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!

Welcome Immanuel Trummer ( 2016 )

Before Immanuel Trummer even had a computer, he wrote programs on paper and gave them to his friends to try out on their computers. By the time he was in high school in Stuttgart he was writing and... Read more

Welcome Rachit Agarwal ( 2016 )

Rachit Agarwal started at Cornell in the fall of 2016 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in systems. “My PhD advisors once told me ‘work on... Read more

Welcome Andrew Gordon Wilson ( 2016 )

Andrew Gordon Wilson has joined the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell as an assistant professor. He is interested in developing flexible, interpretable, and... Read more

Welcome Greg Bewley ( 2016 )

Greg Bewley, assistant professor and Gordon Lankton Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, believes we don’t always pay enough attention to... Read more

Welcome Madeleine Udell ( 2016 )

Madeleine Udell, assistant professor and Richard and Sybil Smith Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell, studies optimization and... Read more

Welcome Christina Delimitrou ( 2016 )

Christina Delimitrou, assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), did not have a computer until she was 17. Now she spends much of her time working to improve... Read more

Welcome Kirstin Petersen ( 2016 )

When Kirstin Petersen was a high school student, she had the opportunity to spend some time at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. At the time, she pictured herself as a future... Read more

Welcome Damek Davis ( 2016 )

Talk with Assistant Professor Damek Davis of Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) for even just a short while, and it becomes apparent that he is a person who... Read more

Welcome Nathan Kallus ( 2016 )

Nathan Kallus has joined the faculty at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell Tech as an assistant professor. Kallus says he came to Cornell Tech in New York... Read more

Welcome Itai Gurvich ( 2016 )

Itai Gurvich has joined the faculty of Cornell Tech as an associate professor of operations research and information engineering. Gurvich comes to Cornell after eight years on the faculty at... Read more