Spotlights

Cornell Engineering likes to feature our new faculty, our incredible students, staff, alumni and teams who do amazing work everyday. 

Peter Frazier ( 2009 )

Peter Frazier solves information collection problems. He is working with researchers at Georgetown University to find a drug that can stop Ewing's sarcoma from metastasizing. "It's an operations... Read more

David Bindel ( 2009 )

Most of the electronic gadgets being made today have accelerometers. By detecting motion, they protect data by stopping laptop hard drives and rotate iPhone images when the screen is turned... Read more

Ashutosh Saxena ( 2009 )

Ashutosh Saxena teaches robots to operate autonomously in new, uncertain environments. Most existing robots can be "scripted" to perform difficult tasks in highly constrained, known environments.... Read more

Hadas Kress-Gazit ( 2009 )

Hadas Kress-Gazit wants to know how to make robots do what they are supposed to. Once a robot understands the meaning of a command given in natural language, it must be translated into motor and... Read more

Brandon Hencey ( 2009 )

To reduce energy consumption and fight global warming, buildings must become more efficient. Buildings use about 40 percent of the nation's energy and 70 percent of its electricity. Brandon Hencey is... Read more

Hsiu-Yu Yu

Hsiu-Yu Yu

"It would be more interesting to us to think about some problems that no one has thought about." Read more

  • Hometown: Hsinchu County, Taiwan
  • Chemical Engineering
Amanda Kushner

Amanda Kushner

"I know the past 50 years of Cornell history .... Those were like my bedtime stories growing up." Read more

  • Hometown: Austin, Texas
  • Operations Research