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Fengqi You

Fengqi You wins College of Engineering Teaching Award

Professor Fengqi You has won the Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Excellence in Teaching Award. The award was presented at the Fall 2020 Faculty Reception, hosted (virtually) by the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Professor You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The complete list of winners is provided here: Recipient Department Donor Ilana Brito BME Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie David Bindel CS James and Mary Tien Guillaume Lambert AEP Dorothy... Read more

Professor Patrick Reed

Reed receives 2020 Human-Competitive Awards Gold Medal

Systems field member Patrick Reed, the Joseph C. Ford Professor in civil and environmental engineering, won the top 2020 Gold Medal prize in the global “ Humies” competition hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Genetic and Evolutionary Optimization, awarded for the top evolutionary algorithm derived breakthrough that exceeds prior human benchmarks. Reed's research determined the right combination of factors that would enable a four-satellite constellation to maintain nearly continuous 24/7 coverage of almost every point on Earth. Read more

Faisal Alkaabneh Ph.D. '20

Faisal Alkaabneh becomes first student to earn Ph.D. in Systems at Cornell

Back in 2015, Faisal Alkaabneh was one of the first 10 students to enter the Systems Ph.D. program at Cornell University. This weekend, he becomes the first student to earn a Ph.D. in Systems. “Faisal’s research was driven by and reflects the vision of Cornell Systems Engineering. He studied several important management and policy analysis problems in food supply chain systems utilizing large-scale optimization, stochastic resource allocation, and data-analytics methodologies, said H. Oliver Gao, director of the Systems Engineering program and Alkaabneh’s advisor. “We are very proud to have... Read more