Trustees appoint 14 assistant professors
The following 14 assistant professors were appointed to
the faculty by the trustees at their November 20
meeting.
In Architecture, Jesse Reiser's field of specialization
is architectural design. He earned a 1981 BArch from Cooper
Union and 1984 MArch from Cran-brook Academy of Art. In 1985
he was a fellow in architecture at the Ameri-can Academy in
Rome. President of Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture PC
since 1985, he has been adjunct assistant professor at
Columbia University since 1992.
In Computer Science, Mona Singh is interested in
computational molec-ular biology. After receiving a 1989 BA
and MS from Harvard University and a 1995 PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was a
postdoctoral fellow at Princeton for two years. Since 1997
she has been a postdoctoral fellow at MIT.
In Economics, Markus Brunnermeier's area is finance. A
1993 graduate of the University of Regens-burg with a 1994
MA from Vanderbilt University, he earned his PhD in 1999 at
the London School of Economics and Political Science,
University of London. Since 1997 he has been an instructor
at the London School of Economics, as well as a research
assistant for the Financial Markets Group.
Also in Economics, Elie Tamer works on econometrics. His
1992 BS and 1994 MA are from the University of Austin,
Texas, and he has a 1999 PhD from Northwestern
University.
In Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School, Jonathan
Parker studies empirical macroeconomics. A 1988 graduate of
Yale University, he received his 1996 PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a visiting
assistant professor and research fellow at the University of
Michigan in 1996-97. Since 1997 he has been assistant
professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In History and the Program in Jewish Studies, Olga
Litvak's field is modern Jewish history. Educated at
Columbia University, she earned her BA in 1992, MA in 1994,
MPhil in 1995 and PhD in 1999.
In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, N. Jeremy Kasdin
is interested in dynamics and control. He has a 1985 BSE
from Princeton and 1987 MS and 1991 PhD degrees from
Stanford University. A project manager and chief system
engineer at Stanford, he was president of Alexis Engineering
from 1996 to 1998.
In Molecular Biology, Michael Berry works on
neurobiology. He has a 1989 BS in physics from the
University of California, Berkeley and 1991 MA and 1994 PhD
degrees from Harvard University. He was a research assistant
for Exxon Production Research for one year, and at Harvard
he was a teaching fellow in 1991 and has held a postdoctoral
research position since 1994.
Also in Molecular Biology and also interested in
neurobiology, Samuel Wang earned his 1986 BS at California
Institute of Technology and 1993 PhD at Stanford University.
A postdoctoral fellow at Duke University for three years, he
was a congressional science fellow for the Senate Committee
on Labor and Human Resources in 1995-96, and he has been on
the staff at Bell Labs since 1997.
In Operations Research and Finan-cial Engineering, Kian
Esteghamat studies operations research and finance. He has a
1987 BS from Cali-fornia State University, Long Beach, a
1989 MS from the University of California, Irvine, and a
1999 PhD from Stanford. He was a senior engineer at the
Newport Corp. from 1989 to 1992.
In Philosophy, David Sussman studies Kant, moral
philosophy, and social and political philosophy. An
instructor at Princeton since 1998, he earned his 1988 BA at
Swarthmore College and his 1999 PhD at the University of
Chicago.
Also in Philosophy, Sean Kelly's works on phenomenology,
philosophy of mind and cognitive science. With a 1989 BS and
MS from Brown University, he received his PhD from Berkeley
in 1998, and he was a lecturer at Stanford for the past
year.
In Physics, Christopher Tully studies experimental
particle physics. A 1992 graduate of California Institute of
Technology, he earned his PhD at Princeton 1998 and is
currently a CERN Fellow in Switzerland.
In Psychology, Sabine Kastner studies cognitive
neuroscience. She has a 1993 MD from Heinrich Heine
University in Düsseldorf and 1994 PhD from Georg August
University in Göttingen. A research fellow at Max
Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in 1994-95, she
has been a guest researcher and visiting associate at the
National Institute of Mental Health for the past three
years.
Brunnermeier, Kasdin, Tamer and Sussman have been
appointed for three years beginning July 1; Wang for three
and one-half years beginning January 1, 2000; Reiser for
three and one-half years beginning February 1, 2000; and
Kastner and Tully for three years beginning September 1,
2000.
All the other appointments are for three years starting
September 1.
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