Princeton Weekly Bulletin September 13, 1998
Full professors join EE, physics faculty
Professors Ruby Lee of electrical engineering and Lisa Randall of physics have been appointed to the faculty as of September 1.
Lee, whose field is computer engineering and computer architecture, comes to Princeton from the Hewlett Packard Co. and Stanford University, where she has been a consulting faculty member since 1989. With Hewlett Packard since 1981, since 1992 she has been chief architect of computer systems organization, responsible for multimedia architecture, as well as processor, systems and security architecture. Her current interests are in media processing architectures, subword parallelism programming, compiler and circuit techniques, ubiquitous parallelism, security architectures and encryption/decryption.
A 1973 graduate of Cornell, Lee earned her 1975 MS and her 1980 PhD at Stanford. She holds 12 U.S. and several foreign patents and has 10 patents pending, on processor architecture, pipelined designs, cache hints, branch optimizations, memory concurrency and multimedia architecture, and algorithms. Her publications include a dozen journal papers and contributions to books, as well as some three dozen technical conference papers and reports.
Randall, who works on high energy theory and particle phenomenology, is a 1983 graduate of Harvard University, where she also earned her 1987 PhD. After two years as a President's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, she returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow. She joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and became associate professor there in 1995.
In 1992 Randall won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and a Junior Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
She has held visiting positions and participated in workshops at CERN in Switzerland, at the Aspen Center for Physics and at the Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics, and organized conferences on weak interactions and quarks at Santa Barbara and elsewhere. Editor of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science and Journal of High Energy Physics, she has published more than 100 papers in technical journals such as Physics Review Letters and Nuclear Physics.