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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome Engin Ipek in a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Ipek comes to us from the Computer Architecture Group of Microsoft Research, where his focus has been on multicore architectures, hardware-software interactions, and the application of machine learning to computer systems.

With numerous publications to his credit, Ipek received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2008. His doctoral dissertation was nominated by Cornell for the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He earned his BS in 2003 and his MS in 2007, both from Cornell in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Ipek has been a researcher at Microsoft since 2007. He worked as a graduate intern for Intel Corporation for a few months in 2005, and before that, served as a graduate intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for approximately half a year.

Assistant Professor Ipek has extensive experience supervising both graduate and undergraduate students, and he was a teaching assistant at Cornell for two semesters. The University of Rochester is pleased to have him onboard.