PhD Advisors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 伦斯勒理工学院
Research-focused faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (11)
Professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Andrew Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ He is interested in connecting with potential collaborators, and is also interested in advising doctoral students in the areas of digital politics and media ethics, and critical audience/user studies.
Andy Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and teaching expertise include critical communication and cultural studies, technology and audience studies, media theory, and global media ethics. Fitzgerald is c…
Dominik Fritz
Assistant Professor
⭐ Student positions are currently available.
In 2018, Dr. Dominik Fritz earned his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from RPI. From there, he entered into the Ph.D. program at RPI, where he worked to design and commission a cold neutron moderator system and performed various thermal/sub-thermal total neutron cross section measure…
Dr. Kristen Schell
Research Scientist · School of Engineering
⭐ Dr. Schell is accepting new PhD students interested in optimization modeling, statistical, machine and deep learning modeling and forecasting problems.
Dr. Schell's research develops mathematical models that inform the energy transition. She works at both the generation level, improving wind energy resource assessment and forecasting, and at the systems level, designing adaptable microgrids that can respond to future climate eve…
Fudong Han
Associate Professor and Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ Han research group is always looking for highly motivated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers in mechanical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, and electrochemistry to join our group. Please contact Dr. Han (hanf2@rpi.edu) for possible opportunities.
Fudong Han is an associate professor and Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his BS degre…
Ish Jain
Assistant Professor
⭐ Hiring new PhD students: https://ishjain.github.io/assets/docs/Ish_Jain_hiring_PhD_at_RPI.pdf
Ish Jain has been an Assistant Professor in the ECSE Department at RPI since Fall 2024. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego in 2024, and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New York University (NYU) in 2018, and a bachelor'…
Jian Shi
Professor
⭐ Jian Shi's group currently has a few openings for postdocs and PhD students who are interested in working on topological materials and/or quantum computing. Candidates interested in the positions are not required to have a specific background. Please send your application directly to Jian Shi's emai…
Academic Appointments
GlobalFoundries Endowed Dean’s Faculty Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2026-present
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2024-present
Professor, Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytec…
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri
Assistant Professor
⭐ Prospective graduate students: I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students with strong mathematical and analytical skills. Please send me your CV if you are interested in Machine Learning and comfortable with programming.
Dr. Amiri was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at RPI in Fall 2023. His research is mainly dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence through the strategic use of data. In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the ability to h…
Ozgur Tumuklu
Assistant Professor
⭐ If you are interested in joining our team, please take a moment to view my Google Scholar page.
Dr. Tumuklu attained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, with a specialized focus on hypersonic flow instabilities utilizing kinetic approaches. Subsequent to his doctoral studies, he engaged in a role as a postdoctoral researcher within the Art…
Prashun Gorai
Assistant Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ We are always interested in meeting prospective students (graduate, undergraduate) and postdocs. If you are excited to discover and design new functional materials for energy and sustainability, please check the open positions: Openings
Dr. Prashun Gorai is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Bachelor’s degree (Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, 2008) and PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014) in Chemical Eng…
Theo Borca-Tasciuc
Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
⭐ NanoTEC lab offers opportunities for a variety of hands-on, experimental, manufacturing, and simulation & design projects for Master, PhD, and undergraduate students. Email about research interest to: borcat@rpi.edu.
Dr. Theodorian (Theo) Borca-Tasciuc has a B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He started his academic career in 2001 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and since 2013 he is a full professor. He is the director of the Nanosca…
Wei Bao
Assistant Professor
⭐ Warning: Prof. Bao now looks a bit older than this photo...We may have a graduate student opening
Dr. Wei Bao received his B.S. in physics (minor in chemistry) at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he did his postdoc at UC Berkeley's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center until 2…
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Abby Kinchy
Professor and Department Head
Abby Kinchy is a sociologist, working in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS). Her research and teaching focus on the politics of environmental pollution and the relationship between science and democratic engagement. She became the head of the STS …
Adam Biggs
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Adam Biggs is a historian of race, medicine, and civil rights. His research explores how early-twentieth century Black doctors used professional medicine to advocate for racial justice and examines how understandings of academic and professional merit are shaped by racial politic…
Adrianna Oropello
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Agung Julius
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies · School of Engineering
A. Agung Julius is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering. He is also a faculty member of the Rensselaer Center for Au…
Ahmed Eleish
Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Akina Yura
Music Fellow · School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Pianist Akina Yura joined the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2018. Her concerts have been heard throughout the United States, Europe, and her native Japan. She has performed as a guest recitalist in numerous concert series, including the Pianodrom International Pi…
Alex Gittens
Associate Professor
Before joining Rensselaer as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2017, Dr. Gittens was a research scientist at eBay Research Labs and a postdoctoral scholar at the International Institute of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley. His interests l…
Alex Patterson
Lecturer
Alex Patterson is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked at Osram Opto Semiconductors in Regensburg, Germany, where he implemented advanced methodologies for electrica…
Alexander Brodie
Laboratory Supervisor · School of Science
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Alexander Hiland
Sr. Lecturer
Alexander Hiland Ph.D is a Senior Lecturer in Communication & Media. After earning his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2017 he served as the Assistant Director of Debate at James Madison University and the Director of Forensics (speech and debate) at Texas Tech Univ…
Alexander Ma
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Ma is active in the continued improvement of Chemical Education and STEM Outreach. He has offered various high school outreach programs for Summer @ Rensselaer. Dr. Ma is the co-lead for the I-Persist Chemistry Mentoring program. He is also the faculty advisor for the Chem…
Alhussein Abouzeid
Professor and Department Head, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Computer Networks, Networked Systems, IoT, Smart Grid, Vehicular Networks
Ali Shahsavari
Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ali Tajer
Professor (ECSE & CS) and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
I am broadly interested in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of machine learning, mathematical statistics, and information theory. Currently, my focus is on causality, representation learning, and bandit algorithms.
