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Tarek Abdoun

Tarek Abdoun
Tue, 2010-10-05 09:23 — abdout
Name: Tarek Abdoun
Title:Thomas Iovino Chaired Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES)
Website:http://www.nees.rpi.edu
Bio Dr. Abdoun is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the NEES Technical Director of Rensselaer's NEES facility. He also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from RPI in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Abdoun's 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 published over 120 publications and technical reports.
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Education Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Geotechnical Engineering M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Geotechnical Engineering B.S., Cairo University Structural Engineering
Recognitions:
  • Recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for 2009
  • 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
  • Recipient of RPI’s School of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award for 2008

Mohamed Aboul-Seoud

Mohamed Aboul-Seoud
Fri, 2011-01-21 17:47 — aboulm
Name: Mohamed Aboul-Seoud
Title:Professor of Practice
Department Industrial and Systems Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://ise.rpi.edu/
Bio Dr. Aboul-Seoud's research interest includes reliability engineering, quality assurance, fuzzy logic, operations research, facilities planning and design, simulation, and engineering economics.
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Education Ph.D., University of Louisville reliability engineering, quality control, operations research. M.S., University of Louisville, KY Industrial Engineering B.S., Cairo University, Egypt Civil Engineering

Alhussein Abouzeid

Alhussein Abouzeid
Tue, 2011-03-08 16:49 — abouza
Name: Alhussein Abouzeid
Title:Associate Professor
Department Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
School Engineering
Center Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/abouzeid/
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Education Ph.D., University of Washington, Electrical Engineering M.S., University of Washington, Electrical Engineering B.S., Cairo University,Electronics and Communication Engineering
Scholarly Works:
  • Zhenzhen Ye, A.A. Abouzeid, and Jing Ai. Optimal policies for distributed data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2007, pages 1675 - 83, Anchorage, AK, USA, 2007
  • Di Wang and A.A. Abouzeid. Link state routing overhead in mobile ad hoc networks: a rate-distortion formulation. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2008, pages 2011 - 19, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2008
Recognitions:
  • NSF CAREER award,February 2006

Michael Amitay

Michael Amitay
Wed, 2010-09-22 10:32 — amitam
Name: Michael Amitay
Title:Professor and James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/cefpac
Bio 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. In the field of flow control of single-phase flows, I apply various active flow control techniques on various manned and unmanned Aerial Vehicles, wind turbines, building integrated wind, and more. In multi-phase flows, I implement the new approach of mixing enhancement in bubbly flows in microchannels using active flow control. This technique can also be applied to control of mixing in combustion and for noise reduction.
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Education Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Scholarly Works:
  • M. Amitay and A. Glezer "Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Synthetic Jet Actuators", Chapter in a book on "Control of Fluid Flow, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences", Springer Verlag, Berlin. Editors: P. Koumoutsakos and I. Mezic, 2006. ISSN print edition: 0170-8643, ISSN electronic edition: 1610-7411, ISBN-10 3-540-25140-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York.
  • M. Amitay and A. Glezer, "Separation Control using synthetic Jet actuators". Chapter in a book on Manipulation and Control of Jets in Crossflow. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Number 439. Editors: Ann R. Karagozian, Luca Cortelezzi and Alfredo Soldati, 2003, ISBN: 3-211-00753-9.
Recognitions:
  • 2001 ATAS Outstanding Technical Publications Award
  • 2002 Applied Aerodynamic TC best paper award

Xuegang (Jeff) Ban

Xuegang (Jeff) Ban
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — banx
Name: Xuegang (Jeff) Ban
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~banx
Bio 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.

