[CCoE Notice] Reminder: Today! Assistant Professors Speaker Series: Zhu Han (ECE) and Jeff Rimer (ChBE)

[Lewis, Lindsay R]

Assistant Professors

Speaker Series




May 2, 2011 (Monday)

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library





Bring a brown bag lunch and meet two of UH's rising stars.

Cookies and beverages will be provided.

Co-sponsored by University Libraries and the Faculty Senate.




<image001.png>  Zhu Han

Cullen College of Engineering


“Compressive Sensing and its Application”

Dr. Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park,
in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Research and Development Engineer of JDS Uniphase Corporation, Germantown, Maryland.  From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland.  From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho.  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Houston, Texas.  His research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, wireless multimedia, and security.  Dr. Han is a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award recipient for 2010.  Dr. Han has two best paper awards:  International Conference and Communication (ICC09) and International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (Wiopt 09).
Also, Dr Han has four NSF awards plus one Department of Defense award.



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Jeffrey Rimer
Cullen College of Engineering




"A Tale of Two Crystals: Rational Approaches for Materials Design"
Dr. Jeffrey Rimer joined the Cullen College of Engineering in the Fall of 2009 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and holds B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Allegheny College and Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Rimer was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Molecular Design Institute and he has experience working with several chemical and biotech companies, including Bayer and DuPont Corporations. Dr. Rimer’s research program focuses on nanomaterials design and crystal engineering in areas of catalysis and pathological biomineralization. He employs both experimental and modeling techniques to investigate interfacial phenomena of crystallization, to develop fundamental understandings of crystal growth mechanisms, and to design novel pathways for tailoring materials self-assembly. The Rimer group has developed approaches to selectively tailor crystal growth – results of which have led to potential breakthroughs in the treatment of pathological diseases, such as target drugs to curb the formation of crystals implicated in kidney stone disease, and the design of bio-inspired routes to improve nanoporous catalyst synthesis for applications in emissions and alternative fuels. His research on kidney stones was recently published in Science magazine as a featured cover article. Dr. Rimer has published 11 peer-reviewed articles, which have received over 300 citations, and he is an investigator on two patents. He is also a member of several scientific societies, including the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Materials Research Society.



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