External Recognition Recipients of 2022 (Fiscal Year)
Vaneet Aggarwal, School of Industrial Engineering
Best Paper, Neural Information Processing Systems
For the paper, "On the Approximation of Cooperative Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Using Mean Field Control."
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems
Andres Arrieta, School of Mechanical Engineering
Best Paper Award, Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots
For the paper, "Characterization of Multistable Self-Folding Origami Architectures."
Santokh Badesha, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
For a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
2022 Power 50 Technology List, Rochester Business Journal
2022 Rishi Raj Medal for Innovation and Commercialization in Ceramics, The American Ceramic Society
For the invention of foundational technologies that have ushered in the era of digital printing on demand.
Saurabh Bagchi, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology
For sustained high levels of achievement through leadership, senior responsibility, innovation and professional service.
Distinguished Contributor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
For contributions to the IEEE Computer Society as well as other accomplishments in the computing profession.
Test of Time Award, IEEE Technical Community on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
Xiaoping Bao, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Engineering ex vivo Human Cardiogenesis with Optogenetics.”
Stephan Biller, School of Industrial Engineering
Member, National Academy of Engineering
For leadership and advancement of manufacturing technologies and innovations based on the internet of things and digital data.
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
For leadership in the applications of internet of things and artificial intelligence in manufacturing industry.
Laura Blumenschein, School of Mechanical Engineering
Innovators Under 35 Global List, MIT Technology Review
For contributions to the Vine Robot Project, a growing robot inspired by the growth and adaptability of plants.
Alexandra Boltasseva, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
For the project, “Empowering Quantum Nanophotonics with Machine Learning: Towards Quantum On-Chip Meta-Devices.”
Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate
For multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.
Charles Bouman, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society
For fundamental contributions to X-ray computed tomography and computational imaging.
Honorary Member, Society for Imaging Science and Technology
For pioneering efforts in the field of computational imaging, which have been widely used in computer printing, computed tomography scanners, mobile phone cameras, and defense, security, and space applications, among others.
James E. Braun, School of Mechanical Engineering
F. Paul Anderson Award, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
For contributions in developing methods for optimal control in buildings and for automated fault detection and diagnostics applied to HVAC&R equipment.
Christopher Brinton, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, “From Federated to Fog Learning: Expanding the Frontier of Model Training in Heterogeneous Networks.”
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research
For the project, “Distributed Intelligence Optimization Under Interference in Heterogeneous Resource-Constrained Wireless Systems.”
Barrett Caldwell, School of Industrial Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
For demonstrating outstanding accomplishments in both his professional career and service to industrial and systems engineering.
Deva Chan, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
For the project, "Microbiome Regulation of Glycosaminoglycan in the Synovial Joint."
Somali Chaterji, School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Robust and Adaptive Streaming Analytics for Sensorized Farms: Internet-of-Small-Things to the Rescue."
Zhihong Chen, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
For contributions to the understanding and applications of low-dimensional nanomaterials.
Gary Cheng, School of Industrial Engineering
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
For leading contributions to additive materials synthesis and processing for scalable manufacturing using laser-matter interaction, with applications to biomedical, electrical and optical devices.
Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
For significant contributions to manufacturing science in laser-based scalable nanomanufacturing processes, publishing high-quality journal papers and patents, and advancing the understanding of laser-matter interactions.
Mung Chiang, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
INFOCOM Achievement Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
For contributions to fundamental research and industry impact of edge computing, data pricing, and network utility maximization.
Ivan Christov, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program
For the project, “Nonlocal Nonlinear Interfacial Waves.”
Shelley Claridge, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Chemistry
Schmidt Science Polymaths Award, Schmidt Futures
For research bringing high-resolution tools of classical surface science to bear on the design of hierarchical function in complex soft matter including human tissue.
Melba Crawford, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
David Landgrebe Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
For outstanding contributions in the field of remote sensing image analysis.
Supriyo Datta, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
IBM Academic Award
For the project, "Application Space for "s-MRAM" technology."
