- Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee is a chemist who won a MacArthur Award in 1994. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.
- Amit Singhal
Amit Singhal is a Google Fellow. According to the New York Times, "Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best answer each user’s question". A native of India, Amit got his bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee in 1989. Amit holds a MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
- Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.
- Davydd Greenwood
Davydd Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. Known action researcher, conducted studies in the Spanish Basque Country, where he analysed Mondragón, empowerment and cooperatives phenomena. Currently focuses on the future of university idea, in the corporate culture era. Elected Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
- Robert Connelly
Robert (Bob) Connelly is a mathematician specializing in discrete geometry and rigidity theory. He is best known for discovering embedded flexible polyhedra. One such polyhedron is in the National Museum of American History. Connelly received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 1970. He is currently a professor at Cornell University. His recent interests include tensegrities and carpenter's ruler problem.
- George Stibitz
George Robert Stibitz (April 20, 1904 - January 31, 1995) is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his 1930s and 1940s work on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Born in York, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor's degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master's degree from Union College in 1927, …
- Abby Lippman
Abby Lippman got her BA from Cornell University (Ithaca NY) and her PhD from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). She is currently Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, with cross appointments in Family Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine, all at McGill. She is also President of the Canadian Women's Health Network, a role that allows her to combine her academic and activist passions.
- Hans Neurath
Hans Neurath (1909-2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry and the founding chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- J. P. Guilford
Joy Paul Guilford (March 7, 1897, Marquette, Nebraska - November 26, 1987, Los Angeles) was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence. He graduated from the University of Nebraska before studying under Edward Titchener at Cornell. He then held a number of posts at Nebraska and briefly at the University of Southern California before becoming Director of Psychological Research at Santa Ana Army Air Base in 1941.
- Louis Leon Thurstone
Louis Leon Thurstone (29 May 1887-30 September 1955) was a U.S. pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis.
- Rollins A. Emerson
Rollins Adams Emerson (1873-1947) was an American geneticist who rediscovered the laws of inheritance established by Gregor Mendel. Emerson was born on May 5 1873 in tiny Pillar Point, New York, but at the age of seven his family moved to Nebraska, where he attended public school and the University of Nebraska. He enrolled in the College of Agriculture there, having developed an interest in the local flora and landscaping while quite young.
- Norman Lamm
Rabbi Dr. Norman ("Nachum") Lamm, (born 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a major American Modern Orthodox Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor of Yeshiva University. He was the third President of Yeshiva University (YU), and the first to be born in the USA. He also holds a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy. He is a disciple of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (Modern Orthodoxy's most influential scholar), …
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- Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949.
- Deborah S. Sarnoff
Deborah S. Sarnoff , MD, FAAD, FACP Director of Dermatology Deborah S. Sarnoff , MD & Robert H. Gotkin, MD, LLP
- Tessa Lau
Tessa Lau is a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Her work centers on intelligent user interfaces, across-disciplinary field that sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Her research focuses on programming by demonstration, whose goal is to enable regular end users to automate routine tasks simply by demonstrating to the computer what it should do.
- Frank McSherry
Comp Scientist / Mathematician. Currently doing research on the interface of privacy and data mining.
- J. Peter Freire
Conducting a 1 credit research project on tackling the supreme transitivity and thus beauteous nature of all things life. Or, you know, just smoking a couple of cigarettes and trying to look deep. I also have trouble taking myself seriously.
- Edward M. Scolnick
Edward Scolnick works closely with principal investigator Pamela Sklar towards identifying risk genes for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. From 1982-2003, Ed served as president of Merck Research Laboratories; executive vice president for science and technology at Merck & Company, Inc; executive director and vice president in the department of virus and cell biology and senior vice president for basic research at Merck Research Laboratories.
- Ross Wayland
Ross Wayland Ross Wayland is currently the Associate Director of Digital Library Research & Development at the University of Virginia Library. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a BA in Physics, and received his ME in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1979.
- Henry Masur
Dr. Masur is Chief of the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Warren Magnuson Clinical Center. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Masur earned his MD at Cornell University Medical College. He completed his residency at The New York Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital, as a well as a fellowship in infectious diseases at Cornell. Dr. Masur’s primary research interests are in opportunistic infections in HIV and approaches to therapy for pneumocystosis and toxoplasmosis.
