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Minoru Tomozawa

Minoru Tomozawa
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — tomozm
Name: Minoru Tomozawa
Title:Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Bio Professor Tomozawa received a Ph.D. degree in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, after working for the Nippon Electric Company for four years. He joined the faculty at Rensselaer in 1969. He has published extensively in the area of glass science and edited several books on the subject. He served as the Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society and is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
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Education Ph.D. Metallurgy and Materials Science (University of Pennsylvania, 1968), B.S. Electrochemistry (Yokohama National University, Japan, 1961)
Scholarly Works:
  • M. Tomozawa, P.J. Lezzi, R.W. Hepburn, T.A. Blanchet, D.J. Cherniak, “Surface Stress Relaxation and Resulting Residual Stress in Glass Fibers: A New Mechanical Strengthening Mechanism of Glasses” J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 358 (2012) 2650.
  • V.S. Puli, D.K. Pradhan, A. Kumar, R.S. Katiyar, X. Su, C.M. Busta, M. Tomozawa, D.B. Chrisey, “Structure and Dielectric Properties of BaO-B2O3-ZnO-[(BaZr0.2Ti0.8)O3]0.85[Ba0.7Ca0.3]TiO3]0.15 Glass-Ceramics for Energy Storage” J. Mat. Sci. –Materials in Electronics, 23 (2012) 2005.
  • M. Tomozawa, P.J. Lezzi, D.J. Cherniak, “Hydrogen to Alkali Ration Ratio in Hydrated Alkali Aluminosilicate Glass Surfaces”, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 358 (24) 3546.
  • V.S. Puli, A. Kumar, R.S. Katiyar, X. Su, C.M. Busta, D.B. Chrisey, M. Tomozawa, “Dielectric Breakdown of BaO-B2O3-ZnO--[(BaZr0.2Ti0.8)O3]0.85[Ba0.7Ca0.3]TiO3]0.15 Glass-Ceramic Composites” J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 358 (2012) 3510.
  • C.-Y. Li, M. Tomozawa, “Fictive Temperature and Fictive Pressure Measurement of Silica Glasses using FTIR Method: For thick Samples and Samples containing SiH” J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 358 (2012) 3365.
  • "Effect of Alumina on Enthalpy of Mixing of Mixed Alkali Silicate Glasses” to appear in J. Non-Crystalline Solids, (2011) (with P.J. Lezzi).
  • “Enthalpy of Mixing of Mixed Alkali Glasses” J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (2010) 1439-1446. (with P.J. Lezzi).
  • “Fictive temperature of fracture surface of a silica glass” J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (2010) 1194 – 1197. (with C.-Y. Li, T.M. Gross).
Recognitions:
  • Fellow, American Ceramic Society
  • The George W. Morey Award of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society for his life-long contribution to glass science, specially for establishing the FTIR technique to measure the fictive temperature of glass.

Jeff Trinkle

Jeff Trinkle
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — trinkj
Name: Jeff Trinkle
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~trink/
Bio Jeff Trinkle received bachelor's degrees in Physics (1979) and Engineering Science and Mechanics (1979) from Ursinus College and Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively. In 1987, he received his PhD from the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a research assistant in the GRASP Laboratory. Since 1987, he has held faculty positions in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona and the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. From 1998 to 2003 he was a visiting research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque New Mexico. He moved to Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 2003, where he served as Chair of the Computer Science Department until 2009. He is now Professor of Computer Science, Director of the CS Robotics Lab, and Faculty Dean of Residential Commons.

Dr. Trinkle's primary research interests lie in the areas of robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing. Under the continuous support of the National Science Foundation since 1989, he has written many technical articles on theoretical issues underpinning the science of robotics and automation. One of these articles was the first to develop a now-popular method for simulating multibody systems. Variants of this method are key components of several physics engines for computer game development, for example, NVIDIA PhysX and the Bullet Physics Library.

