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 through December.

Albonesi

Lloyd

Nicholson

Stokol

Vogel

David H. Albonesi

Associate professor, electrical and computer engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Albonesi focuses his research on computer architecture, with particular attention to adaptive microarchitectures, power-aware computing, multiprocessor systems and performance evaluation.
Previous positions: Associate professor, electrical and computer engineering, University of Rochester, 1996-2004; section manager/principal engineer, Prime Computer, Inc., 1986-92; senior associate engineer, IBM Corp., 1982-86.
Academic background: B.S., electrical engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1982; M.S., electrical engineering, Syracuse University, 1986; Ph.D., electrical and computer engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1996.
Last book read: Resonance: A History of the University of Rochester Electrical Engineering Department by Edwin Kinnen.

James Lloyd

Assistant professor, astronomy
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Lloyd works in the area of infrared and optical astronomy, developing instrumentation and experimental techniques for the study of extrasolar planets with adaptive optics and interferometry. He is currently searching for planets with a coronagraph and synthesizing the techniques of aperture-masking interferometry with adaptive optics (AO) to achieve precision image reconstruction and accurate calibration of AO data.
Previous positions: Postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 2002-04; Winterover scientist, South Pole Infrared Explorer, University of Chicago, 1994-97.
Academic background: B. Sc., University of New South Wales, 1994; Ph.D., astronomy, University of California-Berkeley, 2002.
Last book read: Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff.

Sean Nicholson

Assistant professor, policy analysis and management
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: Nicholson's research interests are in health care, health economics, biotech and pharmaceutical industries and physician learning. His current projects focus on the determinants of innovation in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, physician learning about best clinical practices and measuring the value to employers of investing in their workers' health.
Previous positions: Assistant professor of health care systems, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2004; management consultant, APM Inc., 1986-90; adjunct faculty member and math teacher, Worcester Academy, 1990-92.
Academic background: A.B., Dartmouth College, 1986; M.S., 1995 and Ph.D., 1997, both in economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Last book read: The Power Broker by Robert Moses.

Tracy Stokol

Assistant professor, population medicine and diagnostic science
College: Veterinary Medicine
Academic focus: Mechanisms of cancer metastasis, hematological and hemostatic disorders in domestic animals.
Previous position: Research fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Harvard University.
Academic background: Bachelor of veterinary science, University of Melbourne, 1987; Ph.D., veterinary medicine, University of Melbourne, 1993; Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 1995.
Last book read: Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Kathleen Vogel

Assistant professor, science and technology studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Vogel's research focuses on biological weapons, war and terrorism, and military technologies. She is interested in understanding the technical and social factors influencing the proliferation of biological weapons technology to terrorist groups and countries of proliferation concern, and related security issues involving dual-use biotechnology.
Previous positions: William C. Foster Fellow, Bureau of Nonproliferation, Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, U.S. Department of State, 2003-04; Ed A. Hewett Fellow, National Council of Eurasian and East European Research joint appointments from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico's Institute of Public Policy, 2002-03; postdoctoral associate, Peace Studies Program, Cornell, 1999-2001; postdoctoral fellow, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1998-99.
Academic background: B.A., biology, chemistry and Spanish, Drury University, 1993; M.A., Ph. D., chemistry, Princeton University, 1998.
Last book read: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.

September 30, 2004