundation Multiscale Science and Engineering Center Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Thomas Zimmie zimmit 1052 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1052 2010-10-08 15:05 Ph.D., University of Connecticut Geotechnical Water Quality Soil Mechanics Simulation Modeling Dr. Zimmie's research interests include: * Dam Safety * Physical Modeling of Blasting and Explosions * Levees and Embarkments-Design, Erosion * Landfill siting and design * Groundwater Hydrology * Groundwater contamination * Centrifuge modeling of geo-environmental problems * Physical-chemical phenomena in soils * Subsurface drainage * Geosynthetics * Experimental soil dynamics * Solid and hazardous waste disposal * Sediment transport in rivers * Problems on the geotechnical environmental interface Tom Zimmie was heavily involved with studies on the New Orleans levee failures caused by Hurricane Katrina. He was part of a NSF sponsored investigative team that went to New Orleans shortly after Katrina. He testified before US Senate and House committees and did numerous TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. Work on the levees continued, in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers, using the Civil Engineering geotechnical centrifuge, and this work also received a lot of interest from the media and various committees studying Katrina events.Rensselaer's geotechnical centrifuge, a physical modeling tool, is useful for studying the effects of explosions. For example a one gram explosive charge in a centrifuge model can be equal to about a ton of explosives in the prototype (the actual full scale structure). Blasting effects are being studied on dams, embankments, levees, buried pipelines and tunnels. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/images/portraits/zimmie_thomas_web.jpg 2007 David M. Darrin Counseling Award Civilian Patriotic Service Award for work on Katrina Levee Failures-by US Army Corps of Engineers Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering James (Chip) Kilduff kilduff 1053 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1053 2011-01-05 14:43 Ph.D., University of MichiganEnvironmental Engineering Water Quality Membrane Processes Dr. Kilduff's research interests include application of membrane and adsorption separation processes to potable water production, industrial wastewater treatment, and pollutant transport in the environment.His research projects involve: * Using ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membrane separation processes to control natural organic matter, including disinfection by-product precursors, and ionic pollutants * The effects of macromolecule size and sorbent chemical characteristics on the uptake of natural organic matter by activated carbon * The effects of background natural organic matter on the removal of trichloroethylene by activated carbon * The effects of activated carbon surface properties on the uptake of priority pollutants and the solvent regeneration of phenol. In one line of investigation, Kilduff and his group are developing membrane processes for potable water production. Although such processes are becoming more widely accepted and economical, membrane fouling still remains a significant problem. With Yanxiao Yuan, Kilduff is investigating the role of mixtures of polysaccarides, humic and fulvic acids, and inorganic colloids (including nanoparticles) on membrane flux and flux decline. Their objectives include the development of predictive models and operational strategies to minimize flux decline. With Mingyan Zhou, they are looking at how membrane properties such as surface morphology, RMS roughness, and feature size contribute to flux decline. They are collaborating with the Belfort group at RPI to developing ways to minimize flux decline via modification of membrane surface chemistry using UV-assisted graft polymerization of hydrophilic and charged monomers. Mingyan is leading an innovative approach employing high throughput technology borrowed from the biotechnology industry. The membrane group is also interested in developing ways to predict membrane rejection of natural organic matter and EPA candidate compounds using hindered transport models combined with the Nernst-Planck equation to account for solute and membrane charge.In a second line of investigation, with Hyung Nam Lim Kilduff and his group are studying the role of adsorption in natural and engineered systems. With application to natural systems, soil and sediment organic matter plays a major role in the sorption and desorption of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Such organic matter may coat mineral surfaces and may be adsorbed in nanometer-sized pore spaces. They are investigating the role of such confinement on sorption and desorption equilibrium; this research has application to risk assessment and remediation strategies. With application to water and wastewater treatment, they are investigating the efficacy of carbon nanotubes as adsorbents for organic compounds. This research involves developing ways to pretreat nanotubes to remove metal catalysts, ways to etch nanotubes using advanced oxidation processes to open internal surface area, ways to assess and control aggregation. Their objectives include the thermodynamic modeling of sorption equilibrium and identification of mechanisms including the role of pi-pi interactions. