8/21/2009
The School of Engineering & Applied Science welcomes seven new faculty members, including six this academic year.
Kunal Agrawal, Ph.D., joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Agrawal received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked with Professor Charles Leiserson in the Supercomputing Technologies Group. Her research interests include both theoretical and practical aspects of parallel computing, and she has worked on various topics such as scheduling, resource allocation, transactional memory, cache-aware and cache-oblivious streaming. She will add new strength to the computer engineering program.
John Cunningham, Ph.D., will join the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, after completing his postdoctoral training in the machine learning group of Professor Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge, U.K.. Cunningham’s research interests include neurocomputation with a specific focus on applications of brain-computer interfaces. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Baranidharan Raman, Ph.D., will join the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty next semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Raman is currently at the National Institutes of Health as a postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on systems neuroengineering aspects of olfaction, as well as neuromorphic engineering of sensors on chips. Raman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Jung-Tsung Shen, Ph.D., joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering. Shen received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on theoretical and computational investigations of electron-hole plasma, laser-gain profile, and metamaterials. Since 2003, Shen has worked at Stanford University in the Ginzton Laboratory, focusing on photon transport in nano-photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and thermal and energy transport in nano-structures. His primary research interest is in exploiting device potential and new material concepts enabled by the capability of manipulating light at subwavelength scales.
Srikanth Singamaneni, Ph.D., will join the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty next semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Structural Engineering. Receiving his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Singamaneni will bring expertise in materials engineering. While at Georgia Tech, he worked to elucidate the physical and thermal properties of crosslinked polymer thin and ultra-thin films and organized microstructures, with a special emphasis on surface and interfacial effects and structure-property relationships. His broader research interests include multifunctional materials; nanoscale confinement effects; physical, chemical, and biological sensors; surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy; and carbon nanostructure based nanoelectronics.
Venkat Subramanian, Ph.D., joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty as an associate professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering. Coming from Tennessee Tech University, Subramanian has research interests in modeling and simulation of electrochemical power sources, as well as in applied mathematics. Specifically, he is interested in energy-systems engineering, electrochemical engineering, computationally efficient algorithms (CPU time < 50 ms) for state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) estimation of lithium-ion batteries, multiscale simulation and design of energetic materials (batteries and fuel cells), kinetic Monte Carlo methods, and non-linear model predictive control. Since 2003, his research group has received more than $2 million in research awards. Subramanian received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina.
Kilian Weinberger, Ph.D., will join the School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty next semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Weinberger is currently a Research Scientist at Yahoo Research, where he works on next-generation spam-filtering algorithms, multimedia search, high-dimensional data analysis, and machine learning with convex optimization. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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