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Awards and Recognition
Our faculty members are recognized nationally and internationally for their professional excellence
2020-2021
National Recognition and Professional Leadership
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Cate Brinson
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors—Tony Jun Huang
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)—Christine Payne
- Fellow, Sigma Xi—Henry Petroski
- Member, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Energy/White House Office of Science & Technology Policy—Jungsang Kim and Christopher Monroe
- Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board—Mark Borsuk
- Deputy Human Risk Manager, NASA Johnson Space Center—Dan Buckland
- Member, North Carolina Board of Science, Technology and Innovation (governor's appointment)—Bill Walker
- Champion of Science, UNESCO International Day of Light Steering Committee—Junjie Yao
- 2020 Outstanding Technical Staff Award, National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure/National Science Foundation (NSF)—Justin Gladman
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS)—Matthew Becker
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)—Yiran Chen
- Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)—Sina Farsiu, Chris Monroe
- Fellow, International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering—Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Jennifer West and Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Reliability Society (IEEE)—Kishor Trivedi
- Lifetime Achievement Award, International Association for Green Energy—Adrian Bejan
- Edwin H. Land Medal, The Optical Society (OSA) and Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)—Joseph Izatt
- Vitold Belevitch Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- R. Tom Sawyer Award, International Gas Turbine Institute/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)—Bob Kielb
- Chris Jacobs Award, Cellular and Molecular Engineering Special Interest Group (BMES)—George Truskey
- IEEE-HKN Asad M. Madni Outstanding Technical Achievement and Excellence Award—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award—Kathryn Nightingale
- Distinguished Research Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration—Helen Li
- Outstanding Teaching Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)-Southeastern Section—Lisa Huettel
- ECE Distinguished Educator Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)—Lisa Huettel
- Systems Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Best Paper Award, 2020 Conference of the Division of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies/ASEE—Aaron Franklin, Kip Coonley and Alex Culbert
- Best Review of 2020, Nanoscale Horizons—Gaurav Arya and Marcello DeLuca
- Dissertation Runner-Up Award, ACM SIGMOBILE—Tingjun Chen
- Editor-in-chief, Biomedical Engineering Education (BMES)—Ann Saterbak
- Editor-in-chief, Optical Engineering (SPIE)—Adam Wax
Early Career Awards
- Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards, National Science Foundation—Andrew Bragg, Iman Marvian, Manolis Veveakis, Lisa Wu Wills
- 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship—Boyla Mainsah
- 2021 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award—Timothy Dunn
- 2020 Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship, American Chemical Society—Maiken Mikkelsen
- 2020 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering Society—Amanda Randles
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award—Neil Gong
- IBM Global University Program Academic Award—Tingjun Chen
- Mid-Career Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems—Yiran Chen
University Awards and Recognition
Duke University
- Graduate School Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring—Aaron Franklin
- 2021 Bass Fellows—Michael Bergin, Joel Collier
- Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Stefano Curtarolo
- John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Charles A. Gersbach
- Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Christopher Monroe
Pratt School of Engineering
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award—Libby Bucholz
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award—Maiken Mikkelsen
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award—Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research—Marc Sommer
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising—Shani Daily
- Dean's Award for Leadership in Program and Operational Excellence—Manuela Damian
Media Recognition
- Silver Medal Award, Acta Biomateriala —Tatiana Segura
- Most Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science (Clarivate)—Charles Gersbach, David Mitzi, David R. Smith and Mark Wiesner
2019-2020
National Academy of Engineering Membership
- Kenneth C. Hall, Julian Francis Abele Distinguished Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
National Recognition and Professional Leadership
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Ravi Bellamkonda, Ashutosh Chilkoti and Tony Huang
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors—Kathryn Nightingale and Blake Wilson
- Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors—Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Amanda Randles
- Chair, US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering—Jennifer West
- Chair, Aerospace Engineering Peer Committee, National Academy of Engineering—Earl H. Dowell
- Member, National Advisory Council, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH—Kathy Nightingale
- Chevalier, l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)—Adrian Bejan
- TÜBA International Academy Prize in Basic & Engineering Sciences, Turkish Academy of Sciences—Adrian Bejan
- Italia Award, Aspen Institute—Natasha Litchinitser
- Outstanding Staff Member Award for Education and Outreach, NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure—Holly Leddy
Professional Society Recognition
- National Award in the Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society—David Mitzi
- Outstanding Teacher Award-Southeastern Section, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)—Ann Saterbak
- Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, The Optical Society—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Women in Molecular Imaging (WIMIN) Outstanding Leadership Award, World Molecular Imaging Congress—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Mid-Career Award, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems—Yiran Chen
- Prolific Author Award, Asia and South Pacific Automation Conference (ASD-DAC)—Yiran Chen
- High Performance Computer Architecture Hall of Fame, IEEE Computer Society—Yiran Chen
- Best Research Artifact Award, IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)—Maria Gorlatova
- Alan O. Plait Award for Tutorial Excellence, 2021 Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)—Kishor Trivedi
- Nominee, 2020 A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Institution of Engineering and Technology—Warren Grill
- College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE)—Sina Farsiu, Asutosh Chilkoti
- Fellow, American Vacuum Society—Stefan Zauscher
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Sina Farsiu and Jeffrey Krolik
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics—Cynthia Rudin
- Fellow, International Union of Societies for Biomaterials and Engineering—Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Fellow, The Optical Society of America—Michael Gehm
- Fellow of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society—Laurens Howle
- Distinguished Member, Association of Computing Machinery—Benjamin Lee
- President, American Association of Physicists in Medicine—James T. Dobbins III
- Dean's Council Executive Board Member, American Association of Engineering Education (ASEE)—Ravi V. Bellamkonda
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M)—Yiran Chen
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics—Guglielmo Scovazzi
- Member, Editorial Board, PRX Quantum—Ken Brown
- EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Morton Antler Lecturer, IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts—Mary "Missy" Cummings
- Rayleigh Lecturer, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)—Earl H. Dowell
Early Career Awards
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)—Johan Guilleminot, Amanda Randles
- Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society—Junjie Yao
- Rising Star Award, Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC)—Neil Gong
Fellowships and Research Awards
- Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, Institute of International Education (IIE)—Edgard Ngaboyamahina
- Moore Inventor Fellowship, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation—Maiken Mikkelsen
- Faculty Fellow in Israel, Jewish National Fund—Xiling Shen
- Systems for Machine Learning Research Award, Facebook Research—Lisa Wu Wills
- Top 100 Finalist, 100&Change Competition, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation—Nimmi Ramanujam
University Awards and Honors
- Aleksander S. Vesic Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University—Michael Rubinstein
- Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Duke University—Matthew Becker
- Bass Fellow, Duke University—Brenton Hoffmann and Christine Payne
- Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke University—Shani Daily
- WOMc Impact Award, Duke Women's Center—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award, Pratt School of Engineering—Eric S. Richardson
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award, Pratt School—Ken Brown
- Lois & John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award, Pratt School—Joel Collier
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring & Advising, Pratt School—Rebecca Simmons
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research, Pratt School—Aaron Franklin
- Dean's Award for Leadership in Program & Operational Excellence, Pratt School—Patrick McGuire
- Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship, University of Michigan—Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Media Recognition
- 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America, Cell Press—Samira Musah
- Early Career Board, Nano Letters—Po-Chun Hsu
- Top 0.01% of world scientists in new citations impact, PLoS Biology—Adrian Bejan
- Highly Cited Researchers, ISI-Web of Science—Charles Gersbach, David Mitzi, Willie Padilla, Guillermo Sapiro, David Smith and Mark Wiesner
- 50th Anniversary Milestone Paper, Physics Review B—David Smith
2018-2019
National Academy of Engineering Membership
- Ana Barros
- Vahid Tarokh
National Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)—Ravi Bellamkonda and George Truskey
- Fulbright Global Scholar Award, U.S. Department of State—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Trailblazer Award, National Institutes of Health—Stefan Zauscher
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation—Adrian Bejan
- International Award for Women in Science-North American Laureate, UNESCO & L'Oreal—Ingrid Daubechies
- Highway Safety Hero, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety—Mary "Missy" Cummings
- Social Impact Abie Award, AnitaB.org—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Member, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—Mark Wiesner
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, American Physical Society—Willie Padilla and Ken Brown
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Hai "Helen" Li
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)—Lingchong You
- Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery—Yiran Chen
- Hydrology President, American Geophysical Union—Ana Barros
- Van C. Mow Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Tony Jun Huang
- Innovative Applications of Analytics Award, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences—Cynthia Rudin
- IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award—Lisa G. Huettel
- IEEE Bob Madge Innovation Award—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- AEESP/Mary Ann Liebert Award for Publication Excellence in Environmental Engineering Science—Helen Hsu-Kim
- Sir George Stokes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom)—Tuan Vo-Dinh
