Awards and Honors

ScholarGPS has recognized 17 Cornell Engineering active or emeritus faculty as Highly Ranked Scholars - Lifetime. Highly Ranked Scholars are the most productive (number of publications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index).

Those recognized for lifetime activity are Stephen Pope, professor emeritus (MAE); Jon Kleinberg, professor (CS); Joseph Halpern, professor (CS); Deborah Estrin, professor (CS); Emmanuel Giannelis, Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering (MSE); Ari Juels, professor (CS); Wilfried Brutsaert, William L. Lewis Professor in Engineering Emeritus (CEE); Lynden Archer, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering (CBE); Dexter Kozen, professor (CS); Sidney Resnick, Lee Teng-Hui Professor in Engineering Emeritus (ORIE); Christopher Ober, Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Metallurgical Engineering (MSE); John Hopcroft, professor emeritus (CS); Chas Williamson, Willis H. Carrier Professor of Engineering Emeritus (MAE); Éva Tardos, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science (CS); Mircea Dan Grigoriu, professor (CEE); Fred Schneider, Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science (CS, Systems); Darrell Schlom, Tisch University Professor (MSE).

Additionally, Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), Bharath Hariharan, associate professor (CS), and Lynden Archer were recognized as Highly Ranked Scholars - Prior 5 Years.

Christine Shoemaker, the Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering Emerita (CEE), has received the 2023 Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences for her research developing optimization algorithms, modeling and statistical analysis to address a wide range of environmental problems. She also received the International Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences Career Prize.

Atieh Moridi, assistant professor (MAE), was awarded the 2024 Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Early Career Award. The award recognizes assistant professors for accomplishments that have advanced their academic institution and for abilities to broaden the technological profile of of the society.

Dmitry Savransky, associate professor (MAE), has been named a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Senior member status is awarded to those who have demonstrated and developed a successful professional practice in the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

Giulia Guidi, assistant professor (CS), received the 2023 Young Investigator Mario Gerla Award for Research in Computer Science from the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation. Guidi received the award at the foundation's annual conference on November 8.

The Board of Trustees elected the following professors to appointment with indefinite tenure:

• Francesco Monticone, assistant professor (ECE), was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure.
• Kirstin Petersen, assistant professor (ECE), was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure.
• Samitha Samaranayake, assistant professor (CEE), was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure.
• Jae-Sun Seo, associate professor (ECE), was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure.

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, the William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus (EAS), received the Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America, its highest honor. Kay was recognized for "eminent and impactful scientific contributions throughout her career, with breakthrough research on the fundamental tectonic processes responsible for crustal and mantle genesis along convergent margins.”

David A. Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering (AEP), has been honored with two prestigious awards for his achievements in microscopy: the 2023 John M. Cowley Medal from the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy and the 2024 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science from the American Physical Society.

Chris Casler-Gonçalves, assistant director (DPE), was named 2023 American Indian Science and Engineering Society Region 6 (Northeast) Chapter Advisor of the Year.

Carolina Muñoz‐Saez, incoming assistant professor (EAS), was awarded the Geological Society of America's Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology Division Early Geological Career Award, given to early-career individuals who have made distinguished contributions in mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, and/or volcanology, with emphasis on multidisciplinary, field-based contributions.