Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing a series of brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Mark Campbell

Assistant professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Research in autonomy for complex aerospace systems, such as multiple satellites and uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs), estimation and control and space systems. His research projects include designing, building and operating one of the smallest self-propelled satellites, scheduled to be used as a distributed satellite test bed in space in 2003 and distributed autonomy in satellite clusters, including planning, maneuvering and collision avoidance of large clusters of satellites.
Previous position: Assistant professor, University of Washington, 1997-2001.
Academic background: B.S., mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990; and M.S., aeronautics and astronautics, 1993, and Ph.D., control and estimation, 1996, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Raymond Craib

Assistant professor, history
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Modern Latin America, especially Mexico.
Previous positions: Instructor, junior seminar, Yale University, 2001; visiting instructor, El Colegio de San Luís Potosí, Mexico, 2000; visiting instructor, Centro de Investigaciones y Esutios Superiores en Antopología Social, Mexico, 1999.
Academic background: B.A. history, Eastern Michigan University, 1990; M.A. Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994; Ph.D., history, Yale, 2001.

Rebecca J. Nelson

Associate professor, plant pathology
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Nelson is director of The McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program at Cornell, a program committed to improving food security in developing countries. She also will conduct research into quantitative resistance to plant disease while based at the university's Institute for Genomic Diversity and in the Department of Plant Pathology.
Previous position: Molecular pathologist, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru.
Academic background: B.A., biology, Swarthmore College, 1982; Ph.D., zoology, University of Washington, 1988.

Sergio Servetto

Assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: His research interests are in the general areas of networks, information theory and signal-processing applications. He focuses primarily on three areas: design and analysis of codes for network problems in information theory; design and performance analysis of algorithms for network control operations; and design, implementation, and performance analysis of computer systems for real-time communication of audio/video signals over packet networks.
Previous position: Research associate, Laboratoire de Communications Audiovisuelles, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999-2001.
Academic background: Licenciatura en Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, 1992; M.S., electrical engineering, 1996, and Ph.D., computer science, 1999, both from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.

December 13, 2001