William B. Russel, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been named to succeed John Wilson as dean of the Graduate School, effective Aug. 1. Dean Wilson, who served as dean since 1994, announced his retirement last October.

William B. Russel, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School

Professor Russel has been a member of the faculty in chemical engineering since 1974. He has a long history of service to the University, as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1987 to 1996 and as a member of the Committee on Appointments and Advancements, the University Research Board, the Committee on the Sixth College, and search committees for the provost, athletic director, and dean of the faculty.

He also has participated actively in the Princeton Materials Institute (PMI) as a member of the executive committee from 1995 to 2000, the institute's director from 1996 to 1998, and now a joint faculty member.

Within the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, he helped formulate the research program and served as director from 1996 to 1999. He also was on the executive committee of the Princeton Environmental Institute from 1996 to 2000.

"Bill Russel is a world-class scholar who brings great distinction to his new role as dean of the Graduate School," said President Shirley M. Tilghman. "Through his work in the classroom and the laboratory as well as his leadership on campus, he has strengthened Princeton in a variety of ways and contributed greatly to the experiences of undergraduates, graduate students, and other members of the University community."

Professor Russel's research in colloids--fine particles dispersed in a fluid--ranges from applications such as paints and adhesives to fundamental studies performed on board the space shuttle for NASA.

Much of Professor Russel's research has involved collaborations with colleagues in chemical engineering, physics, and electrical engineering. He is the author or co-author of two books and the adviser of 30 Ph.D. students now in academia or industrial research.

Elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Russel has been recognized for his contributions with the Bingham Award from the Society of Rheology in 1999 and the William H. Walker Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1992. Currently he is the president of the Society of Rheology and the chair or member of two advisory committees for NASA.

He earned his B.A. and M.ChE. degrees from Rice and his Ph.D. from Stanford.

"It is an honor to succeed John Wilson as dean," Professor Russel said. "John leaves behind a fine staff and considerable improvement in many aspects of the school and the lives of graduate students. I look forward to working with the students, my colleagues on the faculty and in the administration, and the trustees to further advance graduate education at Princeton."

Princeton's Graduate School, which celebrated its centennial in 2000, enrolls about 1,900 students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees in 37 departments and programs.

Two named to endowed chairs

Two faculty members of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have been named to endowed professorships by the University Board of Trustees.

René Carmona, professor of operations research and financial engineering, has been named the Paul Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance, and Kai Li, professor of computer science has been named the Charles Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science.

René Carmona is named the Paul Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance Kai Li is named the Charles Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science

René Carmona

Professor Carmona came to Princeton in 1995, after teaching for 16 years at the University of California at Irvine. He specializes in statistical data analysis as it applies to a wide range of applications, such as medical diagnostics, oceanography, speech processing, and financial markets.

Professor Carmona received his training at the University of Marseille, where he earned a These d'Etat in probability in 1977. He taught at the University Saint Étienne and worked for the French government before moving to California.

His publications include more than 60 articles and six books in probability and statistics. He is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals and book series and often has worked as a statistical consultant, including serving as a scientific adviser for several companies.

He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1984. In addition to his appointment in operations research and financial engineering, Professor Carmona is director of the Committee on Statistical Studies, a member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and director of graduate studies at the Bendheim Center for Finance.

Kai Li

Professor Li received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1986 and joined the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor of computer science that same year. He received tenure in 1992, and became a full professor three years later.

Professor Li's research focuses on computer architecture and operating systems, with a particular interest in systems in which multiple computer processors work on the same problem in parallel. His widely cited Ph.D. dissertation introduced the idea of sharing virtual memory between loosely coupled multiprocessors, a key advance in computer design. Among other projects, he has led an effort to develop high-performance, very low-cost computer systems.

In addition to having published more than 70 journal articles and conference reports, Professor Li has served on dozens of program committees for conferences and symposia, serving as chair or vice chair for several of them. He has been a consultant to technology companies and has held many visiting positions. Professor Li is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. In 1994 he received an Engineering Council Excellence in Teaching Award.

