External Recognition Recipients of 2023 (July 1, 2022 - Sept 1, 2023)


Rakesh Agrawal, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

James Y. Oldshue Lecture Award, 11th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dionysios Aliprantis, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st Place Best Contribution Award, IEEE Wireless Power Technologies Conference and Expo

Jan Allebach, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

Arezoo Ardekani, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, American Physical Society


Outstanding Referee, Physical Review Journals

Andres Arrieta, School of Mechanical Engineering

Best Paper Award, Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


SMASIS Division Best Paper Award in Mechanics and Material Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers


1st Place, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems

Santokh Badesha, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mountbatten Medal, Institution of Engineering and Technology


Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology

Saurabh Bagchi, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Test-of-Time Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance

Xiaoping Bao, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Rising Star Junior Faculty Award, Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Conference, Biomedical Engineering Society


Junior Investigator Research Award, Advanced Biomanufacturing Meeting, Biomedical Engineering Society


Young Investigator Award, Cells Tissues Organs


Stephen I. Katz Early-Stage Investigator R01 Award (Changed to Merit R37), National Institutes of Health

Riley Barta, School of Mechanical Engineering

Young Scientists Award, DVK Conference

Sunil A. Bhave, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2023 Walter G. Cady Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Alexandra Boltasseva, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

R.W. Wood Prize, Optica


Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

Charles Bouman, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Truth CT Reconstruction Grand Challenge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Christopher Brinton, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rising Star Faculty Award, Intel


Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency


US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

Aaron Brovont, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st Place Best Contribution Award, IEEE Wireless Power Technologies Conference and Expo

Darcy Bullock, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award, Institute of Transportation Engineers

Hubo Cai, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering and Management

Alfred Noble Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers

Barrett Caldwell, School of Industrial Engineering, & School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Outstanding Faculty Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Luciano Castillo, School of Mechanical Engineering

Distinguished Career Alumni Award, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo

Stanley Chan, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society


Global Outreach Award, Samsung

Somali Chaterji, School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

2023 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering


Sigmetrics Best Paper Award, Association for Computing Machinery SIGMETRICS

Gary Cheng, School of Industrial Engineering

Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers


Fellow, International Society of Nanomanufacturing


Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers


Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry


Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

Mung Chiang, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Leadership in Science and Technology Award, National Engineers Week

Jong Hyun Choi, School of Mechanical Engineering

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Robert Connor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Lifetime Achievement Award, American Institute of Steel Construction

Melba Crawford, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Department of Agronomy

Mildred Dresselhaus Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Ran Dai, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Patricia Davies, School of Mechanical Engineering

INCE-USA Outstanding Educator Award, Institute of Noise Control Engineering

Daniel DeLaurentis, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Letian Dou, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Owens Corning Early Career Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers


Rising Star in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Award, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology


Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

Brad Duerstock, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & School of Industrial Engineering

Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Behzad Esmaeili, School of Industrial Engineering & Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Runner-Up, Best Paper Award, International Journal of Construction Education and Research

R. Edwin Garcia, School of Materials Engineering

Fellow, American Ceramics Society

James Garrison, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Konstantina Gkritza, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, & School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers

Craig Goergen, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Fellow, American Heart Association


Emerging Leader Award, Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering

Hector Gomez, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics

Marcial Gonzalez, School of Mechanical Engineering

EU-US Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

Rajamani Gounder, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

2023 Rutherford Aris Award, International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering

Yan Gu, School of Mechanical Engineering

Young Investigator Award, Office of Navel Research

Carol Handwerker, School of Materials Engineering & Environmental & Ecological Engineering

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science


Fellow, International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative

Sogand Hasanzadeh, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering and Management

Runner-Up, Best Paper Award, International Journal of Construction Education and Research

Makarand Hastak, Construction Engineering and Management

Member, National Academy of Construction

Veeraraghava Raju Hasti, School of Mechanical Engineering

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics


Participant, German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering/Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Justin Hess, School of Engineering Education

Best Formal Paper by an Early Career Scholar, The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Kathleen C. Howell, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

2022 von Kármán Lectureship Award in Astronautics, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Y. Charlie Hu, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Test-of-Time Award, EuroSys


Best Community Paper Award, Association for Computing Machinery MobiCom

Chad Jafvert, Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Fellow, Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors

Neera Jain, School of Mechanical Engineering

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


Invited Participant, EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering


Outstanding Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Krishna Jayant, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

New Innovator Award (DP2), National Institutes of Health

Dan Jiao, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computational Electromagnetics Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society

David Johnson, School of Industrial Engineering & Department of Political Science

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Nicole Key, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering & Science (ELATES) Program, Drexel University

Reem Khir, School of Industrial Engineering

Best Application Paper, IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Supply Chain and Logistics, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Alexander Kildishev, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Most Fundable Companies List, Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School

Murat Kocaoglu, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Nan Kong, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

2022 Best Application Paper, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Transactions on Operations Engineering and Analytics


Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference & Expo

Milind Kulkarni, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery

Arun Kumar Mannodi Kanakkithodi, School of Materials Engineering

2023 TMS Young Leader, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society


Finalist, 4th Rising Stars in Computational Materials Science 2023, Computational Materials Science

Tongcang Li, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Experimental Physics Investigator, 2023 Cohort, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Tian Li, School of Mechanical Engineering

Packard Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Jacqueline Linnes, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering & Science (ELATES) Program, Drexel University


Most Fundable Companies List, Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School

Julie Liu, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mentorship Excellence Award in Academia, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

David Love, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Yung-Hsiang Lu, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Visitor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society

Luna Lu, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering & Science (ELATES) Program, Drexel University


Alfred Noble Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers


Next Big Thing in Tech Award (2022), Fast Company

Aravind Machiry, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Paper Award, Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

Nina Mahmoudian, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program

Joseph Makin, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Scholar Program/Networking, Google

Ajay Malshe, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Amy Marconnet, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Monique McClain, School of Mechanical Engineering

Innovators Under 35 Global List, MIT Technology Review


Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Terrence Meyer, School of Mechanical Engineering

Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Innovation Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

William Oakes, School of Engineering Education

Outstanding Experiential Education Program Award, Society for Experiential Education

Philip Paré, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Kinam Park, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy

Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

Steven Pekarek, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

1st Place Best Contribution Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Wireless Power Technologies Conference and Expo

Brandon R. Pitts, School of Industrial Engineering

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation


US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

Vilas Pol, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

The Lowest Temperature to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery, Guinness Book of World Records


2022 Special Mention, Carbon Journal Prize

Ming Qu, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program

Arvind Raman, School of Mechanical Engineering

Belonging Excellence and Transformative Research Leadership Award, Inaugural Recipient, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Amy Reibman, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Fabio H. Ribeiro, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Award for Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis, Catalysis Science and Technology Division, American Chemical Society


Science and Technology Prize, Brazilian Embassy


Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

J. Paul Robinson, Department of Basic Medical Sciences & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Honorary Fellow, Royal Microscopical Society


Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Tim Rogers, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Selected Paper, 50th Anniversary Retrospective, International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Thomas Roth, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Young Scientist Award, URSI EMTS 2023


First Prize - URSI Young Scientist Best Paper Award, URSI EMTS 2023

Kaushik Roy, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Innovation Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation


Honorary Doctorate, Aarhus University

Xiulin Ruan, School of Mechanical Engineering

Brillouin Medal, Phononics 2023


2023 Innovation Award, South by Southwest Conference and Festival

Rodrigo Salgado, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Richard R. Torrens Award, American Society of Civil Engineers

Dharmendra Saraswat, School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program

Gesualdo Scutari, School of Industrial Engineering

Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Fabio Semperlotti, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Shreyas Sen, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices, MistyWest


GT 40 Under 40, Georgia Technical Institute

Vladimir Shalaev, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

Alexey Shashurin, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Greg Shaver, School of Mechanical Engineering

Appreciation Award, SAE International

Vishal Shrivastav, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation


Research Scholar Program, Google

Kumares Sinha, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

2023 Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award, American Society of Civil Engineers


Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture, Lehigh University

Seetharaman Sivaranjani, School of Industrial Engineering

Innovators Under 35 Global List, MIT Technology Review

Carson Slabaugh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Mikhail Slipchenko, School of Mechanical Engineering

Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Innovation Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ganesh Subbarayan, School of Mechanical Engineering

2022 Technical Excellence Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation

John P. Sullivan, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

J. Leland Atwood Award, American Society for Engineering Education & American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

John W. Sutherland, Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Frederick George Pohland Medal, Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors


Member, National Academy of Engineering

Tyler Tallman, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation


Young Investigators Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Rodney Trice, School of Materials Engineering

Volunteer Spotlight, American Ceramics Society

Satish Ukkusuri, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers

Andrea Vacca, School of Mechanical Engineering & Agricultural and Biological Engineering

GFPS Best Paper Award, ASME/BATH 2022 Symposium on Fluid Power & Motion Control

Amit Varma, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, American Society of Civil Engineers

Pavlos Vlachos, School of Mechanical Engineering

Outstanding Paper Award, Measurement Science and Technology


Fellow, American Heart Association

Xiaoqian Joy Wang, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference


CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Andrew M. Weiner, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Charles Hard Townes Medal, Optica

Steven Wereley, School of Mechanical Engineering

Most Fundable Companies List, Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School

Wenzhuo Wu, School of Industrial Engineering

Young Investigator Award, Sensors


Young Scientist Award, Microsystems & Nanoengineering


The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Emerging Leader, Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference


Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry


Fellow, Royal Society of Arts


US-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium Participant, National Academies

Yuehwern Yih, School of Industrial Engineering

Leo Award, CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Denny Yu, School of Industrial Engineering

Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program


Best Track Paper, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Pablo Zavattieri, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Song Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Fu Zhao, School of Mechanical Engineering & Environmental & Ecological Engineering

Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Davide Ziviani, School of Mechanical Engineering

Winner, Jump Into STEM Competition, Department of Energy


New Investigator Award, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers

Carla Zoltowski, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers