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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.

Mariana G. Figueiro

Mariana G. Figueiro
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — figuem
Name: Mariana G. Figueiro
Title:Associate Professor, Program Director, LRC
School Architecture
Center Lighting Research Center (LRC)
Website:http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/education/graduateeducation/facultydetails.asp?id=11
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Education B.S. in architecture and urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; M.S. in lighting, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D. in Multidisciplinary Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Michael K. Jensen

Michael K. Jensen
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — jensem
Name: Michael K. Jensen
Title:Professor
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Multiphase Research
Website:http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty/154?soeid=jensem
Bio Michael Jensen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He began his teaching and research career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and moved to Rensselaer in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and holds a Professional Engineers license. Among many other university activities, he has served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department, been on the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, and served as the student-elected member on the Institute-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee.

As principal investigator on 41 sponsored programs, including 19 multi-year grants from NSF, DOE, NIST, NYSERDA, and industry, and consultant to 25 industry and government organizations, Michael’s research interests have been directed toward convective single- and two-phase heat transfer and the associated fluid flows with an emphasis on these processes in heat exchangers and using enhanced heat transfer techniques. Recent research has focused on microchannel flows and thermal management of electronic systems, solar energy, and fuel cells. With his graduate students (32 MS, 18 PhD), he has performed both fundamental and applied research and has conducted both experimentally and numerically based research on a wide range of topics. Dr. Jensen has published over 180 technical papers, edited 10 volumes, 30 other assorted reports, and has published an undergraduate textbook on thermal and fluids engineering. He has two patents.

Michael has been honored as a Fellow of ASME, twice received the student-chosen Lewis T. Assini Undergraduate Teaching and Counseling Award, received the Ralph R. Teetor Award of SAE, and was awarded the RPI School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. He is active in his profession, having served or is serving on editorial boards of four international journals (Journal of Heat Transfer, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science; Applied Thermal Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology), recently was named as Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASME’s newest journal, Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, led the ASME Heat Transfer Division, and appointed as Alternate Delegate to Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. He has been chair or co-chair of six international conferences (including the National Heat Transfer Conference) and has been invited to be on numerous scientific committees for other national and international conferences. He is an active reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences and NSF, DOE, NASA, and NYSERDA proposals.

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Education Ph.D. Iowa State University
Scholarly Works:
  • Christman, K. and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Effect of Cross Flow Roughness on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 8 / 024501-1.
  • Gathright, W., Jensen, M.K., and Lewis, D., 2011, “Phase-field model of chemical reactions with an example of a solid electrolyte gas sensor,” Electrochemistry Communications, 13 pp. 520–523.
  • Michna, G.J., Browne, E.A., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2011. The effect of area ratio on microjet array heat transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (9-10), pp.1782-1790, April.
  • Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part II: Study of critical heat flux condition,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051503.
  • Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part I: Study of heat transfer characteristics,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051502.
  • Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Julius, A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Stability analysis and maldistribution control of two-phase flow in parallel evaporating channels,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, submitted, March.
  • Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Peles, Y., Catano, J., Zhou, R.L., Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Two-phase refrigerant flow instability analysis and active control in transient electronics cooling systems,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 37, pp.84-97.
  • Zhou, R.L., Zhang, T.J., Catano, J., Wen, J.T., Michna, G.J., Peles, Y., Jensen, M.K., 2010, “The steady-state modeling and optimization of a two-loop refrigeration system for high heat flux electronics cooling,” Applied Thermal Engineering, 30, pp.2347-2356.
  • Phelan, P.E., Gupta, Y., Tyagi, H., Prasher, R., Cattano, J., Michna, G., Zhou, R., Wen, J.T., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2010, “Energy efficiency of refrigeration systems for high-heat-flux microelectronics,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 2, 031004, Sep.
  • “Browne, E.A., Michna, G.J., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., “Microjet Array Single-Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer with R134a,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53 (2010) 5027–5034.

Malik Magdon-Ismail

Malik Magdon-Ismail
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — magdon
Name: Malik Magdon-Ismail
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon
Bio After degrees at Yale and Caltech, Dr. Magdon-Ismail was a research scholar at Caltech before joining Rensselaer as Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2000. His interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance and social and communication networks. He enjoys poker, bridge, squash, tennis and badminton.