Faculty awards and honors

Exceptional educator

The Princeton Chapter of Sigma Xi awarded Ravin Bhatt, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, with a certificate of recognition in honor of his support of science education programs. Professor Bhatt was nominated by Princeton students as an exceptional science educator.

Sanjeev Kulkarni C.K. Law Mansour Shayegan

Award of excellence

Sanjeev Kulkarni, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, received the 2002 Walter Curtis Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence in Electrical Engineering. The award recognized his teaching of the sophomore course ELE201: Introduction to Systems and Signals. The Walter Johnson Prize was established in 1986 by an anonymous alumnus to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton.

Worldwide influence

C.K. Ed Law, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the organization that publishes the Science Citation Index, as one of the 100 most highly cited, influential researchers worldwide in the field of engineering. In addition, a paper written by Professor Law, graduate student Gilberto Rozenchan, Stephen Tse '91, and senior professional technical staff member Delin Zhu, titled "Laminar burning rates and Markstein lengths of CH4/02/ Inert mixtures at high pressures," was selected as the 2001 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Best Paper in propulsion and combustion.

Two elected fellows

Ruby Lee and Wayne Wolf, professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering, are among the 31 newly elected fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The fellow designation honors those who have made critical contributions toward and continue to exhibit extraordinary leadership in the development of the Information Age.

Best paper award

George Scherer, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the 2002 Brunauer Award for the best paper on cements published by the American Ceramics Society in the 2001 calendar year. Professor Scherer cowrote the paper, "Thermal Expansion Kinetics: Method to Measure Permeability of Cementitious Materials: II, Application to Hardened Cement Pastes," with Francis Young and Hua Ai from the University of Illinois.

First-rate mentor

Mansour Shayegan, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, received one of the first University Graduate Student Mentoring Awards. Students praised his generosity with his time in discussing research projects, emphasis on collaboration, and work in helping students prepare papers and conference talks.

"We feel that by sharing so much of his time and experience with us, by instilling in us a strong work ethic and a collaborative spirit, Professor Shayegan has fully prepared us for top-quality professional and scholarly work," wrote several students in nominating him for the award.

New laboratory opens

The Cluster for Research on Complex Computations (CROCCO) Laboratory is up and running in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The laboratory features a 1024-processor cluster that is dedicated to numerical simulations and data mining.

Pino Martin

The founder of the laboratory, Assistant Professor Pino Martin, works on simulating turbulent flows and developing physically based turbulence models that will be used in engineering applications.

The CROCCO Lab is named for Luigi Crocco (1906-1986), a Princeton professor who was among the first in his generation to seriously devote efforts on numerical techniques for solving practical and complex fluid flows.

The cofounders of the laboratory are Associate Professors Edgar Choueiri *91 and Luigi Martinelli, and Assistant Professor Clarence Rowley '95, who work on plasma rocket instabilities, large-scale supersonic flows, and dynamics and controls, respectively.

Seven join SEAS faculty

Seven new faculty members have joined the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Maria Garlock Yin Lu (Julie) Young David Walker Li-Shiuan Peh Savas Dayanik Damir Filipovic´

CEE

In the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Maria Garlock and Yin Lu (Julie) Young join as assistant professors.

Professor Garlock comes to SEAS from Lehigh University, where she earned her Ph.D. in structural engineering, completing her thesis on "Full-scale testing, seismic analysis, and design of post-tensioned seismic resistant connections for steel frames." She earned her bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1991 from Lehigh University and her 1993 master's degree in civil engineering from Cornell University.

Professor Garlock was a consulting structural engineer with the New York firm of Leslie E. Robertson Assoc. R.L.L.P. from 1993 to 1997. There, she was responsible for the superstructure braced system design of the BDNI Center in Jakarta, Indonesia, among other projects.

While earning her Ph.D. at Lehigh, Professor Garlock received the Lehigh University Milestone Fellowship, which is awarded to applicants who demonstrate the ability to complete their doctoral degree within three years of their master's degree.

Her research interests include applications of sensor technology for structural condition monitoring, improved and innovative design concepts for improving the behavior and response of structural systems subject to natural hazards, and mixed construction in tall buildings.

