New Faculty Profiles

Each year Cornell Engineering brings to campus the best and brightest minds in Engineering researchers and educators. Here are some of our new faculty!

Noah Snavely ( 2009 )

If you search Flickr or Google images for Taughannock Falls, you'll get page after page of thumbnails that must be viewed separately, but Noah Snavely has found a way to stitch them into an... Read more

Xiling Shen ( 2009 )

Xiling Shen uses engineering principles to understand biological systems and create new ones. "I'm not a typical double E," he says. "My research is using engineering concepts and tools to help solve... Read more

Peter Frazier ( 2009 )

Peter Frazier solves information collection problems. He is working with researchers at Georgetown University to find a drug that can stop Ewing's sarcoma from metastasizing. "It's an operations... Read more

David Bindel ( 2009 )

Most of the electronic gadgets being made today have accelerometers. By detecting motion, they protect data by stopping laptop hard drives and rotate iPhone images when the screen is turned... Read more

Ashutosh Saxena ( 2009 )

Ashutosh Saxena teaches robots to operate autonomously in new, uncertain environments. Most existing robots can be "scripted" to perform difficult tasks in highly constrained, known environments.... Read more

Hadas Kress-Gazit ( 2009 )

Hadas Kress-Gazit wants to know how to make robots do what they are supposed to. Once a robot understands the meaning of a command given in natural language, it must be translated into motor and... Read more

Brandon Hencey ( 2009 )

To reduce energy consumption and fight global warming, buildings must become more efficient. Buildings use about 40 percent of the nation's energy and 70 percent of its electricity. Brandon Hencey is... Read more

Christopher Hernandez ( 2010 )

Chris Hernandez is interested in the mechanics of bone. The human body’s structural underpinnings are subject to the same mechanical laws as bridges and buildings, but unlike steel or concrete, bone... Read more

Nate Foster ( 2010 )

Nate Foster likes languages. "I did a Master's in the philosophy of language and have always enjoyed thinking about meaning, translation, and semantics," he said. "It's fun to take something... Read more

Christopher Batten ( 2010 )

Christopher Batten almost left the field of computer architecture. "After a couple of years in graduate school at MIT, I started to become disillusioned with my research community. It seemed like most... Read more