Research Excellence Awards

Research Excellence Awards were first established in 2015 to recognize the importance of leadership in innovative research.

2022 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Peter McMahon

AEP

Assist. Professor

Francesco Monticone

ECE

Assist. Professor

Jin Suntivich

MSE

Assoc. Professor

Damek Davis

ORIE

Assoc. Professor

Grace Xing

MSE/ECE
joint appointment

Professor

Matt DeLisa

CBE

Professor

2021 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Khurram Afridi

ECE

Assoc. Professor

Joel Brock

AEP

Professor

Greeshma Gadikota

CEE

Assist. Professor

Lena Kourkoutis

AEP

Assoc. Professor

Kirstin Petersen

ECE

Assist. Professor

David Shmoys

ORIE

Professor

2020 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Iwijn De Vlaminck

BME

Assist. Professor

Christina Delimitrou

ECE

Assist. Professor

Madeleine R. Udell

ORIE

Assist. Professor

Gregory D. Fuchs

AEP

Assoc. Professor

Hadas Kress-Gazit

MAE

Assoc. Professor

Minglin Ma

BEE

Assoc. Professor

Silvia Ferrari

MAE

Professor

Christopher K. Ober

MSE

Professor

Jie Shan

AEP

Professor

2019 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Damian E. Helbling

CEE

Assist. Professor

Mert Sabuncu

ECE

Assist. Professor

Olivier Desjardins

MAE

Assoc. Professor

Peter I. Frazier

ORIE

Assoc. Professor

Jan Lammerding

BME

Assoc. Professor

Carla P. Gomes

CS

Professor

Debdeep Jena

MSE

Professor

2018 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Ludmilla Aristilde

BEE

Assist. Professor

Ankur Singh

MAE

Assist. Professor

Chris Schaffer

BME

Assoc. Professor

Fengqi You

CBE

Assoc. Professor

Patrick Reed

CEE

Professor

Natalie Mahowald

EAS

Professor

David Muller

AEP

Professor

2017 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Illana Brito

BME

Assist. Professor

Robert Shepherd

MAE

Assist. Professor

David Bindel

CS

Assoc. Professor

Susan Daniel

CBE

Assoc. Professor

Geoff Abers

EAS

Professor

Chris Xu

AEP

Professor

2016 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Christopher A. Alabi

CBE

Assist. Professor

C. Lindsay Anderson

BEE

Assist. Professor

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

BME

Assoc. Professor

Farhan Rana

ECE

Assoc. Professor

Darrell Schlom

MSE

Professor

Bart Selman

CS

Professor

2015 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank

Christopher Battan

ECE

Assist. Professor

Nate Foster

CS

Assist. Professor

Brian J. Kirby

MAE

Assoc. Professor

Richard Robinson

MSE

Assoc. Professor

Lawrence Bonassar

BME

Professor

Matthew P. DeLisa

CBE

Professor

Uli B. Wiesner

MSE

Professor