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July 15, 2013                                                                                                Vol. 15, No.21
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Engineering news

 

 

CUAir, a group of high-flying Cornell engineering students, soared into first place at the Student Unmanned Air Systems Competition held at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, June 19-22.   

 

Smartphone app for bipolar patients wins $100K prize 

 

A smartphone app to assist people with bipolar disorder, conceived by Cornell researchers, has won the prestigious $100,000 Heritage Open mHealth Challenge.

The app for iPhone and Android phones, called "MoodRhythm," was developed by a team led by Tanzeem Choudhury, associate professor of computing and information science, and postdoctoral fellow Mark Matthews.

 

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Faculty leaders appointed
 

We are pleased to announce the following leadership appointments in the College of Engineering:

 

  • Michael Shuler, chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, will continue to serve for a one-year term starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014.
  • Lynden Archer, director, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, reappointed to three-year term starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2016.
  • Phil Liu, director, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, reappointed to two-year term starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2015.
  • David Shmoys, director, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, appointed to a three-year term starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2015.
  • Leslie Trotter, associate dean for undergraduate programs, appointed to a three-year term starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2015. 


Please join us in congratulating and welcoming the incoming director of ORIE, David Shmoys and Leslie Trotter, associate dean for undergraduate programs, and in thanking the outgoing director of ORIE, Adrian Lewis, and Charles Seyler, outgoing associate dean for undergraduate programs, for their years of outstanding service to the college.


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Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering

 

Staff update 


Heather Parente
joined Budget and Finance June 13, replacing Christina Dovi as accounts representative. She supports all dean's administration units and assists with financial analysis and central college commitment tracking. She will also assist in the annual budget effort and will be primarily responsible for coordinating the (non-FTC) year-end closing process in the college. Heather started her career with M&T bank and has been working for the last 10 years in admin and finance roles at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, most recently as the hospital billing specialist. She has been developed billing and control policies, assisted in hospital reporting, and has coordinated the management of various funds for maximum utilization of hospital resources.  
Awards and honors

Computer Science graduate student Karthik Raman has received the 2013 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Search and Information Retrieval.    

 

Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Geoffrey Bomarito was selected as one of 25 winners in the 2013 IGERT Video and Poster Competition, hosted by the National Science Foundation. He won a "Judge's Choice" award for a video and poster depicting his research on the failure of metals. The national competition received 124 submissions from 249 Ph.D students. Winners were honored at an award ceremony in Washington D.C.

Computer science graduate student Chinawat Isradisaikul and professor Andrew C. Myers won the Distinguished Paper award at the 2013 annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Their paper was titled "Reconciling exhaustive pattern matching with objects."

  

Computer science graduate student Hema Koppula and assistant professor Ashutosh Saxena's paper on robots anticipating future human actions won the Best Student Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2013 conference. The work was also featured humorously by Lewis Black on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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