Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Michael McAlpine, Assistant ProfessorPrevious position: Postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of TechnologyEducation: Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University; undergraduate degree in chemistry from Brown UniversityResearch: Nanotechnology-enabled approaches to solving problems in medicine, energy and wearable computing

Electrical Engineering

Andrew Houck, Assistant ProfessorPrevious position: Postdoctoral fellow at Yale UniversityEducation: Ph.D. in physics from Harvard; BSE in electrical engineering from Princeton, where he was the valedictorian of the class of 2000.Research: Electronic materials and devices, quantum computing

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Philippe Rigollet, Assistant ProfessorPrevious position: Visiting faculty member in mathematics at the Georgia Institute of TechnologyEducation: B.Sc. and Ph.D from the University of Paris-VIResearch: Stochastic optimization

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mark Zondlo, Assistant ProfessorPrevious position: Senior research scientist at Southwest Sciences Inc. (since 2002). He previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.Education: A graduate of Rice University with a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado- BoulderResearch: Atmospheric chemistry and cloud microphysics. Zondlo is affiliated with Princeton’s Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment center.