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/engineering/facultyheadshots/kiduff.jpg Career Award, National Science Foundation Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Johnson Samuel samuej2 1054 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1054 2011-02-08 10:14 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Bio-medical manufacturing and green manufacturingDesign of advanced materials for manufacturingMicro/nano-scale manufacturing Engineering Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc borcat 1055 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1055 2010-10-13 12:14 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Associate Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Heat transfer and energy conversionMEMSNanotechnology Engineering Don Steiner steind 1056 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1056 2010-10-19 14:28 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNuclear Engineering In 1967 Professor Steiner joined the Research Staff of the Reactor Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. From 1967-1969 he worked in several areas relating to the analysis of Advanced Fission Reactors. In 1969 he joined the Staff of the Fusion Energy Division where he worked in various aspects of fusion energy development including the design of conceptual fusion reactors, environmental health and safety aspects of fusion power, and in the nuclear analysis of advanced fusion systems. At ORNL, Dr. Steiner directed a number of programs for the Laboratory and in 1978 was selected to be the overall Director for a national team, which was designing a near-term fusion demonstration device called the Fusion Engineering Device. This team consisted of scientists from all over the United States.In 1981 Dr. Steiner joined the Faculty of the Nuclear Engineering Department at RPI as Institute Professor of Nuclear Engineering. Since his arrival at RPI Prof. Steiner has been engaged in research relating to fusion energy development and also in the development of courses for the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Programs at Rensselaer. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/steiner_don_web.jpg In 1981 Dr. Steiner joined the Faculty of the Nuclear Engineering Department at RPI as Institute Professor of Nuclear Engineering. Since his arrival at RPI Prof. Steiner has been engaged in research relating to fusion energy development and also in the development of courses for the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Programs at Rensselaer. Professor Emeritus Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Pindaro Demertzoglou demerp 1057 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1057 2010-11-02 10:14 Ph.D., State University of New York;MBA, M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;B.S., American College of Thessaloniki Transaction Processing Systems Decision Support Systems E-business Applications Commercial and Open Source Databases http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/demerp.jpg Clinical Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Sonja Francis francs 1058 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1058 2010-11-02 12:23 B.S., University of Toronto;Ph.D., University of Toronto Team Management Cross Cultural Management Perspectives http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/francs.jpg Clinical Associate Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Dmitri Markovitch markod 1059 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1059 2010-11-10 09:23 Ph.D., Marketing, New York University;M. Phil., Marketing, New York University;M.B.A., Southwestern Oklahoma State University;B.A., Applied Linguistics, Minsk State Linguistic University, Minsk, Belarus Marketing-Finance Interface New Product Development Managerial Decision Making under Uncertainty Professor Markovitch joined RPI in August of 2008 after three-and-a-half years on the faculty of HEC School of Management-Paris, where he taught undergraduate and MBA courses. Dr. Markovitch’s research interests are in three substantive areas. First, he is interested in various issues at the interface of marketing and finance. In particular, he investigates stock returns as a marketing metric, the stock market’s ability to provide feedback for marketing decisions and the extent to which marketing decisions reflect feedback from the stock market. Much of this research has examined stock market reactions in the context of new product innovation and commercialization. Dr. Markovitch’s second area of research focuses on new product innovation. His current research projects include a study of antecedents of new product failure in the marketplace and firm performance impact of major innovation capability. His third research stream involves managerial decision making, particularly in the context of innovation. His most recent research focus in this area is on behavioral biases in international teams. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/markod.jpg "Do Initial Stock Price Reactions Provide a Good Measurement Stick for Marketing Strategies? The case of new product introductions in the US."&nbsp;&nbsp;Markovitch, D. G. &amp; J. H. Steckel. 2010. Forthcoming in the <em>European</em> <em>Journal of Marketing.</em> "Using Stock Prices to Predict Market Events: Evidence on Sales Takeoff and Long-Term Firm Survival." Markovitch, D.G. &amp; P.N. Golder. 2008. <em>Marketing </em><em>Science</em>, 27 (4):<strong> </strong>717-729. "Using Capital Markets as Market Intelligence: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry." Markovitch, D.G., J.H. Steckel &amp; B. Yeung. 