For a full bio and more details, please visit his web page.
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Education B.S., Physics, Yale University, 1993. M.S., Physics California Institute of Technology, 1995. PhD., EE/Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1998.
Scholarly Works:
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, "Permutation Complexity Bound on Out-Sample Error", Proc. 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010.
  • Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail "Atomic Routing Games on Maximum Congestion", Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 410, Issue 36, Pages 3337-3347, 2009.
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, Konstantin Mertsalov, "A Permutation Approach to Validation", Proc. 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages 882-983, Columbus Ohio, April 29-May 1, 2010.
  • Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail, "Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs", ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC 2010), pages 231-240, June 7-8 , Cambridge Massachusetts, 2010.
  • Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Marios Mavronicolas, "Universal Bufferless Packet Switching", Siam Journal on Computing, Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 1139-1162, 2007.
  • Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Joseph Sill "A Linear Fit Gets the Correct Monotonicity Directions", Machine Learning, Volume 70, Number 1 / January, 2008, pages 21-43.
  • Volkan Isler, Malik Magdon-Ismail "Sensor Selection in Arbitrary Dimension", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 5, No. 4, pages 651-660, 2008.
  • Ali Civril, Malik Magdon-Ismail "On Selecting a Maximum Volume Sub-Matrix of a Matrix and Related Problems", Theoretical Computer Science, 2009.
  • Nathan Cole, Heidi Joe Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Xinyang (Fred) Liu, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, James Wisniewski, "Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails", the Astrophysical Journal, Vol 683, pages 750-766 (2008).
  • Jeffery Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Mykola Hayvonovych, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William Wallace, Mohammed Zaki, "Finding Hidden Group Structure in a Stream of Communications", [Top 3 Paper Award], Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 06), San Diego, CA, May 23-24 2006.

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

Linda S. Schadler

Linda S. Schadler
Tue, 2011-02-22 13:44 — schadl
Name: Linda S. Schadler
Title:Professor , Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Russell Sage Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Website:http://rpi.edu/~schadl/
Bio Professor Schadler received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. She held a post-doctoral research position at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center from 1990-1992 and joined the faculty at Drexel University in 1992 as an assistant professor. While at Drexel she received a National Young Investigator Award. She joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1996.
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Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania B.S., Cornell University
Scholarly Works:
  • “Graphene Oxide Filled Nanocomposite with Novel Electrical and Dielectric Properties,” Zepu Wang, J. Keith Nelson, Henrik Hillborg, Su, Zhao, Linda.S. Schadler, Advanced Materials, vol. 24, no. 23, 3134-3137 (2012).
  • “High Temperature Breakdown Strength and Voltage Endurance Characterization of Nanofilled Polyamideimide,” L.S. Schadler, J.K. Nelson, C. Calebrese, A. Travelpiece, D. Schweikart, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 2090-2101 (2012).
  • “Grafting bimodal polymer brushes on nanoparticles using controlled radical polymerization,” A. Rungta, B. Natarajan, T. Neely, D. Dukes, L.S. Schadler, and B.C. Benicewicz, Macromolecules, Published on line (2012).
  • “The Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Composites Filled with Rubbery Copolymer Grafted SiO2,” Jianing Gao , Junting Li, Brian C. Benicewicz , Su Zhao , Henrik Hillborg, and Linda S. Schadler, Polymers, vol. 4, no. 1, 187-210 (2012).
  • “Supercritical carbon dioxide assisted dispersion and distribution of silica nanoparticles in polymers,” Kerem Goren, Osman B. Okan, Limeng Chen, Linda S. Schadler, Rahmi Ozisik, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, vol. 67, 108-113, (2012).
  • “Graphene Oxide Filled Nanocomposite with Novel Electrical and Dielectric Properties,” Zepu Wang, J. Keith Nelson, Henrik Hillborg, Su, Zhao, Linda.S. Schadler, Advanced Materials, vol. 24, no. 23, 3134-3137 (2012).
  • “Effect of High Aspect Ratio Filler on Dielectric Properties of Polymer Composites: A Study on Barium Titanate Fibers and Graphene Platelets,” Zepu Wang, J. Keith Nelson, Jianjun Miao, Robert J. Linhardt, Linda S. Schadler, Henrik Hillborg, Su Zhao, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 19, no. 3, 960-967 (2012).
  • “Preparation and Optical Properties of Indium Tin Oxide/Epoxy Nanocomposites with Polyglycidyl Methacrylate Grafted Nanoparticles,” Peng Tao, Anand Viswanath, Linda S. Schadler, Brian C. Benicewicz, and Richard W. Siegel, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 28, no. 39, 3638-3645 (2011).
  • “Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Spherical Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles,” Pinar Akcora, Hongjun Liu, Sanat K. Kumar, Yu Li, Brian C. Benicewicz, Linda S. Schadler, Devrim Acehan, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Jack F. Douglas, Nature Materials, vol. 8, no. 4, 354-U121 (2009).
Recognitions:
  • Fellow, ASM International
  • ASM International 1997 Bradley Stoughton Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering, 2008 Outstanding Faculty Member Award
  • NSF - National Young Investigator Award 1994
  • Named as one of the top 100 Materials Scientists in the world by Times Higher Education in 2011
  • Member of the National Materials Advisory Board (2002-2008)

