Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month: Risa Myers

The Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month, Risa Myers, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department. She teaches databases and data science. Given her extensive industry experience, one of her key teaching goals is to bring real world data, applications, and challenging to the classroom.

Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month: Farès el-Dahdah

The Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month, Farès el-Dahdah, is a Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Center and an Affiliated Professor with the School of Architecture.

Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month: Sylvia Dee

The Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month, Dr. Sylvia Dee, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences.

Dr. Dee's research interests are in paleoclimate, climate dynamics, earth system modeling, and global change.

Dr. Dee earned her PhD from the University of Southern California in Earth Sciences, and her BSE from Princeton University in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month: Illya Hicks

The Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month, Dr Illya Hicks, is a Professor in the Department of Computational & Applied Mathematics and the former Faculty Advisor to the President.

Dr. Hicks' research interests are in combinatorial optimization, integer programming, graph theory, and matroid theory. Some applications of interests are social networks, cancer treatment, and network design. His current research is focused on using graph decomposition techniques to solve NP-complete problems and he teaches courses related to discrete optimization.

Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month: Cymene Howe

The Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month, Dr. Cymene Howe, is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology. She is also a faculty member with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month: Vicky Yao

The Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month, Dr. Vicky Yao, is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

Vicky was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and received her PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. She has numerous publications including her most recent, "RNA Identification of PRIME Cells Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares" in the New England Journal of Medicine (Jul 2020).

Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month: Santiago Segarra

The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month, Dr. Santiago Segarra, is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.