The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the promotion of Drs. Arijit Bose and Ramdas Kumaresan to the rank of Full Professor III. This highest faculty ranking is awarded to tenured professors who exhibit excellence in teaching, research and service.

Chemical Engineering Professor Arijit Bose joined the URI faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor.  He has gained international recognition in his field of nanotechnology, as demonstrated by his invited talks and his stewardship of the NSF-funded Japan-U.S. exchange program for young scientists involved in nanotechnology research. He serves as associate editor of IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology.

Dr. Bose has been the author or co-author of 33 journal articles since 1998, and has served as PI or Co-PI on 17 sponsored grants or contracts totaling nearly $1.5 million during the same period.

Recently named chair of the chemical engineering department (see article on page 5), Dr. Bose is known as a demanding teacher who serves as an important mentor to his students.  He has been the graduate program director in chemical engineering, and chaired the search for the two professorships in engineering, the Chester Kirk and Victor Baxt Professors. He also served as the faculty mentor for Dr. Michael Greenfield.

Ramdas Kumaresan, professor of electrical and computer engineering, joined the faculty in 1983 after completing his Ph.D. at URI.  Dr. Kumaresan is internationally renowned for his work in the field of computer processing of speech signals. His published work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications, including IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and he serves as a reviewer for two journals and for the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Kumaresan is an active member of the University Honors Program scholarship committee, and has served on the departmental Graduate Affairs committee. A dedicated teacher, he recently oversaw the development of a new laboratory, the Experiential Signal Processing (ESP) Lab, to provide hands-on experience to students in the area of communications systems design.

“Arijit Bose and Ramdas Kumaresan are among the most accomplished, dedicated members of the engineering faculty,” said COE Dean Bahram Nassersharif. “Their promotion is well deserved, given their significant contributions in the areas of research, publication and teaching, which have enhanced the engineering program at URI.”