National Recognition - 2023
Steven Cramer, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for scientific and technological advances leading to new chromatographic materials, processes, and predictive tools for the purification of biopharmaceuticals.
Fudong Han, Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Jennifer Pazour, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, invited speaker for National Academies of Engineering (NAE) German American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in the Supply Chain Resiliency session.
Society Awards
Michael Amitay, James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering, Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC) Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAS) for “outstanding contributions in the profession of aeronautics”.
Joe H. Chow, NAE, Institute Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award, for outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution “for contributions to the modeling and control of large-scale power transmission systems.”
T. Paul Chow, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society 2023 Aron Kressel Award "for demonstrating the world's first GaN based, monolithically integrated LED/MOSFET devices for use in lighting, displays and communication systems."
David Corr, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for “innovative and transformative contributions to the study of skeletal muscle mechanics, musculoskeletal soft tissue engineering, and laser-based biofabrication”.
Azita Hirsa, Lecturer, Industrial and Systems Engineering, elected American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Ethics Chair.
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau ’71 Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the June Wispelwey Award from the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) for his work on the development of recombinant methods for the production of animal-free animal natural products.
Emily Liu, Professor and Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, elected annual Survey Committee Member, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Council of Industrial and Academic Department Heads (CIEADH).
Jian Shi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award.
Yinan Wang, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, elected Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Board Director, received the IISE DAIC Mobil App Competition Award, received IISE Transactions Best Paper Award for Design and Manufacturing Focus and for Data Science, Quality, and Reliability, and received the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Society Editorials
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau ’71 Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, appointed Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Synthetic Biology.
Selected Distinctions (School, department, other university awards, society honors not included in awards/fellow/officer)
Steven Cramer, NAE, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor, won Biotechnology and Bioengineering's 2023 Gaden Award for work in development of a platform process for the production and purification of single-domain antibodies.
Jonathan S. Dordick, NAE, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, named Vice President for Strategic Alliances and Translation.
Robert Hull, Henry S. Burlage Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Director, Center of Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems (CMDIS), named Vice President for Research at Rensselaer.
Jian Shi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship for “Understanding and Engineering Two-Level Systems in Superconducting Transmon Qubits”. (this news is embargoed until October 15th)
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, awarded the 2023 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Distinguished Faculty Summer Fellowship at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC.
National Recognition – 2022
Georges Belfort, NAE, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished fundamental contributions to the field of separation science and engineering, particularly for bioseparations and water purification with membranes, and for surface modification of polymeric membranes.
Nikhil Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished fundamental contributions to the field of separation science and engineering, particularly for bioseparations and water purification with membranes, and for surface modification of polymeric membranes.
Yinan Wang, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was selected Panel Fellow in the 2023 cohort of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of CMMI Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA).
Society Awards
Elizabeth Blaber, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected president of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) for the year 2023.
Joe H. Chow, NAE, Institute Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineer Educator award "for contributions to mentorship and education on power system stability and control."
Jonathan Dordick, NAE, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the 2022 James E. Bailey Award in Biological Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Farhan Gandhi, Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair in Engineering and Director, Center for Mobility with Vertical Lift (MOVE), Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society 2022.
Juergen Hahn, Department Head and Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and elected Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Council of Chairs.
Mariah Hahn, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
Jason E. Hicken, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Liping Huang, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was named 2022 Alfred R. Cooper Distinguished Lecturer and delivered the lecture at the Glass and Optical Materials Division Alfred R. Cooper Award Session at the Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) Technical meeting in October.
Nikhil A. Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the 2022 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award for pioneering contributions in X-ray and optical molecular tomography, including their coupling for biomedical applications.
Helen Zha, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected to chair the Biomaterials program area of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) in 2023.
Society Editorials
Ali Tajer, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Center Editorial Board.
Selected Distinctions
Tianyi Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a Fall 2021 Amazon Research Award in the applied machine learning category for "Automating Decentralized Machine Learning via Bilevel Optimization."
