New Faculty - Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Terrence Adam
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Adam is currently completing a chief medical residency at Mayo Clinic Arizona in addition to his work in the Biomedical Informatics department. He completed Internal Medicine training at Mayo Clinic Arizona and the combined M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Minnesota. He also completed pharmacy training at South Dakota State University. Dr. Adam's primary research interests are technology assessment and medical outcomes evaluation. Current research work includes clinical database implementation, economic and clinical outcome evaluations of medical information systems, obstructive sleep apnea research and computerized provider order entry research.
Soyoung Ahn
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Ahn held a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University, in Oregon, before joining Arizona State University. She received her B.S. (summa cum laude, 2000) in civil and environmental engineering from Ohio State University, and her M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley . Her primary area of research interest is in highway traffic with an emphasis on observation and experimentation and the application of quantitative methods. Other areas of interest include intelligent transportation systems applications, logistics, and public transportation. Her research has been published in Transportation Research and Transportation Research Record.
Gregory Aist
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Aist received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University as an NSF graduate fellow. He works in artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing (NLP) and computer-assisted learning. His dissertation, on helping children learn vocabulary during computer-assisted oral reading, yielded the first intelligent tutoring system with performance near that of human tutors. At RIACS/NASA Ames, he initiated NASA's Clarissa astronaut assistant, which talks astronauts through procedures. Clarissa was tested on board the International Space Station, becoming the first spoken dialogue system in space. He worked on incremental understanding of natural language at the University of Rochester with James Allen and Michael Tanenhaus. Results showed that incremental NLP, reflecting a paradigm shift in psycholinguistics and incorporating visual context, can be faster than, more accurate than, and preferred to standard NLP. Dr. Aist has held visiting positions at Macquarie University, Microsoft Research, and MIT, is in Who's Who in America, and founded the Journal of Dialogue Systems. At Arizona State University he is forming collaborations on NLP and computer-assisted learning, with applications to robotics, education, and the life sciences. In 2007 he will teach Research Methods for Computer Science, one of the first courses offered anywhere in research methods as part of the computer science curriculum.
Absar Alum
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Alum received his Ph.D. degree in environmental science, specializing in health related environmental microbiology, from the University of Arizona in 2001. Dr. Alum worked as a faculty research associate in CEE for five years. Dr. Alum's primary research interest is in the survival and transport of microbial pathogens in environment, and strategies to control microbial growth and biofilms in fresh waters. He has extensive experience in the application of cultural and molecular techniques for the detection of bacteria, viruses, parasites, algae and fungi. In recent years he has focused on the development of rapid methodologies for the detection of pathogens. Dr. Alum has also been actively involved in the environmental toxicology research. He has established cell culture based assay techniques for the detection of endocrine disrupting chemicals in surface waters.
Jean Andino
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Andino received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked in the chemical engineering and chemistry departments at Ford Motor Company for two years. She joined the Ford Motor Company team immediately after receiving a B.S. in engineering sciences from Harvard University . Her research focuses on air pollution, specifically the chemical kinetics and mechanisms pertinent to air pollutant formation and control. Dr. Andino has published over 38 journal articles in the field of air pollution and atmospheric chemistry, has two patent applications currently under review, and is a registered professional engineer. She has been principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling over $7 million since 1996, when her academic career began. Dr. Andino is the recipient of numerous prestigious national awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award in her first year as a professor at the University of Florida. Dr. Andino recently served along with CEE faculty member and National Academy of Engineering member Dr. John Crittenden on the National Research Council study committee addressing air pollution issues (2006).
Winslow Burleson
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Arts, Media, and Engineering
Dr. Burleson received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Affective Computing Group . At MIT he was involved with the Context-Aware Computing Group and the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School . He was a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center where he was awarded nine patents. Awarded a M.S. at Stanford University 's Mechanical Engineering Product Design Program, he taught brainstorming, creativity, innovation, and visual thinking within that department. Prior work included curriculum development at the SETI Institute , work as co-principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope's Investigation of Binary Asteroids , and consultant to UNICEF and the World Scout Bureau on Healthy Lifestyles for Youth. He holds a bachelor's degree in bio-physics from Rice University . Dr. Burleson was an invited participant in the 2005 National Academy of Sciences U.S.-Chinese Frontiers of Science Symposium. Other honors include the 1st Plateau Inventors Achievement Award from IBM's Research Division (1998), representing the World Scout Bureau at the United Nations (1995), the 1993 NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, and national finalist of the Boy Scouts of America-NSF Antarctic Science Program in 1989.
Hugo Destaillats
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Destaillats joined Arizona State University in August 2006 and also holds a scientist position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Destaillats received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and served as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests span a broad range of topics in the field of environmental chemistry, from indoor air quality to advanced remediation technologies for the removal of water and air pollutants. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Environmental Science and Technology, the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Atmospheric Environment and Indoor Air. He is a principal and co-principal investigator on a number of sponsored research projects and received a New Investigator Award from the University of California Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program (UC-TRDRP).
