June 4, 2018
Dear members of the Hajim School community,
Congratulations to:
- Chunlei Guo, professor of optics, and senior scientist Anatoliy Vorobyev, who have received the 2017 T.C. Graham Prize from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology for their use of femtosecond laser pulses to etch metal surfaces. This creates surfaces that are super water repellent, for example, or that absorb light rather than reflecting it. “Dr. Guo and his colleagues have opened the door to an exciting technique that could greatly enhance steel’s value proposition,” says AIST executive director Ronald Ashburn. Read more here.
- Danielle Benoit, associate professor of biomedical engineering, who was presented with the 2018 University of Maine Francis Crowe Engineering Alumni Award during the university’s graduation ceremonies. The award recognizes outstanding service to the field of engineering. Danielle has also received a grant from UR Ventures, along with Rudi Fasan, associate professor of chemistry, and Benjamin Frisch, research assistant professor of medicine, to study a new synergistic treatment for acute myeloid leukemia that includes a targeted drug delivery system developed by Danielle. Read more here.
- Di Xu, an optics PhD candidate, who has been awarded a 2018 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics, or related field. Di works with Professor Jannick Rolland in the Center for Freeform Optics to advance the state of the art in precision metrology for freeform optical components.
Recent stories in Rochester Review have featured Sophie Zhang ’17 of electrical and computer engineering and her new job at Microsoft, Sabastian Abelezele ’20 of mechanical engineering and the scholarship that helped bring him to Rochester, and Wendy Scinta ’94 (MS) of electrical engineering, a family practice physician certified in obesity medicine who is also president of the Obesity Medicine Association.
Four of our faculty members will be presenting during the Goergen Institute for Data Science summer colloquium series, which will be held each Wednesday — starting this week — from noon to 1 p.m. in Wegmans Hall 1400 (auditorium), lunch provided.
The faculty members are:
- June 6: Zhiyao Duan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineer, “Searching Sound through Vocal Imitation.”
- June 13: Chenliang Xu, assistant professor of computer science, “When Computer Vision Meets Audition: From Cross-Modal Generation to Audio-Visual Scene Understanding.”
- June 20: Ehsan Hoque, interim director of the Goergen Institute, assistant professor of computer science, and Asaro Biggar (’92) Family Fellow in Data Science, “When Can a Computer Improve Your Social Skills?”
- June 27: Sreepathi Pai, assistant professor of computer science, “Identifying Differences in GPUs Using Performance Data.”
David Temperley, professor of music theory, and Gourab Ghoshal, assistant professor of physics, will talk on July 11 and July 18, respectively.
The Center of Excellence at the Goergen Institute has funding available for collaborative research projects involving New York industry partners that are actively engaged with the project, financially sponsoring the research, and/or providing assessment of economic impact of the project. Read more here.
Finally, a nice rejoinder from Renato Perucchio, professor of mechanical engineering and program director of Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures, during an interview with Washington Post columnist John Kelly. During their discussion — on why ancient Roman cement lasts so much longer than what we use today — Kelly observed: “If only we could resurrect some ancient Romans.”
“You have to be careful,” Perucchio replied, laughing. “Resurrecting Romans means resurrecting emperors. You need to resurrect the engineers.” Read more here.
Have a great week!
Your dean,
Wendi Heinzelman
