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NSF Career Award Winners
Promising Young Researchers in Science and
Engineering
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Tanju Karanfil
Associate Professor of Environmental
Engineering and Science
Using Carbon Filters to Clean Water
 Dr.
Tanju Karanfil’s research explores the use of carbon
fibers for removing pollutants from water to develop new,
more efficient treatment systems. Given the increasingly
stringent water quality standards and public concern over
environmental issues, environmental engineers are aggressively
pursuing innovative, selective and versatile treatment technologies
for solving current pollution problems and preventing new
ones. Karanfil received his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan before coming to Clemson’s environmental engineering
and science department in 1996.
Jeremy King
Associate Professor of Physics and
Astronomy
Developing a Better Understanding of
Our Universe
Physics
and astronomy professor Jeremy King is using world-class
facilities such as W. M. Keck 10-m telescope on Mauna Kea,
Hawaii, and the Hubble Space Telescope to study the chemical
composition of the atmospheres of sun-like stars. One particular
question King is addressing is if other stars like our own
are cosmic cannibals that have swallowed once-surrounding
planets. The answer is important in estimating the number
of other solar systems like our own in the this universe.
Only after scientifically assessing the likelihood of other
intelligent life elsewhere in the universe can we place ourselves
in a universal context and truly understand how unique the
Earth is. King earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii
and joined Clemson in 2003.
Richard S. Miller
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Working to Improve Fuel Efficiencies
Dr.
Richard S. Miller’s research uses advanced supercomputers
to solve the equations governing the highly turbulent mixing
and combustion processes by which automobile engines, aircraft
gas turbines and rocket engines on spacecraft operate. He
is particularly interested in understanding how the processes
differ depending on whether the mixing of fuel with oxygen
occurs at a low or high pressure. This work is expected to
lead to improved fuel efficiency. Miller earned his Ph.D.
in mechanical engineering from the State University of New
York at Buffalo in 1995 and was a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar
with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining Clemson’s
mechanical engineering department in 1999.
Harlan B. Russell
Assistant Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Improving Wireless Communication
Dr.
Harlan B. Russell’s work focuses on making wireless
communication systems faster and more efficient. The rapid
growth in wireless communication systems over the past few
decades has resulted in the need for increased multimedia
communication services in mobile environments. Russell is
investigating protocols that can automatically find routes
among the ad hoc arrangement of radios, support different
types of network traffic such as voice or email, and save
energy to extend battery lifetime. He earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois before joining Clemson’s
electrical and computer engineering department in 1999.
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