2008 Project Faculty
Chris Schaffer
Title: Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Address: 171 Kimball Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-5122
E-mail: cs385@cornell.edu
PhD, Harvard University
Professor Schaffer’s research group uses advanced optical techniques for in vivo studies of physiological processes in both normal and diseased states. The cell constitutes the basic unit of life, but many living systems depend on interactions that can only be studied in intact animals, such as the coupling between local blood flow and neural activity in the brain. Optical techniques provide one way to overcome the ensuing challenge of characterizing physiology with single cell resolution in intact biological systems. A primary area of current interest in the Schaffer lab is the pathophysiology of small-scale stroke. Clots or leakages in small blood vessels in the brain are implicated in vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and are thought to be responsible for small infarcts observed in MRI brain imaging, so called "silent strokes." A critical aspect of work in this area is the use of nonlinear optical techniques that allow individual vessels to be selectively clotted, and allow the resulting changes in blood flow and cell physiology to be imaged, all inside the optically scattering environment of the brain.
Current and Past Field Session Faculty 
Alyssa Apsel
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Address: 412 Phillips Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-3962
E-mail: apsel@ece.cornell.edu
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Apsel's research interests in the fields of analog and mixed mode CMOS VLSI design, integrated photonics, and Silicon on Sapphire CMOS design. Her primary area of interest is in optoelectronic VLSI systems in CMOS. The focus of this work is toward the development of low power integrated CMOS systems which utilize the speed and computational benefits of optical processing and communication to complement the computational power and ubiquity of standard CMOS systems. A large portion of her work is devoted to the investigation intra-chip optical interconnects and their potential impact on computer architectures. Her work also focuses on integration of photonics with commercial VLSI platforms in a cost effective and efficient manner. Additionally, she works with various sensor interface circuits and control circuits for applications within hybrid analog/digital/optoelctronic and sensory systems.
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.
Paulette Clancy
Title: Professor/Director
Department: Chemical & Bimolecular Engineering
Address: 124 Olin Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-6331
E-mail: pqc1@cornell.edu
PhD, Oxford University, UK
Professor Clancy’s research group focuses on multiscale computational studies of traditional (silicon-based) and non-traditional (organic) semiconductors. They are especially interested in the optimization and understanding of manufacturing processes used to fabricate electronic devices and design potentially improved semiconductor materials. Professor Clancy’s group also has a long-standing interest in the energy/sustainability arena through their studies of greenhouse gases trapped in the permafrost as hydrates. A new project will leverage the group’s expertise into a study of hydrogen storage materials.
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, Chemistry
Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell University, Materials Science & Engineering, Lara Estroff was an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellow in Prof. George M. Whiteside's laboratory at Harvard University. Estroff received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University for work done in Prof. 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.
Elizabeth Mills Fisher
Title: Professor
School: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Address: 289 Grumman Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-9309
E-mail: emf4@cornell.edu
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Professor Fisher is interested in combustion chemistry as it affects a variety of practical problems such as fire suppression, hazardous waste incineration, and fuel combustion suited to carbon sequestration. At Cornell, much of her work has involved the combustion chemistry of organophosphorus and organosulfur compounds, focusing on flame inhibition and mechanisms of destruction and byproducts formation. Professor Fisher’s combustion chemistry studies involve a wide range of combustion regimes and make use of flow reactors, premixed flat flames, and opposed-jet diffusion flames, with a variety of measurements techniques including extractive FTIR (Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry), GC/MS (gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry, visible emission spectroscopy, in-situ FTIR, and radiation-compensated thermocouple thermometry.
Shane Henderson
Title: Professor
School: Operations Research and Information Engineering
Address: 230 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-9126
E-mail: sgh9@cornell.edu
Ph.D., Standford University, Operations Research
Professor Henderson’s research is concerned with discrete-event simulation, from input analysis (for example, extension of simple input models to capture correlation between inputs) to output analysis (for example, using martingales in simulation to achieve variance reduction). A new emphasis in his work is the interplay between optimization and simulation.
José Martínez
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Address: 336 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-1874
E-mail: martinez@csl.cornell.edu
Ph.D., 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.
Alexandra Moore
Title: Professor
Department: Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Address: 3144 Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-4644
E-mail: moore@geolofy.cornell.edu
PhD, Harvard University
Professor Moore's research interests include the application of satellite remote sensing to orogenic belts and Alpine paleogeography. In addition, she is involved with the geoscience education project - Discover Our Earth, a digital library for earth science education.
David Putnam
Title: Professor
School: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Address: 270 Olin Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-4352
Email: dap43@cornell.edu
PhD, University of Utah
The focus of Professor Putnam's research program is to design and synthesize polymeric materials with well-defined compositions and properties. His group is particularly interested in creating new "functional materials," or materials with engineered characteristics that are optimizd for specific applications, ranging from drug and gene delivery vehicles to economical biodegradable packaging materials. Members of Professor Putnams's group include individuals trained in chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, material science, polymer chemistry, and cellular biology.
G. Edward Suh
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Address: 603 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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.