2005. <em>Management Science,</em> 51 (10): 1467-1480. Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Marketing Lally School of Management and Technology Seunghan Nam nams2 1060 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1060 2010-11-11 14:49 Ph.D. in Accounting, New York University;M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Stanford University;B.A. in Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University Accounting http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Robert Hull hullr2 1061 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1061 2011-03-03 13:50 MTLE 1960 - Introduction to Materials Engineering (Fall) MTLE 6460 - Advanced Structures and Bonding (Spring) Ph.D., Oxford UniversityDepartment of Metallurgy and Materials ScienceB.A., Oxford UniversityPhysics Nanotechnology Electronic Materials Semiconductors In the summer of 2000, Hull took leadership of UVA’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Two years later, he was named the Charles Henderson Professor of Engineering and director of the UVA Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Science. He also held a joint appointment in the university’s Department of Electrical Engineering.Along with an extensive list of published articles, Hull is active in engineering and materials science societies and professional groups. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, and in 1997 served as president of the Materials Research Society. In 1993 he chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Thin Films and in 1999, chaired the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research.Within the realms of materials and nanoscience, Hull’s research focuses on the relationships between structure and property in electronic materials, fundamental mechanisms of thin film growth, and the self-assembly of nanoscale structures. Other areas of interest include degradation modes in electronic and optoelectronic devices, the properties of dislocations in semiconductors, nanoscale fabrication techniques, nanoscale tomographic reconstruction techniques, development of new nanoelectronic architectures, and the theory and application of electron and ion beams. http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/hull_robert.jpg American Physical Society Materials Research Society Microscopy Society of America Fellow; Materials Research Society Fellow, American Physical Society “Control of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Nanostructures: Variants of SixGe1-x/Si Quantum Dot Molecules”. J. Murphy*, R. Hull, D. Pyle, H. Wang, J. Gray and J. Floro, J. Vac. Sci. Technol Coupled effects of ion beam chemistry and morphology on directed self-assembly of epitaxial semiconductor nanostructures, J.F. Graham*, C.D. Kell, J.A. Floro, and R. Hull, Nanotechnology (in press, 2010) Modulation of the magnetism in ion implanted MnxGe1-x thin films by rapid thermal anneal, W.J. Yin, L. He*, M.C. Dolph, J.W. Lu, R. Hull and S.A. Wolf, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 093919:1-6 (2010) “Simulation study of aberration-corrected high resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging of few-layer grapheme stacking”, F. Nelson, A.C. Diebold and R. Hull, Microscopy and Microanalysis 16, 194-99 (2010) “Bridging the Length Scales Between Lithographic Patterning and Self Assembly Mechanisms in Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanostructure Arrays” (invited), R Hull, J A Floro, M Gherasimova*, J F Graham*, J L Gray, A Portavoce, F M Ross and J Thorp, Journal of Physics Conference Series 209 012003:1-10 (2010) In academia and private industry, Hull is best known for his research into fundamental growth mechanisms of semiconductor films and nanostructures, and for his work in exploring potential applications of these structures to future nanoelectronic devices. “Dislocation Properties at Ultra-High Stresses in Semiconductors”, St. Kitts, Jan 2010 (Keynote lecture) “Interdisciplinary Research: The Challenges and Awards”, Workshop on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Science and Engineering Fields, Boston, MA, Nov 2010 (Keynote) “Programmed Assembly of Epitaxial Semiconductor Nanostructure Arrays”, Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010 Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE)Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Professor Materials Science and Engineering IBMNISTNSFNYSTAROther - Corporation CrystalsElectron Microscopyelectronic materialsmaterials processingnanomaterialsNanotechnologySemiconductors Engineering Nanotechnology Benjamin Chia-Ming Chang changb3 1062 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1062 2011-01-05 11:34 http:// Associate Professor Arts games Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Gregory DeAngelo deangg 1063 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1063 2011-01-05 11:35 http:// Professor Economics Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Robert Karlicek karlir 1064 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1064 2011-01-05 11:38 http:// Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering smart lighting Engineering Energy and the Environment David Mendonca mendod 1065 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1065 2011-01-05 11:39 http:// Associate Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Lee Sheldon sheldc2 1066 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1066 2011-01-05 11:42 http:// Associate Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Mei