Chelsea Davis, School of Materials Engineering
Early Career Scientist Award, Adhesion Society
For conducting outstanding and fundamental research in adhesion science.
Letian Dou, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate
For multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Understanding and Quantifying Ion Migration and Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Heterostructures."
Shirley Dyke, School of Mechanical Engineering & Lyles School of Civil Engineering
George W. Housner Structural Control & Monitoring Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers
For groundbreaking research and innovative contributions to develop structural control and monitoring systems, as well as for dedication in the training and professional development of the next generation of engineers.
Person of the Year, International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring
Brad Duerstock, School of Industrial Engineering & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
First Place, Inclusive Design Challenge, Department of Transportation
Yiheng Feng, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
SIG ITS Outstanding Paper, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
For the paper, "Intelligent Driving Intelligence Test for Autonomous Vehicles with Naturalistic and Adversarial Environment."
Allen Garner, School of Nuclear Engineering
Academic Representative, Naval Surface Technology Innovation Consortium Executive Committee
James Gibert, School of Mechanical Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Exploiting Time Dependent Behavior and Structure in Developing Programmable Materials."
Nadia Gkritza, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers
For outstanding contributions to research and education enhancing innovation in transportation planning and engineering.
Allison Godwin, School of Engineering Education
William H. Corcoran Award, American Society for Engineering Education
For the paper, “A Sociocultural Learning Framework for Inclusive Pedagogy in Engineering.”
Eckhard Groll, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Makarand Hastak, Construction Engineering and Management
President, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
Beth Holloway, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, Society of Women Engineers
For significant and long-term service to the advancement of women in the engineering profession.
Harsha Honnappa, School of Industrial Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Towards a Data-Driven Service Engineering Methodology."
Mahdi Hosseini, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, “CAREER: Active Nonlinear Photonics with Applications in Quantum Networks.”
Fang Huang, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, National Institutes of Health
Susan Hunter, School of Industrial Engineering
KD Tocher Medal, Operational Research Society
For the paper, "Multi-objective Ranking and Selection: Optimal Sampling Laws and Tractable Approximations via SCORE."
David Iseley, Construction Engineering and Management
Wall of Fame Award, American Society of Civil Engineers Louisiana Section
For outstanding contributions to the civil engineering profession.
Zubin Jacob, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Optica 2022 Fellows Class
For pioneering theory-driven experiments in the areas of thermal photonics and nanophotonic metamaterials.
Chad Jafvert, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Fellow, Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors
For exhibiting exceptional long-term excellence in environmental research, teaching, and service to the environmental engineering and science community.
Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Education (E4S) Award, American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists
For significant contributions to the profession in the area of educating practitioners.
Neera Jain, School of Mechanical Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Enabling Human-Aware and Responsive Automation through Cognitive State Modeling and Estimation."
Research Associateship Award, National Research Council
Jinha Jung, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Education and Non-Profit 2022 Excellence in GIS Award for the Indiana Statewide LiDAR Data Portal Project, Indiana Geographic Information Council
For his use of geospatial technology to improve our world.
Board of Directors, Indiana Geographic Information Council
Nicole Key, School of Mechanical Engineering
Advisory Council, NASA Aeronautics Committee
Alexander Kildishev, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Optica 2022 Fellows Class
For outstanding contributions to the theoretical concepts and advanced numerical modeling of optical engineered materials and metasurfaces.
Murat Kocaoglu, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Reviewer Award, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer Award, International Conference on Learning Representations
Chi Hwan Lee, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & School of Mechanical Engineering
Editor's Award, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
For the article, "Validation of a Novel Wearable Electromyography Patch for Monitoring Submental Muscle Activity During Swallowing: A Randomized Crossover Trial."
Sensors 2021 Young Investigators Award
For research on flexible and stretchable sensors for human body-integrated healthcare systems.
Xiaojun Lin, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ACM MobiHoc Best Paper Award
For the paper, "Minimizing Age-of-Information in Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Systems: A New Partial-Index Approach."
Jacqueline Linnes, Weldon School of Biomedial Engineering
Fellow, Executive Leadership In Academic Technology, Engineering and Science, Drexel University
Luna Lu, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
For her entrepreneurial mindset in academia and innovations enabling intelligent infrastructure.
