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RLE Professor Jacob K. White
Appointed Associate Director
Cambridge, MA 12.01.2001
Professor
Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Director of the
Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and Julius A. Stratton Professor
of Electrical Engineering, announced today that he has appointed
Professor
Jacob K. White of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) to
the position of Associate Director. Professor White joins
RLE's current Associate Director, Professor
Daniel Kleppner, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics and
Director of the National Science Foundation MIT-Harvard Center
for Ultracold Atoms. Professors Shapiro, Kleppner, and White
form a new three-person team providing intellectual leadership
for the Laboratory as it pursues a diversity of exciting opportunities
across RLE's extensive scientific and educational interests.
Professor White is a principal investigator in RLE's
Circuits and Systems Group and directs RLE's VLSI-CAD
Group. Professor White is a pioneer in numerical methods,
particularly in computational prototyping tools and techniques
for integrated circuit interconnect, circuit packaging, and
micromachined devices. Major contributions by Professor White's
research at RLE include computationally efficient numerical
techniques used to simulate complicated three-dimensional
structures. Applications of these techniques include the electrostatic
and fluidic analysis of sensors and actuators, electromagnetic
analysis of integrated-circuit interconnects and packaging,
and potential flow-based analysis of wave-ocean structure
interaction. Professor White's current research interests
include serial and parallel numerical algorithms for problems
in circuit, interconnect, and microelectromechanical system
design.
In making this appointment, Professor Shapiro noted, "I have
tremendous respect for Jacob's research achievements and for
his commitment to classroom teaching and graduate student
mentoring," adding that "we have worked together in several
administrative settings in which Jacob has demonstrated the
kind of insight and dedication that are needed from an Associate
Director." Finally, Professor Shapiro observed that, "Jacob,
Dan Kleppner and I collectively represent many of the research
threads running through the RLE. Together, I believe we will
comprise a strong administrative team for carrying RLE forward
from an outstanding past into an even greater future."
Professor White received his undergraduate degree in electrical
engineering and computer science from MIT in 1980, and his
masters degree in 1983 and his doctorate in 1985 from the
University of California, Berkeley, in the same discipline.
He worked at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1985
to 1987. He joined the MIT faculty in 1987 as assistant professor
in EECS, becoming associate professor in 1991 and full professor
in 1996.
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