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The Simons Foundation news article about their Pivot fellows highlights Prof. Jian Shi's work to improve the performance of qubits by leveraging tunability to counter a previously unaccounted energy loss mechanism. See the full news article for more details.

 

Prof. Jian Shi and collaborators share their insights on a novel optoelectronic phenomenon, the photogalvanic effect in a new class of semiconductors, in their recent publication in Nature Reviews Physics.
Seven Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduate students showcased research projects in the areas of materials science, computer modeling, chemical engineering, and more at a symposium held at Corning’s Sullivan Park Science & Technology Center just outside of Corning, New York on April 26, 2024.
Prof. Ravishankar Sundararaman has been promoted to a full professor and has also been awarded with the James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award. The award honors productivity in both teaching and research, with outstanding achievement in one of these areas.
Wei Bao, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the Early Career Program (ECP) Award and Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Department of Defense to study superconductors and cavity quantum materials, respectively.

Institute News

Event will showcase the future of manufacturing education, research, and career opportunities at the nation’s first technological university
Shaowu Pan, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has recently received two prestigious awards recognizing his work to solve some of engineering’s most difficult challenges.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has appointed Pingkun Yan, Ph.D., the P.K. Lashmet Career Development Chair Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI, as head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Todd Przybycien, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biological engineering at RPI, has been named head of RPI’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE). Under Przybycien’s leadership, the department will continue to drive innovation in sustainable biopharmaceutical manufacturing, metabolic and enzyme engineering, advanced materials development, transport processes, and process systems engineering.  
RPI scientists played a pivotal role in the development of a new manufacturing technique that could revolutionize infrared detection technology, potentially making thermal imaging devices cheaper, smaller, more accurate and far more affordable.