Spotlights

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

Paxton Thedford

Paxton Thedford grew up in Kerrville, Texas and earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. When it was time to decide on a graduate program, Cornell was his clear... Read more

  • Hometown: Kerrville, TX
  • Ph.D. in CBE

Cornell's connections to NYC

Though perched 200 miles away far above Cayuga’s waters, Cornell has played an outsized role in New York City’s landscape of iconic people, places and things over the years. More than 50,000... Read more

Ezgi Demirayak

Ezgi Demirayak

Ezgi combined her CS background with Engineering Management to achieve exciting opportunities Read more

  • Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
  • M.Eng., Engineering Management

Amanda Bares

For Amanda Bares’ first summer job after high school she cleaned laser components at the company where her father worked as an electrical engineer. Now, as a Ph.D. student in Cornell’s Nancy E. and... Read more

  • BME
Francesco Monticone

Welcome Francesco Monticone ( 2017 )

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