Six Women Named to the Engineering Faculty at the University of California, Riverside

Giulia Palermo has been named an assistant professor in the department of bioengineering. She was a Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Palermo holds a master’s degree in chemistry and pharmaceutical technologies from the University of Salerno and a Ph.D. in computational drug discovery and development from the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Genova.

Cesunica Ivey has been named an assistant professor in the department of chemical and environmental engineering. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of physics at the University of Nevada-Reno and a visiting scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Dr. Ivey holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz has been named an assistant professor in the department of chemical and environmental engineering. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gilliard-AbdulAziz holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois.

Mariam Salloum has been named a professor of teaching in the department of computer science and engineering. She was a visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College in California.

Dr. Salloum holds a bachelor’s degree from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.

Mona Eskandari has been named an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Eskandari holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering both from Stanford University.

Luat Vuong has been named an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering. She was an assistant professor at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Dr. Vuong holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University in New York.

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