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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

Ellen Esrock

Ellen Esrock
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — esroce
Name: Ellen Esrock
Title:Associate Professor
Department Language Literature and Communication
School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:http://www.llc.rpi.edu/pl/people-590/ellen-esrock
Bio 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). 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's YWCA.

Esrock's first book is a translation of Umberto Eco's The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Poetics of James Joyce (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.) In 1994 she published The Reader's Eye: Visual Imaging as Reader Response (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), which was supported by a Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowship. Currently she is working on Touching Art: Empathy and the Somatosensory System, for which she received a grant from the Italian Academy of Columbia University.

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Education Ph.D. New York University
Recognitions:
  • 2009 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute FishbachTravel Grant

Pawel Keblinski

Pawel Keblinski
Tue, 2011-03-08 17:47 — willij
Name: Pawel Keblinski
Title:Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Bio Professor Keblinski received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Before he joined Rensselaer in 1999 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and worked at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany as a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Professor Keblinski is an author or co-author of 129 papers on topics ranging from mesoscopic-level modeling of vapor deposition and phase separation to atomic-level structure and properties of interfaces in metals, covalent materials and ionic ceramics.

Professor Keblinski’s work is focused on the relationship between microstructure and various materials properties, such as mechanical response, diffusion, interfacial migration and phase diagram, in particular, of nano-structured materials. A major goal of Professor Keblinski’s work is to design and analyze computational models in order to gain insights into the nature of the material behavior and properties. These insights are than used to formulate theoretical concepts, to understand experimental results and to guide future experiments. Other interests include connecting atomic-level modeling with electronic-level studies as well as with the macroscopic description of the material based on constitutive models.
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Education Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Physics M.S., Warsaw University, Poland Physics
Scholarly Works:
  • "Bonding-induced thermal conductance enhancement at inorganic heterointerfaces using nanomolecular monolayers", P. J. O’Brien, S. Shenogin, J. Liu, M. Yamaguchi, P. Keblinski, and G. Ramanath, Nature Materials 3465 (2012)
  • "The viscosity calculation of nanoparticle suspension confined in nanochannels", Y. Wang and P. Keblinski and Z. Chen, Phys. Rev. E 86 article # 036313 (5pp) (2012)
  • "Heat Localization for Targeted Tumor Treatment with Nanoscale Near-Infrared Radiation Absorbers", B. Xie, R. Singh, F. M. Torti, P. Keblinski and S. Torti, Phys. Med. Biol. 57, 5765–5775 (2012)
  • "Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Determination of Thermal Conductivity for Multi-Component Systems", H. Babaei, P. Keblinski, and J. M. Khodadadi, J. Appl. Phys. 112, article # 054310 (4pp) (2012)
  • "Inter-tube Thermal Conductance in Carbon Nanotubes Arrays and Bundles: Effects of Contact Area and Pressure", W. J. Evans, M. Shen and P. Keblinski. App. Phys. Lett. 100, article # 261908 (4pp) (2012)
  • "Effect of interfacial interactions and nanoscale confinement on octane melting", Y. Wang and P. Keblinski, J. Appl. Phys. 111, article # 064321 (7pp) (2012)
  • "Modeling initial stage of phenolic pyrolysis: Graphitic precursor formation and interfacial effects" Tapan G. Desai, John W. Lawson, Pawel Keblinski, Polymer, Volume 52, Issue 2, 21 Pages 577-585, January 2011
Recognitions:
  • NSF Career Award 2002
  • School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Junior Faculty Category, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (2004)
  • School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Senior Faculty Category, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (2010)

Kathleen Ruiz

Kathleen Ruiz
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — ruiz
Name: Kathleen Ruiz
Title:Associate Professor of Integrated Arts
Department Arts
School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~ruiz
Bio 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.

Current Artistic Research includes:
* The Other: an interactive 3D simulation that explores the theme of multiple perspectives through different characters, each with their own viewpoint, in a dynamic environment showing how one’s actions and decisions affect others environmentally, socially, and culturally.
* Telomere: a multimedia ballet exploring conceptions of age and agelessness in a triumph of the human spirit while the inevitable collapse of body occurs through time. “Telomere” uses the biological process of cell division as a metaphor for the life process of a prima ballerina. In an alchemic interweaving of art and science, the many aspects of aging are experienced physically, socially, psychologically, spiritually and emotionally.
* ErGoGenic Research Group: (co-founder), a trans-disciplinary team of artists, composers, cognitive scientists, medical doctors, psychologists, and game designers who are developing physical interfaces and bio-feedback to directly affect gameplay and interaction in games/simulations to encourage reaching and maintaining healthy levels of cardiovascular activity. This group is also working on games which aim to approach satiation through psycho/physio interaction.
* Capability Games and Simulation: (co-founder) an interdisciplinary group of programmers, artists, engineers, and composers who are developing interactive multimedia game simulation modules for differently abled people to help in learning basic life skills for independence through fun, repetition and engagement. Visual/auditory stimulation and memory systems are being developed in conjunction with innovative interface modalities tailored for individuals who have sustained brain injuries or who are physically and/or mentally handicapped.
* Multi-Sensory Media Art expanding beyond the eye/ear metaphor using olfaction, proprioception, EEG/EKG, and other emerging interfaces/delivery systems.
* Nanosculptures: and the interplay of macro and nano structures: The area of nanotechnology is holding potential creative territory for new kinds of artistic/scientific/philosophical/environmental/medical/ethical discourse and collaboration. Evolving preliminary ideas for nano dimension projects which consider physical phenomena and new perceptive environments emerging from nanoscale research could include fascinating super-mini objects, larger frameworks for virtual and physical three dimensional “sculptures and terrains” which would act as catalysts for opening much needed thoughtful and critical dialogues.
* Playable Art: physically and environmentally stimulating fine art sculpture and environments for touching, hearing, seeing, climbing, jumping, exploring, imagining, and cooperating for fun, enjoyment and education.

Ruiz is currently engaged with scholarly research that is centered on simulation, perspective and empathy.
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Education 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
Scholarly Works:
  • "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
  • "Imaginary Homelands: Reconstituted Narratives in the Digital Landscape", The Photography Quarterly, #85, Vol. 20, No.4. 2003 Published paper and curated exhibition,by Kathleen Ruiz Imaginary 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'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.
  • "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 2003 We 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 the conditions 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
  • Web3D RoundUp: Looking Backwards and Forwards Vol.34 No.2 May 2000 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics World, May, 2000, vol. 34, no.2, pgs 60-61.
Recognitions:
  • Sony Computer Entertainment, Europe
  • New York State Council on the Arts
  • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art
  • Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Residency Award