VOL. 23, NO. 22	APRIL 24, 1998

Bramel Chen Eleftheriadis Palmer

our Columbia faculty in different disciplines—operations research, management science, electrical engineering and molecular biology—have been awarded Early Career Development Grants by the National Science Foundation.

  They are: Julien Bramel and Fangruo Chen, both associate professors at the Graduate School of Business; Alexandros Eleftheriadis, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Arthur Palmer, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the College of Physicians & Surgeons.

  The foundation chose 359 recipients from nearly 2,000 applicants for the grants, which range from $200,000 to $500,000 over four to five years.

  Bramel, an expert in production and scheduling, helped the New York City Board of Education develop ways to reduce driving time and use fewer buses on city school bus routes.

  Chen is developing ways to manage inventories using point-of-sale data such as that supplied by automated checkout scanners and other automated systems. His field is industrial supply and inventory management.

  With new object-based editing software being developed by Eleftheriadis’ group, users will soon be able to clip a moving, talking figure from one video sequence and paste it into another. His research interests are in visual information representation and compression.

  Palmer is investigating the structures and dynamic properties of proteins, nucleic acids and the complexes they form by binding together. Such complexes turn on certain genes and set entire biological processes in motion.