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ANNOUNCING NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
December, 2011
We are very pleased to announce the election of five new NICO faculty members: Danny Abrams and Randy Freeman from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, PJ Lamberson and Brian Rogers from the Kellogg School of Management, and Teresa Woodruff from the Feinberg School of Medicine and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. These new faculty bring a diverse set of expertise in complex systems, including mathematical modeling, control theory, network science, and game theory, with applications to social networks, swarm robotics, and human fertility.
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Danny Abrams
Danny Abrams is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics. He holds a B.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech, a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, and was an NSF Math Sciences postdoctoral fellow as well as a Fulbright Scholar. His research interests include the study of synchronization, mathematical geoscience, and mathematical modeling of social systems.
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Randy Freeman
Randy Freeman is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He joined Northwestern in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997. He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board since 1997, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Since 2006 he has served as Master of Northwestern's Shepard Residential College. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, optimal control theory, and robust and adaptive control theory.
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PJ Lamberson
PJ Lamberson is a Senior Lecturer in the Kellogg Management and Organizations Department and a Senior Research Associate at NICO. Before coming to Northwestern, he was a Senior Lecturer in the System Dynamics group at MIT Sloan and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Columbia University in 2006. His research uses modeling to understand the theory and applications of social dynamics and networks. His research addresses questions such as how information, products, and behaviors spread, how members should be selected for a forecasting team, and why people turn out to vote. At Kellogg, he teaches Social Dynamics and Networks and Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
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Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers is an Associate Professor in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Kellogg. He joined the faculty in 2006 following the completion of his PhD in Social Sciences at Caltech. He works in the fields of microeconomics and game theory, with particular emphasis on social networks, diffusion processes and repeated games.
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Teresa Woodruff
Teresa Woodruff is the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. As a reproductive endocrinologist, she has spent the better part of her research career focusing on female reproductive health and infertility. She is Chief of the Division of Fertility Preservation and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Women's Health Research. She coined the term "oncofertility," referring to the discipline at the intersection of oncology and reproductive medicine, and she has edited two books on the topic. Her many awards include the American Women in Science Innovator Award, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, and election to fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received her PhD from Northwestern in 1983.
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