{"id":203946,"date":"2020-09-02T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=29923"},"modified":"2024-08-10T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:42:43","slug":"school-of-engineering-welcomes-12-new-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/09\/school-of-engineering-welcomes-12-new-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Engineering Welcomes 12 New Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Connecticut School of Engineering is proud to announce that 12 new faculty–including five new faculty members in the Computer Science and Engineering Department and one new faculty member in the brand-new\u00a0Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute–are starting this academic year.<\/p>\n

The new faculty members, who hail from Harvard, Georgia Tech, industry, and many other organizations, represent one of the biggest influxes of talent in the last several years, who will build on areas of growth and critical need within the School.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ghada Almashaqbeh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department:<\/strong> Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience:\u00a0<\/b>Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University, graduated in May 2019. Over the past year (before joining UConn) she worked in two startups; one she cofounded based on the work done in her PhD thesis, and in the other was as a cryptographer working on building an infrastructure for privacy preserving applications.<\/p>\n

Area of teaching specialty or research:\u00a0<\/b>Cryptography, security, and distributed systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kriti Bhargava<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department<\/strong>: Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Computer Science and Engineering (Stamford Campus)<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience: <\/strong>Ph.D. in computer science from Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Graduated in 2019. Research Fellow in School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, Coventry University, UK, from Dec 2018 to Aug 2020.<\/p>\n

Area of teaching specialty or research:<\/b> Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Computer Networking<\/p>\n

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\"\"Frank Cunha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department:<\/strong> Professor-in-Residence, Mechanical Engineering\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience: <\/strong>Ph.D. P.E., mechanical engineering, New York University, aircraft engine and power generation design and development experience with GE, PW, and Siemens.
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Area of teaching specialty or research: m<\/strong>anufacturing processes, turbomachinery development, advanced thermodynamics, energy systems, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue, fluid dynamics, advanced heat transfer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any major awards or grants received: <\/strong>Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, member of International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, associate editor of ASME International Journal of Heat Transfer, over 100 US Patents on gas turbine combustors, turbines and afterburners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jorge Paricio Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department:<\/strong>\u00a0Associate Professor-in-Residence, Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute; Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience:\u00a0<\/strong>Complutense University of Madrid,\u00a0\u00a0Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Part-time faculty in the Industrial Design Department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) for 13 years; Taught at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh for 16 years;\u00a0Worked as an exhibit designer for 4 years in New York City, preparing design concepts, blueprints for major US trade shows;\u00a0Worked for Colgate Palmolive developing product concepts and CAD drawings for the Global Packaging Group.<\/p>\n

Area of teaching specialty or research:\u00a0<\/strong>Concept drawing for product design, digital rendering, design thinking, product development.<\/p>\n

Any major awards or grants received:\u00a0<\/strong>Teacher of Excellence Award in Continuing Education, RISD, 2019;\u00a0Finalist, J. Frazier Wards as an Adjunct Faculty, RISD, 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Haitham Ghalwash<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department:<\/strong> Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Computer Science and Engineering<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience:<\/strong> Ph.D. in computer science and engineering, University of Connecticut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Area of teaching specialty or research: <\/strong>Cybersecurity and computer networking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Farhad Imani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department:<\/strong> Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ph.D. program graduated from and\/or previous work experience: <\/b>Dual-title Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research, The Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

Area of teaching specialty or research:<\/b> Data analytics in advanced manufacturing<\/p>\n

Any major awards or grants received:<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n