Sergey Macheret, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Plasmadynamics and Lasers Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
For pioneering work on novel plasma generation and control methods and on aerospace applications of plasmas.
Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
For notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics.
Nina Mahmoudian, School of Mechanical Engineering
1st Place, Virtual RobotX Maritime Competition
For leading an engineering team to 1st place for solutions in maritime autonomous challenges.
Joyce Main, School of Engineering Education
Best Division Paper for Engineering Research Methods, American Society for Engineering Education
For the paper, "The Impact of Math and Science Remedial Education on Engineering Major Choice, Degree Attainment, and Time to Degree."
Best Professional Interest Council II Paper, American Society for Engineering Education
For the paper, "The Impact of Math and Science Remedial Education on Engineering Major Choice, Degree Attainment, and Time to Degree."
Best Overall 2022 Annual Conference Paper, American Society for Engineering Education
For the paper, "The Impact of Math and Science Remedial Education on Engineering Major Choice, Degree Attainment, and Time to Degree."
Ajay Malshe, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
For a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
Blue Sky Award, National Science Foundation Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition
Karen Marais, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerospace Educator Award, Women in Aerospace
For excellent leadership and sustained dedication to aerospace education and tenacious advocacy for girls and young women in aerospace.
Terrence Meyer, School of Mechanical Engineering
Optica 2022 Fellows Class
For outstanding contributions in ultrafast coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering and creative developments in pulse burst laser technology and its applications.
Aaron Morris, School of Mechanical Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Using Stochastic Techniques to Understand and Predict the Flow of Non-spherical Particles."
Roshanak Nateghi, School of Industrial Engineering
Technology Policy Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science
William Oakes, School of Engineering Education
2021 Duncan Fraser Award, International Federation of Engineering Education Societies
For his global impact in engineering education through his leadership of the EPICS Program and his persistent pursuit to engage underserved communities worldwide.
Guillermo Paniagua, School of Mechanical Engineering
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
For contributions to turbine aerodynamics and heat transfer.
Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Alternative Energy Technology, Fulbright Scholar Program
For the project, “H2-Air Rotating Detonation Integration Into Gas Turbines for Clean Propulsion.”
Kinam Park, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate
For multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.
Elsje Pienaar, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, “Complexity from Simplicity: Multi-scale Computational Deciphering of the Viral Life Cycle.”
Brandon Pitts, School of Industrial Engineering
First Place, Inclusive Design Challenge, Department of Transportation
Vilas Pol, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
2021 Excellence in Process Research Development Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
For significant technical contributions to the advancement of process development.
Timothée Pourpoint, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Liquid Propulsion Best Paper Award, the Propulsion and Energy Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
For the paper, "Chemical Composition of Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen using Raman Spectroscopy."
Junjie Qin, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Best Paper Award, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering
For the paper, "Incentive Mechanism for Sharing Distributed Energy Resources."
Google Research Scholar Award
For the project, "Storage for 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy: Modeling, Control, and Market Design."
Xiaokang Qiu, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty Fellow, U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Anand Raghunathan, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers / Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
For the paper, "MACACO: Modeling and Analysis of Circuits for Approximate Computing."
Rahim Rahimi, School of Materials Engineering
Invited Participant, Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering
Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
For his research on the application of mathematics to chemical and biochemical reaction engineering, biotechnology, particulate systems, stochastic modeling and personalized medicine.
Sanjay Rao, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery
For outstanding scientific contributions to computer networking, especially internet video streaming, and network verification and synthesis.
Tahira Reid Smith, School of Mechanical Engineering
Emerging Leader Award, Society of Women Engineers
For forging new paths in mechanical engineering and impacting future engineers.
Shripad Revankar, School of Nuclear Engineering
Long Service Award, International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
For long term technical, educational and service contributions in nuclear science and engineering to the International Conference in Nuclear Engineering.
Donna Riley, School of Engineering Education
William H. Corcoran Award, American Society for Engineering Education
For the paper, “A Sociocultural Learning Framework for Inclusive Pedagogy in Engineering.”
