Sixteen new members of the instructional and research faculty with full-time, multiyear term appointments have joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with appointments beginning in fall 2017. The incoming cohort includes two instructional hires in the Humanities, three instructional hires in Social Science, two instructional hires in Science, two instructional hires in Engineering and Applied Science, and seven new Gibbs Assistant Professors in the Department of Mathematics. Please join the FAS Dean’s Office in welcoming these newcomers to the Yale community.
Detailed biographies of the new instructional and research faculty can be found on the FAS website. A brief list appears below.
Humanities
English
Felisa Baynes-Ross is a lecturer in the Department of English. In the fall 2017 semester, she is teaching “The Sacred and the Secular” and “Rebels, Outcasts, and Heretics”; two sections of the English 114 writing seminars. Her interests are in gender and religion, biblical interpretation, Lollard writing and belief, religious dissent, and literature of the Caribbean.
Rasheed Tazudeen is a lecturer in the Department of English. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching “Sound” and “What is Life?”; two sections of the English 114 writing seminars. He specializes in modernist and Victorian literature, posthumanism, and ecological and critical theory.
Social Science
Economics
Maria Saez is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics. In the fall 2017 semester, she is teaching a course on game theory. Her interests include microeconomics, game theory, and the study of cultural transmission and evolution.
Political Science
Andrea Aldrich is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science. In the fall 2017 semester, she is teaching “Comparative legislative Politics” and “Communism and Conflict in Europe.” Her interests are focused on political representation and comparative political institutions.
Maria Jose Hierro is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science. In the fall 2017 semester, she is teaching “Introduction to Research Design” and “Contemporary Spanish Politics.” She studies short- and long-run determinants of national identity and nationalism and focuses on multinational contexts in Western Europe.
Science
Mathematics
Ian Adelstein is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching Math 112 and Math 115: “Calculus of Functions of One Variable I and II.” He studies differential geometry with a focus on closed geodesics and inverse spectral problems.
Sudesh Kalyanswamy is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, Kalyanswamy will teach Math 115: “Calculus of Functions of One Variable II” and Math 120: “Calculus of Functions of Several Variables.”
In addition, the Department of Mathematics has welcomed the following Gibbs Assistant Professors:
Ross Berkowitz is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching Math 115: “Calculus of Functions of One Variable II” and Math 244: “Discrete Mathematics.” He specializes in discrete math, with a focus on probabilistic and analytic methods.
Patrick Devlin is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching the first part of the first-year math majors sequence Math 230: “Vector Calculus and Linear Algebra I” as well as the Putnam problem solving seminar: Math 199. Devlin’s field of study is in probabilistic combinatorics.
Jeremy Hoskins is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching Math 120: “Calculus of Functions of Several Variables.” His research is primarily focused on inverse problems arising in medical imaging and on waves in random media and modeling
Arie Levit is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching Math 225: “Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory.” He is interested in geometric group theory and ergodic theory, with his research primarily focused on rigidity phenomena of lattices and invariant random subgroups.
Yuchen Liu is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching MATH 222: “Linear Algebra with Applications” and MATH 619: “Foundations of Algebraic Geometry.” His area of study is in algebraic geometry, with a focus on K-stability of Fano varieties and normalized volumes of singularities.
Gal Mishne is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the applied mathematics program. She will be teaching Math 160: “Structure of Networks” in the spring 2018 semester. Her research interests are manifold learning, applied harmonic analysis, diffusion geometry, image processing, and biomedical signal processing.
Philsang Yoo is a Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Mathematics department. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching Math 815: “Geometric Langlands and Derived Algebraic Geometry.” His research explores aspects of quantum field theory and find new ways to apply it to areas of pure mathematics.
Engineering and Applied Science
Computer Science
Benedict Brown is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching CPSC 100 (also known as CS50): “Introduction to Computing and Programming” and CPSC 679: “Computation Issues in 3-D Design and Fabrication.” In the spring, he will teach “Introduction to Programming” and “Applications in the Digital Humanities.” His area of interest is in computer graphics, with a focus on 3D scanning and visualization for cultural heritage applications
James Glenn is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. In the fall 2017 semester, he is teaching “Data Structures and Programming Techniques” and “Object-Oriented Programming”. He has published studies on algorithms and computational intelligence for games, Ramsey theory, and data structures.
These new faculty members will bring vibrancy and expertise to their departments and programs. The FAS Dean’s Office proudly welcomes the new instructional faculty and Gibbs Assistant Professors for the 2017-18 academic year.