The Purdue University Board of Trustees has ratified two faculty appointments and the promotion and tenure of faculty in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The newly ratified positions are for Evgeniy Narimanov and Amy Reibman, who were each named Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Narimanov is a world leader in the fields of nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics. His work in optical imaging and metamaterials is characterized by amazing creativity and has resulted in the development of several new fields, including the concept of hyperbolic metamaterials that has led to several-thousand related research papers published annually. Narimanov is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and Optical Society of America Fellow. In 2019, he received Purdue’s Arden L. Bement Jr. Award for recent outstanding accomplishments in pure and applied sciences and engineering. Narimanov joined Purdue in 2007 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 2013.

Reibman, who worked 23 years at AT&T Labs, most recently as a lead inventive scientist, became a Purdue professor in 2015. She is a world leader in the fields of image/video processing and transmitting video over wireless communication systems. She has created groundbreaking work in digital video compression and streaming, particularly for wireless systems.  She pioneered a number of methods that allow effective transmission of images and videos over channels where data can be easily lost, including the now-widely-adopted multiple description coding technique. Reibman is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper award of the IEEE Communications Society in 1998. She has published 44 journal and 121 conference papers, has edited one book and holds more than 60 patents. Since 2020, Reibman has served as the associate head of faculty mentorship and recognition.

The following promotions within Purdue ECE are effective with the 2022-23 academic year:

To Associate Professor
Meng Cui
Timothy G. Rogers
Fengqing M. Zhu

To Research Associate Professor
Tillmann C. Kubis

To Full Professor
Alexander V. Kildishev
Dana Weinstein