- 2019 Soft Matter and Physical Chemistry Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom)—Michael Rubinstein
- Test of Time Award, International Conference on Machine Learning—Guillermo Sapiro
Early Career Awards
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation—Yiyang Gong
- Young Investigator Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Junjie Yao
- Early Career Award, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems—Miroslav Pajic
University and School Honors
- Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Duke University)—Jennifer West
- Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award (Duke University)—Kevin Caves
- Bass Connection Professor (Duke University)—Amanda Randles, Stacy Tantum and Vahid Tarokh
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Wanda Krassowska Neu
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Charles Gersbach
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Ann Saterbak
- Capers and Marion McDonald Mentoring and Advising Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Gregg Trahey
- Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Sina Farsiu
- Dean's Award for Leadership in Program and Operational Excellence (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Crystal Chapman
- Distinguished Alumni Award (Duke University)—Blake Wilson
- Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Illinois Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)—Qing Ho Liu
- Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Illinois Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering)—Ken Gall
- R. Wells Moulton Award for Distinguished Alumnus in Academia (University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering)—Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award (Fudan University and Zhongzhi Enterprise Group)—Ingrid Daubechies
- Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (Drexel University)—Claudia Gunsch
Media Recognition
- Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics—Steven Cummer, David Mitzi, David Smith, Mark Wiesner and Benjamin Wiley
- "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019," MIT Technology Review—Jeff Glass
2017-2018
National Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (United States of America)—Guillermo Sapiro
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (United States of America)—Ana Barros
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (United States of America)—Joseph Izatt, Nimmi Ramanujam, Tuan Vo-Dinh
- Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico)—Adrian Bejan
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering, Franklin Institute (United States of America)—Adrian Bejan
- Invitational Fellowship (Short-term S: Nobel Prize Level), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan)—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Drs. Anvar and Pari Velji Emerging Leader in Global Health Innovation Faculty Award, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (Multinational)—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Germany)—Yiran Chen
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, The Optical Society (OSA)—Jungsang Kim
- Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society—Fan Yuan
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Yiran Chen
- Fellow, Materials Research Society—David Mitzi
- Trustee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics—Missy Cummings
- Inductee, IEEE Computer Society's High Performance Computer Architecture Hall of Fame—Benjamin Lee
- Ralph Coats Roe Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Adrian Bejan
- Aerodynamics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics—Kenneth C. Hall
- Dedicated Service Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Kenneth C. Hall
- Technical Achievement Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society—Qing Liu
- Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics, IEEE Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society—Qing Liu
- Bingham Medalist, Society of Rheology—Michael Rubinstein
- Outstanding Member of the Editorial Board Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society—Sina Farsiu
- Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery—Hai "Helen" Li
- Chair, Section of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Ana Barros
- At-Large Member, IEEE Education Society Board of Governors—Lisa Huettel
- Scientific Advisory Panel Member, Fields Institute (Canada)—Vahid Tarokh
Early Career Awards
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award—Galen Reeves, Jonathan Viventi
- Kalvi Fellow, National Academy of Sciences and the Kalvi Foundation—Guglielmo Scovazzi
- IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing—Amanda Randles
- Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery—Amanda Randles
- EUROMECH Young Scientist Prize, 16th European Turbulence Conference, Stockholm—Andrew Bragg
- Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society—Maiken Mikkelsen
University and School Honors
- William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics (City University of Hong Kong)—Ingrid Daubechies
- Member, Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy (University of Iowa College of Engineering)—Mark Wiesner
- Honorary Professor, Xidian University (China)—Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Member, Bass Society of Fellows (Duke University)—Wilkins Aquino, Aaron Franklin and Michael Zavlanos
- Lois & John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Kathy Nightingale
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Warren Grill
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring & Advising (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Marcus Henderson
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—David Katz
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Steve Cummer
- Dean's Award for Leadership in Program & Operational Excellence (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Amy Kostrewa
Distinguished and Plenary Lectures
- Plenary Lecturer, Conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine—Nimmi Ramanujam
- Plenary lecturer, Second World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies—Fan Yuan
