September 2, 2016
Professor Natalie Enright Jerger is one of seven U of T Engineering faculty members to receive the inaugural Percy Edward Hart and Erwin Edward Hart Professorships.
The professorships were created by a landmark bequest from the estate of alumnus Erwin Edward Hart (CivE 4T0). The seven professors are all within the first 10 years of their careers and have demonstrated a high level of research excellence and exemplary graduate student mentorship, enhancing emerging research and education across the Faculty.
“Our inaugural Hart Professors exemplify the richness and diversity of research and education across our Faculty,” said Cristina Amon, dean of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. “They are addressing society’s most relevant challenges, from sustainable energy to human health, while nurturing the next generation of global engineering leaders.”
Professor Enright Jerger has been named the Percy Edward Hart Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Enright Jerger completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined U of T Engineering in 2009. She is an expert in computer architecture — the design and arrangement of components within a computer chip. Using computer models and simulations, Enright Jerger and her team test out new chip configurations and optimize them for computing speed, power usage, cost, size and a host of other parameters. In collaboration with companies such as Intel, AMD and Qualcomm, the team is is bringing about a new generation of more powerful computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices. In the last two years alone, Enright Jerger has received the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal – Young Engineer, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Borg Early Career Award for outreach.
Read about the other U of T Engineering faculty members awarded.
With files from Tyler Irving
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Jessica MacInnis
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The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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