Dr. Trinkle has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Robotica. He is the recipient of the 1985 IBM Graduate Research Fellowship, the 1989 Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the 1994 Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence Award, the 1998 Plank Company Faculty Fellowship, the 2004 Kayamori Best Automation Paper of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and the 2009 Humboldt Research Prize. He spent the 2009-2010 academic year as a Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Mechatronics and Robotics at the German Aerospace Center and the Institute for Applied Mechanics at Technical University of Munich. In 2010 he became a fellow of the IEEE for his research contributions to robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation. In 2011 he was awarded the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technical University of Munich.

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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

William Wallace

William Wallace
Tue, 2010-10-05 09:27 — wallaw
Name: William Wallace
Title:Yamada Corporation Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering
School Architecture
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.dses.rpi.edu/people/faculty.cfm?facultyID=wallaw
Bio His research interests are generally in:

Analytical Approaches to Emergency Management: Research focuses on the development of models for disaster management, including transportation of hazardous materials. Investigating the development of Decision logic for crisis management.
The Process of Modeling: The acquiring of an expert's judgment and experience and its subsequent codification in a form amenable to representation by a complex model is the objective of this research. Present work is concerned with (i) designing an automated means of support for this process, (ii) the use of visual, both 2D and 3D, and (iii) studying ways and acquiring knowledge about the usual or exceptional occurrence.

On-going research includes Decision Support for Group Improvisation; the development and assessment of a blackboard architecture for supporting improvisation by emergency response teams supported by NSF, Visualization and the Process of Modeling (with Professor Willemain) supported by NSF; Trust and Knowledge Management: The Develop and Implementation of Graph-Theoretic Models for the Assessment of Trust in Sources of Knowledge -- supported by NSF. The Impact of the World Trade Center Attack on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies, supported by NSF, and Wireless Advanced Travelers Information Systems, supported by FHA and NYSDoT.
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Education Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Recognitions:
  • Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Excellence in Research Award, SoE
  • INFORMS President's Award
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • DSES Faculty Award for Excellence
  • IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Engineering Management Society
  • Best Student Paper (with R.G. Arunasalam, J.T. Richie, W. Regan, and O. Gur-Ali), Portland International Conference on Management and Engineering and Technology
  • Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize, DSES
  • International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference Award
  • Horwood Critique Prize for Outstanding Paper, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Conference
  • Outstanding Case Award, Rand Graduate Institute/Duke University Public Policy Curricular Materials Development Program

Gwo Ching Wang

Gwo Ching Wang
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — wangg
Name: Gwo Ching Wang
Title:Professor of physics
Department Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School Science
Center Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~wangg
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Education Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, Physics, B.S., 1968 Northern Illinois University, Physics, M.S., 1973 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Materials Physics, Ph.D., 1978
Scholarly Works:
  • Over 230 publications and two books, see web site http://www.rpi.edu/~wangg/
  • Surface pole figures by reflection high-energy electron diffraction, F. Tang, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 241903 (2006).
  • Small angle grain boundary Ge films on biaxialCaF2/glass substrate, C. Gaire, P.C. Clemmer, H.-F. Li, T.C. Parker, P. Snow, I. Bhat, S. Lee, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, Journal of Crystal Growth 312, 607 (2010).
  • Low-temperature cycling of hydrogenation-dehydrogeneration of Pd-decorated Mg nanoblades, Y. Liu, L. Chen, T.-M. Lu and G.-C. Wang, International J. of Hydrogen Energy 36, 11752 – 11759 (2011).
Recognitions:
  • 1978 Nottingham prize winner, 38th Annual Conference on Physical Electronics 1988 Early Career Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1996 Fellow, American Physical Society 1997 Fellow, American Vacuum Society 2006 William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, Rensselaer 2006 Fellow, AAAS 2009 Travelstead Institute Professor, Rensselaer

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.

