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 brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Garrick Blalock

Assistant professor, applied economics and management
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Blalock's research interests include management of technology, firm strategy and emerging markets. Next spring he is teaching AEM 424: management strategy.
Previous position: Marketing engineer, Berkeley Design Technology Inc.
Academic background: B.A., applied mathematics, Yale University, 1993; and M.S., 2000, and Ph.D., 2002, both in business administration from the University of California-Berkeley.

Andrew G. Clark

Professor, molecular biology and genetics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Genomic approaches to common chronic diseases, molecular evolution of Drosophila Y chromosome, polymorphism and div
ergence in Drosophila innate immunity.
Previous position: Professor of biology, Pennsylvania State University.
Academic background: B.S., biology and applied mathermatics, Brown University, 1976; and Ph.D., population genetics, Stanford University, 1980.

Hazem Daouk

Assistant professor, applied economics and management
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Daouk's primary interest is in international finance. Recently, he published "The World Price of Insider Trading," in the Journal of Finance. He will be teaching security trading and market making.
Previous position: Assistant professor of finance, University of Michigan.
Academic background: Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Comptables et Financières, Institut Commercial Superieur, Paris, France, 1992; MBA, University of Maryland, 1995; and Ph.D., finance, Indiana University, 2001.

Sally McKee

Assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Computer engineering and computer architecture, specifically at the level of memory-system design. She has been a leading force in defining the area of research now commonly known as the "memory wall problem," which refers to the rapidly diverging performance between ever faster processors and current memory technology. Her work focuses on hardware/software co-design, and a secondary research agenda attacks the problem of optimizing existing software to exhibit more efficient memory behavior and, thus, better performance. Her interests span parallel processing to embedded systems, and computer systems architecture to systems software and application design.
Previous position: Research assistant professor at the University of Utah since 1998, most recently collaborating with scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Academic background: B.A., computer science, Yale University, 1985; M.S.E., computer science, Princeton University, 1990; and Ph.D., computer science, University of Virginia, 1995.

David Putnam

Assistant professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Engineering and synthesis of self-assembling biomaterial nanocomposites for gene and drug delivery; synthesis and fabrication of biomaterials for tissue engineering and the controlled release of pharmaceutical agents; and engineering of high throughput combinatorial systems for material composite formulation.
Previous position: Head of new technologies, TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Mass., 2000-02.
Academic background: B.S., pharmacy, Albany College of Pharmacy, 1990; Ph.D., chemistry (pharmaceutical), University of Utah, 1996.

December 5, 2002