Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State computer science and engineering professor will serve as an evaluator for a European research group.
Ioana Banicescu is beginning a five-year term on the European Research Council's advanced research grant evaluation panel. She is a faculty member in the computer science and engineering department and a researcher at the university's Center for Computational Sciences.
Established early last year, the ERC works to promote major cutting-edge research in the sciences and humanities across the continent. Its advanced investigator grants provide funding to researchers who already have established themselves as world-class, independent research leaders in their own right, according to a council spokesperson.
Banicescu, who holds master's and doctoral degrees from the Polytechnic University of New York, will serve on the 12-member computer science and informatics panel. She also is an engineering graduate of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Romania.
Since joining the MSU faculty in 1996, she has received a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation's Early Career and Information Technology Research awards.
Banicescu's department is a unit of the Bagley College of Engineering, which also has honored her with its Outstanding Faculty Research and Hearin Professor of Engineering awards.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Dr. Banicescu at 662-325-2756 or ioana@cse.msstate.edu.
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