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New MIT Faculty Join RLE
Collin M. Stultz and Mehmet Fatih Yanik become members
of RLE
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 25 September 2006
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor
Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 09.25.2006
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that two MIT faculty have joined the Laboratory.
Professor Collin
M. Stultz is Assistant Professor
of Health Sciences and Technology and Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He
directs RLE's new Computational Biophysics Group. Professor
Stultz conducts research to understand conformational
changes in macromolecules and the effect of structural
transitions on common human diseases. His research
group employs an interdisciplinary approach that utilizes
techniques drawn from computational chemistry, signal
processing, and basic biochemistry. Professor Stultz
received the AB from Harvard College in 1988, and the
MD from Harvard Medical School as well as the PhD in
biophysics from MIT in 1997. He is a member of the
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology. Among his honors are being a recipient of
the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical
Sciences and the James Tolbert Shipley Prize.
Professor Mehmet
Fatih Yanik is Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering. He directs RLE's new Bio-imaging
and Nano-manipulation Group. Professor Yanik is working
towards development and applications of technologies
for studying cellular processes. He has earned widespread
acclaim for his pioneering work in dynamic photonic
structures ("stopping light") and laser nano-surgery.
Professor Yanik's group is studying nerve regeneration
and degeneration by femtosecond laser nano-surgery
and multi-photon imaging, as well as large scale screening
techniques. Other problems the group investigates include
single molecule dynamics in microfluidic devices, sub-diffraction
limit imaging in live cells, and photonic nanostructures
for bio-sensing, nano-manipulation and bio-spectroscopy
purposes. Professor Yanik received the SB degrees in
electrical engineering and physics from MIT in 1999.
He then did graduate research in RLE's Semiconductor
Laser Group, receiving the MEng in electrical engineering
and computer science in 2000. Dr. Yanik then pursued
doctoral research at Stanford University, receiving
the PhD in applied physics in 2006.
Said RLE Director Jeffrey
H. Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton
Professor of Electrical Engineering, "Professors
Stultz and Yanik are representatives of a vanguard
research thrust of RLE, in which multiple disciplines
and technologies are being brought to bear on fundamental
and applied problems in the life sciences. Their arrival
in RLE both strengthens our efforts in these areas,
and deepens the diversity and opportunities for collaborative
scholarship and research."
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