Si sim 1067 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1067 2011-03-10 09:23 http:// Assistant Professor Cognitive Science Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Pengfei Ye yep 1068 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1068 2011-01-05 11:45 http:// Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Yinghong Zhang zhangy22 1069 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1069 2011-01-05 11:46 http:// Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Thomas Triscari Jr. trisct 1070 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1070 2011-01-13 11:03 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;M.E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Systems Analysis Innovation Management http://www.rpi.edu/academics/lally/faculty/photo/trisct.jpg Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Kevin Wall wallk 1071 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1071 2011-01-13 14:00 B.S., Accounting, Bentley University;M.B.A., Finance and Systems, Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management;L.L.M., Taxation, Boston University School of Law;J.D., Suffolk University Law School http://www.eng.rpi.edu/people_images/photo_not_avail.jpg Clinical Assistant Professor Lally School of Management and Technology Lally School of Management and Technology Chris Letchford letchc 1073 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1073 2011-01-21 11:40 Engineering Mechanics Fluid Mechanics Wind Engineering BE(Hons) Civil - University of Queensland, Australia, 1980DPhil(Oxf) - University of Oxford, England, 1987 Wind Engineering Bluff Body Aerodynamics Chris Letchford obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours and University Medal from the University of Queensland in 1980. He was the inaugural winner of the Ove Arup Scholarship and worked for two years in the London Office of Ove Arup and Partners, Consulting Engineers. There he worked on the designs for the Britannia Leisure Centre, the Old Vic Theatre refurbishment, and the Menil Collection Museum in Houston under Peter Rice and Renzo Piano. He also spent 9 months as Resident Engineer.After completing a doctorate in Wind Engineering at Oxford University as a Commonwealth Scholar he began his academic career at the University of Queensland in 1987. After developing a research program in Wind Engineering and Bluff Body Aerodynamics and reaching the level of Reader, Chris left Queensland to take up a Professorship at Texas Tech University in the US. During 8 years in the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center, he helped manage an annual research budget in excess of US$1million and developed several innovative simulators for thunderstorm downburst and tornado winds.In 1997 Chris chaired the 4th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering on the Gold Coast and in 2003 he chaired the Technical and Scientific Committees of the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering in Lubbock Texas. From 1995-1999 and 2007-2009 Chris was the Chair of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society (AWES). From 2003-2006 Chris was a member of the Executive of the American Association of Wind Engineering.In 2007 Chris was elected as the Asia-Pacific Representative of the International Association of Wind Engineering. Chris is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and sits on the Wind Effects, Aerodynamics and Tall buildings Committees. Chris is a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland and a Chartered Profssional Engineer in Australia.Chris left Texas Tech University as Senior Associate Dean to take up the Head of School of Engineering at the University of Tasmania in 2007. In 2011, Chris accepted the Head of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Delong Zuo, Texas Tech University Darryl James, Texas Tech University Steve Cochard, University of Sydney http://rpi.edu/academics/engineering/images/faculty_headshots/letchford.jpg Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia Member, American Society of Civil Engineers Member, American Society for Engineering Education Member, American Association of Wind Engineering Member Australasian Wind Engineering Society Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics Engineering Structures Wind & Structures Michael O&#039;Rourke David Rosowsky Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia Member, Teaching Academy, Texas Tech UNiversity Mason, M.S., D. L. James & C.W. Letchford, (2009) Wind loading on a cube subjected to an impinging pulsed wall jet simulation of a stationary thunderstorm downburst, Wind & Structures 12 (1) 77 - 88. Holmes, J.D., H.M.Hangan, J.L. Schroeder, C.W. Letchford & K.D. Orwig, (2008) A forensic study of the Lubbock-Reese downdraft of 2002, Wind & Structures, 11 (2) 137-152. Fritz, William P., Bogusz Bienkiewicz, O. Flamand, T C E (Eric) Ho, H. Kikitsu, Chris W. Letchford and Emil Simiu, (2008) International Comparison of Wind Tunnel Estimates of Wind Effects on Low-Rise Buildings: Test-Related Uncertainties, ASCE J. Struct. Engng., December 2008, 1887 - 1890. Lin, Ning , John D. Holmes and Chris W. Letchford, (2007) Trajectories of Windborne Debris and Applications to Impact Testing, ASCE J. Structural Engineering, 133, 2, 274-282. Chen, L & C.W. Letchford, (2007) Numerical simulation of extreme winds from thunderstorm downbursts, JWEIA, 95 (9-11) 977-990. Chen, L., & C.W. Letchford (2006) Multi-scale Lateral