Alicia Walf
Assistant Professor
Alicia Walf is a neuroscientist and educator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute whose research interests are fueled by the broad question: Why are there individual differences in stress? This question led to studying hormones' actions for growth and plasticity in the brain and b…
Allison Hoffman
Sr. Lecturer, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Dr. Allison B. Hoffman received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She spent 20 years in industry as a consultant, where she developed and validated selection and assessment systems, created trai…
Amgalanbaatar Baldansuren
Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amir Hirsa
Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2005 - present Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; 1996 - 2005 Associate Professor; 1990 - 1996 Assistant Professor, also, Associate Head for Graduate Studies (2007 – present) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2003 - 2009 Joint App…
Ana Milanova
Professor
Ana has been a faculty member at RPI since 2003. She works in programming languages, compilers, and software engineering. Her research centers around static program analysis and its applications in software productivity and security. Recent interests include taint analysis of And…
Andres Munoz Rojas
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Andrés Muñoz-Rojas received his BS in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Yale. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Immunology, where he studied the role of regulatory T cel…
Andrew Horning
Assistant Professor
Before joining the faculty at RPI, Dr. Horning earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and worked as an Applied Math Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I am interested in the design and analysis of inno…
Andrew Trapp
The Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Endowed Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dr. Andrew Trapp is the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Endowed Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He develops mathematical optimization and machine learning methods to support better allocation of limited resources in systems that serve u…
Anita Greenfield
Lecturer
Anita Greenfield received her doctorate in the field of linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics and second language acquisition and teacher education. Anita's doctoral research focused on English teacher identity and agency in the spread language ideology. She currently teac…
Ann Brightly
Equipment and Inventory Technician · School of Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anthony Tessari
Associate Professor, Professional Engineer (NY)
University at Buffalo (Assistant and Associate Professor, 2013-2024)
Research:
−Geotechnical engineering, infrastructure, geohazard mitigation
−Novel sensors and instrumentation for concrete foundations
−High temperature soil testing equipment
−Response of soil-liner systems dur…
Antoinette Maniatty
Professor and Department Head
After receiving her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, Antoinette Maniatty went on to earn two M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, one from the University of Minnesota in 1988 and a second from Cornell Univ…
Aparna Gupta
Professor of Quantitative Finance
Aparna Gupta is a professor of quantitative finance. She was the co-founder and co-director of the NSF IUCRC Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Gupta has also served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affai…
Arpit Agrawal
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Arpit Agrawal is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research lies at the intersection of selling and sales management, behavioral economics, and digital transformation. He studies how psychological forces…
Ashwani Kapila
Professor Emeritus
My research has addressed problems of practical concern arising in the general area of solid and fluid mechanics, especially chemically reactive flows of the kind that occur during combustion and explosion processes. Recent work has focused on the development and analysis, both…
Asish Ghosh
Professor of Practice
Director, Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (interim) Lally School of Management Professor of Practice Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Director, invent@Rensselaer Program in Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering
Audrey Peterson-McCann
Lecturer
Audrey Peterson-McCann, Ph.D. specializes in global Victorian Literature and college writing. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY Albany with distinction in 2024. Her recent book project unveils the ways that global Victorian novels explored, and exposed, the use of animals and plan…
Azita Hirsa
Sr. Lecturer
Engineering and Emerging Technology Ethics, Ethics of Modeling, Management of Engineering and Technology , Professional Development, Organizational Behavior, Cultural Analysis and Ethnography
B Wayne Bequette
Professor and Technology Manager, CESMII Northern Regional Manufacturing Center
B. Wayne Bequette is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Technology Manager for the Northern Regional Center of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research efforts are focused on the m…
Barbara Cutler
Associate Professor
I'm an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and an EMPAC Affiliated Faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My research interests include computer graphics, geometry processing, visualization, and design tools for architecture. Previously I was a stu…
Becky Spaulding
Business Administrator, Sr · School of Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Belmiro Galo da Silva
Lecturer · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Galo earned his PhD from University of Rochester and from University of São Paulo in August 2021. His research interests include Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, Analytic Combinatorics and One-Dimensional Dynamics. His favorite subjects are "Falconer-type problems…
Ben Larson
Assistant Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Larson received a BA in physics from Reed College. As a postbac researcher, he conducted research in the lab of Dr. Justin Taraska (NIH) on the molecular organization and biophysical principles of exocytosis and endocytosis. During that time, Dr. Larson also collaborated with…
Benj Gleeksman
Lecturer
