Ernst earns promotion to associate professor

Rice Statistics professor is among six faculty from School of Engineering to receive promotion.

Philip Ernst

On behalf of the Promotion & Tenure Committee, President David Leebron, and the Rice University Board of Trustees, we are pleased to announce the Department of Statistics's Philip Ernst will be promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor with Tenure. He is among six faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering to earn promotion.

Promotion from Associate to Full Professor

  • Oleg Igoshin, Department of Bioengineering
  • Tomasz Tkaczyk, Department of Bioengineering
  • Sibani Lisa Biswal, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor with Tenure

  • Philip Ernst, Department of Statistics
  • Caleb Kemere, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Jacob Robinson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • David Zhang, Department of Bioengineering