{"id":577,"date":"2021-01-20T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/?p=577"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:56:37","slug":"welcome-new-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/2021\/01\/20\/welcome-new-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome New Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSUN\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science has recently hired several outstanding faculty who bring a wide variety of talents and expertise to the university.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bk_onehalfs bk-shortcode clearfix\"><div class=\"column one_half halfsc\">             \n                    <\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-578 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Xudong-Jia-2020.png\" alt=\"Xudong Jia 2020\" width=\"215\" height=\"240\" \/>Xudong Jia<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Associate Dean<\/em><br \/>\nIn July 2020, Xudong Jia joined the College of Engineering and Computer Science as the new associate dean. Jia was most recently a professor and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. For more than 25 years, Jia has worked in the areas of civil engineering and transportation engineering education, applied research and consulting, including on some of California\u2019s most important and exciting projects. These have included California\u2019s earthquake pre-warning system, transportation and traffic safety planning, and identifying potential passageways for mountain lions to safely cross freeways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-579 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ricardo-Medina-2020.png\" alt=\"Ricardo Medina 2020\" width=\"217\" height=\"237\" \/>Ricardo Medina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Civil Engineering and Construction <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Management Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\nRicardo Medina\u2019s primary research areas are groundwater and fracture flow, with a focus on understanding the effect of fracture surface roughness on fluid, suspension and chemical flow processes inside real and synthetic rock fractures. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering (water resources) at UC Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-580 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Maryam-Jalali-2020.png\" alt=\"Maryam Jalali 2020\" width=\"217\" height=\"237\" \/>Maryam Jalali<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Computer Science Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\nMaryam Jalali\u2019s research primarily spans the areas of network function virtualization. Her research explores virtualization technologies to offer network-as-a-service. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Georgia State University and a B.S. in computer engineering hardware from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-581 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Xunfei-Jiang-2020.png\" alt=\"Xunfei Jiang 2020\" width=\"217\" height=\"238\" \/>Xunfei Jiang<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Computer Science Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\nXunfei Jiang\u2019s research interests include parallel and distributed systems, energy-efficient storage systems, thermal modeling and hybrid data storage systems. After receiving a master\u2019s degree in computer science from China\u2019s Huazhong University of Science and Technology, she joined Digital Video Networks Co., Ltd. and Cisco Systems (Shanghai) Video Technology Co., Ltd. She earned her Ph.D. in data storage from Auburn University<\/p>\n<p>\n                <\/div><div class=\"column one_half halfsc\">             \n                    <\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-584 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mahdi-Ebrahimi-2020.png\" alt=\"Mahdi Ebrahimi 2020\" width=\"216\" height=\"239\" \/>Mahdi Ebrahimi<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Computer Science Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\nMahdi Ebrahimi\u2019s primary research interests include big data management in cloud computing, with a focus on large-scale scientific workflows. He has developed several metaheuristic optimization algorithms for cloud data placement and workflow scheduling. He earned his doctoral degree in the field of data management in the Big Data Research Laboratory at Wayne State University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jamie-Booth-2020.png\" alt=\"Jamie Booth 2020\" width=\"216\" height=\"238\" \/>Jamie Booth<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mechanical Engineering Assistant <\/em><em>Professor<\/em><br \/>\nJamie Booth is principal investigator of the Bioinspired Mechanics Lab, exploring the design of tough multifunctional materials inspired by nature. His expertise is in the modeling and experimental investigation of fracture in discrete stochastic multiscale systems. He is also interested in the exploration of novel teaching strategies that bring research\u0002related projects into the curriculum. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Subhradeep-Roy-2020.png\" alt=\"Subhradeep Roy 2020\" width=\"215\" height=\"237\" \/>Subhradeep Roy<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\nSubhradeep Roy received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech. Upon arrival at CSUN, he established the Complex Dynamical Systems Laboratory. His research is in the emerging areas of dynamical systems and focuses on theoretical and experimental studies of interactions in complex systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Vinicius-Maron-Sauer-2020.png\" alt=\"Vinicius Maron Sauer 2020\" width=\"214\" height=\"237\" \/>Vinicius Maron Sauer<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mechanical Engineering Assistant <\/em><em>Professor<\/em><br \/>\nVinicius Sauer conducts research in mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering, with an emphasis in chemically reacting flows, fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from UC Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>\n                <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSUN\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science has recently hired several outstanding faculty who bring a wide variety of talents and expertise to the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}