Awards and Honors

Christina Lee Yu, assistant professor (ORIE), has received the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award for fundamental contributions at the interface of learning, control and information theory impacting a diverse set of applications.

Rong Yang, assistant professor (CBE), has been selected to receive a 2023 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award and designation as a Hartwell Investigator. The Hartwell competition funds early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research to benefit children. Yang will be introduced at the 2024 Hartwell Annual Meeting Biomedical Research, scheduled for September 22-25 at Duke University.

David Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies (ORIE), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. He was honored for distinguished contributions to combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and the theory and applications of data science, and for leadership.

Esak (Isaac) Lee, assistant professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences (BME), has received an NSF Early CAREER Award for his project titled “Cancer-associated secondary lymphedema on-chip.”

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor (ECE), and his students received the Best Paper Award at FPGA 2024 for their work "Formal Verification of Source-to-Source Transformations for HLS." This is a joint effort with Colorado State University.

Sriramya Nair, assistant professor (CEE), received the 2024 American Concrete Institute’s Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award at the ACI Concrete Convention held in late March in New Orleans. Nair was honored for her work at the forefront of concrete education, where her inclusion of innovative topics and technology allows the next generation of students to engage with tools that are revolutionizing civil engineering.

Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor (CEE), had her article, “Mechanistic Insights into the Co-Recovery of Energy Critical Metals via Integrated Carbon Mineralization of Serpentinized Peridotite by Harnessing Organic Ligands,” selected as a 2024 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) HOT article.

David Bindel, professor (CS), is being inducted into the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows. Bindel is being recognized for contributions in numerical linear algebra and its innovative use in broad areas of computational science and engineering.

Zach Ulibarri, postdoc (MAE, Petro Group), was awarded  a Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The three-year postdoctoral fellowship provides recipients with resources, freedom and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational and experimental research in planetary astronomy. Ulibarri is spearheading methods of minimizing damage to delicate building blocks of life when detecting organic chemistry on icy worlds.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Nozomi Nishimura, associate professor (BME), to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top two percent of engineers in these fields.