Bolek Szymanski

Bolek Szymanski
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — szymab
Name: Bolek Szymanski
Title:Claire & Roland Schmitt Distinguished Prof. of Computer Science
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/index.php
Bio Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. Dr. Szymanski published over three hundreds scientific articles and is the Editor-in-Chief of Scientific Programming. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Science in Poland, an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and Association for Computing Machinery for which he was National Lecturer. He received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003 and the Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society in 2009. His research interests cover the broad area of distributed and parallel computer systems and algorithms with current focus on wireless and sensor networks. See also Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaw_Szymanski



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http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/files/B.K.Szymanski-Vitae.pdf
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Education M.Sc. (Electronics) – Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 1973; Ph.D. (Computer Science) – The Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1976 Postdoc (Computer Science) - University of Aberdeen, U.K., 1979.
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  • see http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/papers.php
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  • Foreign member, National Academy of Science in Poland
  • IEEE Fellow
  • ACM National Lecturer
  • Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society
  • Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award

Christian M. Wetzel

Christian M. Wetzel
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — wetzel
Name: Christian M. Wetzel
Title:Constellation Professor
Department Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School Science
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Constellation Future Chips
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/wetzel.html
Bio Wetzel was a Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through 1996. In 1997 he joined the High Tech Research Center at Meijo University Nagoya, Japan. In October 2000 he joined Uniroyal Optoelectronics as a Senior Epi Scientist and Green Project Manager. He was responsible for new MOCVD epi processes and developed a production process for high brightness green GaInN/GaN LEDs.

Since March 2004 he is a Future Chips Constellation Professor and Associate Professor of Physics at Rensselaer. The Constellation comprises three chaired faculty who develop new concepts for light emitting devices and optoelectronics. Dr. Wetzel's work has been published in some 110 papers that received over 1500 citations.

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Dr. Wetzel’s research centers on the electronic band and defect structure of wide band gap semiconductor materials and devices by means of optical spectroscopy under external perturbation. Since 1993, Dr. Wetzel has focused on group-III nitrides with major contributions in the identification of the residual donor in GaN as oxygen and its DX-type behavior. In the group of Prof. Akasaki, he studied the processes of light emission in GaInN quantum wells. He demonstrated the dominance of piezoelectric polarization in the band structure and the light emission processes. At RPI he implements the concepts of piezoelectric bandstructure control to realize new concepts of high efficiency light emitting devices and solar cells. Current emphasis lies on high brightness light emitting diodes emitting in the 520 – 560 nm green spectral region.
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Education 1993 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), summa cum laude, Physics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany. 1988 Diplom (M.S.) Technical Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany. Specialization in Electronic Devices and Control Theory. 1984 Vordiplom (B.S.) Technical Physics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Scholarly Works:
  • “Determination of Piezoelectric Fields in GaInN Strained Quantum Wells Using the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect,” T. Takeuchi, C. Wetzel, S. Yamaguchi, H. Sakai, H. Amano, I. Akasaki, Y. Kaneko, S. Nakagawa, Y. Yamaoka, and N. Yamada; Appl. Phys. Lett. 73(12), 1691-3 (1998), doi:10.1063/1.122247. “On p-Type Doping in GaN - Acceptor Binding Energies,” S. Fischer, C. Wetzel, E.E. Haller, B.K. Meyer; Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 1298-300 (1995), doi:10.1063/1.114403. “Optical Band Gap in Ga1-xInxN (0