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faculty eature ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
C. Ted Lee
Banu Özden
Todd Brun
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Responsive surfactant systems (systems tunable through manipulation of an external variable, allowing nano-level control of surfactant structure) Ph.D. Chemical Engineering ‘00, University of Texas
Assistant Professor, Computer Science General systems, including operating systems, storage networking and systems, multimedia systems Ph.D. Computer Engineering ’95, University of Texas
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering – Systems Quantum computing and quantum information theory Ph.D. Physics ’94, Caltech
Elaine Chew
Konstantinos Psounis
Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Computational models for musical design Ph.D. Operations Research ‘00, MIT
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering – Systems Networking solutions based on probabilistic methods Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ’02, Stanford University
Pin Wang Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Biosynthetic methods for engineering novel proteins for applications in human health, specifically glycobiology, molecular medicine, tissue engineering, and gene delivery Ph.D. Chemical Engineering ’03, Caltech
Hossein Hashemi Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Nanotechnology Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ’03, Caltech
Maria Yang
Tzung Hsiai Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering/ Assistant Professors Todd Brun and Fernando Ordóñez Cardiovascular Medicine Diagnostic micro- and nano-sensors for fundamental Krishna Nayak cardiovascular research Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering ’01, UCLA; Rapid magnetic resonance imaging, medical M.D. ’93, University of Chicago image acquisition and reconstruction Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ’01, David Kempe Stanford University Assistant Professor, Computer Science Randomized and graph algorithms Michael Neely and decentralized communication protocols Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Computer Science ’03, Analysis and control of data networks with Cornell University applications to satellite and wireless systems Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ’03, MIT
Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Information technology for facilitating the design and manufacturing process Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering ’00, Stanford University
Jesse Yen Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Development of novel diagnostic ultrasound systems and ultrasonic/array transducers Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering ’03, Duke University
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Fundamental principles and the analysis and design of protocols for next-generation wireless sensor networks Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ’02, Cornell University
Fernando Ordóñez
Ozden
Wang
Debevec
Draper
Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Optimization algorithms, high-performance computing, applications of optimization Ph.D. Operations Research ’02, MIT
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