New Faculty Profiles

Each year Cornell Engineering brings to campus the best and brightest minds in Engineering researchers and educators. Here are some of our new faculty!

MAE Professor Elaine Petro

Welcome Elaine Petro ( 2020 )

Elaine Petro has joined the faculty of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) as an assistant professor. Petro, who started in July 2020, is thrilled to be at Cornell.... Read more

Cornell Sibley School MAE Assistant Professor Sadaf Sobhani

Welcome Sadaf Sobhani ( 2020 )

Sadaf Sobhani has joined the faculty of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an assistant professor. Sobhani’s research is focused generally on thermal management and... Read more

Cornell CEE Assistant Professor Andrea Giometto

Welcome Andrea Giometto ( 2020 )

Andrea Giometto joined the faculty of Cornell’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) as an assistant professor in July 2020. Most recently, Giometto held a postdoctoral fellowship in... Read more

BME Professor Shaoyi Jiang

Welcome Shaoyi Jiang ( 2020 )

In February 2020, Cornell Engineering announced that Professor Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, would be joining the faculty of the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) as the... Read more

BME Assistant Professor Karl Lewis

Welcome Karl Lewis ( 2020 )

Karl Lewis has joined the faculty of the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell. Lewis’s research is focused on the interplay of mechanical cues and biological... Read more

CEE Assistant Professor Sriramya Nair

Welcome Sriramya Nair ( 2020 )

Sriramya Nair has joined the faculty of Cornell’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) as an assistant professor. Nair has been at Cornell the past three years as a post-doctoral... Read more

CBE Professor Sarah Hormozi

Welcome Sarah Hormozi ( 2020 )

Associate Professor Sarah Hormozi has joined the faculty of the Cornell’s Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE). Hormozi’s lab studies slurries of complex fluids... Read more

CBE Professor Qiuming Yu

Welcome Qiuming Yu ( 2020 )

Qiuming Yu has joined the faculty of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at Cornell. For Professor Yu, teaching at Cornell is a homecoming of sorts. After... Read more

Nils Napp

Welcome Nils Napp ( 2020 )

Nils Napp has joined the faculty of Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as an assistant professor. His research focuses on design and control strategies for systems that... Read more

Jingjie Yeo

Welcome Jingjie Yeo ( 2020 )

Jingjie (J.J.) Yeo has joined the faculty of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) as an assistant professor. Yeo’s research focuses on interdisciplinary studies of... Read more