Benj is an artist, art director and graphic designer who has worked in various creative capacities for the last 25 years. Benj’s artwork, which combines texture, painting, drawing, collage and typography, has been shown in more than thirty group and solo shows and his photography…
Benjamin Chang
Professor, Department Head of Games and Experiential Media
Ben Chang is an electronic artist and director of the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer. His work explores the intersections of virtual environments and experimental gaming with contemporary media art. Using materials ranging from immersive visualizati…
Bill Francis
Warren H. and Pauline U. Bruggeman Distinguished Professor of Finance
Professor Francis conducts his research on issues in initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, and international asset-pricing. He has published numerous articles in reputed finance and economic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financia…
Billur Aksoy
Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Director
I am an experimental economist working at the intersection of behavioral, public, and labor economics. My research investigates how economic decision-making is shaped by social context, institutional environments, individual differences, and increasingly, by interactions with tec…
Bimal Malaviya
Professor Emeritus
Fission and Fusion Reactor Physics and Technology, Biomedical Applications, Radioactive Waste Management, Pedagogic Technology
Bin Gao
Kodak Chair Professor
Bin Gao is the Kodak Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to this, he was a professor at University of Florida, a research associate at Cornell University, and a postdoctoral research associate at Yale…
Birsen Yazici
Professor
After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on radar, transportation, industria…
Blanca Barquera
Professor
Dr. Barquera received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the National University of University of Mexico. Then she worked in the lab of Professor Robert Gennis at the University of Illinois-Urbana, supported by an NIH-Forgarty postdoctoral fellowship, and Professor Marten Wikstrom at…
Bolek Szymanski
Claire & Roland Schmitt Distinguished Prof. of Computer Science and Director, Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer S…
Boon Ooi
Professor and Constellation Chair in Future Chips
Boon S. Ooi is the Future Chips Constellation Chair Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA. He was the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST and and previously held faculty positions at Lehigh University (PA, USA) …
Bram Van Heuveln
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. van Heuveln is a passionate educator who continually tries to improve the effectiveness of the many different undergraduate courses he teaches in the areas of cognitive science, logic, artificial intelligence, critical thinking, and the philosophy of mind. Dr. van Heuveln’s r…
Branda Miller
Professor
Branda Miller is an internationally recognized media artist, and Professor of Media Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her media art works have been screened at festivals, museums and exhibitions, broadcast nationally and internationally, and used in community organizing …
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn
Assistant Professor of Community Engagement and Community-Based Research
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn applies ethnographic research and policy analysis to scientifically and politically complex challenges at the intersection of climate resilience and technological governance.
His forthcoming book, Redesigning Contexts, reframes context from static backgro…
Brett Fajen
HASS Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor
Brett Fajen conducts research on perception and action. His main interests are the visual control of locomotion and perceptual-motor learning and adaptation. His research on these topics contributes to the development of the ecological and dynamical systems approaches to percepti…
Brian Clark
Associate Professor of Finance, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Professor Clark's research focuses on financial intermediation and risk management with an emphasis on machine learning. He currently teaches several quantitative finance courses including Financial Computation and Simulation and Advanced AI/ML for Finance. Dr. Clark's work has b…
Brian Jensen
Lecturer
Dr. Jensen received his Ph.D from the University of Delaware in 2001. His research focused on how environmental cues helped alter lipid metabolism in the fish Fundulus heteroclitus during their reproductive cycle. His post-doctoral experience at the University of Delaware exami…
Bruce Watson
Professor Emeritus · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
My research focuses on chemical phenomena that occur within the Earth and terrestrial planets, with emphasis on the outer 100 kilometers of the Earth. I use laboratory devices in the basement of the Jonsson-Rowland Science Center to achieve conditions of elevated pressure and te…
Bruno Nkuiya Mbakop
Assistant Professor
Dr. Nkuiya joined the Rensselaer faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Fall 2023. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Montreal and worked for several institutions including University of California Santa Barbara and University of Alberta. His resea…
Bulent Yener
Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science with a courtesy appointment in ECSE Department. I have been serving as the founding Director of Data Science Research Center, and Associated Director of IDEA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. I rece…
Cara Wang
Professor
Dr. Cara Wang received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in civil engineering from Tsinghua University and her Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses primarily on data analytics in transportation system, travel and shopping behav…
Carl McDaniel
Professor Emeritus
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Carlos Varela
Professor
Dr. Carlos A. Varela received his B.S. with honors, M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Varela is Associate Editor of the ACM Computing Surveys journal, the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and the IEEE Internet of Thing…
Casey Hoffman
Sr. Lecturer
Engineering Design, Innovation, Inventor's Studio, Design for Manufacturing, STEAMM Inventor Studio Summer Program - Project Director
Catalin Picu
Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies
Catalin Picu received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. He then joined the faculty of the same institution working in the area of Solid Mechanics. In 1992 he entered the PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Dar…
