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Victor Chan (by RPI/Kris Qua)

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Victor Chan Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Wai Kin “Victor” Chan plans to predict the future. Chan, assistant professor of decision sciences and engineering systems, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He will use the projected five-year, $400,000 grant to develop better computer simulation methodologies to improve systems from healthcare to military operation and airport security. He envisions developing experimental methods that require only a small data snapshot to yield reliable simulation results, avoiding the reams of data and multiple rounds of simulation that are required in traditional approaches.
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Daniel Gall (by RPI/Kris Qua)

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Daniel Gall Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Daniel Gall, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is being honored for his work to craft the next generation of custom nanoscale structures, which could be used in the production of hydrogen for energy storage, corrosion-resistant electrodes for fuel cells, and coatings for high-temperature bearings in fuel-efficient jet engines and gas turbines. Gall has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The projected five-year, $400,000 grant will help Gall develop a fundamental understanding of how material vapors condense on surfaces and assemble into nanostructures.
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Mariana Figueiro

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Mariana Figueiro Awarded Funding To Explore Effect of Light on Human Phototransduction
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Mariana Figueiro, an assistant professor at Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center, has received the James D. Watson Investigator award from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR). With the help of this $200,000 grant, Figueiro will be exploring the effects of light on human physiological rhythms. “Our research will examine the effects different wavelengths of light have on a novel class of photoreceptors, as well as the associated retinal mechanisms associated with human phototransduction and their respective role in regulating physiological rhythms,” said Figueiro.
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