{"618754":{"#nid":"618754","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF CAREER Awarded to Professors Shahaf Nitzan, Molei Tao, and Yao Yao ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation\u0026#39;s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, three more SoM professors have been granted this coveted award, \u0026nbsp;increasing the number CAREER awards to SoM professors to 22 awards since the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Science_Foundation_CAREER_Awards\u0022\u003Ecreation of the award\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;1997. This years winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~yyao9\/\u0022\u003EProfessor Yao Yao\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Yao is an Assistant Professor in SoM, whose interests include mathematical analysis of nonlinear PDEs arising from fluid mechanics and mathematical biology, who has also been involved with research experiences for undergraduates (REU) programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/shahaf-nitzan\u0022\u003EProfessor Shahaf Nitzan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nitzan is an Assistant Professor in SoM and\u0026nbsp;works in harmonic analysis, an\u0026nbsp;area of mathematics that is of much interest in natural sciences and engineering, including in sound and image processing, wireless communications and data transmission, methods in quantum mechanics and quantum computing, and the analysis of signals in geophysics and medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~mtao8\/\u0022\u003EProfessor Molei Tao\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Molei Tao\u0026#39;s research is primarily concerned with\u0026nbsp;control systems characterized by multiple scales, geometric structures, and randomness.\u0026nbsp;Prof. Tao\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;group addresses both scientific curiosity and engineering practicality, from studying\u0026nbsp;extrasolar and Solar planetary dynamics, the engineering problems of energy transfer and harvest, rare events quantification, the resonant control of microscopic systems, to\u0026nbsp;the interplay between dynamics and machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/external-awards\u0022\u003EPrevious\u0026nbsp;NSF CAREER Awards\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E1997 Dana Randall\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2002 Robert Ghrist\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~etnyre\/\u0022\u003E2003 John Etnyre\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~ghomi\/\u0022\u003E2003 Mohammad Ghomi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2006 Chongchun Zeng\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2007 Hao-Min Zhou\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2008 Yuri Bakhtin\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/news\/brett-wick-awarded-nsf-career-grant\u0022\u003E2010 Brett Wick\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~dmargalit7\/index.shtml\u0022\u003E2010 Dan Margalit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/news\/maria-westdickenberg-awarded-nsf-career-grant\u0022\u003E2010 Maria Westdickenberg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/news\/anton-leykin-awarded-nsf-career-grant\u0022\u003E2012 Anton Leykin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/news\/greg-blekherman-awarded-nsf-career-grant\u0022\u003E2014 Greg Blekherman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2015 Karim Lounici\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2016 Esther Ezra\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~jhom6\/\u0022\u003E2016 Jen\u0026nbsp;Hom\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~kwickelgren3\/\u0022\u003E2016 Kirsten Wickelgren\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~mdamron6\/\u0022\u003E2016 Michael Damron\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E2017 Zaher 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