July 24, 2017
Dear members of the Hajim School community,
Congratulations to Hussein Aluie, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who has been named a Wilmot Assistant Professor by AS&E. The two-year professorships recognize “the most promising young men and women in the early stages of their academic careers.” Hussein, who joined our faculty in 2014, is an expert on computational fluid dynamics as applied at scales ranging from many kilometers to mere micrometers — from ocean currents to inertial confinement fusion. He is a principal or co-investigator in three federally funded research projects, and department chair John Lambropoulos applauds the “natural and easy way that Hussein collaborates and contributes in larger projects led by senior faculty members.” He has done a good job teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, and advising students. Well done, Hussein!
Colleagues of Professor Joel I. Seiferas in the Department of Computer Science have assembled an exciting list of speakers to mark his retirement.
Zvi Galil, a theory titan and dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing;
Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; theory superstar
Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University; and the Department of Computer Science’s own star
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam will give talks during a day-long event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Labor Day, Sept. 4. “This is the most exciting speaker lineup of any event the department has had in my 27 years here,” says
Lane A. Hemaspaandra, who is co-organizing the event with
Daniel Štefankovič, Muthu, and Diane and Joel Seiferas. The event is free and open to the public. Joel served on the faculty for 37 years before retiring in December and becoming an emeritus professor. Click
here for more details and to register by Aug. 22.
Congratulations to Cristiano Tapparello, a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who, with Christie Petrenko of the Mt. Hope Family Center, has received an NIH grant to develop a mobile app to help guide parents and other caregivers of children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder. I am pleased to be a co-investigator along with Zhiyao Duan, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Elizabeth Handley, research associate at Mt. Hope Family Center; and Heather Carmichael Olson, senior lecturer at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Read more here.
The posters in Goergen Hall this Thursday will be part of the inaugural Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Northeast Regional Symposium, organized by Catherine K. Kuo, associate professor of biomedical engineering and an ORS ambassador. BME faculty members Danielle Benoit, Mark Buckley, and Regine Choe will be among the poster reviewers; Hani Awad, Danielle, Mark, and James McGrath will join Catherine as career session panelists. Click here for more details about the conference.
We’ve had an exciting summer of undergraduate research on campus, including McNair Scholars, Xerox Engineering Research Fellows, and participants in our two new NSF-funded research experiences for undergraduates (REUs) — Advancing Human Health and Music, Media, and Minds. Be sure to drop by the Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons on Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the Kearns Center Research Symposium, when many of these scholars will showcase their summer research in oral presentations (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and a poster session (1 to 3 p.m.). Thanks again to all of our faculty members and graduate students who served as mentors for these students, and to the Kearns Center for a great job of organizing community building events for the students and providing GRE prep and professional development opportunities beyond the lab.
Have a great week!
Your dean,
Wendi Heinzelman