Edwin Fohtung, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was awarded an International Excellence Fellowship from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany to allow collaboration in the field of x-ray physics at Synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) with KIT researchers.
Fudong Han, Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the 2022 Electrodeposition Division Early Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
Azita Hirsa, Lecturer, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was elected as the Program Chair of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Ethics Division, August 2022.
Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Deputy Session Chair of the Health and Usage Management Systems (HUMS) Committee of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS).
Nikhil A. Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was named in the Top 1% (by citations) in the Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate Analytics.
Jennifer Pazour, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was awarded an International Excellence Fellowship from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid-State Electronics, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed 2022 Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow, US Naval Research Laboratory.
Minoru Tomozawa, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2022 Mott Award presented by the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (JNCS) from Elsevier. This award distinguishes senior scientists based on their continuing relevant contributions to the science of non-crystalline solids over many years.
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was selected by the Sigma Xi’s Board of Directors to receive the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, and has received recognition as one of the top 1,000 scientists in the field of computer science by Research.com based upon various publication metrics. Ge ranked #459 in the world and #270 in the US based upon their metric.
Yinan Wang, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, received an Early Career Grant Award from American Society for Quality (ASQ); a Computers & Information in Engineering (CIE) Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) Best Track Paper from Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE); and the Robert J. Lyman Award from Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI).
Pingkun Yan, Yamada Corporation Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected as the Vice Chair of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing.
National Recognition – 2020-2021
Tianyi Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Mamadou Diagne, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Jonathan Dordick, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his "contributions to methods for rapidly screening drug efficacy and toxicity, and biocatalytic technologies for improving human health."
Sean X. He, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Shankar Narayanan, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and selected for a NASA Early Career Faculty (ECF) Award.
Sufei Shi, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Patrick Underhill, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected to the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Board on International Scientific Organizations of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Pingkun Yan, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and elected senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
R. Helen Zha, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Society Awards – 2020-2021
Tianyi Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was awarded the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
David Corr, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Yaron Danon, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Gaerttner Electron Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center, was elected Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
Suvranu De, J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor and Head, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM), was elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Daniel Gall, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), received the 2021 Bill Sproul Award and Honorary International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) Lectureship Award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS).
Farhan Gandhi, Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. '44 Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Ryan Gilbert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Juergen Hahn, Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Liping Huang, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
Pawel Keblinski, Professor and Head, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of Materials Research Society (MRS).
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Professor of Solid State Electronics, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and appointed Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2022-2024.
Jian Sun, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected to the Advisory Committee (AdCom) of the Institute of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Electronics Society and Vice-President of Conferences.
Ravishankar Sundararaman, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) Robert Lansing Hardy Award.
Patrick Underhill, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected as American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) representative on the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM).
Deepak Vashishth, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Director, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), was elected Fellow of the American Bone and Mineral Society and Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
Leo Wan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was named Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA).
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the 2021 Institute of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Academic Career Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions on cone-beam tomography, interior tomography, and deep learning-based tomographic imaging."
Birsen Yazici, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and appointed to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Computational Imaging.
Lucy Zhang, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Tong Zhang, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Society Editorials – 2020-2021
Juergen Hahn, Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Process Control.
Jian Shi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Applied Physics.
Birsen Yazici, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
Selected Distinctions – 2020-2021
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was granted an honorary degree from University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Joe H. Chow, NAE, Institute Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a 2020 R&D 100 Award with other team members as R&D pioneers with revolutionary ideas in science and technology.
Ryan Gilbert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bioengineering of Neuroscience, Vision and Low Vision Technologies Study Section.
Juergen Hahn, Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the Autism Research Institute (ARI) Scientific Advisory Board.
Jose Holguin-Veras, William H. Hart Chair Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE), received a 2021 Humanitarian Logistics Award in the category of Research and Academic Contribution from the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN).
National Recognition - 2019
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on a Research Agenda for a New Era in Separation Science.
Kristen Mills, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Kristen Mills, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Neurofibromatosis Research Programs (NFRP) New Investigator Award.
Michael Shur, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the 2019 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
Meng Wang, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for "Cyber-resilient High-dimensional Data Analytics with Analytical Guarantees."
Society Awards - 2019
Michael Amitay, James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering, Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC), Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Suvranu De, J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine, received the 2019 U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) J. Tinsley Oden Medal.
Xavier Intes, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Sandipan Mishra, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Dynamic Systems and Control Division 2019 Outstanding Young Investigator Award.
Shankar Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund’s Doctoral New Investigator Award.
Sergio Pequito, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was elected a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Johnson Samuel, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Manufacturing Engineering Division's 2019 Outstanding Service Award.
Jian Shi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2019 American Society for Metals (ASM) Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award for significant contributions in the fields of education, research, or manufacturing.
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electron Devices Society (EDS) Ebers Award for pioneering the concept of ballistic transport in nanoscale semiconductor devices.
Minoru Tomozawa, Professor, Materials Science, was elected a Distinguished Life Member of American Ceramic Society.
Luigi Vanfretti, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Member of the Modelica Association (MA) for his contributions in the evangelization and adoption of the Modelica language in power systems.
Thomas Zimmie, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for "influencing generations of students as RPI's ASCE Student Chapter Advisor for 39 years, and his ability to mesh his consulting experience with academic research, making his teaching especially relevant to his students."
Society Editorials - 2019
Deva Chan, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the Skalak Best Paper Award from the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering for "Statistical characterization of human brain deformation during mild angular acceleration measured in vivo by tagged magnetic resonance imaging."
Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Editor for the Structural Health Monitoring – An International Journal.
Selected Distinctions - 2019
John Christian, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Group Achievement Award as a member Orion Optical Navigation Team.
Jonathan Dordick, Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded the 2019 Amgen Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Award for research excellence and leadership.
Daniel Gall, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received a 2019 IBM Faculty Award for research in post-Cu metallization.
Farhan Gandhi, Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, delivered the Adaptive Structures Lecture at the 2019 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Science and Technology (SciTech) Forum and the plenary lecture at the 9th European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART2019).
José Holguín-Veras, W. H. Hart Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was appointed as Honorary Professor at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia, at the Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú, and at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Liping Huang, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed a Fellow for Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering, and Science (ELATES) at Drexel University.
Wei Ji, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral-level) in recognition of excellence and creativity in teaching of graduate students at Rensselaer.
Nikhil Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the 2019 IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award and was included in the Clarivate Analytics 2018 Highly Cited Researchers List (top 1% by citations).
Joel Plawsky, Department Head and Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, served as Chair of the 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Micro and nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer.
Catalin Picu, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania.
Minoru Tomozawa, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was selected to present the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) 2019 Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture.
National Recognition - 2018
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial Systems and Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Meng Wang, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from Army Research Office (ARO).
Society Awards - 2018
Tarek Abdoun, '94G, '97Ph.D., Judith and Thomas Iovino '73 Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for contributions to geotechnical engineering.
John Christian, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Steven Cramer, William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Ricardo Dobry, NAE, Institute Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for contributions to geotechnical engineering.
Daniel Gall, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS).
Farhan Gandhi, Rosiland Redfern Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Faculty Advisor Award for Outstanding Education and Literary Excellence in Aero.
Pawel Keblinski, Department Head and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission.
Edmund Palermo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Polymers Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigator from the Award American Chemical Society (ACS).
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), received the 2018 Logistics and Supply Chain Division Teaching Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Ganpati Ramanath, John Tod Horton '52 Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of Materials Research Society (MRS)
Richard Siegel, Robert W. Hunt Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Jian Sun, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Power Electronics Society (PELS) R. David Middlebrooks Achievement Award.
Michael Symans, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was re-elected National Vice President of Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society.
