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| RAMP-Up! Advisory Board and Faculty Coach Profiles | |
Dr. Kristin Bennett serves as a Full Professor in Mathematics with interests in combining operations research and artifical intelligence problem solving methods. She has worked extensively in approaching problems in artificial intelligence such as neural networks, pattern recoginition and planning through mathematical programming. Adapting mathematical programming for machine languages has been a recent thrust of Dr. Bennett's partnerships with other faculty and research initiatives. Optimizing the queries for database mining has enabled exploration in gene research. Computationally intelligent data mining techniques are vital to extract the information necessary to select these molecules. This research applied novel machine learning paradigms such as semi-supervised learning with capacity control. |
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Professor Joyce J. Diwan, Department of Biology, has actively mentored many students and faculty through her research and teaching in the Sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois (Medical Center) and joined the RPI faculty in 1969. She is currently a Professor of Biology and Director of Rensselaer's undergraduate Biochemistry & Biophysics Program. Service roles relevant to faculty development have included chair of the Institute Affirmative Action Committee, member of the Institute Promotion & Tenure Committee, and current chair of a departmental committee that evaluates and mentors junior faculty. |
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Caren Canier is a Professor in the Arts Department and is working with faculty, department heads and the Dean to improve faculty mentoring and encourage better understanding of the promotion and tenure process. Professor Canier is a painter who teaches foundation courses in Drawing, Painting, and Two-Dimensional Design. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, two Artist’s Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including solo exhibitions at the Robert Schoelkopf and Bowery Galleries in New York, Boston University’s Sherman Gallery and the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham. |
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As the Faculty Coach in the School of Science, Dr. Mark Holmes serves on the Advisory Board for the RAMP-Up program.
Dr. Holmes works in the area of mathermatical biology, perturbation and scientific computing. Currently, Dr. Holmes is exploring how a living organism senses and then recognizes mechanical stimuli. In his current research concerning auditory systems, the "mechanoreceptors" being studied include: cells in connective tissue and tactile receptors. Dr. Holmes works closely with neurophysiologists at Syracuse University to build mathematical models that describe neural receptor processes in biological systems. |
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| Dr. José Holguín-Veras is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Rensselaer. He is the recipient of two national awards, the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award in 1996 and the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award. His research interests are in the areas of intermodal freight transportation, freight transportation modeling, transportation planning, and transportation economics. He has an extensive service record with many organizations, referees major professional journals, and within the Institute has been dedicated to growing recognition for its engineering program. |  |