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Kofke and Ramamurthy earn prestigious AIChE, Fulbright awards
Two faculty members in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have received international awards designated as prestigious by the National Research Council.
David Kofke, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has received the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Bina Ramamurthy, professor of teaching in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has received a Fulbright Scholar award to study and teach abroad during the coming year.
Lasting impact on molecular modeling
Kofke, also the Walter E. Schmid Chair, is honored for his transformative impact on the field of molecular modeling. His novel ideas have fostered solutions for previously intractable problems and helped enhance the efficiency and reliability of property prediction for countless researchers.
Kofke, who joined UB in 1989, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and AIChE, is the assistant editor of the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal, Molecular Physics.
Global leader in blockchain technology
Through the Fulbright program, Ramamurthy will spend a semester in Austria as a visiting professor at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, teaching and conducting research on blockchain-based systems.
Ramamurthy is an expert on blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital assets, tokenization of assets and data-intensive computing. As the director of UB’s Blockchain ThinkLab, she has worked extensively on these emerging technologies and developed a successful series of massive open online courses on blockchain technology that has reached thousands of global learners.