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected a member of IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods, and also of IEEE Signal Processing for Communications.
Xiaokun (Cara) Wang, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was selected by Society of Women Engineers as the Academia delegate at Future Engineering and Global Women's Leadership Symposium.
Xie George Xu, Edward E. Hood, Jr. Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the Health Physics Society (HPS) 2018 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award
Society Editorials - 2018
Ryan Gilbert, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, was appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cells Tissues Organs, Tissue Engineering division.
Juergen Hahn, Department Head and Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed Section Editor for Biological Systems of the journal Processes.
Fotios Kophsaftopoulos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of the international journal Structural Health Monitoring.
Sandipan Mishra, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions, Automation Science and Engineering.
Jonathan Newell '65, G'68, Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the Editorial Board IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Editor, IET Transactions on Smart Grid and Editor, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
Meng Wang, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal and Information Processing for Critical Infrastructures.
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), was appointed an Associate Editor of IISE Transactions.
Sergio Pequito, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was appointed Editor for the PLoS One.
Xiaokun (Cara) Wang, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was appointed Editor in Chief of the 18th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP) Proceeding, published through ASCE, July 2018.
Birsen Yazici, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.
Selected Distinctions - 2018
B. Wayne Bequette, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected President of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation.
T. Paul Chow, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected to the ISPSD Hall of Fame, International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, for outstanding contribution to the technical field of power semiconductors and excellent service to the conference.
T. Paul Chow, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed the Y. S. Sun Chair Professor of National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Liping Huang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering.
Xavier Intes, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Imaging Technology-B Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
Emily Liu, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was named a fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering program (ELATE) at Drexel University.
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), was selected to attend the 2018 National Academy of Engineering’s US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), was appointed Inaugural 2018 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar Recipient.
Shayla Sawyer, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the National Minority Access Mentor Role Model award from Minority Access, Incorporated.
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a 2018 US Navy Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
Xiaokun (Cara) Wang, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was elected Vice President of Chinese Overseas Transportation Association, January 2018.
Jose Holguin-Veras, William Howard Hart Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was appointed "Honorary Professor" at the Universidad del Pacífico, Peru.
National Recognition and Society Awards - 2017
Joe Chow, Institute Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Director, Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for technical contributions to modeling, analysis, and control of large-scale power grids.
Li Emily Liu, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded the Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
Edmund Palermo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Chaitanya Ullal, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Tarek Abdoun, Judith and Thomas Iovino '73 Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for contributions to geotechnical engineering.
Suvranu De, J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor; Department Head and Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine (CEMSIM), was elected Fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM).
Ricardo Dobry, NAE, Institute Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for contributions to geotechnical engineering.
Juergen Hahn, Department Head and Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Society Board of Governors.
Michael O’Rourke, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA) 2017 James M. Delahay Award for his career contributions to snow load code development.
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrials Systems and Engineering, was awarded the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career in Academia Award.
Ganpati Ramanath, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Zvi Rusak, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts ‘48 Chaired Professor in Solid State Electronics; Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
John Tichy, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Tribology Division Don Wilcock Service Award.
Professional Society Journal Editorial Appointments – 2017
Alhussein Abouzeid, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau '71 Career Development Constellation Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, joined the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Genes, Scientific Reports, Biotechnology Journal, and Biochemical Engineering Journal.
Matt Oehlschlaeger, Associate Dean and Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications.
Johnson Samuel, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.
Johnson Samuel, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) Journal of Manufacturing Processes.
Thomas Sharkey, Associate Professor, Industrial Systems Engineering, was appointed to the editorial board of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Transactions, Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing.
Patrick Underhill, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was appointed Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Complex Fluid Rheology for the journal Polymers.
Special External Recognition – 2017
Kenneth Connor, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Innovative Program Award.
Jonathan Dordick, Vice President for Research, Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, delivered the Robert Pigford Memorial Lecture at the University of Delaware.
Cheng Hsu, Industrial and Systems Engineering, served on the 2016 Technology Peer Review Committee of the Institute of International Education Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Fulbright Specialists Program.
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau '71 Career Development Constellation Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was appointed Distinguished Professor and Distinguished International Supervisor at the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Edmund Palermo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was selected for a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (3M NTFA) for "Self-Immolative Polymers as Anti-fouling Coatings."
Michael Symans, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was elected National Vice President of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society.
Daniel Walczyk, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the Burt Swersey Higher Education Award from the Albany Business Review.
Birsen Yazici served on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods.
National Recognition and Society Awards - 2016
Jason Hicken, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Jie Lian, Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received The Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
B. Wayne Bequette, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was named a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Steven Cramer, William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received a 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) award in Separations Science and Technology.
Suvranu De, J. Erik Jonsson ‘22 Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine (CEMSIM); Department Head and Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), and received the 2016 International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) Fellows Award.
Ricardo Dobry, NAE, Institute Professor of Engineering; Director, Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES); Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) H. Bolton Seed Medal.
Jonathan Dordick, Vice President for Research; Howard P. Isermann '42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Co-Director, Heparin Applied Research Center, received the 2015 Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award in Chemical Engineering from The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Mariah Hahn, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).
Liping Huang, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, was appointed Secretary of the American Ceramics Society Glass & Optical Materials Division Executive Committee.
Xavier Intes, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau '71 Career Development Constellation Professor in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).
Nikhil Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair of Engineering; Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Assad Oberai, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs; Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medican and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).
Linda Schadler, Vice Provost and Dean for Administration and Undergraduate Education; Russell Sage Professor of Engineering; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).
Thomas Sharkey, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, received the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Operations Research (OR) Division Teaching Award for 2016.
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Chaired Professor in Solid State Electronics; Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the 2016 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Electronics and Photonics Division Award.
John T. Wen, Department Head and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the 2015 IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award.
Professional Society Journal Editorial Appointments – 2016
Anak Agung Julius, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (Elsevier, Impact Factor).
Pawel Keblinski, Department Head and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics.
Mattheos Koffas, Dorothy and Fred Chau '71 Career Development Constellation Professor in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was appointed Editor of Biotechnology Advances and to the Editorial Board of Metabolic Engineering.
Leila Parsa, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Editor of IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion.
Richard Radke, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed one of the inaugural Senior Area Editors for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing magazine.
Special External Recognition – 2016
Tarek Abdoun, Judith and Thomas Iovino '73 Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the School of Engineering 2016 Education Innovation Award and, as part of a team from SMU, received the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Bronze Award.
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor of Science, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the 2015 Chemical and Biological Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award.
B. Wayne Bequette, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected Vice President of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation.
Cynthia Collins, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was selected as a World Economic Forum "Young Scientist."
Prabhat Hajela, Provost, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was named to the Hall of Distinguished Alumni at Iowa State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering.
Christopher Letchford, Department Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, delivered the Institution of Civil Engineers Scruton Lecture, "The Evolution of Wind Engineering" in London, UK.
Daniel Lewis, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Erskine Fellowship (Summer 2017), a teaching fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Edmund F. Palermo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was selected for a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (3M NTFA) for "Bioresponsive Polymers as Anti-fouling Coatings."
Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was awarded a 2016 Early-Career Research Fellowship by Gulf Research Program
Zvi Rusak, Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was named Chair, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 8th Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference.
Johnson Samuel, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the School of Engineering 2016 Research Excellence Award, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, from University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, and was selected as a World Economic Forum "Young Scientist."
Michael Shur, Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Chaired Professor in Solid State Electronics; Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was selected as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors council for 2016-2018; was re-appointed as the Corresponding Member to the IEEE Intellectual Property Committee; and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the University of Vilnius.
Michael Symans, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Northeast District Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award.
