Awards and Honors

Emma Pierson, assistant professor (Cornell Tech, CS), has been named an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. The fellowship encourages postdoctoral and pre-tenure researchers to pursue bold and ambitious work on hard problems in AI.

Greeshma Gadikota’s, associate professor (CEE), Carbon To Stone, Inc. is one of seven semifinalists for the development phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial Prize. The semifinalists will receive a total of $1.05 million in cash awards and technical assistance for technology solutions that reduce carbon dioxide pollution by removing it directly from the atmosphere. Carbon To Stone harnesses alkaline resources bearing high value metals for integrated direct air capture, mineralization, and co-recovery of metals and silica.

James Hwang, research professor (MSE), has received the 2023 IEEE EDS Lester F. Eastman Award. The Eastman Award recognizes individuals with outstanding achievement in high-performance semiconductor devices. Eastman ’53, M.S. ’55, Ph.D. ’57 served as a faculty member with Cornell’s School of Electrical Engineering (now the School of Electrical and Computer  Engineering) until his retirement in 2011.

Giulia Guidi, assistant professor (CS), has received the 2024 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Early Career Prize. Guidi was awarded for her pioneering works bridging high-performance computing and computational biology. The prize will be awarded at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP24) to be held in Baltimore, MD, in March.

Karan Mehta, assistant professor (ECE), recently received an NSF Early Career Development Award from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS). The award supports his research proposal, “Fast coherent and incoherent control of atomic ions in scalable platforms” for a five-year period from 2024 through 2029.

Debdeep Jena, David E. Burr Professor of Engineering  (ECE), will be elevated to IEEE Fellow effective Jan 1, 2024. Jena was elevated for his “contributions to distributed polarization doping in the III-V semiconductor family.” IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors in IEEE and is conferred to less than 0.1% of voting members of IEEE annually. 

Larry Bonassar, Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor in Biomedical Engineering (MAE, BME) , has been awarded the 2024 Marshall Urist Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society. The Marshall Urist award honors an investigator in tissue regeneration research who has a sustained ongoing body of focused research in the area of tissue regeneration as it relates to the musculoskeletal system.  Larry will receive the award at the February meeting of the ORS.

A team from the Organic Robotics Lab won $15,000 in Phase I of the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office. The team consisted of Anastasia Koivikko, visiting scholar (MAE); Khoi Ly, postdoctoral fellow (MAE); Ofek Peretz, postdoctoral fellow (MAE); Rob Shepherd, associate professor (MAE); and Maha Haji, assistant professor (MAE).

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), had his paper “From Mining to Mitigation: How Bitcoin Can Support Renewable Energy Development and Climate Action” featured on the cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Khurram Afridi, associate professor (ECE), received the First-Place Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics for his paper "High-Performance Multi-MHz Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for EV Charging Utilizing Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors."