The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents recently recognized two Georgia Tech faculty members for their outstanding work. Scott Bair, a principal research engineer in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, was named a Regents’ researcher; Robin Thomas, a professor in the School of Mathematics, was named a Regents’ professor.
Bair, who received his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, specializes in tribology with a focus on rheology, properties of liquids at high pressure and machine design. He began his professional career at Tech as a research engineer in the School of Mechanical Engineering in 1974 and by 1992 had risen to principal research engineer.
Bair is the College of Engineering’s first Regents’ researcher, a title that historically has been reserved for researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Nominations from academic units on campus were submitted this year for the first time.
Thomas, who joined Georgia Tech in 1989, specializes in the fields of graph theory and combinatorics. He also directs the Institute’s multidisciplinary program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization jointly sponsored by the College of Computing, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Mathematics.
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