Correlation Analyses of two lateral profiles of Full-Scale Downburst Wind Speeds, JWEIA, 94 (9) 675-696. Letchford, C.W., C. Mans & M. T. Chay, (2002) Thunderstorms, their importance in wind engineering - a case for the next generation wind tunnel, JWEIA (90) 1415-1433. Invited Lecturer, International Advanced School in Wind Engineering, Poland 2009, New Delhi, 2010. Keynote Speaker, 5th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering, July 19-23, 2009, Florence, Italy. Invited Lecturer, LLP/ERASMUS University of Florence, Intensive Course on Natural and Man-made Hazards, the Risk Chain, 9-18 July, 2009. Keynote Speaker, 5th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, October 21-24, 2001 Letchford, C.W. (2008) Severe Winds in Wind Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, December 11, 2008. Civil and Environmental Engineering Fluid/Structure InteractionStructural dynamicsWind Engineering Engineering Mohamed Aboul-Seoud aboulm 1074 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1074 2011-01-21 16:47 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Xiaokun (Cara) Wang wangx18@rpi.edu 1075 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1075 2011-02-07 15:30 http:// Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering John M. Reilly reillj2 1076 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1076 2011-03-08 16:07 Dr. Reilly has had over 35 years experience inthe design, management and operations of transportation systems. He was Deputy Executive Director of the Capital District Transportation Authority, a regional transportation operating agency with a fixed route bus and paratransit fleet, regional Medial brokerage and two railroad passenger terminals. His primary areas of responsibility include: capital project planning and development, grant and contact administration, service and cooperate planning, information technology, service contracting and facility management.He managed development of a new passenger rail station at Rensselaer (NY), the 10th busiest Amtrak station in over 50 years. Responsibility included supervision of design, arranging tenant leases, developing plans for property management and financial management.He is currently the project manager for a World Bank project on methods of measuring transit service capacity and quality in developing countries. He is also an advisor tot he World Bank on Transit Intelligent Information Systems in several cities in China and India.He directed transportation related studies, particularly in the area of transit data management and operations analysis (rail and bus) for a number of transit systems including the Denver Regional Transit District, Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, Charlotte Area Transit System Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments, Santa Cruz Transportation Authority, AC Transit, Metropolitan Transit System (San Diego), PACE, (suburban Chicago), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority New York State Department of Transportation. He was a consultant to New York State Senate High Speed Rail Task Force. http:// Chair, Committee on Transit Capacity and Quality of Service, Transportation Research, 1998-2002 Panel Chair, Implementation Guidance for Bus Rapid Transit Systems, Transportation Research Board, currently chair of research study on applications of Bus Rapid Transit sponsored byt he Federal transit Administration (1999-present) Member, Selection COmmittee, Transit IDEA Program (Ideas Deserving Exploratory Analysis) 1992-1995 Chair, Committee on Synthesis of Current Transit Proactices, chaired editoral board for a series of reports documenting the stateif the practice in a number od transportation management and analysis areas. 1989-1998 Member COnference Committee, Critical Issues for the Future of Intercity Rail Transportation inthe United Sates, 1998. Advisory panel Member, International Comparison of National Policies and Epectations Affecting Public Transit, research study sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration, conducted by the Censturcted by the Transportation Research Board 1998-2001 German Marshall Fund of the United Stated, Environmenatl Fellow, 1998 Eno Foundation for Transportation - International Transit Studies Program Fellow, 1996 New York Public Transit Association Hall of Fame, 2006 Clinical Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Venkata Ramana Gadhamshetty gadhav 1077 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1077 2011-03-08 15:56 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering E. Fred Schubert Schubert 1079 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1079 2011-02-18 10:21 http://www.rpi.edu/~schubert/ Ph. D., Electrical Engineering, with honors, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1986.M.S., Electrical Engineering, with honors, University of Stuttgart, 1981.B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, 1978. compound semiconductor materials and devices After completing his master’s degree, Schubert spent four years studying compound semiconductor crystal growth as a scientific staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. He later joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., where he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow. From 1988 to 1995, Schubert served as principal investigator in the Research Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. In 1995, he joined Boston University and was appointed to a full professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also was named an affiliated member of the Photonics Center. At BU, he was responsible for GaN materials characterization and the fabrication of compound semiconductor devices – particularly GaN-based devices. He continued to serve as an adjunct professor for Boston University from 2002 to 2003.In 2002, Schubert was appointed Senior Constellation Chair of the Future Chip Constellation and Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer.Schubert authored the books, Light-Emitting Diodes, 2nd Edition (2006); Light-Emitting Diodes, (2003); and Doping in III-V Semiconductors, (1993); and edited the book, Delta Doping of Semiconductors, (1996), all from Cambridge University Press. Schubert also has published more than 200 research papers, has contributed several book chapters, and is inventor or co-inventor of about 28 issued U.S. patents. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). He also has received the Senior Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Discover magazine’s Discover Award for Technological Innovation, Research & Development Magazine’s R&D 100 Award, and Boston University’s Provost Innovation Fund Award.Schubert’s primary research interest is in the field of compound semiconductor materials and devices. His studies include epitaxial growth, materials characterization, device processing and fabrication, device design, and device characterization. Devices include heterobipolar transistors, lasers and light-emitting diodes for communication, lighting, and sensing applications.Schubert has made pioneering contributions in compound semiconductor materials and devices. His accomplishments include the discovery and first analysis of alloy broadening, the development of delta doped structures, superlattice doping in p-type GaN and AlGaN for increased acceptor activation, compositional parabolic grading for elimination of band discontinuities in unipolar heterojunctions, and crystallographic etching of GaN. He demonstrated the first resonant-cavity light-emitting diode (RCLED), which is the first practical device taking advantage of spontaneous emission enhancement; he also showed the first spontaneous emission and absorption enhancement in Er-doped Si/SiO2 microcavities. http://www.rpi.edu/academics/engineering/facultyheadshots/schubert.jpg E.F. Schubert, Light Emitting Diodes, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , UK , (2006). Xi J.-Q., Kim J. K., Schubert E. F., Ye D., Lu T.-M., Lin S.-Y., and Juneja J. S. “Very low-refractive-index optical thin films consisting of an array of SiO2 nanorods” Optics Letters 31, 601 (March, 2006) Kim J. K., Gessmann T, Schubert E. F., Xi J.-Q., Luo H. Cho J., Sone C., Park Y., “GaInN light-emitting diode with conductive omnidirectional reflector having a low-refractive index indium-tin oxide layer” Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 013501 (January 2006) Luo H., Kim J. K., Schubert E. F., Cho J., Sone C., and Park Y. “Analysis of high-power packages for phosphor-based white-light-emitting diodes” Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 243505 (June 2005) Xi J.-Q., Kim J. K., and Schubert E. F. “Silica nanorod-array films with very low refractive indices” Nano Letters 5, 1385 (July 2005) Kim J. K., Luo H., Schubert E. F., Cho J., Sone C. and Park Y. “Strongly enhanced phosphor efficiency in GaInN white light-emitting diodes using remote phosphor configuration and diffuse reflector cup” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. – Express Letter 44, L 649 (May 2005) Schubert’s primary research interest is in the field of compound semiconductor materials and devices. His studies include epitaxial growth, materials characterization, device processing and fabrication, device design, and device characterization. Devices include heterobipolar transistors, lasers and light-emitting diodes for communication, lighting, and sensing applications. Future Chips Electrical, Computer, and Systems EngineeringMaterials Science and EngineeringPhysics Linda S. Schadler schadl 1080 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1080 2011-03-04 14:20 http://rpi.edu/~schadl/ MTLE 4250 Properties of Engineering Materials (Spring) Ph.D., University of PennsylvaniaB.S., Cornell University Polymer nanocomposites Nanomaterials Advanced Materials Professor Schadler received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. She held a post-doctoral research position at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center from 1990-1992 and joined the faculty at Drexel University in 1992 as an assistant professor. While at Drexel she received a National Young Investigator Award. She joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1996. http://rpi.edu/academics/engineering/facultyheadshots/schadler.jpg ASM International MRS - Materials Research Society AWIS – American Women in Science ASEE – American Society of Engineering Education Society of Plastics Engineers Fellow, ASM International ASM International 1997 Bradley Stoughton Award for Excellence in Teaching Rensselaer School of Engineering, Outstanding Faculty Member Award “Electrical behavior of particle filled polymer nanocomposites,” R.C. Smith, J.K. Nelson, L.S. Schadler, Physical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites, edited by Tjong and Mai, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK Non-Linear Field Grading Materials and Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites with Controlled Conductivity,” Linda