In case you are unaware, the Sibley School will have four new faculty that have just started or will start in the upcoming year:
Silvia Ferrari: Started 1 July 2015. Formerly Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke. Neural networks, bayesian networks, feedback control. http://www.mae.cornell.edu/mae/people/profile.cfm?netid=sf375
Nelly Andarawis-Puri: Starts 1 Jan 2016. Currently Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai. Tendon biomechanics. http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/nelly-a-andarawis-puri (hired through biomechanics search)
Greg Bewley: Starts 1 Jan 2016. Currently at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization. Experimental fluid mechanics and turbulence. http://www.lfpn.ds.mpg.de/turbulence/bewley.html (hired through fluids search)
Guy Hoffman: Starts 1 jan 2016. Currently Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya. Human-robot interaction. http://guyhoffman.com/ (hired through design/manufacturing search)