Celebrating Duke Engineering Awards for Spring 2024
Duke Engineering faculty and students garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions to start off the year
Faculty Awards
- Ken Brown co-led the Computing Community Consortium’s five-year update to the Next Steps in Quantum Computing Workshop Report.
- Pranam Chatterjee received a $50,000 donation from the foundation EndAxD to work toward a cure for Alexander Disease.
- Yiran Chen was named the inaugural editor-in-chief of the new Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence.
- Yiran Chen was appointed a Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2024 – 2026.
- Yiran Chen won a “Test of Time” award for laying the foundations of neuromorphic computing.
- Yiran Chen was elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
- Joel Collier received a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials for his contributions to research and scientific literature.
- Leslie Collins was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.
- Shaundra B. Daily was named to two influential roles within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
- Earl Dowell was awarded J.S. Rao Medal in Vibration Engineering.
- Jessilyn Dunn won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve biosignal algorithms.
- Emily Edwards was appointed as a committee member within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
- Liang Feng received an award from the Scialog Negative Emission Science (NES) Program.
- Aaron Franklin was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.
- Kenneth Hall won the 2024 R. Tom Sawyer Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- A-Andrew Jones won the SSMN Early Career Alumnus Award from the Social Science Research Council and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network.
- Jungsang Kim was elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
- Natalia Litchinitser was named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and named to the Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences (CAMOS).
- Jerome Lynch won the George W. Housner Structural Control & Monitoring Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
- Amanda Randles won the ACM Prize in Computing.
- Amanda Randles was named a Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Ann Saterbak won the Biomedical Engineering Lifetime Faculty Mentor Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Engineering Division
- Tatiana Segura received a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials for her contributions to research and scientific literature.
- Emily Wenger was selected for the 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 list.
- Blake Wilson was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
- Blake Wilson won the 2024 IEEE Medal for Innovation in Healthcare Technology.
Graduate Student Awards
- Fakrul Islam Tushar (PhD, ECE) won the best poster presentation award at the VITM24: 1st International Summit on In-Silico Virtual Trials and Digital Twins in Medicine.
- Zehao Wang (PhD, ECE) authored a paper that was selected as the top-scored paper within its subcommittee at this year’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC).
Undergraduate Awards
- Juliet Jiang, a rising senior double majoring in mathematics and biomedical engineering won a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Staff Awards
- Nicole “Nikki” Pelot received the 2024 Rising Star Early Career Award from the North American Neuromodulation Society.