- Sandy Payette
Sandy Payette Cornell University, USA Sandy Payette leads digital library research and development projects at Cornell University’s Information Science program. She is founder and co-director of the internationally-recognized Fedora Project that deploys sophisticated open-source software that forms the basis of digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital archives, and educational software.
- Christopher
Um... I'm... awesome? And totally incapable of figuring out how to customize this damn site. Someone help me! But don't make it all slow-down-y, cuz that sucks and pisses me off. This "Top 8 Friends" schtick kinda pisses me off too. So expect to get rotated in and out, kiddies.
- Manu Parashar
Manu is a key researcher in the area of Power Systems and Reliability at Electric Power Group. At EPG, Manu has been involved in the development of various real-time reliability monitoring applications for the power industry. He is participating on the Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project and development of Voltage/VAR Management and System Stability Applications Using Phasors. His research interests includ e: ● Power System Dynamics Monitoring and Control
- Suzanne Brandon
âThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!â.
- Baining Guo
Dr. Baining Guo is an assistant managing director with Microsoft Research Asia, where he manages graphics research groups. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Guo was a senior staff researcher with the Microcomputer Research Labs of Intel Corporation, located in Santa Clara, Ca.. Dr. Guo also held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, the University of Toronto, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris, and York University in Toronto.
- Jules Weiss
Find me on Facebook, I can't manage two accounts:)
- Werner Brandt Claus E. Heinrich Gerha Zencke
Werner Brandt Werner Brandt has been a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all corporate financial activities as well as administration of the company. Werner Brandt has been a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all corporate financial activities as well as administration of the company. He also oversees shared services organizations and SAP Ventures.
- Nicholas P. Bigelow
Prof. Bigelow received his B.S. in Engineering Physics (1981) and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1981) from Lehigh University and his M.S. and Ph.D. (1989) in Physics from Cornell University. He then joined the Technical Staff of A. T. & T. Bell Laboratories where he remained until 1991. Early in 1991 he moved to the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France where he worked in the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel .
- Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin was born in 1890 in Mogilno in Prussia (Poland). He was one of four children in a middle class Jewish family. They moved to Berlin when he was aged 15 and he was enrolled in the Gymnasium. In 1909 Kurt Lewin entered the University of Frieberg to study medicine. He then transferred to the University of Munich to study biology. Around this time he became in involved in the socialist movement.
- Sandy Payette
Sandy Payette Researcher, Cornell Information Science
- Clinton L. Rappole
Dr. Clinton L. Rappole , PhD Professor Emeritus & Former Eric Hilton Distinguished Chair Clinton L. Rappole was the Hilton College’s first Eric Hilton Distinguished Chair and is now a Professor Emeritus. He received a BA in History from Colgate University in 1962. He attended the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and received a BS in Hotel Administration in 1965, an MS in 1968, and PhD in 1971.
- Jason McNichol
Jason McNichol , PhD , Founder and Director Jason is a sociologist, researcher, and patient advocate with over twelve years of experience addressing challenges in the health-care system. He holds his PhD and MA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
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- Ji-Hee Kim
Ji-Hee Kim , PhD is new to Buffalo. She was named associate professor and director of entrepreneurship at Canisius in 2006. Her areas of expertise include entrepreneurship, family business, small business, international business and economic development.
- Saby Ghoshray
Dr. Saby Ghoshray Dr. Saby Ghoshray has been a prolific researcher in multi-faceted disciplines, investigating issues from cross-cultural perspectives. He is the author of over 70 scholarly articles published in journals, books and conference proceedings, and continues his research on diverse subsets of International Law, Theory of Self-determination, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, Military Tribunals and Humanitarian Intervention, among others.
- Robert F. Kingsbury
Bob's basic educational philosophy assumed that students are responsible for their education and that effective teaching assists, rather than controls, the learning process. Robert Kingsbury began the tradition of regular lunches for physics students and faculty. Here, Professor of Physics Jack Pribram, at left, joins colleagues for lunch in the 1990s. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.
- Thomas Giordano
Thomas Giordano , MD Director, Thomas Street Clinic Thomas Giordano , MD, MPH was born and raised in Rochester, NY. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and completed the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Humanities at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH. He then completed a Master of Arts degree in the History of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
- Hans Neurath Lecturers
Hans Neurath Lecturers In 1983, ZymoGenetics and the Department of Biochemistry established the annual Hans Neurath Lectureship which has brought luminaries to the School of Medicine for two decades (see roster of Neurath Lecturers below).