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March 19, 2007
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Rensselaer at Hartford Welcomes Five New Full-time Faculty Members
HARTFORD, CONN –The Hartford Campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is pleased to announce the appointments of five new full-time faculty members: Darius Jal Sabavala, Ph.D., Professor, and Anupam Saraph, Ph.D., Professor, both in the Hartford Department of the Lally School of Management and Technology; and Brice N. Cassenti, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Engineering, Eugene Eberbach, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Computer Science, and Renaud Pawlak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computer Science, all in the Department of Engineering and Science.
Dr. Sabavala (www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/toolbar.cfm?t=11&inc=faculty-detail&faculty_ID=122) is Managing Partner of Janus Enterprise International LLC, a consultancy providing analysis and insight that combine with managers’ experience to solve challenging strategic, marketing, and technology problems. Through the development and application of Strategy Laboratories®, Dr. Sabavala promotes experiential learning for executives in technology-driven settings.
Dr. Saraph (www.rpi.edu/~sarapa2) has 22 years of rich and diverse contributions in think tank research and consulting, spanning across Asia and Europe. During his career he has served as an advisor to heads of states, businesses, and NGO’s. Dr. Saraph has extensive experience in business and governmental strategic thinking, policy and decision-making, and performance monitoring. He serves as a consultant in the areas of change research, reengineering processes, building information communities, and designing future scenarios.
Dr. Cassenti brings over forty years of research experience to Rensselaer including twenty-five years at United Technologies Research Center performing a wide variety of research in applied mechanics, advanced propulsion, and supercomputing. In 2001, he transferred to Pratt & Whitney where he developed probabilistic design methods and high temperature material models for use in gas turbine engines. Dr. Cassenti has taught as an adjunct at Rensselaer at Hartford since 1980.
Dr. Eberbach (www.ewp.rpi.edu/~eberbe) has conducted seminars and lectures throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Israel, India, and Australia. He was most recently an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Eberbach’s current work is in the areas of process algebras, resource bounded computation, autonomous agents, and mobile robotics. Topics of interest to him also include distributed computing, concurrency and interaction, evolutionary computing and neural nets, new computing paradigms, languages, and architectures.
Dr. Pawlak, former researcher, INRIA Futurs, France, was the first postdoctoral research fellow to study at Rensselaer at Hartford in 2003. He conducted original research in software engineering on specific projects relating to software system architecture. His current focus is Quality Assurance in Software Engineering using Static Analysis. Dr. Pawlak is the leader of the Spoon project (http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/), on which he will give a tutorial at EclipseCON 2007.
MEDIA NOTE: All of the professors are available for interviews. Please contact the Office of Communications at Rensselaer’s Hartford Campus to schedule a time.