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Three new faculty members have joined the George R. Brown School of Engineering. Philip Ernst, Adrianna Gillman and Paul Hand began their careers at Rice on July 1. Philip Ernst is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 2014. His research areas include probability theory, stochastic control, stochastic optimization and asymptotic statistics. He focuses on taking optimization problems of practical interest in stochastic settings and abstracting these problems for use in ecology, biology and other science fields. As a student, he published an article in the Journal of Applied Probability. Ernst received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard in 2007 and his master’s degree from the Wharton School in 2010. Adrianna Gillman and Paul Hand are assistant professors in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Gillman was the John Wesley Young Research Instructor at Dartmouth College’s Department of Mathematics. Her research focuses on fast direct solvers for linear partial differential and integral equations. Her computational tools are crucial to multiple science and engineering applications, including materials science, radar, device modeling, and imaging and remote sensing. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from California State University, Northridge in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. Most recently Hand was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in MIT’s Department of Mathematics. His research focuses on discovering and analyzing algorithms for signal recovery under incomplete and inaccurate measurements. He has also worked on the analysis and numerical simulation of partial differential equations that describe the electrical behavior of cardiac muscle tissue. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in applied and computational mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University in 2009.
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