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Four New
Faculty Join the School
Civil and Environmental
Engineering Department
Steven
Margulis - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Hydrometeorology, remote sensing, and
data assimilation
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
Dr. Margulis is pursuing ways to optimally combine hydrologic models
and remote sensing observations to better characterize important
fluxes in the hydrologic cycle over regional to continental scales.
A better understanding of these fluxes, as well as the physical
mechanisms responsible for their evolution, leads to improved predictability,
which ultimately allows for better management of water resources
and protection against environmental hazards.
Jenny Jay - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biogeochemical cycling of contaminants
in the environment
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
Her interests lie in the biogeochemical cycling of toxic elements
such as mercury and arsenic in aquatic environments, and ways to
minimize the impact of these contaminants. She is currently studying
the geochemical and microbial transformations that affect arsenic
mobility in a Bangladeshi aquifer.
Electrical Engineering Department
Lei
He - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits
and systems, and power-efficient computer architectures and systems
PhD: UCLA, 1999
Dr. He received his PhD in computer science from UCLA in 1999. Prior
to joining the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department faculty, he
was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
His research and teaching interests focus on computer-aided design
of VLSI circuits and systems, interconnect modeling and design,
field programmable logic, power-efficient computer architectures
and systems, and numerical and combinatorial optimization.
He is a member of the IEEE and ACM, and received a National Science
Foundation CAREER award on "interconnect-centric layout design with
consideration of inductance" in 2000.
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Vidvuds
Ozolins - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Ultrathin film, liquid, and bulk alloys
PhD: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998
Dr. Ozolins was most recently a principle member of the technical
staff in the Department of Surface and Interface Science at Sandia
National Laboratories in Livermore, California.
His work is focused on the development of atomic-scale computational
modeling techniques to study the properties of bulk materials and
surfaces. Ozolins' research interests include the theory of bulk,
surface, and liquid alloys, ordering and nanoscale self-assembly
in thin films, and methods of first-principles calculations of electron
and phonon states in metal and semiconductor systems.
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