Catherine Royer
Professor and Constellation Endowed Chair
Dr. Royer obtained her Bachelors (Licence) degree in 1979 at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6 in Biochemistry and Chemistry. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1985 in the Department of Biochemistry in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urba…
Chaitanya Ullal
Associate Professor
Other Focus Areas: Polymers, Optics, and Nanolithography
Chanaka Edirisinghe
Kay and Jackson Tai '72 Chaired Professor in Quantitative Finance
Professor Chanaka Edirisinghe has published extensively in management science and finance, focusing on portfolio optimization, risk management, derivative pricing, and firm fundamental strength analysis, as well as stochastic and quadratic programming theory and practice for larg…
Charles Martin
Senior Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chen Wang
Assistant Professor
Chen Wang is an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His research interests mainly focus on the intersections between Theoretical Computer Science and Machine Learning. Prior to RPI, Chen was a postdoctoral researcher hosted jointly by Vladimir (Vova) Br…
Cheng (Kent) Hsu
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Cheng Hsu is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180-3590. He earned a Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University in Management Sciences (with a minor in Computer Science), MS in…
Chris Bystroff
Professor
My lab studies the folding and design of proteins, enzymes, vaccine antigens, and biosensors. When I came here in 1999, I was a bioinformaticist and my lab worked exclusively in computational biology. Since then, we have evolved into a mostly experimental lab, with a little compu…
Chris Carothers
Chief Scientist and Center Director · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chris Carothers is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interest are in massively parallel systems focusing on modeling and simulation systems of all sorts. Prof. Carothers is an NSF CAREER award winner and is currently …
Chris McDermott
Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Operations Management
Professor McDermott has taught courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels while at Rensselaer, and as a visiting faculty member at other schools. He has won multiple awards for his teaching.
Professor McDermott’s primary research interests focus on the link be…
Christian Wetzel
Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Is a recognized leader in the research and development of LED-based solid-state lighting. His research spans the materials physics and epitaxial growth of wide bandgap group-III nitrides, their device design and metrology. His work contributes to substantial worldwide energy savi…
Christopher Cioffi
Thomas and Constance D'Ambra Professor in Organic Chemistry
Our research group is primarily engaged in medicinal chemistry and organic synthetic chemistry. Currently, our laboratory is pursuing drug discovery research in areas that include 1) ophthalmic indications, 2) indications associated with elevated RBP4 expression, 3) TTR amyloidos…
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead
Sr. Lecturer
Chris Fisher-Lochhead (he–him) is a composer, improviser, and educator. His work attempts to cultivate adventurous and inclusive environments for musical collaboration through critical engagement with instrumental and compositional technique, notational systems, and ensemble dyna…
Christopher Jeansonne
Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director
Christopher Jeansonne is a Senior Lecturer in the Communication and Media Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Chris does research in gameful learning, which applies the principles of game design to education, and in critical media pedagogy, which uses strategies that …
Christopher Letchford
Professor and Department Head
Chris Letchford obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours and University Medal from the University of Queensland in 1980. He was the inaugural winner of the Ove Arup Scholarship and worked for two years in the London Office of Ove Arup and Partn…
Christopher Puleo
Associate Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher Sims
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Chris Sims received a B.S. in computer science from Cornell University (2003), followed by a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2009). After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Sims held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Rochester, and a f…
Christopher Tozzi
Sr. Lecturer
I study the history and culture of technology. My most recent book, For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution (MIT Press, 2017), explores the history of software whose source code is freely shared, and the cultural and economic impact of such s…
Christos Varsamis
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Varsamis is a Civil Engineer who specializes in Structural and Earthquake Engineering. He earned his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in Greece and also holds an M.S. degree in Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Struc…
Chrysi Nanou
Music Fellow
Pianist Chrysi Nanou combines a career as a performer, curator, and researcher in music psychology. She is currently a Music Fellow and Lecturer at RPI, NY. Born in Greece, Chrysi’s personal and professional aesthetics were formed in Paris and further shaped in the United States …
Chulsung Bae
Ford Foundation Professor, Associate Director of Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chulsung Bae is Ford Foundation Professor at Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology (with a joint appointment at Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Broadly speaking, Bae's research group focuses on development of functional pol…
Chun Leung
Professor Emeritus
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chunyu Wang
Professor
Professor Wang applies interdisciplinary structural biology to study the fundamental mechanisms and drug discovery in Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
Clayton Thomas
Assistant Professor
Clayton Thomas is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at RPI. Previously, he was a postdoc at Yale and Microsoft Research, and a student at Princeton and Purdue. He studies the design of collective decision-making algorithms for settings such as student-s…
Clint Ballinger
Professor of Practice