Peter Tessier, Richard Baruch M.D. Career Development Professor; Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the 2016 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award. (Editors of the Biochemical Engineering Journal, in cooperation with the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Sciences).
National Recognition and Professional Society Awards, 2015
Jason Hicken, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received an AIr Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award for "Optimization of Complex Systems using Imperfect Data from Large-scale Simulations."
Sangwoo Lee, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded the Cozzarella Prize in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was selected Chair of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AICHE) Society for Biological Engineering (SBE). Read story.
Ying Chen, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award, from the American Metals Society (ASM) Eastern NY chapter.
Guohao Dai, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2015 Rising Star Award.
Jonathan Dordick, Vice President, Research, Howard P. Isermann Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Robert Linhardt, the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr. '59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering at Rensselaer, were named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Jonathan Dordick, Vice President, Research, Howard P. Isermann Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the 2015 Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Award in Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE). Read story.
Shekhar Garde, Dean of Engineering, Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Juergen Hahn, Professor and Department Head, Biomedical Engineering, was elected Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE).
Qiang Ji, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Pawel Keblinski, Professor and Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Nikhil Koratkar, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded the 2015 Gustas L. Larson Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Eric Ledet, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the 2015 ISSLS Prize from the International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine and the journal SPINE.
Chris Letchford, Professor and Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was elected President of the American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE).
Assad Oberai, Associate Dean for Engineering Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM).
Joel L. Plawsky, Professor and Department Head, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Matt Oehlschlaeger, Associate Dean for Engineering Academic Affairs, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Zvi Rusak, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Richard Siegel, Robert W. Hunt Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Read story.
Jian Sun, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
Peter Tessier, Richard Baruch M.D. Career Development Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the 2015 Young Investigator Award for the Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
John Tichy, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was awarded the American Societ of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2014 Mayo D. Hershey Award.
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Xie George Xu, Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Faculty Chair, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Center for Engineering-based Patient Modeling (CEPM), was awarded the 2015 Randall S. Caswell Award by the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS). Read story.
Professional Society Journal Editorial Appointments, 2015
Juergen Hahn, Professor and Department Head, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor of Processes.
W. Randolph Franklin, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems.
Mattheos Koffas, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was named Associate Editor for Metabolic Engineering Communications.
Uwe Kruger, Professor of Practice, Biomedical Engineering, was named Associate Editor of Control Engineering Practice.
Assad A. Oberai, Associate Dean for Engineering Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was named Academic Editor for Plos One.
Richard Radke, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed as one of the inaugural class of Senior Area Editors for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Onkar Sahni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, appointed to the editorial board of Engineering with Computers.
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was named Guest Editor-in-Chief: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid - Special Issue on Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations.
Daniel Walczyk '91G, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Director, Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS), was appointed Associate Editor of Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.
John Wen ’85 Ph.D., Professor and Department Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was appointed Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Special External Recognition, 2015
B. Wayne Bequette, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, served as Meeting Program Chair for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, November, 2014.
Shekhar Garde, Dean of Engineering, Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award (Academics) from the University Department of Chemical Technology Alumni Association and the Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai, India).
Prabhat Hajela, Provost and Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was re-appointed Chair of National Academies Information Sciences Panel for the Army Research Labs; re-appointed Member of the National Academies Army Research Labs Technical Assessment Board; and appointed to the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group.
Jason Hicken, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the Howard Rosenbrock Prize for the best paper published in Optimization and Engineering.
Amir H. Hirsa, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the School of Engineering Classroom Excellence Award.
Jose E. Holguin-Veras, William Howard Hart Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of the Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Texas, Austin.
Liping Huang, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of two inaugural Gordon S. Fulcher Distinguished Scholars by Corning Glass Research and Development.
Joel L. Plawsky, Professor and Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering, received NASA's "Compelling Results" Award and received the School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (Senior Faculty).
Yunfeng Shi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of two inaugural Gordon S. Fulcher Distinguished Scholars by Corning Glass Research and Development.
