Philip Protter, professor of operations research and industrial engineering, has been named to a Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair for the 2007-08 academic year.

Part of the international Fulbright Scholar Program, the Fulbright-Tocqueville chair promotes collaborative research between France and the United States. During the fall 2007 semester, Protter will teach two courses at the University of Paris-Dauphine and give three plenary lectures to general audiences in Paris. He will return to Cornell in the spring.

Currently director of Cornell's Financial Engineering Program, Protter joined the Cornell faculty in 2000 and specializes in theoretical and applied probability. His research interests also include mathematical finance theory (including asset pricing, liquidity risk and credit risk), stochastic numerical analysis, stochastic analysis and its applications, weak convergence, Markov process theory and filtering theory.