2008 Project Director
Shivaun Archer
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Address: 171 Kimball Hall
Phone: (607) 255-3781
E-mail: sda4@cornell.edu
PhD, University of California Davis
Shivaun Archer is a Senior Lecturer in charge of the Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories. She designs and teaches undergraduate instructional labs for five biomedical engineering courses: BME 131, BME 301, BME 302, BME 401, and BME 402. The labs are designed to illustrate the course material and bring research to undergraduate education whilst exposing students to cutting edge technology and research methodology. A significant emphasis in all the labs is biomedical nanotechnology.
Field Session Faculty
Lynden Archer
Title: Professor
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Address: 348 Olin Hall
Phone: (607) 254-8825
E-mail: laa25@cornell.edu
PhD, Stanford University
Professor Archer's research focuses on polymer liquids, polymer surface dynamics and boundary lubrication, manipulating polymer surface properties by field-induced migration, polymer microrheology, and microrheological models for nanocomposites processing.
Graeme Bailey
Title: Professor
Department: Computer Science
Address: 4107B Upson Hall
Phone: (607) 255-9210
E-mail: gob1@cornell.edu
PhD, University of Birmingham
Professor Bailey was born and raised in England, and studied, taught and researched both in England and in France before coming to the U.S. He has been at Cornell since 1986 and is professionally interested in life in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions. More recently, his interests have migrated to mathematical modeling of various biological systems (the geometry of lung inflation, and protein deformations in cell signaling); and he has many years experience in algorithmic aspects of digital music exploiting the twin foci of his training.
Lara Estroff
Title: Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Address: 329 Bard Hall
Phone: (607) 254-5256
E-mail: lae37@cornell.edu
PhD, Yale University
Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell University, Materials Science & Engineering, Professor Estroff was an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellow in Professor George M. Whiteside's laboratory at Harvard University. Estroff received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University for work done in Professor Andrew D. Hamilton's laboratory on the design and synthesis of bio-inspired organic superstructures to control the growth of inorganic crystals. Based on this work, she received both a graduate student silver award from the Materials Research Society and a graduate fellowship from the Division or Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
Ephrahim Garcia
Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Address: 224 Upson Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4366
E-mail: eg84@cornell.edu
PhD, SUNY Buffalo
Professor Garcia is interested in several areas of dynamics and controls, especially sensors and actuators involving smart materials. Professor Garcia's current projects are: Perching Aircraft Mechanisms and Controls; Design of a High-Efficiency Flapping Wing Micro-Air Vehicle; System Characterization of Micro-Scale Sensors and Actuators; Design of Reconfigurable Macro-Scale Morphing Aircraft Mechanisms; DARPA Grand Challenge Autonomous Vehicle Team; Distributed Intelligence in Small Robotic Swarms; Electrochemistry and Implementation of Fuel Cell Technology for Avionics; Smart Material Actuators and Sensors.
Mark Lewis
Title: Professor
School: Operations Research and Information Engineering
Address: 226 Rhodes Hall
Phone: (607) 255-0757
E-mail: mel47@cornell.edu
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor Lewis’ research interests are in Stochastic Processes with an emphasis on queueing theory. His thesis work was in this area with Professor Hayriye Ayhan and Professor Robert (Bob) D. Foley and used Markov Decision Processes to uncover some new ideas in trunk reservation and bias optimality. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked with Martin L. Puterman and explained implicit discounting in bias optimality relating it to controlled queueing systems. Most recently, Professor Lewis has become interested in parallel processing and how resources are allocated dynamically in such systems. He is also working on fundamental advances in average cost Markov decision processes with Eugene Feinberg.
Jose Martínez
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Address: 336 Rhodes Hall
Phone: (607) 255-1874
E-mail: martinez@csl.cornell.edu
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor Martínez leads the M3 Architecture Research Group at Cornell. His group's research interests include, but are not limited to, parallel architectures, microarchitecture, reconfigurable hardware, and hardware-software interaction. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.
William Philpot
Title: Professor
School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Address: 453 Hollister Hall
Phone: (607) 255-0801
E-mail: wdp2@cornell.edu
PhD, University of Delaware
Professor Philpot joined the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 1981 with specialties in remote sensing and digital image processing. He is currently the Associate Director of the School as well as the program leader for remote sensing at the Cornell Institute for Resource Information Systems (IRIS). His research interests are in the physics of optical remote sensing, spatial and spectral pattern recognition, and image processing. Current research involves the use of passive, spectral imagery from aircraft and bathymetric lidar data for remote sensing of shallow, coastal waters. He is also involved with research in the processing and analysis of digital imagery, particularly in methods to incorporate texture and context into image-pattern recognition. He teaches courses in remote sensing and digital image processing.
G. Edward Suh
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Address: 603 Rhodes Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6856
E-mail: gs272@cornell.edu
PhD, MassachusettInstitute of Technology
Professor Suh's research interests include computer systems in general with particular focus on computer architecture. He is interested in combining architectural techniques with low-level software to enhance various aspects of computing systems such as performance, security, and reliability. Recent and ongoing research topics include high performance memory systems, secret hardware functions expoiting process variations, secure processor architecture, and reconfigurable and adaptive architecture.
