CSL Profiles
Tarek K. Abou-Nemen
BCPS Undergraduate
Tarek K. Abou-Nemeh came to Chicago and IIT by way of Poland, where he was born, and Belgium, where he spent nine years before his family moved to Quincy, Ill. In making his final decision to come to IIT, he strongly considered its location and professional programs.
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Gady Agam
Department of Computer Science
Gady Agam, professor of Computer Science, has a solid reputation in experimental and visual computing, and runs the Visual Computing Lab within the Department of Computer Science.
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Aram Apyan
Physics Undergraduate
While attending Evanston Township High School in Chicago's northern suburbs, Aram Apyan was laying the computational groundwork for a project that a few years later, would earn him the first author position on a journal article that is causing a stir in the world of particle physics.
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Shlomo Argamon
Department of Computer Science
Can a computer tell the difference between right and wrong, or distinguish a male from a female? These sorts of questions are at the heart of research being explored by Associate Professor of Computer Science Shlomo Argamon.
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Gruia Calinescu
Department of Computer Science
These days, it's all about the algorithm--the essential blueprint that tells computers what to do. For Professor Gruia Calinescu, the algorithm is his life work.
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar
M.S. in Computer Science, 1988
Just a few years after graduating from IIT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar was part of the Intel team that designed the trailblazing Pentium chip. He also was a senior design engineer on the team that designed the 32-bit 80486 microprocessor.
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CSEP
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
What is a scientist's or an engineer's responsibility to society? Is loyalty a moral virtue? What risks must be considered in developing net technologies? These are all questions that the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP), directed by Vivian Weil, seeks to answer.
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CSRRI
Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation
Can you imagine living in a world of corrosion-resistant materials? Have you ever wondered about the molecular forces behind muscle contraction? IIT researchers are investigating these topics and many others with technology provided by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory...
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Jack Dobbin
Applied Mathematics
'Math is all about problem solving in the abstract. You learn critical reasoning and out-of-the-box thinking that you can then apply to anything. The focus is not on the subject matter itself, but on the process.'
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Susan Feinberg
Department of Humanities
What obstacles prevent websites, programs, and software from being user-friendly? As director of IIT's Usability Testing and Evaluation Center (UTEC), Professor Susan Feinberg investigates possible answers to this question.
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John Groszko
Computer Science Undergraduate
The stereotype of the antisocial computer science major couldn't be farther from the truth in the case of John Groszko, fourth-year undergraduate.
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Fred Hickernell
Department of Applied Mathematics
Achieving academic excellence through interdisciplinary relationships is an IIT hallmark that Fred Hickernell, chair and professor of applied mathematics, has the opportunity to utilize each day.
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Gary Holliday
Mathematics and Science Education Doctoral Candidate
According to Gary Holliday, a science educator with nearly 15 years of experience, it was an opportunity he could not turn down.
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Thomas Irving
Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
Watching fruit flies may not seem like high-tech science, but this work of Professor Thomas Irving could hold the key to understanding the way
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Lauren Joyce
B.S. in Professional and Technical Communication, 2006
Lauren Joyce earned her bachelor's in Professional and Technical Communication in 2006 specializing in web design and minoring in sociology and psychology.
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Ishaque Khan
Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
In science, what's small is big.'The heart and soul of today's scientific revolution is nanoscale science,' says Professor Ishaque Khan.
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Marilyn Kouba
Marilyn Kouba is a true pioneer for women in the sciences at IIT. Kouba entered IIT as a junior in 1948, a time when there were not many women studying chemistry.
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Norman Lederman
Department of Mathematics and Science Education
IIT's Department of Mathematics and Science Education (MSED) was formed in 2002 to address the nationwide shortage of qualified mathematics and science teachers and to supply teachers to urban areas.
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Xiang-Yang Li
Department of Computer Science
Science can reveal the unforeseen, but sometimes it aims to improve the basic components of our everyday lives. Associate Professor of Computer Science Xiang-Yang Li's research interests focus on algorithm design and analysis for practical topics such as wireless and sensor networks, truthful computing, cryptography and network security, and computational geometry.
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Dean Buck McMorris
A Welcome from the Dean
Welcome to the College of Science and Letters, the academic core of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Through its six departments, CSL awards undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees and provides required courses for nearly every IIT undergraduate major.
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Nick Menhart
Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, striking one in 3,500 boys.
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Vince Rivera
Humanities Undergraduate
One week after beginning a temp job at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Vince Rivera visited Main Campus and liked what he saw.
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Meghan Romba
Master of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology Candidate
Born in the northwest Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Meghan Romba found several satisfying reasons to continue her education locally.
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Linda Spentzouris
Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
Accelerator physics is one of the hottest areas of research today, and with IIT partners Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab located in the Chicago area, the Windy City has now been dubbed 'physics city.'
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Victor Tsao
M.S. in Computer Science, 1980
Victor Tsao received a master's in computer science from IIT in 1980. He was co-founder of Linksys and served as president and CEO for 15 years before it was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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Rong Wang
Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences
As technology advances, our ability to examine and manipulate the world at the molecular level offers advances in a great variety of fields.
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Jialing Xiang
Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences
Cell death is a normal body function. Each day, cells repair themselves or commit suicide and die. About 15 years ago, researchers began to look more closely at it for clues to diseases involving abnormal cell death, like cancer.
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Xiaoyan Zeng
Applied Mathematics Doctoral Student
The geographic distance between Hong Kong and Chicago was considerably shortened for Xiaoyan Zeng when her college adviser showed her a brochure about IIT.
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