The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently granted tenure to 10 faculty members across the School of Engineering. “I’m delighted to congratulate the 10 newest tenured faculty members in the School of Engineering. This major career milestone reflects not only their impact and excellence in research, but also their deep commitment to education and mentoring the next generation of engineers. I am so excited to see what new developments, innovations, and technologies will come next from this incredibly accomplished group,” says Paula T. Hammond, dean of engineering and professor of chemical engineering.
Five of the newly tenured faculty are women.
Christina Delimitrou is the KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology and an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science. Her research sits at the intersection of computer architecture and computer systems. She is one of the first systems researchers to apply machine learning techniques to design and management problems in the cloud. Dr. Delimitrou holds a diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Sili Deng is the Doherty Career Development Professor in Ocean Utilization and an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering. Her group develops scientific machine learning and experimental approaches to understand, predict, and engineer chemically reacting systems for sustainable energy, advanced materials manufacturing, and climate-resilient technologies. Dr. Deng, who joined the MIT faculty in 2019, is a graduate of Tsinghua University in China. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in New Jersey.
Carmen Guerra-Garcia is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the director of the Aerospace Plasma Group. Her work lies at the intersection of aerospace engineering, low-temperature plasma technologies, and gas discharge physics. Dr. Guerra-Garcia majored in aeronautical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Spain. She obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. Before joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Guerra-Garcia worked as a research engineer for Boeing Research and Technology Europe.
Laura Lewis is the Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor in electrical engineering and computer science and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences. Her research aims to develop methods to analyze and interpret multimodal neuroimaging data in order to enable measurement of previously undetectable aspects of brain function. Before joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Lewis was an assistant professor at Boston University. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from MIT and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University.
Tami Lieberman is the Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences. She seeks to understand how ecology and evolution shape the personalized communities of the human microbiome, and the role of this personalization on human health. Dr. Lieberman is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she majored in biological sciences. She earned a Ph.D. in systems biology at Harvard University.