Kaushik Roy, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers / Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
For the paper, "MACACO: Modeling and Analysis of Circuits for Approximate Computing."
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems
For the paper, “Accurate and Accelerated Neuromorphic Network Design Leveraging A Bayesian Hyperparameter Pareto Optimization Approach."
Michael Sealy, School of Mechanical Engineering
Blue Sky Award, National Science Foundation Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition
For proposing a breakthrough vision and roadmap to tackle history's most persistent problem: food security.
Associate Member, Collège International pour la Recherche en Productique (CIRP)
Shreyas Sen, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Student Paper, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
For the paper, "A 65nm Resonant Electro-Quasistatic 5-240uW Communication SoC with Automatic Maximum Resonant Power Tracking."
40 Under 40, Georgia Tech Alumni Association
Vladimir Shalaev, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate
For multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.
Greg Shaver, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers
For impact on the mobility industry through leadership, research, publishing, innovation, and volunteering.
Yu She, School of Industrial Engineering
Google Research Scholar Award
For the project, "Visuo-tactile Enhanced Perception for Robotic Cable Installation."
Kumares Sinha, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Editor's Choice, American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Transportation Engineering
For the article, "Reflections on the History of the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering."
Luis Solorio, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Early Career Award, METAvivor Research Program
For a novel platform to measure global metabolic activity in breast cancer cells.
John Sullivan, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
J. Leland Atwood Award, American Society for Engineering Education and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Honors an outstanding aerospace engineering educator in recognition of their contributions to the profession.
John W. Sutherland, Enviornmental and Ecological Engineering
Frederick George Pohland Medal, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
For outstanding efforts to bridge environmental engineering research, education, and practice.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
For award-winning teaching and research and ground-breaking work to establish the field of sustainable manufacturing.
Hong Tan, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Best Demo Award, 2nd Place, EuroHaptics 2022 Conference
For the demo titled, “Emergence Gallery: Virtual Walking.”
Satish Ukkusuri, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Best Paper, Neural Information Processing Systems
For the paper, "On the Approximation of Cooperative Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning using Mean Field Control."
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems
For his extensive knowledge design, analysis, and control of autonomous transportation systems.
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
For leadership and research in the area of transportation networks.
Amit Varma, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Alfred Noble Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers
For the paper "High Strength Rectangular CFT Members: Database, Modeling, and Design of Short Columns."
T.N. Vijaykumar, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
For contributions to academia and research.
Pavlos Vlachos, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
For contributions to tools for non-invasive flow diagnostics, particle image velocimetry and uncertainty quantitation for biofluid mechanics for non-invasive diagnostics.
Juan Wachs, School of Industrial Engineering
RJS/Kros Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
For the paper, "SACHETS: Semi-Autonomous Cognitive Hybrid Emergency Teleoperated Suction."
Human Factors Prize, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
For the paper, "An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Real-time Workload Measurement."
Linda Wang, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
For a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
Phil Wankat, School of Engineering Education & Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Engineering Education
For sustained contributions to education in the fields of engineering and/or engineering technology.
Wenzhuo Wu, School of Industrial Engineering
Young Leaders Professional Development Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society
Hall of Fame, Advanced Materials Technologies
For the paper, "2D Materials for Wearable Energy Harvesting."
Invited Participant, China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
David Yu, Lyles School of Civil Engineering
NSF CAREER Award
For the project, "Evolution of Collective Disaster Memory: A Dynamic Behavioral and Systems Analysis toward Community Resilience."
Denny Yu, School of Industrial Engineering
RJS/Kros Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
For the paper, "SACHETS: Semi-Autonomous Cognitive Hybrid Emergency Teleoperated Suction."
Human Factors Prize, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
For the paper, "An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Real-time Workload Measurement."
Work Systems Teaching Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
For leveraging the integration of work systems and ergonomics to provide students “real world” experiences.
Kejie Zhao, School of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
For contributions to understanding of the mechanics of materials undergoing electrochemical reactions.