Congratulations to Professor Daisuke Kihara, Professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Professor Sunil Prabhakar. Their new positions will be effective fall 2009.
Kihara earned a promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in computer science and biology with tenure. His research interest is in the area of bioinformatics and computational biology. Kihara was awarded a Purdue Seed of Success in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Nita-Rotaru earned a promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Her research interests are in designing distributed systems and network protocols and applications that are dependable and secure, while maintaining acceptable levels of performance. Nita-Rotaru received an NSF Career Award in 2006 and a Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow Award in 2007.
Prabhakar was promoted to a Full Professor of computer science. His research focuses on performance and privacy issues in large-scale, modern database applications such as multimedia, moving-object, and sensor databases. Prabhakar earned an NSF Career Award in 2000 and was named a University Faculty Scholar earlier this year.
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Prof. Charles "Chip" Killian will serve as co-chair for the Purdue Young Faculty Association (PYFA). His fellow co-chair will be Prof. Rachael Kenney. This is a one-year appointment that will begin in fall 2009.
The PYFA arranges social events for members, and provides details on local events and attractions. Killian says, "PYFA has been instrumental in helping my wife and me connect with the community in and around Purdue. I'm excited to help other young faculty get the same benefit, and expand the reach of PYFA by creating a greater online community."
Killian joined CS in 2008 as an assistant professor. His research interests are distributed systems, model checking, programming languages, overlay networks, P2P networks, operating systems, network security, resource management, discrete math, Venn diagrams, and Gray codes.
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