The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Kunal Agrawal, Ph.D., joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science as assistant professor of computer science and engineering. Agrawal earned a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked with Charles Leiserson, Ph.D., in the Supercomputing Technologies Group. Her research interests include both theoretical and practical aspects of parallel computing, and she has worked on various topics such as scheduling, resource allocation, transactional memory, cache-aware and cache-oblivious streaming.
Jung-Tsung Shen, Ph.D., joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science as assistant professor of electrical and systems engineering. Shen earned a doctorate in physics in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on theoretical and computational investigation on electron-hole plasma, laser gain profile and metamaterials. Since 2003, Shen has worked at Stanford University in the Ginzton Laboratory, focusing on photon transport in nano-photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and thermal and energy transport in nano-structures. His primary research interest is in exploiting device potential and new material concepts enabled by the capability of manipulating light at subwavelength scales.