New Faculty

- Aug 09 to Jul 10

Please click below for school's new faculty:
          School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE)
          School of Computer Engineering (SCE)
          School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
          School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
         
School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
          School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)


School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE)

LIU Quan 


Designation: Assistant Professor


Division: Bioengineering

 


Research Interests: 
Biomedical Nano-Analytics Research 

PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Month Joined: August 2009

 

DUAN Hongwei

 

Designation: Nanyang Assistant Professor



Division: Bioengineering

 

 

Research Interests: Biomedical Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Engineering

PhD: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Month Joined: August 2009

 

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School of Computer Engineering (SCE)
 

Daniel THALMANN


Designation: Visiting Professor



Division:
Computer Science

 

 

Research Interests: Real-Time Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality, Immersive Virtual Environments, Crowd Simulation and Multimodal Interaction

 

PhD: University of Geneva, Switzerland 

Month Joined: August 2009

 

Frank EISENHABER

Designation:
Adjunct Professor

 

 


Division: Information
Systems

 

 

Research Interests: Prediction of Structure/Function of Biomacromolecules from their Sequence of Monomers and Biochemical/Cellbiological Experiments for their Verification,
Intelligent Software Tools for Large-Scale Sequence Annotation,
Algorithms for Interpretation of Protein Mass-Spectrometry Data


PhD: Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow 

Month Joined: August 2009

 

Janusz A. STARZYK


Designation: Visiting Professor



 

Division: Information Systems

 


Research Interests: 
Design of Intelligent Machines, Cognitive Neural Systems, Virtual Embodied Agents, Self-Organizing Associative Memories, Active Vision and Text-Based Learning

PhD: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland


Month Joined: 
August 2009

 

Nadia MAGNENAT THALMANN

Designation: Visiting Professor


Division:
 
Chair's Office

 

 

 

Research Interests: Virtual Humans

PhD: University of Geneva, Switzerland


Month Joined: 
August 2009

 

WU Jianxin


Designation:
Assistant Professor

 



Division:
Computer Communications

 

 

Research Interests: Computer Vision (Object Localization and Recognition and Activity Recognition), Robotics (Visual Place Categorization) and Machine Learning (Ensemble Learning, Learning with Imbalanced Dataset and their Applications in Vision and Robotics)

 

PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Month Joined: August 2009

 

XIAO Xiaokui


Designation:
Assistant Professor

 

Division: Information Systems

 

 

Research Interests: Database Management with a focus on Data Privacy and Spatial Databases

PhD: Chinese University of Hong Kong

Month Joined: August 2009

 

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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

QIN Xiaosheng


Designation:
Assistant Professor

 

 

Division: Environmental and Water Resources 
             Engineering

 

 

Research Interests: Water Resource Planning and Management, Hydrology Modelling and Water Management, Contaminant Transport Modelling, Site Remediation and Climate Changes Impact Assessment


PhD: University of Regina, Canada

Month Joined: August 2009

 

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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

Yuan Junsong

Designation: Nanyang Assistant Professor



Division:
Information Engineering

 

 

 

Research Interests: Computer Vision & Machine Learning, Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, Multimedia Content Understanding, Mining & Search, Image & Video Processing and Content Analysis

PhD: Northwestern University, USA


Month Joined: 
August 2009

 

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School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)

Bo GUNNAR LIEDBERG


Designation: Visiting Professor


Division: Materials Technology

 

 

Research Interests: Bio-Inspired Nano-Science and Technology


PhD: Linköping University, Sweden


Month Joined: August 2009

 

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School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

Anders Eric Wollmar JARFORS


Designation:
Adjunct Associate Professor


Division: 
Manufacturing Engineering 

 

 

Research Interests: The Relation Between the Liquid Forging of Wrought Materials and the Control of Mechanichal Properties  


PhD: Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

 

Month Joined: August 2009

 

CHENG Wei Ping


Designation:
Adjunct Assistant Professor


Division:
Aerospace Engineering

 

 

Research Interests: Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics

 

PhD: Stanford University, USA


Month Joined: August 2009

 

DO Khac Duc 


Designation: Assistant Professor




Division:
Mechatronics and Design

 

 

 

Research Interests: Control of Nonlinear Systems, Control of Multiple Agents, Control of Land, Air and Ocean Vehicles, and Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations


PhD: University of Western Australia


Month Joined: August 2009

 

LOH Kok Hua

Designation: Adjunct Associate Professor

 

Division: Systems and Engineering Management

 


Research Interests:
Fuel Cell Systems and Manufacturing Technology

PhD: University of Manchester, UK

Month Joined: August 2009

 

Narasimalu SRIKANTH

 

Designation: Adjunct Associate Professor



Division: Aerospace Engineering

 

 

 

Research Interests: Network Optimization, One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional and Maximum Cardinality Bin Packing Problems, and Multidimensional Multiknapsack Problem

PhD: University of Maryland, USA

 

Month Joined: August 2009

 

Tonse Gokuldas PAI

Designation: Visiting Associate Professor

 


Division:
 
Aeorspace Engineering

 

  
 

Research Interests: Aerodynamics, Configuration Design, Wind Tunnel Testing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flight Testing & Clearance, Signature Studies, Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Engineering

PhD: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Month Joined: August 2009

 

WAN Man Pun

Designation: Assistant Professor

  

Division: Thermal and Fluids Engineering

 

  
 

Research Interests: Thermo-Fluids Sciences, Aerosol Transport, Building Services, Indoor Air Quality and Catalytic Combustion

PhD: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Month Joined: 
August 2009

 

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