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Five RLE Associate Professors Granted Tenure: Baldo,
Berggren, Han, Voldman, and Zheng Tenured
For Immediate Release
SUNDAY, 3 May 2009
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 05.03.2009
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that RLE Professors Marc
A. Baldo, Karl
K. Berggren,
Jongyoon Han, Joel
Voldman, and Lizhong
Zheng, all
appointed in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science (EECS), have been awarded permanent
tenure.
Professor Jeffrey
H. Shapiro, RLE Director and Julius
A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, said, "These
five RLE investigators are world leaders of their respective
fields. Their excellence in research and in education
reflect great credit on RLE, EECS, and MIT. The foundation
of achievements each have built are only the beginning
of outstanding careers, and I look forward to the remarkable
contributions that they will make to their disciplines
and to MIT's mission to nurture future generations
of scientists and engineers."
Dr. Baldo is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and principal investigator in RLE's Soft Semiconductor
Group and in RLE's Laboratory of Organic Optics and
Electronics. Professor Baldo will direct RLE's Center
for Excitonics. His research interests include molecular
electronics, electrical and exciton transport in organic
materials, energy transfer, metal-organic contacts,
heterogeneous integration of biological materials,
and novel organic transistors.
Dr. Berggren is Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering and principal investigator in RLE's Quantum
Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group and in RLE's
NanoStructures Laboratory. His research focuses on
methods of nanofabrication, especially applied to superconductive
quantum circuits, photodetectors, and high-speed superconductive
electronics. His thesis work focused on nanolithographic
methods using neutral atoms.
Dr. Han is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and
principal investigator in RLE's Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS
Group. His research interests lie in applying micro
/ nanofabrication methods to solve various technological
problems. The current focus areas include micro / nanofluidics,
nanofluidic biomolecule separation and detection, and
nanostructure-biomolecule interactions.
Dr. Voldman is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and principal investigator in RLE's Biological Microtechnology
and BioMEMS Group. He performs research on microfluidics
applied to fundamental and applied problems in cell
biology. His interests are specifically in cell sorting
and stem cell biology, using a quantitative approach
to technology design, and take projects all the way
from engineering design to fabrication to elucidating
biological information with new technology.
Dr. Zheng is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and principal investigator in RLE's Communications
and Networking Group. His research interests include
wireless communications, space-time codes, network
information theory, wireless networks, focusing on
fundamental problems affecting current communication
and network systems and the development of future systems.
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