Gennady Gildenblat
Motorola Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Gildenblat received the M.S.E.E. (with honors) from the St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute in 1975, and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1984. Dr. Gildenblat's research interests include semiconductor device physics and modeling, novel semiconductor devices, and semiconductor transport. He has over 130 publications in these areas including several books, invited articles and U.S. patents. Dr. Gildenblat joined the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY, in 1980, where he was engaged in various aspects of semiconductor device physics and IC technology development. Between 1984 and 1986 he supervised the Cryogenic CMOS device engineering study at Digital Equipment Corporation in Hudson , MA, and from 1986 to 2006 he was on the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. He has developed the advanced surface-potential-based SP and PSP compact MOSFET models. The PSP model has been selected as a new industry standard by the Compact Model Council after receiving first prize in the international competition for the next generation of compact MOSFET models. Dr. Gildenblat is a recipient of the 2006 Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award.
Hanqing Jiang
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Jiang's research activities are in the areas of multiscale modeling and simulation for nano-, micro, and macro-materials with emphasis on multifield interactions. Dr. Jiang's interests are stretchable electronics, atomistic-based continuum theory, atomic-scale finite element method, nanocomposites, and electronic-mechanical coupling of carbon nanotubes. Applications of his research include the development of flexible displays which can be used in electronic-newspapers, and the design of new structural and functional materials and electronic-mechanical sensors at the nanoscale. Dr. Jiang has published four book chapters, and 26 peer-reviewed journal papers. Many of his papers are among the top cited papers in mechanics and/or mechanical engineering communities. Dr. Jiang comes to Arizona State University from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he held a postdoctoral appointment and was a research scientist. He received his Ph.D. (2001) in solid mechanics at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China, and received the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Jian Li
Assistant Professor, School of Materials
Dr. Li earned a M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Southern California, where he was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship and an Academic Achievement Award of International Students upon graduation. Dr. Li joins the faculty after training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University for one and a half years. Dr. Li's interests are in the field of organic functional materials for applications in high-efficiency and high performance electronic displays and photovoltaics.
Deirdre R. Meldrum
Dean, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Dr. Meldrum received the B.S. in civil engineering degree from the University of Washington, in Seattle, WA, in 1983; a M.S. in electrical engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1985; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, in Stanford, CA, in 1993. As an engineering co-op student at the NASA Johnson Space Center in 1980 and 1981, she was an instructor for the astronauts on the Shuttle Mission Simulator. From 1985-1987, she was a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and performed theoretical and experimental work in identification and control of large flexible space structures and robotics. Most recently, she was a professor and director of the Genomation Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and adjunct professor of mechanical engineering, at the University of Washington . Her research interests include genome automation, microscale systems for biological applications, ecogenomics, robotics, and control systems. Dr. Meldrum is a member of AAAS, ACS, AWIS, HUGO, IEEE, Sigma Xi, and SWE. She was awarded an NIH Special Emphasis Research Career Award (SERCA) in 1993 to train in biology and genetics, bring her engineering expertise to the genome project, and develop automated laboratory instrumentation. In December 1996, Dean Meldrum was the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for recognition of innovative research utilizing a broad set of interdisciplinary approaches to advance DNA sequencing technology. Since August 2001, she has directed an NIH Center of Excellence in Genomic Sciences called the Microscale Life Sciences Center (MLSC). In 2003, Dr. Meldrum became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2004, a fellow of IEEE. She is a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research which advises the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), on genetics, genomic research, training and programs related to the human genome initiative, 2005-2008. She is senior editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, a steering committee representative for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to the IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, member of EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Robotics, representative for IEEE EMBS to the IEEE RAS-EMBS Advisory Committee, general and program co-chair for the first IEEE RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa, Italy (February 2006), and program chair for the second IEEE Conference on Automation and Science and Engineering, Shanghai, China (October 2006). Dr. Meldrum participated in her first oceanographic research cruise aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson in September 2005, to develop ecogenomic sensors and participate in the first live broadcast of high definition video from the seafloor to land via satellite for the ResearchChannel.
Michele Milano
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Milano joins the faculty from the California Institute of Technology where he was a postdoctoral scholar and a senior postdoctoral scholar in the divisions of aeronautics and bioengineering. While working at Caltech, he has been awarded the Demetriades-Tsafka prize for innovative research in bioengineering. He earned his M.S. in electric engineering with a concentration in control theory, from University of Naples Federico II, in Napoli, Italy, and his Ph.D. in technical sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zuerich, Switzerland . Dr. Milano's interests span the fields of optimization, mathematical modeling of complex systems, aerodynamics of insect flight, biologically inspired propulsion systems, and modeling of the left ventricle of the heart. Some notable publications include articles that demonstrate the aerodynamic efficiency of insect flight, the introduction of a new class of stochastic optimization algorithms, and a novel mathematical model for the heart's left ventricle.