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Education 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)
Scholarly Works:
  • Ban, X., Hao, P., and Sun, Z.B., 2011. Real time queue length estimation for signalized intersections using sample travel times from mobile sensors. Transportation Research Part C, in press.
  • Hoh, B., Iwuchukwu, T., Jacobson, Q., Gruteser, M., Bayen, A., Herrera, J.C., Herring, R., Work, D., Annavaram, M., and Ban, X, 2011. Enhancing Privacy and Accuracy in Probe Vehicle Based Traffic Monitoring via Virtual Trip Lines. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press.
  • Holguin-Veras, J., Torres, C.A., and Ban, X., 2011. On the comparative performance of urban delivery vehicle classes. Transportmetrica, 1-24.
  • Ban, X., Chu, L., Herring, R., and Margulici, J.D., 2010. A sequential modeling framework for optimal sensor placement for multiple ITS applications. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering 137(2), 2011.
  • Ban, X., Li, Y., Skabardonis, A., and Margulici, J.D., 2010. Performance evaluation of travel time estimation methods for real time traffic applications. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 14(2), 54-67.
  • Herrera, J.C., Work, D.B., Herring, R., Ban, X., and Bayen, A., 2010. Evaluation of traffic data obtained via GPS-enabled mobile phones: the Mobile Century field experiment. Transportation Research Part C, 18(4), 568-583.
  • Ban, X., Ferris, M., Liu, H., 2010. Numerical studies on reformulation techniques for continuous network design problems with asymmetric user equilibrium. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, 1(1), 52-72.
  • Ban, X., and Liu, H., 2009. A link-node discrete-time dynamic second best toll pricing model with a relaxation solution algorithm. Networks and Spatial Economics 9(2), 243-267.
  • Ban, X., Herring, R., Hao, P., and Bayen, A., 2009. Delay pattern estimation for signalized intersections using sampled travel times. Transportation Research Record 2130, 109-119.
  • Ban, X., Liu, H., Ferris, M.C., and Ran, B., 2008. A link-node complementarity model and solution algorithm for dynamic user equilibria with exact flow propagations. Transportation Research, part B, 42(9), 823-842.
  • Ban, X., Chu, L., and Benouar, H., 2007. Bottleneck Identification and Calibration for Corridor Management Planning. Transportation Research Record 1999, 40-53.
Recognitions:
  • National Science Foundation CAREER award May 2011
  • UTRC’s 2008 Best Paper Award University of Transportation Research Center, Region 2, 2008

Philippe Baveye

Philippe Baveye
Thu, 2010-09-30 16:13 — ROOTJ2
Name: Philippe Baveye
Title:Kodak Chair of Environmental Engineering
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://cee.rpi.edu/
Bio Baveye comes to Rensselaer from Cornell University, which he joined in 1989 following a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Cornell, he was involved in a number of institutes and departments, and from 2002 onward served as director of the Laboratory of Geoenvironmental Science and Engineering.

In 2007, Baveye was named professor and chair of soil ecosystems modeling at the Scottish Informatics, Mathematics, Biology and Statistics (SIMBIOS) research center housed at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, and a member of the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES). He currently serves as chair of computational modeling and director of SIMBIOS. In addition to his continuing research at Cornell and his leadership at Dundee, Baveye serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hydrology, one of the top three journals in the field of water resources. He also has a long-standing interest in research on self-directed learning, and is currently working on a book about the future of higher education.

Along with being actively involved in many professional societies, Baveye was elected in 2009 as a foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture. Also in 2009, he was selected as a featured scientist in the “Great Minds” exhibition created by the Scottish Science Centres. In 2008, Baveye received the Soil and Water Conservation Society Editor’s Choice Award, which recognized his article “Soils and runaway global warming: Terra incognita” published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. Other awards include the 2004 Innovative Teaching Award from the Cornell Center of Information Technology, and the 2001 Mentoring Award from the Association of Women Soil Scientists in recognition of excellence in encouraging others to develop professionally.

Originally from Belgium, Baveye earned his master’s degree in continuum mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1983, and his doctoral degree in soil science from the University of California Riverside in 1985. In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from the International Sakharov Environmental University in Minsk, Belarus.

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Education Ph.D, Soil Science, University of California, Riverside. M.S. Continuum Mechanics Johns Hopkins University

Georges Belfort

Georges Belfort
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — belfog
Name: Georges Belfort
Title:Institute Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Member, National Academy of Engineering
Department Chemical and Biological Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://cbe.rpi.edu/node/76
Bio 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.
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Education B.S. Chemical Engineering (the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa), 1963 M.S. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine) Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine), 1972
Recognitions:
  • Elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, February, 2003
  • Winner of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division Award for 2000: Clarence G Gerhold Award in Separations Science & Technology

