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Junior faculty recognized for dedication
to teaching
At Class Day, five junior faculty members were presented with
awards in recognition of their teaching skills. Adam Finkelstein,
assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science; Thomas
Funkhouser, assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science; and N. Jeremy Kasdin '85, assistant professor
in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; received
the Emerson Electric Company E. Lawrence Keyes '51 Faculty Advancement
Award; Edgar Choueiri *91, assistant professor of the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received
the Howard B. Wentz, Jr. Junior Faculty Award; and Randolph
Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science, received the Alfred Rheinstein '11 Faculty Award.
Photos by Frank Wojciechowski
SEAS Dean James Wei, right, congratulates
Tom Funkhouser
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Professor Finkelstein teaches courses in nonphotorealistic
rendering, computer animation, general computer science, and
computer graphics. He joined Princeton in February 1997.
Professor Funkhouser has taught a variety of courses ranging
from beginning to upper-level computer graphics. He joined
the Princeton faculty in February 1998. Previously, he was
a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories for four
years. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of California
at Berkeley in 1993.
His research is focused on software tools and systems that
use novel ideas in computer graphics, networking, and multimedia
databases to facilitate interactive applications in information
discovery and communication. In 1999 he received an Alfred
P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
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From left, N. Jeremy Kasdin,
Tom Funkhouser, and Adam Finkelstein at Class Day.
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Professor Kasdin's research and teaching interests are satellite
design/space systems engineering, spacecraft dynamics and
control, space mechanics and astrodynamics, digital control
systems, stochastic processes and simulation, estimation theory
and system identification, automatic control, nonlinear systems
and control, and navigation. He joined the Princeton faculty
in 1999.
Professor Choueiri has developed new courses at Princeton
in astronautics, applied physics, and advanced space propulsion.
He was appointed assistant professor in 1996.
Professor Wang teaches CS 518: Advanced Operating Systems
and CS 598: Six Research Ideas in Storage, Mobility,
and Networking, among others. He received an E-Council
Excellence in Teaching Award for his efforts in COS 126:
General Computer Science. He was the first faculty member
in the computer science department to receive an E-Council
Excellence in Teaching Award for teaching COS 126.
He received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development Program award in 2000. He joined the Princeton
faculty in February 1999 after earning his Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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