Dr. Ballinger is a business leader with a reputation for exceptional technical/analytic skills and history of launching “world’s first” products across multiple markets, on time and under budget. Diverse background with demonstrated lean business acumen that includes founding and…
Conor Lennon
Associate Professor, Alma & H. Erwin Hale Chair
I am an empirical micro-economist who leverages experimental and quasi-experimental settings to address policy-relevant research questions in health and labor economics. I am particularly interested in studying how employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) affects labor market ou…
Corey Woodcock
Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Corinne Jones
Assistant Professor
Corinne Jones studies digital rhetoric, digital communication, technical and professional communication, and social media. Corinne is particularly interested in digital activism. Corinne has published twice in First Monday, twice in the Special Interest Group on Design of Communi…
Daeyong Lee
Professor Emeritus
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Damien West
Senior Lecturer
Research focuses on computational/theoretical condensed matter physics, both in the development of novel methods and first-principles calculations to understand properties of materials to address technological problems of energy related materials (hydrogen storage, photovoltaic, …
Dan DiTursi
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. DiTursi is a lifelong educator with decades of experience teaching at both the K-12 and college levels. He has lived in Troy since attending RPI as a student and is an unabashed fan of both the city and the greater Capital Region. Dan is an inveterate gamer who enjoys a wide …
Dan Lewis
Associate Professor
Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Lewis was a researcher at GE Global Research. His work focused on oxidation performance and deformation processing of advanced ferritic materials for SOFC interconnects. In addition, he studied the metallurgy and electrical properties of amorphous…
Dan Lyles
Lecturer
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Berg
Professor Emeritus
In 1950 graduated from City College of New York with a B.S. in physics and chemistry. He earned M.S. and P.h. D. degrees in physical chemistry from Yale University in 1951 and 1953 respectively. From 1953-1977, he worked at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, ultimately as tec…
Daniel Gall
Robert W. Hunt Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
DANIEL GALL is the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Diploma from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Prof. Ga…
Daniel Lander
Sr. Lecturer
Daniel completed his B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2009. He pursued a research internship at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment in Nantes, France, where he worked with the Wind and Structures group. After graduating with honors,…
Daniel Stevenson
Lecturer
Before joining RPI, Dr. Stevenson earned his PhD from the University at Albany and held the position of Lecturer in Mathematics at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. His primary interests are in Math Education and Complex Analysis. In particular, Dr. Stevenson is interested in innovativ…
Daniel Thero
Sr. Lecturer
Daniel Thero is a Lecturer in Cognitive Science, specializing in Philosophy, and currently serves as coordinator of the undergraduate program in Philosophy. A dedicated educator, he regularly teaches such Philosophy courses as Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Me…
Daniel Walczyk
Professor and Director, Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)
Daniel F. Walczyk, Ph.D., PE is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical , Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and also Associate Director of Manufacturing for the Center of Automation Technologies and Systems. He received a B.S. from Syracuse Universi…
Daniele Cherniak
Geochemist · School of Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Corr
Professor
David T. Corr received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics, University of Wisconsin. After working as a consultant at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under the funding of the Universities Space Research Association, Dr. Corr ret…
David Goldschmidt
Executive Officer · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
David Goldschmidt has served as the Executive Officer for the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since January 2012. In this role, he teaches primarily systems-based courses at all levels for the department, in particular Operating Systems, which is a…
David Isaacson
Professor
Professor Isaacson works in two areas: mathematical physics and medical imaging. His work in mathematical physics has centered on the development of methods for approximating energy levels, particle masses, and critical exponents in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and st…
David Mendonca
Senior Research Scientist · School of Engineering
My research explores improvisation and adaptation in emergency response. I am specifically interested in cognitive foundations of individual and group decision making, prospects for supporting cognition with computer-based systems, and the development of prescriptive guidance to …
David Musser
Professor Emeritus
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David R Geary
Chemical Inventory and Equipment Technician · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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David Spooner
Professor Emeritus
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Deanna Thompson
Associate Professor
Deanna M. Thompson received her B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1993). She received her M.S (1999) and Ph.D (2001) in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University as a NIH Pre-doctoral trainee in an interdisciplinary training progra…
Debbie Kaminski
Professor Emeritus
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Deborah McGuinness
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair, Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Deborah McGuinness is a leading expert in knowledge representation and reasoning languages and systems and has worked in ontology creation and evolution environments for over 40 years. McGuinness continues to make foundational research contributions in a range of artificial intel…
Deepak Vashishth
Yamada Corporation Professor and RPI Co-Director, Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM) · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), conducting breakthrough research on bones, Deepak Vashishth, PhD, is working to redefine the role of a top tier research university: one that is engaged in public and pri…
