2023 Award Winners

Early Career Faculty Category

Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering 

Elizabeth Elacqua, assistant professor of chemistry 

Non-Tenure Faculty and Research Staff category  

Seng Huat Lee, assistant research professor of bulk crystal growth 

Wenjie Li, associate research professor of materials science and engineering 

Graduate Student Category 

Sarbashis Das, graduate student in electrical engineering 

Tyus Yeingst, graduate student in biomedical engineering 

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2023 Winners


2022 Award Winners

Junior Faculty Category

Aida Ebrahimi, Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, 

Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering (courtesy)

Non-Tenure Faculty and Research Staff Category

Nichole Wonderling, X-ray scattering manager, Materials Research Institute (MRI)

Fabien Grisé, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics

Post-Doctoral Category

Lin Wang, postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering

Graduate Student Category

Akhil Dodda, engineering science and mechanics doctoral student

Kunyan Zhang, doctoral candidate in electrical engineering

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2022 Winners


2021 Award Winners

Faculty Category

Andrea Argüelles, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics

Cui-Zu Chang, assistant professor of physics

Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Graduate Student Category

Elena Vazquez, doctoral candidate in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computation

Yihuang Xiong, graduate research assistant in materials science and engineering

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2021 Winners