S. Schadler, X. Wang, J.K. Nelson, H. Hillborg, Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites edited by J.K. Nelson, Springer, New York, NY “Surface and Particle Modification via the RAFT Process: Approach and Properties,” Yu Li, L.S. Schadler, B.C. Benicewicz, Handbook of RAFT Polymerization edited by Christopher Barner-Kowollik Wiley-VCH, KGaA, Weinheim, Germany “Measurement of the Critical Aspect Ratio and Interfacial Shear Strength in MWNT/Polymer Composites,” R.K. Duncan, X.G. Chen, J.B. Bult, L.C. Brinson, L.S. Schadler, Composites Science and Technology, in press (2010). “Gel-like” Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposites,” Pinar Akcora, Sanat K. Kumar*, Sarah Lewis, Linda S. Schadler, Yu Li, Brian C. Benicewicz, Alec Sandy, Suresh Narayanan, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Ralph H. Colby, Jack F. Douglas, Macromolecules, in press (2010). “Conformational Transitions of Spherical Polymer Brushes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory,” Douglas Dukes, Yu Li, Sarah Lewis, Brian Benicewicz, Linda Schadler, Michael Tambasco, Sanat Kumar, Macromolecules, in press (2010). “Passivation oxide controlled selective carbon nanotube growth on metal substrates,” J. Bult, W. G. Sawyer, P.M. Ajayan and L.S. Schadler, Nanotechnology, vol. 20, no. 8, 085302 (2009). Professor Schadler received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. She held a post-doctoral research position at IBM&#039;s T.J. Watson Research Center from 1990-1992 and joined the faculty at Drexel University in 1992 as an assistant professor. While at Drexel she received a National Young Investigator Award. She joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1996. “To Disperse or Not To Disperse – That is the Question!” Society of Plastics Engineers, Keynote Lecture of the Polymer Analysis Division, ANTEC 2010, Orlando, FL, May 16-20 (2010). “Towards Design of Polymer Nanocomposites: Using the Interface to Tailor Polymer Nanocomposites Properties,” University of Pennsylvania, Grace Hopper Lecture, April 2 (2009 Multiscale Science and Engineering CenterNational Science Foundation Center for Directed Assembly of NanostructuresRensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) Professor Materials Science and Engineering DOENSFNYSTARONROther - Corporation advanced materialsComposite MaterialsNanomaterialksPolymers Engineering Nanotechnology Alhussein Abouzeid 1081 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1081 2011-03-08 15:49 http:// Associate Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Lonn Combs combsl 1083 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1083 2011-03-08 16:25 http:// Clinical Associate Professor Architecture Architecture Evan Douglis douglis 1084 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1084 2011-03-08 16:36 http:// Dean Architecture Architecture Ramanath Ganapathiraman ramanath 1085 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1085 2011-03-08 16:38 http:// Professor Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Matthew Gindlesparger gindlm 1086 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1086 2011-03-08 16:40 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Architecture Architecture Johannes Goebel jeg 1087 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1087 2011-03-08 16:42 http:// Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center (EMPAC) Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Media & the Arts Kent Hsu hsuc 1088 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1088 2011-03-08 16:46 http:// Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering Pawel Keblinski keblip 1089 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1089 2011-03-08 16:47 http:// Professor Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Colleen Klatt klattc 1090 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1090 2011-03-08 16:50 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Language Literature and Communication Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Mattheos Koffas koffam 1091 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1091 2011-03-08 16:52 http:// Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Sulan Kolatan kolata 1092 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1092 2011-03-08 16:54 http:// Clinical Associate Professor Architecture Architecture Russell Kraft 1093 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1093 2011-03-08 16:56 http:// Clinical Associate Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Milo Lazarevic 1094 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1094 2011-03-10 13:44 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Arts Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Yannick LeCoz lecozy 1095 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1095 2011-03-10 13:46 http:// Associate Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering Eric Ledet ledete 1096 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1096 2011-03-10 13:47 http:// Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering Chia Min Leong leongc 1097 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1097 2011-03-10 13:49 http:// Clinical Assistant Professor Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Engineering Michael Shur shurm 1098 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1098 2011-03-10 13:56 http:// Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Professor Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Engineering