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Chemical and biological engineering professor Steven Cramer was recently appointed as the William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering at Rensselaer. The endowed professorship, one of the two oldest such named professorships at Rensselaer, is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member.
“With his research and insight, Professor Cramer continues to raise the bar for Rensselaer faculty and their students,” said Alan Cramb, dean of Rensselaer’s School of Engineering.
Cramer, who served as acting head of Rensselaer’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering from November 2004 to August 2006, is widely regarded as a worldwide leader in chromatographic bioprocessing and an expert in separations.
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Ricardo Dobry, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was recently named Institute Professor of Engineering. The director of Rensselaer’s NEES-NSF Geotechnical Centrifuge Research Center, Dobry has published more than 200 technical papers and consulted on a broad range of projects, from earth dams and dikes in California to the new Rion-Antirion bridge in Greece.
His distinguished career includes several milestones in his field of study, which includes soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and geotechnical dynamic centrifuge testing. His work on the new seismic provisions on local site amplification is now incorporated in U.S. building codes. He also co-wrote the visionary 20-year research plan in earthquake engineering prepared by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute for the National Science Foundation.
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Richard Radke was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.
His current research interests include distributed computer vision problems on large camera networks, deformable registration and segmentation of three- and four-dimensional biomedical volumes, and three-dimensional modeling and tracking from video and range sensors. At Rensselaer, he is associated with the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) as well as the Center for Next Generation Video (CNGV) and the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN).
Radke received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2003
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Alhussein Abouzeid was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.
His current research interest is variable topology networks, which includes wireless ad-hoc/sensor networks, delay/disruption-tolerant networks, and peer-to-peer overlay networks. At Rensselaer, he is associated with the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN).
Abouzeid received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006.
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Assad Anshuman Oberai has received a promotion to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.
As part of his research, Oberai develops numerical methods for solving inverse problems as well as problems with multiple spatial and temporal scales. Specifically, in inverse problems, he has focused on the promising new area of biomechanical imaging; in multiscale research he models turbulent flows, problems with shocks, and coupling of molecular and continuum descriptions in fluids.
Oberai received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005.
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