Minoru Tomozawa, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Samuel R. Scholes Memorial Lecture Award at Alfred University, College of Ceramics and Inamorim School of Engineering.
Jie Lian, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was selected a Tan Chin Tuan Foundation Exchange Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Peter C. Wayner, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received NASA's "Compelling Results" Award.
National Recognition and Professional Society Awards, 2014
Ying Chen, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Guohao Dai, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Johnson Samuel, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Onkar Sahni, Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Qun (Leo) Wan, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the National Institute of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator (DP2) Award.
Joe Chow, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Power and Energy Society Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award for outstanding Power System Engineering contributions, the first academic recipient of the award.
Jose E. Holguin-Veras, William Howard Hart Professor, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology awarded by the North American Membrane Society. Read story.
Wayne Bequette, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE). Read story.
Shekhar Garde, Jack S. and Elaine S. Parker Professor and Dean of Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE). Read story.
Michael Podowski, Professor, Mechanical Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Arthur Holly Compton Award for outstanding contributions to education in nuclear science and engineering. Read story.
Xie (George) Xu, Edward E. Hood Jr. Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, was elected Fellow of the Health Physics Society.
Lucy Zhang, Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship.
Ricardo Dobry, Institute Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology Shamsher Prakash (ISET-SP) Award for Significant Achievements in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.
Ravindra Kane, P. K. Lashmet Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Read story.
Professional Society Journal Editorial Appointments, 2014
Ryan Gilbert, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed associate editor of Cells, Tissue, Organs for Neurosciences.
Ge Wang, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the Board of Associate Editors (BAE) of Medical Physics.
Deepak Vashishth, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed to the editorial board of PLOS ONE and as an academic editor.
Jian Sun, Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Director, Center for Future Energy Systems, was appointed a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal on Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.
Ali Tajer, Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Editor for the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Communications and Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Birsen Yazici, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed Associate Editor to Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing.
Suvranu De, Professor and Department Head, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and Director, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational Surgery.
Zvi Rusak, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was re-appointed Associate Editor, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Cynthia Collins, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected to the Editorial Advisory Board for American Chemical Society (ACS) Synthetic Biology.
Robert Hull, Henry Burlage Chaired Professor of Engineering, was appointed as Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Physics Reviews.
John Wen, Professor and Department Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was appointed Senior Editor for IEEE on Transactions Automation Science and Engineering (TASE).
Mark Embrechts, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Guest Editor, Neurocomputing, October 2014.
Special External Recognition, 2014
Richard Radke, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a 2014 School of Engineering Classroom Excellence Award and named in PRISM, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) journal, list of 20 Under 40 young and inspired faculty powered by ideas in the classroom and the lab.
Burt Swersey, Senior Lecturer, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, received the 2014 Sustainable Practice Impact Award from the Lemelson Foundation.
Peter Tessier, Richard Baruch, M.D. Career Development Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Young Scientist Award (one of 30 young scientists under the age of 40) by the World Economic Forum (Tianjin, China).
Paul Schoch, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, Tech Valley NY Regional/FIRST Robotics Competition.
Qun (Leo) Wan, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, received the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation. Read story.
Mona Hella, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, received a Fulbright Scholarship at Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research in the United Arab Emirates.
Kurt Anderson, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and Associate Dean for Engineering Undergraduate Programs, was appointed to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Technical Committee for Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics.
Farhan Gandhi, Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair in Engineering, Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, was appointed American Helicopter Society Education Committee Chair; American Helicopter Society, Technical Council Member.
Michael Shur, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, was appointed to the Administrative Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Council.
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, was appointed Chair of the Managing Board of the Society of Biological Engineers, AIChE.
Mark Embrechts, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, won the Best Paper Award in the highly selective 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2013) for "The neural support vector machine." (Co-authors are M. A. Wiering, M. H. van der Ree, M. J. Embrechts, M. F. Stollenga, A. Meijster, A. Nolte, and L. R. B. Schomaker.)
