Faculty Profiles

Declercq Selected as European Union PromoDoc Ambassador
The Institute of International Education (IIE) has selected Nico Declercq, Associate Professor of Acoustics and Dynamics in Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, as one of twenty-five ambassadors of the PromoDocinitiative. 
Mechanical Engineering Chair, William Wepfer, Receives Fellow of ABET Award
Congratulations to Dr. William Wepfer, chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, for being selected to receive the prestigious 2012 Fellow of ABET Award.
Vengazhiyil Elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil, associate professor in the Stewart School
Chip White’s Reflections of a Year in Abu Dhabi
Chelsea “Chip” White, the Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and former H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of ISyE, recently returned after spending a year in Abu Dhabi
Biomedical Engineering Professor Develops Enhanced Tumor Detection Method
Shuming Nie, a professor in the Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has worked with a team of researchers
John Cressler
John Cressler Honored with IEEE Graduate Teaching Award
John D. Cressler, Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is being honored with the 2011 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. Cressler also wrote about teaching and mentorship for the July/August 2011 IEEE Potentials magazine.
Pinar Keskinocak, Associate professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Improving Human Conditions During Disasters
For Pinar Keskinocak, disasters are a living research laboratory. Keskinocak is the Mary Anne and Harold R. Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics
Bill Koros, ChBE, finding ways to address future energy needs.
William Koros,ChBE, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
As the saying goes, “water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.”
Nagi Gebraeel, ISyE, researches airline safety
Nagi Gebraeel, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Could an aircraft tell us when a part was about to fail? GT engineering professor Nagi Gebraeel believes that the technology already exists
Michelle LaPlaca, BME, has developed ways to quickly detect concussions.
Meet Michelle LaPlaca, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr.  Michelle LaPlaca recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs to address the progress in traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, diagnosis, and treatment.