Professor Young comes to Princeton from the University of Texas at Austin, where she recently completed her Ph.D. in civil engineering. Her dissertation, "Numerical modeling of supercavitating and surface-piercing propellers," extended a three-dimensional boundary-element method to predict the performance of supercavitating and surface-piercing propellers subjected to nonaxisymmetric wakes of marine vehicles.

Professor Young earned her civil engineering bachelor's degree in three years from the University of Southern California. She earned her 1998 master's degree, also in civil engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin.

During her education at the University of Texas, she received a number of awards, including a University Continuing Fellowship, a Trust 2000 Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and an ASERT Scholarship sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

She is most interested in research projects that involve numerical simulation of systems in structures, fluids, and soils; particularly in coupling different numerical methods to model various media.

CS

The Department of Computer Science has two new faculty members: Robert E. Schapire just arrived as a full professor and David Walker began last spring as an assistant professor.

Professor Schapire comes to Princeton from AT&T Labs, where he has been a principal member of the technical staff since 1991. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science from Brown University in 1986, and his 1988 master's degree and 1991 Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Schapire has one patent titled "Apparatus and methods for machine learning hypotheses." He has filed application for a second patent titled "Method and apparatus for multi-class multi-label information categorization." A third application is in preparation.

Professor Schapire is the author or coauthor of more than 60 publications.

Professor Walker came to Princeton from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and his master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. While at Cornell, Professor Walker received the Computer Science Outstanding TA Award.

His research interests are theory, design, and implementation of modern programming languages, particularly in finding new ways to use logic, type theory, and static analysis to help programmers write efficient, yet secure and reliable, code.

EE

Li-Shiuan Peh joined the Department of Electrical Engineering in February, from Stanford, where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. Her thesis was titled "Flow control and micro-architectural mechanisms for extending the performance of interconnection networks."

Her 1995 B.Sc. in computer and information systems is from the National University of Singapore.

Professor Peh has two patents pending: "Flit-reservation flow control" and "Merging algorithm for designing interconnect fabrics."

Her research interests are in interconnection networks, the fast networks that traditionally connect shared-memory and message-passing multiprocessor systems.

This fall Professor Peh is teaching ELE 475: Computer Architecture.

ORFE

The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering has two new faculty members, both joining as assistant professors. Savas Dayanik just arrived, and Damir Filipovic´ began last spring.

Professor Dayanik comes to Princeton from Columbia University, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in operations research with a concentration in applied probability. He earned his 1994 undergraduate degree in industrial engineering, and his 1997 master's degree in operations research and industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. In 1997 he received a Science and Technical Research Council of Turkey Fellowship to pursue doctoral study in the United States.

Professor Dayanik's research interests are applied probability, stochastic processes and modeling, optimal stopping, optimal stochastic control, with applications to finance, investment decision analysis, and operations management.

Professor Filipovic´ completed his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2002 at ETH Zurich, where he was a postdoc prior to coming to Princeton. His thesis was "Consistency problems for HJM interest rate models."

His research interests are mathematical finance, in particular interest rate theory and affine pricing models, stochastic equations in finite and infinite dimensions, and Markov processes.

Professor uses Lego^® products to teach

 

Christopher Rogers Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching

Christopher Rogers, professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, will be a Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering this academic year.

At Tufts, Professor Rogers has created an exciting and innovative teaching laboratory using Lego^® Mindstorms^TM Robotics Invention System^TM. He uses this product to teach science, math, and engineering to students of all ages.

Professor Rogers introduces key concepts in mechanical engineering and robotics through the use of Lego^® bricks. Students build remote vehicles and develop programs to pilot and control them. Students learn important physical concepts and their global and social implications via this system.

Professor Rogers also is developing a series of electronic workshops using his curriculum to facilitate the teaching of control theory and manufacturing via the Web.

He is the author of many publications dealing with low- cost, creative, hands-on teaching methods and the use of virtual design software to motivate and support scientific learning at all levels.

The course designed by Professor Rogers will help put engineering and technology into a wider perspective for A.B.s, and it will introduce virtual design and Internet teaching to freshman B.S.E.s.