At the April recognition ceremony, Sanjeev Kulkarni received his fourth Excellence in Teaching Award and Vivek Pai received his first. Two teaching assistants were also recognized by the E-Council: Carl Johnson and Parikshit Deshpande.

"We are all putting on our smiles to recognize our teachers," said James Wei, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. "Teaching is our number one mission at Princeton."

Photos by Frank Wojciechowski From left, Georgios Deodatis, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in teaching; Parikshit Deshpande, recipient of a teaching award; Sanjeev Kulkarni, recipient of his fourth teaching award; SEAS Dean James Wei, and Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor.

Mr. Northey, who was recognized by his MAE 321: Engineering Design Class, is a technical staff member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

"Glenn quickly earned the respect of his students because of his extensive knowledge," one student commented. "He spent countless hours helping students above and beyond the call of duty."

Another student wrote that if Mr. Northey were to use his powers for evil "he could conquer Canada."

Professor Deodatis, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recognized by his CEE 361: Structural Analysis and Introduction to Finite Element Methods class.

"I felt that due to his teaching I have taken away more knowledge from his course than from any other course at Princeton," a student wrote. Another said, "George Deodatis is my role model for life."

Professor Kulkarni, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was recognized by students in his ELE 201: Introduction to Electrical Systems and Signals class.

Students wrote that Professor Kulkarni was extremely accessible. "He came to the labs and interacted one-on-one with his students. He understands what it's like to be an engineering student among a sea of A.B.s here at Princeton."

Professor Pai, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was recognized by his COS 318: Operating Systems class.

One student commented, "We learned that he was almost a religion major, but fortunately for us he earned his technical degree and now teaches at Princeton."

Carl Johnson, a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics, was recognized by the MAT 201: Multivariable Calculus class. Students commented that, in a word, Car l is "perfect."

Parikshit Deshpande, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was honored by his students in ELE 351: Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics class. Students said Parikshit's "patient and supportive style allowed for easy access to knowledge." One student asserted that Parikshit was the "best engineering TA I have had at Princeton."


CAREER Awards

NSF funds three computer science faculty members

Three assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science have received National Science Foundation(NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards. These awards were created by the NSF to encourage the early development of academic faculty as both educators and researchers.

The recipients are: Thomas Funkhouser, Vivek Pai, and Mona Singh.

Thomas Funkhouser

Dr. Funkhouser's research is in computer graphics, three-dimensional modeling, data visualization, lighting and acoustic simulation, collaborative systems, distributed computation, and multimedia databases.

His CAREER-funded project is titled Simulation of Lighting and Acoustics in Interactive Virtual Environments. Dr. Funkhouser joined the Princeton faculty in February 1998. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories for four years.

He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.

Vivek Pai

Dr. Pai's research specialty is operating systems, networking, high-performance applications, network server design and performance. His CAREER-funded project is titled Automatic Retargeting of Network Server Applications. He came to Princeton in 1999 from Rice University, where he received his B.S. (1991), M.S. (1996), and Ph.D. (1999), all in electrical and computer engineering.

Dr. Singh specializes in computational molecular biology, as well as its interface of

computational molecular biology with machine learning and algorithms; and genomic-scale methods for predicting aspects of protein structure, function, and interactions. Her CAREER-funded research is titled Computational Methods for Genome-Wide Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions.

Mona Singh

She joined the faculty in the Department of Computer Science in 1999 from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. She received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in computer science from Harvard University, both in 1989. Her 1995 Ph.D., also in computer science, is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.


More awards and honors

Anthony Evans, Gordon Wu Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and director of the Princeton Materials Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Evans was recognized as having "uniquely advanced the understanding of the mechanics of ceramic and composite systems of all types. He combines a flair for innovative experimentation with novel micromechanical modeling of appropriate rigor, informed by remarkable physical insight and imagination."

Philip Holmes, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, was elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

H. Vincent Poor *77, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Fellow membership honors outstanding research contributions in the field of statistics and probability.

Ingacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the 2001 Ven Te Chow Award from the Environmental Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was cited for his "outstanding contributions to the analysis and synthesis of hydrologic processes."