Graduate student Mark Hickle has received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, a highly competitive fellowship which is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue or are pursuing a doctoral degree in a field of study of interest to the Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation's scientists and engineers, and towards this end, has awarded approximately 3,200 NDSEG fellowships since the program's inception 22 years ago. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCM), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the direction of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E).

Mark is advised by Professor Dimitrios Peroulis.