Spotlights

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Welcome Siddhartha Banerjee ( 2015 )

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

Welcome Elaine Shi ( 2015 )

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

Kilian Weinberger

Welcome Kilian Weinberger ( 2015 )

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

Welcome Qing Zhao ( 2015 )

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

Meghan Furton

By the time Furton left the meeting with Bazley, she had seriously begun to consider going to India for a semester as part of the Nilgiris Field Learning Center (NFLC) in Kotagiri, in the Indian state... Read more

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Exxon Mobil Provides Grant to Cornell

In 2015, Exxon Mobil Corporation is providing $2 million in grants to 78 colleges and universities nationwide including Cornell University through the Departmental Grants Program. This year the... Read more

ECE Teaching Snapshot: Bruce Land

Senior Lecturer Bruce Land has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering students at Cornell since 1997. He began when the professor who had been teaching a microcontroller class retired. Land... Read more

Welcome Nicole Benedek ( 2015 )

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

Welcome Grace Xing ( 2015 )

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