21st Century Engineering Education

James R. Priest

Alumni

Scholarship Honors James R. Priest, Columbia’s First Black Graduate

October 26, 2020

by Jesse Adams

Columbia Engineering professor Harry West leads his Designing for Humanity class

Faculty & Staff

Harry West and His Very Human-Centered Approach to Teaching Design

October 20, 2020

Columbia Engineering Dean Mary Boyce, Barnard President Sian Beilock, and Barnard Provost Linda Bell formalized a new partnership between the schools.

Students

Barnard Creates Pathways for More Women in Engineering in Partnership with Columbia Engineering

October 23, 2018

Len Blavatnik, head of The Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Alumni

Blavatnik Family Foundation Provides $10 Million to Promote Engineering Innovations in Health

January 17, 2018

The new MS in Business Analytics, developed in part by IEOR chair Garud Iyengar (left), equips graduates with a deep understanding of data analytics and its practical applications.

Students

Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School Announce New Master’s Degree in Business Analytics

December 05, 2017

by Joanne Hvala

New-York area high school students in Columbia Engineering labs

Students

Columbia Engineering Launches SHAPE for High-School Engineers

February 16, 2017

by Allison Elliot

Research Areas

  • Materials Characterization
  • Materials Design and Engineering
  • Materials for Energy
  • Materials Synthesis and Processing
  • Nanomaterials
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Advanced Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
  • Energy Materials
  • Functional and Responsive Materials
  • Nanomaterials (Nanotechnology)
  • Sustainable Materials
  • 2D Materials
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Isotopes

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2020-Present
    • Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2015-2019
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Materials Research Society
    • Electrochemical Society
    • American Chemical Society
  • Honors & Awards
    • CUAFA Young Investigator Award, 2024
    • Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, 2020-2022
    • Materials Today Rising Star Award, 2022
    • Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award, 2021
    • 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, 2021
    • IAAM Innovation Award of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), 2020
    • Emerging Investigators Award by Journal of Materials Chemistry A., 2019
    • Nano Research Young Innovator Awards in NanoEnergy, 2019
    • Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage, 2017
    • MRS Postdoctoral Award for 2015 Spring Meeting, 2015
    • World Changing Ideas Selected by Scientific American, 2014
    • Dan Cubicciotti Award of Electrochemical Society (honorable mention), 2010
  • Education
    • PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
    • MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
    • BS, Physics, Peking University

Research Areas

  • Data Science
  • Climate Modeling and Prediction

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Affiliate Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2004-2023
    • Alliance Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaisaeau, France, 2015
    • Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2000-present
    • Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2000-present
    • Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1995-2000
    • Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1990-1995
    • Instructor in Applied Mathematics [non-tenure track], M.I.T., 1988-1990
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Meteorological Society
    • American Geophysical Union
    • European Geosciences Union
    • American Physical Society
    • American Astronomical Society
    • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2019
    • Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2015
    • Best Teacher of the Year, Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, 2012
    • Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, Columbia University 2008
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia SEAS Alumni Association 1997

Research Areas

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics and Computational Modeling
  • Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling
  • Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021-
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Associate Member, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, 2021-
    • Member, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2021-
  • Honors & Awards
    • Allen Institute Distinguished Investigator Award, 2023
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2022
    • NIH NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award, 2021
    • NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, 2012
  • Education
    • PhD, Biology, MIT
    • BS, Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Research Areas

  • Security and privacy
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Data privacy
  • Cybersecurity
  • Quantum computing

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1997-
    • Chair of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1986-1987
    • Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1987-1997
    • Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1984-1987
    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1979–1984
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
    • ACM
  • Honors & Awards
    • Popular Science Award of “What Best of what’s new”, 2016.
    • IBM Faculty Career Development Award
    • Numerous best paper awards and IEEE Security & Privacy “most influential” paper.
    • IEEE and ACM Fellow.