The National Academy of Engineering has selected Mark Lewis, Cornell associate professor of operations research and information engineering, to participate in its 13th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

Lewis is one of 83 young engineers selected for the three-day event, which will bring together engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who perform "exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines," according to the academy.

Nominated by fellow engineers or organizations, participants will come from industry, academia and government.

Frontiers of Engineering will be held Sept. 24-26 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., and will examine trustworthy computer systems, safe water technologies, modeling and simulating human behavior, biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, and the control of protein conformations.

Lewis joined the Cornell faculty in 2005. His research interests are stochastic processes with an emphasis on queuing theory. He has also become interested in parallel processing and how resources are allocated dynamically in such systems.