Kristin P Bennett

Kristin P Bennett
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bennek
Name: Kristin P Bennett
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science Lally School of Management and Technology Mathematical Sciences
School Lally School of Management and Technology Engineering Science
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCR)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bennek/
Bio Dr. Bennett
is an active researcher in the Mathematical Programming, Operations
Research, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Data Mining communities. She is
currently a Professor in the departments of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science at Rensselaer. She founded and directs the NIH funded TB-Track Project which examines the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. She is co-PI of RPI's NSF Advance project for the advancement of women faculty at RPI and has expertise in gender issues and faculty advancement.
She was Program
Co-chair of the 2005 SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Conference. She has served as a program committee member of numerous conferences including
SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, AAAI
Conference, International Conference on Machine Learning, Neural
Information Processing Systems, IEEE Conference on Data Mining,
Computational Learning Theory, and SIAM International Conference on
Data Mining. She is a founding associate editor of ACM Transactions
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. She has organized multiple
data mining and machine learning clusters at INFORMS meetings. She
is a former associate editor of Naval Research Logistics, Machine
Learning Journal, SIAM Journal of Optimization, and IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks. She serves on the advisory board of
the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has experience
developing data mining approaches for chemistry, biology, and public
health related applications. She is PI and director of a project of the NIH
funded project: Discovering Hidden Groups Across Tuberculosis
Patient and Pathogen Genotype Data. She has one patent for
database indexing to support data mining earned while she was a
visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. She received both the
Rensselaer and NSF Early Career Awards, as well as the Boeing
Distinguished Educator Award for Women and Minorities.
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Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993
Scholarly Works:
  • J. Zaretzki, C. Bergeron, P. Rydberg, T.-W. Huang, K. P. Bennett, and C. Breneman, �RS-Predictor: A new tool for generating and validating models capable of predicting sites of cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism,�, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, to appear, 2011
  • G. Moore, C. Bergeron, and K. P. Bennett, �Model Selection for Primal SVM�, Machine Learning, to appear, 2011.

Victoria Bennett

Victoria Bennett
Fri, 2013-03-08 09:18 — Anonymous
Name: Victoria Bennett
Title:Research Assistant Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Website:https://nist.rpi.edu/
Bio Victoria Bennett manages a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) project at RPI entitled, “Development of a Multi-scale Monitoring and Health Assessment Framework for Effective Management of Levees and Flood-Control Infrastructure Systems.” Victoria has co-taught Experimental Soil Mechanics with Professor Abdoun and will teach Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering in the fall of 2013. She has expertise in field-testing and has published several papers on field instrumentation for geotechnical engineering (Machan & Bennett, 2008; Bennett et al., 2011). Victoria serves the Transportation Research Board (TRB) as Committee Secretary to the Committee on Soils and Rock Instrumentation and Communication Coordinator for the Committee on Modeling for the Design, Construction, and Management of Geosystems.
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Education B.S., M.Eng., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Geotechnical, Field Instrumentation

B. Wayne Bequette

B. Wayne Bequette
Fri, 2010-08-06 10:37 — bequeb
Name: B. Wayne Bequette
Title:Professor
Department Chemical and Biological Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bequeb/bwbres.html
Bio Dr. Bequette served as President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) in 2008-9, and currently serves as the AIChE CAST Division Programming Chair (2010-2013). He is a Fellow of the AIChE (May, 2008), was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007), received the Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008), and was named a Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012).

Dr. Bequette is the author of Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation (2003) and Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (1998), both published by Prentice Hall. He served as the Guest Editor of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (February, 2005), and also edited special issues on Process Control for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (August and December, 2006). He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, and has co-edited a number of special issues on algorithms for sensors and a closed-loop artificial pancreas.
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Education 1980 B.S. Ch.E. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1985 M.S.E. University of Texas, Austin 1986 Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin
Scholarly Works:
  • Cameron, F., B.W. Bequette, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham, H. Lee and G. Niemeyer “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Based on Risk Management,” J. Diabetes Sci. Technol., 5(2), 368-379 (2011).
  • Kuure-Kinsey, M. and B.W. Bequette “A Multiple Model Predictive Control Strategy for Disturbance Rejection,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 49(17), 7983-7989 (2010).
  • Dassau, E., F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, H. Zisser, L. Jovanovic, H.P. Chase, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham and F.J. Doyle III. “Real-time Hypoglycemia Prediction Suite Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring: A safety net for the artificial pancreas,” Diabetes Care, 33(6), 1249-1254 (2010).
  • Buckingham, B, H.P. Chase, E. Dassau, E. Cobry, P. Clinton, V. Gage, K. Caswell, J. Wilkinson, F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, F.J. Doyle III “Prevention of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia Using Predictive Alarm Algorithms and Insulin Pump Suspension,” Diabetes Care, 33(5), 1013-1018 (2010).
  • Bequette, B.W. Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Real-Time Algorithms for Calibration, Filtering and Alarms. J. Diabetes Science and Technology, 4(2), 404-418 (2010).
  • Bequette, B.W. Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2003).
  • Bequette, B.W. Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (1998).
Recognitions:
  • AIChE Fellow (May, 2008)
  • Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007)
  • Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012)
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008)