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Four Faculty in RLE to be Promoted
Freeman, Baldo, Han, and Voldman to be Promoted in
July 2006
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 6 February 2006
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 02.06.2006
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that four Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) faculty and one Biological
Engineering Division (BED) professor in RLE will be
promoted in July 2006.
Professor Dennis
M. Freeman will be promoted to Professor
of Electrical Engineering. He directs the RLE Micromechanics
Group and conducts collaborative research in the RLE
Auditory
Physiology Group. He received his B.S. from
the Pennsylvania State University in 1973, and his
S.M. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in
1976 and 1986 respectively. Professor Freeman pioneered
a new optical paradigm for semiconductor critical dimension
(CD) metrology called Synthetic Aperture Metrology
(SAM). SAM combines the speed of optical methods with
the microscope imaging capability of CD scanning electron
microscopy (CD-SEM). Professor Freeman also is involved
in developing instrumentation that visualizes the microscopic
motion of biological and synthetic structures.
Professor Marc
A. Baldo will be promoted to Esther
and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering. He directs the RLE Soft
Semiconductor Group and conducts collaborative research in RLE's
Laboratory
of Organic Optics and Electronics. Professor
Baldo received his B. Eng. (Electrical Engineering)
from the University of Sydney in 1995 with first class
honors and university medal, and his M.A. and Ph.D.
from Princeton in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In 2002
he joined MIT as an Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering. In 2004, he was appointed Esther and Harold
E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Professor Baldo's research interests include molecular
electronics, soft semiconductors, electrical and exciton
transport in organic materials, energy transfer, metal-organic
contacts, heterogeneous integration of biological materials,
and novel organic transistors.
Professor Jongyoon
Han will be promoted to Karl Van
Tassel Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Associate Professor of Biological Engineering.
He directs the RLE Micro
/ Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group.
He received the B.S. degree in the department of physics
of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1992.
He received the M.S. degree in physics from the same
department in 1994. Professor Han received his Ph.D.
in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University
in 2001. Before joining MIT as Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering in July 2002, he was a research
scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore,
CA where he studied protein microfluidic separation
systems. In 2003, he received a second MIT faculty
appointment as Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering,
and in 2004 he was appointed Karl Van Tassel Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Han's
current research interests revolve around the application
of micro and nanofabrication technology to various
fundamental biology problems, including the separation
and analysis of biomolecules.
Professor Joel
Voldman will be promoted to NBX Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering. He directs the
RLE Biological
Microtechnology and BioMEMS Group. He
received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995.
He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from MIT in 1997 and 2001, respectively.
Professor Voldman performed postdoctoral research at
Harvard Medical School before joining the MIT faculty
in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science in 2002. He was appointed NBX Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering in 2004. Professor Voldman's
current research interests focus on BioMEMS, applying
microfabrication technology to illuminate biological
systems, especially at the cellular level.
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