People,
papers and presentations

Jennifer
George,
the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and professor of Psychology at the
Jones Graduate School of Business, was formally inducted into the Fellows Group
of the Academy of Management during the annual conference in San Antonio in
August. The prestigious Fellows Group was established to honor members of the
Academy of Management who have made significant contributions to the science
and practice of management and to provide opportunities for fellowship and a
forum for discussion among persons so recognized and honored. Only about 1
percent of the members are fellows.

Yenny Chandra, a third-year graduate student in civil and environmental
engineering, received the Ken
Kennedy – Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship. Her research focuses on
developing numerical techniques for simulating loss of stability in aerospace
structures. The Ken Kennedy-Cray Graduate Fellowship fund was established in
2007 as a tribute to both the late Rice Professor Ken
Kennedy’s long-time to service to Cray as a member of its Board of Directors
and his pioneering work in compilers and parallel programming models.

Xu Liu, a second-year graduate student in computer science, received the
Rice University Computer Science Club and CSters –
Schlumberger Fellowship. Liu’s research focuses on high-performance
computing, especially performance analysis for large parallel scientific
programs using novel software and hardware techniques.

Corina Serediuc, a fourth-year graduate student in electrical and computer
engineering, earned the Rice University IEEE Student Chapter and Women Excel–Schlumberger Fellowship. Serediuc researches
cooperative wireless communications.

Rajesh Gandham, a second-year graduate student in computational and applied
mathematics, and Kaijian Liu, a
sixth-year graduate student in Earth science, were awarded BP High Performance Computing Graduate Fellowships.
Gandham focuses on developing algorithms to solve partial differential equations of industrial scale,
using parallel architectures such as graphic processing units. Liu studies
computational seismology, focusing on teleseismic imaging/inversion of the
geological structure beneath the western United States.

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