Research Interests
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

Mohammed J. Zaki

Mohammed J. Zaki
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — zakim
Name: Mohammed J. Zaki
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST) Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCR)
Website:http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/
Bio Mohammed J. Zaki is a Professor of Computer Science at RPI. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1998. His research interests focus on developing novel data mining techniques, especially in bioinformatics. He has published over 200 papers and book-chapters on data mining and bioinformatics. We was the founding co-chair for the BIOKDD series of workshops. He is currently an Executive Editor for Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and an Associate Editor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Knowledge and Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Social Networks and Mining, and International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics. He was the program co-chair for SDM'08, SIGKDD'09 and PAKDD'10. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 and the Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator Award in 2002. He also received the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2003 & 2009, and an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation in 2005. He received the HP Labs Innovation Award in 2010. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and was recently designated as an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
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Education B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics (dual), May 1993, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas M.S., Computer Science, May 1995, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Ph.D., Computer Science, July 1998, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Scholarly Works:
  • Mohammed J. Zaki, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lizhuang Zhao, Mining Frequent Boolean Expressions: Application to Gene Expression and Regulatory Modeling, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, Jason T.L. Wang (ed.), 2010 (accepted, to appear)
  • Hilmi Yildirim, Vineet Chaoji, Mohammed J. Zaki, GRAIL: Scalable Reachability Index for Large Graphs, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol3 ̇, No1 ̇, pp mm-nn, 2010 (Proceed- ings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore, September 2010).
  • Karam Gouda, Mosab Hassaan, Mohammed J. Zaki, PRISM: An Effective Approach for Frequent Sequence Mining via Prime-Block Encoding, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, special issue on Intelligent Data Analysis, Radim Belohlavek and Rudolph Kruse (eds.), Vol. 76, No. 1, pp 88-102, February 2010.
  • Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki and Chris Bystroff, FlexSnap: Flexible Non-Sequential Pro- tein Structure Alignment, Algorithms in Molecular Biology, Vol. 5, Article 12, 2010.
  • Mohammed J. Zaki, Christopher D. Carothers, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, VOGUE: A Vari- able Order Hidden Markov Model with Duration based on Frequent Sequence Mining, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, Vol. 4, No. 1, Article 5, January 2010.
  • Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Hasan, Saeed Salem, and Mohammed J. Zaki, SPARCL: An Ef- fective and Efficient Algorithm for Mining Arbitrary Shape-based Clusters, Knowledge and Information Systems, invited as one of the best papers of IEEE Int’l Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’08), Vol. 21, No. 2, pp 201-229, November 2009.
  • Mohammad Al Hasan, Mohammed J. Zaki, Output Space Sampling for Graph Patterns, Pro- ceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol2 ̇, No1 ̇, pp 730-741, 2009 (Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Lyon, France, August 2009).
  • Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki and Chris Bystroff, Iterative Non-Sequential Protein Struc- tural Alignment, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, special issue on the best of CSB’08, Ying Xu and Peter Markstein (eds.), Vol. 7, No. 3, pp 571-596, June 2009.
  • Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Saeed Salem, Mohammed J. Zaki, An integrated, generic approach to pattern mining: data mining template library, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 457-495, December 2008.
  • Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Saeed Salem, Jeremy Besson, Mohammed J. Zaki, ORIGAMI: A Novel and Effective Approach for Mining Representative Orthogonal Graph Pat- terns, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 67-84, (DOI: 10.1002/sam.10004) June 2008.
Recognitions:
  • HP Labs Innovation Award, 2010.
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2010-present.
  • ACM SIGKDD PhD Dissertation Award for my student Mohammad Al Hasan, 2010.
  • Program Co-chair, 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Hy- derabad, India, June 2010.
  • Senior Member, IEEE, 2010-present.
  • Program Co-chair, 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France, August 2009.
  • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Recognition of Service Award, 2009.
  • Best Paper Award, 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009.
  • IEEE Computer Society, Certificate of Appreciation, 2005.
  • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Recognition of Service Award, 2003.
  • DOE Office of Science Early Career Principal Investigator Award in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and High-Performance Networks, 2002.
  • NSF Faculty Early Development Award (CAREER Award), 2001.