TCE Celebrates Faculty Promotions & Tenure for 2020
Congratulations to faculty members across the college who will start the 2020 fall semester with well-earned promotions and tenure.
Promoted to Full Professors
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Hahn Choo
Materials Science and Engineering
Research: Advanced structural alloys & neutron/synchrotron x-ray diffraction
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Lawrence Heilbronn
John D. Tickle Professor
Research: Medical isotope production, nuclear space sciences, health physics, space radiation transport and shielding, neutron and light ion production cross section measurements, heavy ion cross section and thick-target measurements
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Gila Stein
Prados Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research: Self-assembly in polymeric systems, physics of confined polymers, thermodynamics of polymer blends, architectural design of polymers, lithographic materials, coatings, thin film membranes, x-ray scattering methods
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Andrew Yu
Director of Engineering Management Program
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research: Operations research, systems engineering, supply chain and logistics optimization, scheduling and assignment, requirement engineering and optimization, systems of systems performance prediction
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Tenured and Promoted to Full Professor
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Garrett Steven Rose
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research: Nanoelectric circuit design, memristors and memristive systems, emerging nanoelectronic computer architectures, hardware security and security implications of emerging computing systems, neuromorphic computing
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Tenured
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Audris Mockus
Ericsson-Harlan Mills Chair Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research: Software engineering, data science, digital archaeology
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Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor
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Steven Abel
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research: Computational cell biology and immunology, theory and simulation of soft biological materials, membrane and polymer biophysics, antigen recognition by immune cells, intracellular transport, stochastic and spatial effects in biochemical reaction networks, systems biology, statistical mechanics
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David Donovan
Research: Fusion energy science, plasma physics, plasma-material interactions, near term applications of nuclear fusion devices, material characterization tools, He ion damage to tungsten in fusion relevant environments, plasma and heat flux diagnostic development and implementation, surface chemistry analysis, boundary plasma experimental research, impurity transport studies in magnetically confined fusion devices
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Michael Jantz
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research: Virtual machines, operating systems, compilers, program optimization, performance and power efficiency
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Anahita Khojandi
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research: Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, predictive analytics, reinforcement learning, time series analysis, anomaly detection, applied probability and statistics
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Seungha Shin
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Research: Fundamentals and innovative applications of energy transport and conversion (Heat transfer physics) – Multiscale, multiphysics simulations (ab initio, molecular dynamics, and meso or Boltzmann). Thermal energy transport and conversion in nonequilibrium, heterostructures (interfaces, molecular junctions), graphene, and energy conversion devices
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Stephanie TerMaath
Jessie Rogers Zeanah Faculty Fellow
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Research: High performance computing, structural mechanics, fracture mechanics, structural dynamics, material science
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