Faculty News Briefs
Professor Kenji Shimada and Assistant Professor Jessica Zhang have been awarded a UPMC Healthcare Technology Innovation Grant to support their computa- tional modeling of cerebral aneurysms. The grant is part of a strategic collaboration between UPMC and Carnegie Mellon, created to ad- vance new healthcare information tech- nologies. The models created by Shimada and Zhang will help researchers better un- derstand the pathol- ogy of aneurysms.
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The 2010 Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award was recently presented to Associate Professor Philip LeDuc for his leadership in the classroom, in curriculum improve- ments, in national societies’ student leadership, and in recruiting and mentoring diverse students, particularly from underrepresented and minority groups. This annual award honors a CIT faculty member for excellence in engineering education.
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Assistant Professor Jessica Zhang has received the 2010 George Tallman Ladd Research Award, which honors the research and accomplishments of a CIT faculty member. Zhang was cited for her innovative work in image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation, which inte- grates image processing, geometric modeling and mesh
MechE Adds Courtesy Faculty T
he Department of Mechanical Engineering recently added two courtesy faculty members who will add to MechE’s diverse expertise and range of research interests.
Hartmut Geyer is an Assistant Professor at the Robotics Institute. His research focuses on principles of legged dy- namics and control, their relation to human motor control, and resulting applications in rehabilitation technology. Geyer designs robotic legs for rehabilitation, based on the legged dynamic systems that underlie both animal and human locomotion. This involves developing math- ematical and computational models that capture essential problems of locomotion biomechanics and motor control, conducting animal and human experiments that test and
generation with finite element methods to provide high- fidelity computer models for engineering and biomedicine. • • • • •
Courtesy MechE faculty member Bruno Sinopoli is also a recipient of the 2010 George Tallman Ladd Research Award, for his outstanding research contributions to the development of theory for computing and control technol- ogies in cyber-physical systems. Sinopoli is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. • • • • •
Built to Love, the new book co-authored by Professor Jonathan Cagan, continues to garner media attention. Cagan and co-author Peter Boatwright of the Tepper School have received coverage from Entrepreneur Magazine, Blogtalk Radio,
TheStreet.com, WTOP Radio, and WTAE-TV. Links to the most recent publicity can be found at
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a 17-month, $988,000 contract to the Robotics Institute to develop an autonomous flight system for the Trans- former Program, aimed at developing a “flying car”—a military ground vehicle capable of air landings and takeoffs. Courtesy MechE faculty member Sanjiv Singh is a leader of this project. He is a Research Professor of Robotics, with expertise in autonomous navigation systems.•
inspire these models, and building robot legs that translate results into rehabilitation technologies.
Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science. Her long-term research goal is to effectively construct autonomous agents that combine cognition, perception, and action. Her vision is that multiple intelligent robots with different sets of comple- mentary capabilities will provide a seamless synergy of intelligence. Veloso’s research focuses on the continuous integration of reactive, deliberative planning, and control learning for teams of multiple agents acting in adversarial, dynamic, and uncertain environments. Since 2009, she has been investigating indoor mobile companion robots— CoBots—that can interact with humans in a symbiotic relationship.•
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