Diana Borca Tasciuc
Professor
D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc received her B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University in 1996, and M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and respectively 2005. She was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 …
Dick Lahey
Professor Emeritus
Professor Lahey is an international authority in multiphase flow and heat transfer technology and was formerly Director of the Center for Multiphase Research (CMR) at Rensselaer. He was previously Dean of Engineering at RPI and has served as Chairman of the Faculty & Science Sena…
Diego Moran Ramirez
Assistant Professor
Mathematical optimization, with a focus on the theory of mixed-integer programs, including properties of cutting planes and duality. Applications of optimization to production planning, logistics and other relevant real-world business and engineering problems. Lately, I have beco…
Donald Drew
Professor Emeritus
Donald Drew earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematics from Rensselaer. In between his long tenure at the Institute, Drew conducted postdoctoral research at MIT, and taught for two years at New York University. Drew works in the area of multiphase flows,…
Donald Schwendeman
Professor, Director, Center for Modeling, Optimization and Computational Analysis (MOCA)
Dr. Schwendeman received his B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the supervision of Professor G.B. Whitham, FRS. Dr. Schwendeman took a one-year pos…
Dorit Nevo
Professor, Management Information Systems; Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate Education · Lally School of Management
I am interested in the interactions between humans and technology, and the value that these interactions bring to organizations. I study this broad phenomenon from three main perspective: (1) the interaction perspective: how people interact with information systems and what they …
Doug Swank
Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Douglas Swank holds a PhD in physiology in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania where he investigated the roles of different muscle fiber types in powering locomotion with his mentor Dr. Larry Rome. From 1996 to 2000 he gained expertise in Drosophila genetics through a postd…
Douglas Whittet
Professor Emeritus
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Edmund Palermo
Associate Professor
Ed is from Bay Shore, NY. He began his adventures in polymer science as a high school student under Prof. Miriam Rafailovich at SUNY Stony Brook. After completing a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell in 2006, he moved to The University of Michigan and earned a…
Edwin Fohtung
Associate Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Professor Fohtung received his Ph.D. ( Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude) from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany in 2010. Before he joined Rensselaer in 2019 he was the LANSCE (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center) Professor of physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory …
Eliane Zerbetto Traldi
Lecturer
Dr. Traldi earned her PhD from Rutgers University. Prior to joining the Department of Mathematical Sciences at RPI as a Lecturer in 2019, Dr. Traldi held teaching positions at Rutgers University and in Brazil. Her current primary interest is in Mathematics Education, more specifi…
Elisabeth Brown
Lecturer
Dr. Brown earned her PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prior to becoming a Lecturer in Mathematics at RPI. Her primary interests are in Math Education and Underwater Acoustics. In particular, Dr. Brown is interested in improving educational outcomes and experiences for f…
Elizabeth Blaber
Assistant Professor
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Elizabeth Kam
Lecturer
Computational Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermoacoustics, Finite-Difference Lattice Boltzamann Method, Navier-Stokes Equations, Numerical Methods
Elizabeth Press
Sr. Lecturer
Elizabeth Press (EP) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY, interested in socially engaged practices, experimental documentary, and politics. Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, produ…
Ellen Jesina
PhD Geology, Class of '29 · School of Science
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Elliot Anshelevich
Professor
Elliot works in the area of algorithms and theoretical computer science, especially on issues at the intersection of Economics and Computation. His research interests include algorithms for large decentralized networks, including networks with strategic agents. Particular interes…
Emily Liu
Professor and Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department; Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department; Professor, Lally School of Management (Joint Appointment) · School of Engineering
Professor Emily Liu, a condensed matter physicist and nuclear engineer, has been named head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest and one of the most renowned technological research universities in the nation…
Emrah Aktunc
Lecturer
Mahir Emrah Aktunc received his master's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. from the Science and Technology Studies program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In his scholarly work, Dr. Aktunc strives to develop an interdisciplinar…
Ephraim Glinert
Professor Emeritus
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Eric Ameres
Sr. Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director: GSAS
Dr. Ameres returned to RPI after a successful career in industry developing multimedia tools and technology in a number of fields. He has developed groundbreaking MIDI and music software, tools for game developers as well as video and audio compression and streaming technology (…
Eric Rutledge
Sr. Lecturer
My research activities are focused on studying the expression patterns of Parkinson’s disease (PD) gene homologs in the model organism C. elegans and other genes related to life span and neurodegeneration. There are 6 genes, thus far, linked to the inherited form of PD and they …
Esen Yel
Assistant Professor
Esen Yel is an assistant professor at the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the director of Reliable Intelligent Systems Lab (RISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Her research focuses on planning, monitoring, and online adaptation to impr…
Esra Agca Aktunc
Sr. Lecturer
