Martinez

Tang

José Martínez and Kevin Tang, both Cornell electrical and computer engineering faculty members, have each received a 2009 IBM Faculty Award, announced earlier this month.

The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations. It also promotes courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM, according to the company.

Martínez, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the Microprocessor, Multicore and Multiprocessor Research Group, part of Cornell's Computer Systems Laboratory. His research interests include: reconfigurable and self-optimizing architectures, architectural impact of such disruptive technologies as on-chip photonics, and hardware-software interaction. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2002.

Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, joined the school in 2007 and was previously a junior fellow with the social and information sciences laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include: communication networks; interconnected dynamical systems; stochastic networks and processes; optimization theory, control theory and application; and microeconomics and game theory.