Bruce R. Land
bruce.land@cornell.edu

Education:

1976: PhD in neurobiology, from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1968: BS in physics, from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.

Positions held at Cornell University:

2020 Emeritus Senior Lecturer
1997 to 2020: Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
1998 to 2008: Senior Research Associate in Neurobiology.
1992 to 1998: Senior Research Associate in Computer Science.
1988 to 1998: Project leader of Visualization group at the Cornell Theory Center.
1987 to 1988: Senior technical consultant for the Cornell Theory Center.
1983 to 1986: Senior lecturer in Neurobiology.

Some Publications:

2023: Sang Min Han; Bruce R. Land; Andrew H. Bass; and Aaron N. Rice (2023)
Sound Production Biomechanics in Three-Spined Toadfish and Potential Functional Consequences of Swim Bladder Morphology in the Batrachoididae
,
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.154, Issue 5, pp 3466-3478.
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022386 DOI: 10.1121/10.0022386 (pdf)

2014: Kai-Yuan Chen, Danial J. Joe, James B. Shealy, Bruce R. Land, and Xiling Shen
A Bio-Inspired Spatial Patterning Circuit,
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014 Aug; 2014: 86–89. (html)(ltSpice image)(ltSpice program)

2014: Eric J. Ching, Michael J. Carrier, C. Thomas Avedisian, James R. Young, Richard C. Cavicchi, Bruce R. Land
Measurement of the Bubble Nucleation Temperature of Water on a Pulse-heated Thin Platinum Film supported by a
Membrane using a Low-Noise Bridge Circuit
, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 79 (2014) 82–93 (pdf)

2012: Friedman E. S., Rosenbaum M. A., Lee A. W., Lipson D. A., Land B. R. and Largus T. Angenent L. T.
A cost-effective and field-ready potentiostat that poises subsurface electrodes to monitor bacterial respiration.

Biosensors and Bioelectronics.Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 309– 313. (pdf)

2011: Rice, A. N., B. R. Land, and A. H. Bass,
Nonlinear acoustic complexity in a fish 'two-voice' system.
Proc. R. Soc. B, 22 December 2011 vol. 278 no. 1725 3762-3768 (pdf)

2009: Kyle D. Wesson, Robert M. Ochshorn, Bruce R. Land,
Low-Cost, High-Fidelity, Adaptive Cancellation of Periodic 60 Hz Noise,
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 185 (2009) 50–55 (pdf) and supplement.

Some trade Publications :

2016: Mahbub, Syed Tahmid and Land B Real Time Instrumentation on a Microcontroller,
Circuit Cellar Magazine #306, pp 18-25
2013: Land, B Markov music box, Circuit Cellar Magazine #272, pp 28-32
2011: Land, B Stochastic Chemical Kinetics on an FPGA, Circuit Cellar Magazine #253, pp 24-28
2010: Land, B Floating point for DSP, Circuit Cellar Magazine #235, pp 46-53

Committees:
2009 to 2020: Masters of Engineering Committee -- ECE
2014: MEng Planning Committee -- College of Engineering

Awards:

2018: Stephen H. Weiss Provost's Teaching Fellow, Cornell University
2018: Michael Tien '72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award, College of Engineering
2016: Kenneth A. Goldman ‘71 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell
2015: Cornell influential educator for Merrill Presidential Scholar Sang Min Han
2012: Michael Tien '72 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell.
2011: Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. ECE, Cornell
2011: Cornell Engineering Alumni Association, Academic Achievement Award.
2010: Cornell IEEE Student branch, Best Professor Award
2009: Cornell IEEE Student branch, Best Professor Award
2008: Michael Tien '72 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell.
2008: Cornell IEEE Student Branch, Professor of the year award
2006: Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. ECE, Cornell.
2005: Cornell IEEE Student Branch, Outstanding Professor of the Year award
2004: Robert and Vanne Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award. College of Engineering, Cornell.
1996: First place in the Instructional Materials (Web-based) competition of the ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference XXIV.
1996: Cornell influential educator for Merrill Presidential Scholar Michael Arcuri
1993: Faculty of the year teaching award, given by the Association of Computer Science Undergraduates at Cornell University.
1986: U.S. Patent 4,765,737 for a cell-sizing circuit for a laser cell sorter.
1981: Regional level winner of the Johns Hopkins first national search for computing to aid the handicapped.