New Faculty Profiles

Jamol Pender, Assistant Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell, enjoys the certainty mathematics can sometimes provide. “There is something about... Read more

When Yudong Chen was a child in Guangzhou, China he liked to build things with his father. “My father was an electrical engineer and a self-taught carpenter,” says Chen. “He made all of the furniture... Read more

A Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Silvia Ferrari joined Cornell this summer and is currently Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls... Read more

Siddhartha Banerjee studies complex large-scale systems with many interacting agents and difficult sets of problems to solve. One such set of problems arises in the design of online marketplaces such... Read more

Elaine Shi, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, believes academic researchers can play a leading role in creating secure and protected software platforms for cryptocurrencies and smart... Read more

In his book Outliers, psychology writer Malcolm Gladwell says that achieving greatness in a field of human endeavor often rests on two essential factors: inherent talent, and many hours of deliberate... Read more

Qing Zhao, professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, focuses her work on mathematical formulations of, and solutions to, engineering problems. Zhao uses decision theory and... Read more

Nicole Benedek can’t remember a time when she wasn’t fascinated by science. “It’s such a cliche,” she says, “but ever since I was a little girl, it’s just been something that’s always been with me.”... Read more

Silicon-based semiconductors have been of primary importance to the electronics revolution of the past 50 years. Professor Grace Xing is working on what comes next. She is one of the leading experts... Read more

Electronic devices have become ubiquitous; they are in our kitchens, bathrooms, cars, and even our clothes. As these devices have shrunk to near their ultimate size and speed limits, many are... Read more