Six faculty members have received the 2021 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award – the highest research honor given by the Ivy League’s top-ranked engineering college. Read more
Shiang-Wan Chin, a systems doctoral candidate at Cornell University, has been selected as a Rockey Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellow for 2021-24. “Throughout my life I've found three reoccurring themes: entrepreneurship, food security, and adventure-seeking,” said Chin, who is sponsored by Microsoft and works closely with Dr. Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director for Microsoft Research for Industry. “During my undergraduate education at the University of California, Davis built my first startup, ‘Brit’s Bites’, where I produced protein bars to solve my own problem of not... Read more
Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, and DTU researchers are exploring potential applications in chemical and biomolecular design to develop better products and chemical processes to the industry with the application within formulations, catalysis, drug discovery and process operation. Read more
Faisal Alkaabneh Ph.D. ’20, the first graduate of Cornell Systems’ doctorate program, was selected an Intel Faculty Fellow for 2021-22. Professor Alkaabneh’s winning proposal, titled "AI-Based Tool for Social Good: Optimizing Food Allocation and Inventory Management at Food Banks", aims at developing a novel and innovative approach to using cloud computing, visualization techniques, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for social good. Read more
Systems Ph.D. student Ning Zhao recently took runner-up honors for the De Gruyter Best Paper Award at the PRES'24 conference, held October 31-November 3 in Brno, Czech Republic. Zhao's paper, titled "Unit Commitment under Uncertainty using Data-Driven Optimization with Clustering Techniques," was co-authored by Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering. Read more
A new Cornell-led study identifies several keys to sustainably managing the influx, with an emphasis on battery chemistry, second-life applications and recycling. The study was led by Cornell Engineering Dean Lynden Archer, Systems field member Fengqi You and Systems Ph.D. student Yanqiu Tao. Read more
Renee Frohnert, M.Eng. ’19, and her teammate raced against the clock to craft designs that were both tasty and structurally sound. Read more
Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Read more
Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor at the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected to receive the 2021 Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to recognize his contributions and accomplishments on sustainability education. Read more
H. Oliver Gao, professor of civil and environmental engineering, H. Oliver Gaohas received the inaugural Howard Simpson Professorship that will take effect on July 1, 2021. Howard Simpson was a CEE graduate, Class of 1942, who was one of the partners who founded Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) in Boston. Read more
