MIT President Rafael Reif on Feb. 3 named CEE Professor Cynthia Barnhart chancellor of MIT. Barnhart received her doctoral degree from MIT CEE in 1988 and, after serving on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology for four years, joined the MIT CEE faculty in 1992. She has been associate dean of the School of Engineering since 2007, and served as acting dean of engineering from 2010 to 2011. She has taught courses in large-scale optimization, airline operations research, the global airline industry, and transportation operations, planning, and control. Her research group develops models, optimization methods and decision support systems for large-scale transportation problems. Read the announcement.