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Nicholas L Cassimatis

Nicholas L Cassimatis
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — cassin
Name: Nicholas L Cassimatis
Title:Associate Professor
Department Cognitive Science
School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:http://www.cassimatis.com
Bio I received a bachelor's degree in mathematics form MIT and a master's degree in psychology from Stanford. I studied artificial intelligence in Marvin Minsky's group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where I received my Ph.D. I was then an NRC postdoctoral associate at the Naval Research Laboratory's AI Center for two years. I have been on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer since then.
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Scholarly Works:
  • Cassimatis, N. L., & Bignoli, P. (in press). Testing Common Sense Reasoning Abilities. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence
  • Kurup, U, Bignoli, P., Scally, J. R., & Cassimatis, N. L. (in press). An Architectural Framework for Complex Cognition. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research.

Margaret Cheney

Margaret Cheney
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — cheney
Name: Margaret Cheney
Title:Professor
Department Mathematical Sciences
School Science
Center Center for Inverse Problems (IPRPI) Center for Sub-surface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~cheney/
Bio Margaret Cheney is a Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. After receiving her Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1982 from Indiana University (advisor: Roger G. Newton), she was a postdoc at Stanford University (advisor: J.B. Keller) and was an assistant professor at Duke University before moving to RPI. She has held visiting
appointments at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (summers 1976-80), Ames Laboratory (summers 1985-87), NYU's Courant Institute (1987-1988), the Institue for Mathematics and Its Applications (1994-1995, 1997, and 2005), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (2001), the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (4 months, 2002), the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (2003), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (9 months, 2007-2008). She has received a number of awards, including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1986, a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women in Science and Engineering in 1990, the Lise Meitner Visiting Professorship at Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden) in 2000, and a National Research Council Research Associateship in 2007. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Most of her work has been on the inverse problems that arise in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and electromagnetic theory; since 2001, she has been working on radar imaging.
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Education Ph.D. in Mathematics, Indiana University, 1982 B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, with High Honors in Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1976
Scholarly Works:
  • http://homepages.rpi.edu/~cheney/downloads.html
Recognitions:
  • Fellow, SIAM
  • Fellow, Institute of Physics

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)

Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger

Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — oehlsm
Name: Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Title:Associate Professor
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~oehlsm/
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Education Ph.D. Stanford University 2005 M.S. Stanford University 2002 B.S. Virginia Tech 2000
Recognitions:
  • SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, 2011
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering Classroom Excellence Award, 2011
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, 2010
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2009
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2007
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, 2006
  • Bernard Lewis Fellowship of the Combustion Institute, 2004

Carlos A Varela

Carlos A Varela
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — varelc
Name: Carlos A Varela
Title:Associate Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cvarela/
Bio 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/
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Education 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.
Scholarly Works:
  • Carlos Varela and Gul Agha. Programming Dynamically Reconfigurable Open Systems with SALSA. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. OOPSLA'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, 2012.
  • All publications available at: http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/bib/Author/VARELA-CA.html
Recognitions:
  • 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