Optimization, simulation, and data analytics applications in areas including disaster management, healthcare, and energy systems
Esther Wertz
Associate Professor
Dr. Esther Wertz obtained her B.S. in Physics from the University of Paris 7 in 2005. She received her PhD in Physics in 2010 for the work she did with Dr. Jacqueline Bloch at the Laboratory for Photonics and Nanostructures in Marcoussis, France. There she pioneered the lab’s wor…
Ethan Brown
Associate Professor; Department Graduate Program Director
Ethan Brown's research is in particle astrophysics, using techniques from particle physics to answer questions related to astronomy. The research uses liquid xenon and novel detectors to probe rare physics properties in an attempt to identify the content and properties of the fun…
Euan Somerscales
Professor Emeritus
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Evan Runyon
Music Fellow · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Eyosias Ashenafi
Lecturer
Dr. Eyosias is an Environmental Engineer who specializes in advanced oxidation processes, photobiology, and analytical chemistry. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Calvin University (Grand Rapids, MI). He enrolled at RPI as a Ph.D. student in …
Fabian Faulstich
Assistant Professor, Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair
Dr. Faulstich earned his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, as well as his M.Sc. in Mathematics, from the Technical University of Berlin. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry and Applied Mathematics from the University of Oslo, supervised by Simen Kvaal, Trygve Helgake…
Faye Duchin
Professor Emeritus
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Fengyan Li
Professor
Dr. Fengyan Li received her BS and MS degrees in Computational Mathematics from Peking University in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and her PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2004. Before joining RPI in 2006, she held a postdoc position at the University of …
Filbert Totsingan
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Totsingan received his M.S. in Industrial Chemistry and his Ph.D. in Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry with honors from the University of Parma (Italy) working with Prof. Rosangela Marchelli and Prof. Roberto Corradini in designing new biosensors (fluorescent peptide nucleic a…
Fotios Kopsaftopoulos
Associate Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Professor Fotis Kopsaftopoulos joined the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in October 2017. He received his Diploma and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Univ…
Franck Djeumou Mbouwe
Assistant Professor
Dr. Franck Djeumou earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023 and his M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO, France, in 2018. Before joining RPI, he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Toyota …
Frank Spear
Professor and Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Educator Chair
My research group is focused in two major directions in metamorphic geochemistry.
Studies of crustal evolution:A major focus of my research group over the past three decades has been on the development of new techniques for the interpretation of metamorphic petrogenesis. These s…
Fred Schubert
Professor and Constellation Chair, Future Chips
After completing his master’s degree, Schubert spent four years studying compound semiconductor crystal growth as a scientific staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. He later joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., where he spent two years as a…
Gaetano Montelione
Professor and Constellation Endowed Chair
The unique strengths of our laboratory involve development of NMR methods and software for analysis of protein structures and dynamics, and in applying these methods in structure-function studies. As Director of the NIGMS-funded Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) for…
Ganpati Ramanath
John Tod Horton Professor of Engineering
Professor Ramanath received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1997. His doctoral work won him a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (now known as the Gold Award). He obtained his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Enginee…
Gary Judd
Professor Emeritus
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Gaurav Jain
Associate Professor of Marketing, Director of MS Programs
Gaurav Jain, associate professor of marketing at the Rensselaer Lally School of Management, examines how individuals make judgments, estimates, and decisions in the absence of complete information. Prior to earning his Ph.D. from the Tippie College of Business at the University o…
Ge Wang
Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor, Director of Biomedical Imaging Center, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
Ge Wang (Fellow, IEEE, SPIE, AAPM, OSA, AIMBE, AAAS, and NAI) is the Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, USA). He pioneered the cone-beam spiral CT method in 1991 and published …
Geetu Sharma
Lecturer
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George Lee
Sr. Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering
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George Makhatadze
Professor and Constellation Endowed Chair
Dr. Makhatadze completed his postdoctoral work at the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University before moving to his first faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University. After three years at Texas Tech, he moved to the Penn Stat…
George Slota
Associate Professor
George is an Associate Professor position in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously, George has held positions as a Computer Scientist at Sandia National Labs New Mexico and as a Computer Engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Geor…
George Xu
Professor Emeritus
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Georges Belfort
Institute Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Member, National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Georges Belfort: Endowed chair Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. He received his BS degree in CHME at the University of Cape Town and PhD in Engineering from UC Irvine. He has broad research interests include mass transfer and membrane filt…
Gerald Korenowski
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Research
Prior to joining the RPI faculty in 1982, Korenowski was a postdoctoral research associate at Columbia University and a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at SUNY/Stony Brook.