Cun-Zheng Ning
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Ning joined Arizona State University in 2006 as professor of electrical engineering from the NASA Center of Nanotechnology at NASA's Ames Research Center, and the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a senior scientist, group leader in nanophotonics, and task manager in nanotechnology. He was previously a research assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ning has published over 120 papers and given over 40 invited/plenary/colloquium talks. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (2001-2003), editor of several special issues of IEEE and OSA journals, and ISSP visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in summer 2006. Dr. Ning's research Interests are nanophotonics and semiconductor nanowires; optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures including many-body effects; modeling and simulation of semiconductor optoelectronic devices; laser physics, quantum optics, and two-photon lasers; geometric phases; stochastic resonances. His many honors include being named a senior member of IEEE; the CSC Technical Excellence Award in 2003; the CSC Civil Group Presidential Award for Technical Excellence in 2001; the MRJ Award for Technical Achievement in 2000; and the NASA Group Achievement Award in 1999.
Rong Pan
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering
Dr. Pan received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2002. Prior to coming to Arizona State University in 2006, he was an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research interests include statistical quality control, reliability engineering, time series analysis and control, and supply chain management. He has published in the Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Applied Statistics, International Journal of Production Research, Quality and Reliability Engineering International. His current research project on modeling and analysis of profiled reliability testing is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). His previous projects were funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Texas Department of Transportation, and General Motors.
Ram M. Pendyala
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Pendyala joins Arizona State University as a professor of civil and environmental engineering specializing in transportation. Dr. Pendyala is an internationally recognized researcher in activity-based travel behavior modeling, time use and activity pattern analysis, freight and passenger travel demand forecasting, travel survey methods, microsimulation methodologies, and the application of advanced econometric and statistical methods for transportation policy analysis. His expertise lies in the evaluation of transportation policies and the modeling of land use - transportation interactions in rapidly growing regions. Dr. Pendyala has conducted more than $4 million in sponsored research on the evaluation of transportation impacts of a wide range of mobility management strategies including pricing policies. Prior to joining Arizona State University , he served on the faculty of the University of South Florida Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Tampa, where he supervised 50 master's and doctoral graduates and was the recipient of several major teaching, research, and professional service and leadership awards. Dr. Pendyala serves on the editorial boards of Transportation and Transport Reviews and is currently the chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. He is also secretary/treasurer of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR). Dr. Pendyala received his master's (1990) and doctoral (1992) degrees from the University of California, Davis, and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT), in Chennai, India.
Aviral Shrivastava
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Shrivastava received his doctorate in computer science and engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2006. His master's and bachelor's degrees are also in computer science and engineering from the University of California , Irvine , and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi . He worked for a year at Philips Semiconductors, in Nijmegen , the Netherlands. Dr. Shrivastava's areas of interest lie the intersection of compilers, computer architecture and VLSI CAD, with a particular focus at the interface of embedded processor architectures and their compilers. He has developed several compiler techniques that exploit the processor microarchitectural features to improve the power consumption, performance, code size, reliability in modern computers. His dissertation proposed a novel compiler-assisted processor design methodology. His Ph.D. research was funded by Intel through SRC, and has resulted in numerous publications and software.
Bryan Vogt
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Vogt received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2003. He also earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, he was a postdoctoral fellow and a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His prior awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a National Research Council Postdoctoral Assistantship. Dr. Vogt's research interests relate to the physicochemical properties of thin films, their structure-property-processing relationships and exploiting these properties in emerging technologies, including sustainable processing of materials with supercritical fluids to create novel materials.
Eric Williams
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Sustainabilit y
Dr. Williams will help develop a program in Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Before joining Arizona State University, he spent a year as visiting faculty at civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, preceded by eight years in Tokyo at United Nations University where he conducted research related to information technology and the environment. Dr. Williams earned degrees in physics at Macalester College, in St. Paul (B.A.) and the State University of New York, Stony Brook (Ph.D.). His research interests include industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, information technology (IT), and energy systems, with a focus on the environmental assessment and management of IT hardware. In addition to IT-related issues, Dr. Williams is also working on the effects of development and urbanization on energy demand in industrializing nations, including analysis of relationships between infrastructure provision and transport-related carbon dioxide emissions in Asia and projections of future energy demand of the Chinese iron/steel sector, hybrid life cycle assessment (which combines process and economic input-output techniques), uncertainty analysis in industrial ecology, and sector-level forecasting of technological change/growth.
Claudia E. Zapata
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Zapata received her Ph.D. degree in civil and environmental engineering, specializing in geotechnical engineering, from Arizona State University in 1999, and worked as a faculty research associate in CEE for seven years. Dr. Zapata's primary research interest is in the area of unsaturated soil behavior. She has focused on fluid flow and volume change modeling for expansive soils, with applications related to the behavior of pavement subgrades and slabs-on-grade foundation design. At Arizona State University, Dr. Zapata has been actively involved in the development of the new mechanistic-empirical guide for design of new and rehabilitated pavement structures, in the assessment of pavement performance due to environmental factors and in the study of the performance of slab on grade residential foundations on expansive soils in the greater Phoenix area.
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