ISR welcomes Liu, Sandborn, Shapiro and Vorontsov to faculty

Nelson X. Liu is a new research faculty member. Liu is an assistant research scientist who holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Computer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in modeling, performance evaluation and management of hybrid communication networks.

Peter Sandborn (ME) is a new affiliate faculty member. An associate professor in Mechanical Engineering, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His interests are in electronic packaging and reliability; life cycle cost analysis of electronic systems, technology tradeoff analysis, supply chain management, parts selection and management; electronic systems environment design; and microelectromechanical systems.

Benjamin Shapiro (AE/ISR) is a new joint appointment faculty member with Aerospace Engineering. He is an assistant professor who earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in dynamics, modeling and conrol of micro systems.

Mikhail Vorontsov of the Army Rearch Laboratory has joined ISR as an affiliated research professor. He directs the Intelligent Optics Laboratory. Vorontsov earned his Ph.D. at Moscow State University. His research interests are in adaptive optics, nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics, imaging through turbulence, parallel image processing and correction, optical synergetics, optimal control theory, and optical neural networks.

Published July 4, 2003