Gina Kucinski
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Gina Kucinski earned her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Binghamton University (SUNY). Prior to joining the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer as a Lecturer in 2014, Dr. Kucinski held teaching appointments at Binghamton University, University of Scranton, a…
Glenn Ciolek
Senior Lecturer; Transfer Credit; Degree Clearance
Glenn Ciolek is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist. His research focus has been in the theory of the interstellar medium, particularly astrophysical plasmas and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and their applications to star-forming molecular clouds and cores. This has incl…
Gregor Kovacic
Professor, Undergraduate Program Director
Gregor Kovačič received batchelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from California Institute of Technology. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the Ma…
Gyorgy Korniss
Professor, Department Head
Prof. Gyorgy Korniss received his Diploma (M.S.) in Physics at Eotvos University, Budapest in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Physics at Virginia Tech in 1997. His research background is statistical physics and interacting and agent-based systems. He was a postdoctoral research associate a…
Heidi Newberg
Professor
My current research is primarily related to understanding the structure of our own galaxy through using stars as tracers of the Galactic halo and the disk. In both cases I have been instrumental in elucidating their substructure. I hope that these studies will contribute to our u…
Helen Zha
Associate Professor
Dr. Helen Zha received her B.Sc. (2007) from MIT and her Ph.D. (2013) from Northwestern University in Materials Science & Engineering. After pursuing postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology and UC Berkeley, Helen started as a tenure-track assistant professor a…
Helen Zhou
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Yalun Helen Zhou has an interdisciplinary background in applied linguistics, curriculum design, and program evaluation. Her work involves second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, multimodal literacy design with emerging technology, and user experience research on virtual pl…
Heng Liu
Assistant Professor
I am a microeconomic theorist. My research focuses on auctions, mechanism design, and dynamic games. Currently I work on designing dynamic mechanisms that are immune to collusion among participants and on auction problems with asymmetric bidders.
Henrik Hagerup
Professor Emeritus
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Henry A. Scarton
Professor Emeritus
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Hisham Mohamed
Sr. Lecturer
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Holly Traver
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Holly A. Traver received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. While she has published and presented in various journals and at conferences, her passion lies in interacting with and educating th…
Huaming Peng
Lecturer
Dr. Peng Joined RPI in 2018. Prior to that, he taught at SUNY Albany from 2008 to 2017. He received his PhD in Economics from Yale Univeristy in 2008, his Master in Statistics in 2001 and Bachelor in Economics and Mathematics in 1999 from Macquarie University in Australia. Dr. Pe…
Hyun Kang
Professor
Dr. Kang is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and in charge of Nuclear Plant Reliability and Information lab. He is chairing Nuclear Safety Review Board from 2019. He is also the chair of Human Factors and I&C division of America…
Ian Chadd
Assistant Professor
As an experimental and behavioral economist, I pursue research that explores how cognitive constraints and social identity shape economic decision-making. I use controlled experiments to identify causal mechanisms behind observed disparities in behavior and outcomes, particularly…
Igor Vamos
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Igor Vamos is a media artist and culture jammer. Vamos is also known as "Mike Bonanno," in his work with The Yes Men, the performance-activist duo that impersonates captains of industry and surprise unsuspecting business audiences with satirical, poignant actions that comment upo…
Ingrid Wilke
Professor
Ingrid Wilke's primary research focus is on experimental terahertz (THz) wave science and technology as well as ultrafast laser applications. Terahertz wave technologies are materials, devices, systems and processes involving THz frequency electromagnetic waves. Terahertz waves a…
Ishwara Bhat
Professor
Ishwara B. Bhat is a Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at RPI. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Bhat jo…
Isom Herron
Professor Emeritus
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Ivar Giaever
Professor Emeritus
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Jackie Herron Berry
Lecturer
Jacquelyn H. Berry received her B.S. and M.S. in psychology and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. From the State University at Albany. After lecturing and conducting research at the State University at New Paltz, she returned to Rensselaer as a post-do…
Jacob Merson
Assistant Professor
High Performance Computing; Multiscale and Multiphysics Simulations
Jacob Shelley
Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor Of Chemistry
Jacob Shelley was born in Albuquerque, NM in 1984. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ in 2005. During his undergraduate career, he was a summer intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked on a number of projects including m…
Jamecyn Morey
Music Fellow
Jamecyn Morey is an active solo, chamber and orchestral violinist. Ms. Morey has appeared as a soloist with orchestra at Lincoln Center as part of their Distinguished Concerts International New York series. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Young Musicians and Artists F…
James (Chip) Kilduff
Associate Professor
Dr. Kilduff's research interests include application of membrane and adsorption separation processes to potable water production, industrial wastewater treatment, pollutant transport in the environment, and recovery of biomolecules. His research projects involve:
* Using membrane…