Three faculty members
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Three faculty members have been promoted to tenure as associate professor: Robert Ho, Margaret Martonosi and Zoltan Szabo.
In the Molecular Biology Department, Ho is a developmental biologist. His lab studies the development of a simple vertebrate, the zebrafish, to understand the early patterning processes that occur during embryo-genesis.
"Because zebrafish embryos are optically clear and accessible to experimetal manipulations," Ho says, "the zebrafish has become a model system for studying the genetic and cellular processes that occur during the development of all vertebrates, including humans." His research has appeared in such publications as Development, Science and Nature.
Ho is 1981 graduate of Stanford University, which also granted him an MS in 1985, and he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
He joined the Princeton faculty in 1993 after postdoctoral studies in neuroscience at the University of Oregon. He teaches Cell and Developmental Biology.
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A 1986 graduate of Cornell University, she has a 1987 MS and 1993 PhD from Stanford University. At Princeton she has taught computer architecture and has developed a course on configurable computing.
Martonosi's work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Intel and Microsoft corporations, and NEC C&C Research Labs. She was a 1998 recipient of the School of Engineering's Howard Wentz Award and has also received awards from the University's 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Under graduate Education and the University Research Board.
She is coinventor on five US patents, of which one is currently licensed to Intel Corp. Her articles have appeared in the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
In Mathematics, Szabo came to Princeton as an instructor 1994 and was appointed assistant professor in 1996. In 1998 he was named an Alfred Sloan Research Fellow and awarded a five-year Packard Fellowship. A graduate of Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, he earned his MS and PhD from Rutgers in 1994.
Szabo's main research interests are topology, gauge-theory, and three and four-dimensional manifolds. "I use gauge theoretical invariants to study the smooth structures of 4-dimensional manifolds," he says. "At the moment I am also using symplectic geometry to construct new invariants for three and four-dimensional manifolds."
Ho's and Szabo's appointments begin on July 1; Martonosi's starts on February 1.
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