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New Faculty Meet the College’s newest teacher/scholars Katherine Breeden
Nicholas Breznay ’02
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Physics
Uses eye tracking to investigate the human side of computer graphics; also researches applied geometry and advanced sampling methods.
Researches iridium-oxide magnetic materials and high-magnetic-field transport experiments in thin-film cuprates as well as crystalline and amorphous phase-change materials.
Fun fact: As an undergrad, Breeden ran in the same athletic conference (SCIAC) as Harvey Mudd. She looks forward to meeting Harvey Mudd athletes.
Fun fact: Breznay enjoys trail running, crosswords, kites and strawberry donuts.
Ambereen Dadabhoy Assistant Professor of Literature
Leah Mendelson
Assistant Professor of Engineering General research interests are biological and bioinspired fluid dynamics and imaging techniques for fluid flow measurement. Mendelson’s dissertation focused on how archer fish propel themselves out of the water to feed.
Studies the exchange inherent in contact zones—geographic or imaginative spaces—and the strategies and mechanisms through which different cultures encounter, accommodate and conflict with each other. Interested in uncovering culturally fraught representations of difference, which include gender, race, and religion. Fun fact: Dadabhoy can speak varying degrees of five languages.
David Seitz
Assistant Professor of Human Geography Fun fact: Mendelson enjoys swimming, running and hiking.
George Montañez
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (fall 2018) Research explores why machine learning works from a search and dependence perspective and identifies information constraints on general search processes. Montañez will work at Microsoft for a year before joining the HMC faculty. Fun fact: Montañez is a Fleetwood Mac fan.
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Research investigates the affective dynamics of intimacies and solidarities across race, gender, and nation in a large, predominantly LGBTQ church in Toronto, Canada. Other research topics include citizenship, difference and affect. Fun fact: David is working on a book that examines how the Star Trek franchise reflects the geographies of race, capitalism and colonialism.
Brian Shuve
Assistant Professor of Physics Shuve was hired last year, but he deferred his start date to fall 2017 in order to work as a research associate at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford. Fun fact: Shuve is a trivia buff whose team once competed on Canadian TV.