New Faculty Profiles

Esteban Gazel has joined the faculty of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at Cornell. Gazel started as an associate professor in August of 2017. Gazel grew up in the suburbs of... Read more

The growing power of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning (ML), raises ethical and policy issues that might not be apparent. The fact that these issues are not immediately... Read more

Yadong Wang joins the Meinig School in summer 2017 as professor of heart-assist technology. Dr. Wang's research focuses on creating biomaterials that present controlled chemical, physical, and... Read more

When you drop a coin and it falls into a patch of grass near a parking meter, if you are a sighted person you simply scan the grass until you find the quarter, pick it up, and use it to feed the meter... Read more

Jeff Rzeszotarski wants to help people unpack complex data so that anyone—even novices—can make sense of it and use what they learn to make their lives better. Rzeszotarski, who joined the faculty of... Read more

Andrej Singer has joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Cornell as an assistant professor after completing a post-doc at the University of California—San... Read more

Francesco Monticone of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell likes to work in the realm of theory. “The best possible project for me,” says Monticone, “would start with a... Read more

Jayadev Acharya joined the faculty of Cornell Engineering in July, 2016. Acharya is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a graduate field member in... Read more

Vikram Krishnamurthy, Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at both Cornell Engineering in Ithaca and Cornell Tech in New York City, is taking what he knows about... Read more

Gennady Shvets started his postsecondary education as an undergraduate student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and then obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts... Read more