- Plenary speaker, Global Power and Propulsion Society-Shanghai Conference—Robert Kielb
- Inaugural event speaker, UNESCO International Day of Light—Tuan Vo-Dinh
Media Recognition
- Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters)—David Smith and Mark Wiesner
Previous Years
2016-2017
National Academy of Engineering Membership
- Elected in 2017 – Blake Wilson
National Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- Member, National Academy of Inventors – David Smith and Jennifer West
- Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson
- ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award – Sina Farsiu
- Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Cultural Diversity Award, International Meeting for Autism Research – Guillermo Sapiro
- Allen Distinguished Investigator, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group – Charles Gersbach
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union – Steve Cummer
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering – Joel Collier and Charles Gersbach
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers – Ana Barros and David Schaad
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Xin Li
- Editor-in-Chief, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering – George Truskey
Early Career Awards
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – Guglielmo Scovazzi
- NSF CAREER Award – Miroslav Pajic
- Analytic Chemistry 2017 Young Innovator Award – Tony Jun Huang
- Beckman Young Investigator, Beckman Foundation – Yiyang Gong
- Bessel Prize, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo
- SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Maiken Mikkelsen
- Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation – Yiyang Gong
- Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award, Parkinson's Disease Foundation – Michael Tadross
- Vallee Young Investigator, Vallee Foundation – Yiyang Gong
- Young Investigator Award, Army Research Office – Maiken Mikkelsen
- Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research – Maiken Mikkelsen and Miroslav Pajic
University and School Honors
- Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (Duke University) – Libby Bucholz
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Duke University Graduate School) – Joseph Izatt
- Distinguished Service Award (Pratt School) – Roger Coke Barr
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research (Pratt School) – Fan Yuan
- Stansell Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Guillermo Sapiro
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring & Advising (Pratt School) – Marc Sommer
- Lois & John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Mark Palmeri
- 2017 Alumnus of the Year Award, (Politecnico di Torino) – Guglielmo Scovazzi
- Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia (University of Washington) – Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin
Distinguished and Plenary Lectures
- Director's Lecture, National Institutes of Health – Jennifer West
- Distinguished Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series – John Dolbow
- Keynote Lecturer, Global Power & Propulsion Forum, Zurich, Switzerland – Bob Kielb
- Distinguished International Visitor Event, Durham University, United Kingdom – Adrian Bejan
- Plenary Lecturer, 13th Annual International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant – Heileen "Helen" Hsu-Kim
Media Recognition
- "Top 100 Discoveries of 2016," Discover Magazine – Xiling Shen
- “Innovators Under 35,” MIT Technology Review – Amanda Randles
- Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters) – David Smith, Ingrid Daubechies, and Mark Wiesner
- Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier Scopus data compiled by MSE Supplies) – Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Highly Cited Computer Vision Researchers (AMiner.org) – Guillermo Sapiro, Landon Cox, and Bruce Maggs
- Highly Cited Computer Science and Engineering Researchers (Guide2Research.com) – Kishor Trivedi and Guillermo Sapiro
2015-2016
National Academy of Engineering Membership
- Elected in 2016 – Jennifer West
National Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- 2016 Nevada Medal, Desert Research Institute – Missy Cummings
- Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo
- 2015 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – Warren Grill
- NVIDIA Global Impact Award – Joseph Izatt
- NASA Agency Group Achievement Award – Ana Barros & Global Precipitation Measurement Post-Launch Team
- GSK & Save the Children Healthcare Innovation Award – Robert Malkin/Fundación VIHDA, Ecuador
- 2016 Technology Award, Eduard Rhein Foundation – Blake Wilson
- Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite; Directeur des relations entreprises, National Institute of Applied Sciences (France) – Sylvie Lorente
Professional Society Recognition
- 2016 Reed Aeronautics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Earl Dowell
- Finalist, 2015 Gordon Bell Prize – Amanda Randles
- Hans Fischer Senior Research Fellow, Technical University of Munich – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Editor, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery – Kenneth Hall
- Special Session in his honor, International Congress of CERMODEL – Tomasz Hueckel
- American Physical Society Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals 2016 – Volker Blum
- IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Missy Cummings
- Advisor, Acta Mechanica Sinica journal – Earl Dowell
- Senior area editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing – Sina Farsiu
- Pascal Rol Award for Best Paper in Ophthalmic Technologies at the SPIE Photonics West 2015 – Sina Farsiu
- Best paper award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society International Conference on Humanoid Robots – Kris Hauser
- President-Elect, International Society for Bioelectromagnetism – Craig Henriquez
- Fellow, Optical Society of America – Qing Huo Liu
- Charter Member, NIH BMIT-B Study Section – Kathryn Nightingale
- Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science – Amanda Randles
- Associate Editor in Chief, IEEE Micro – Dan Sorin
- Frocht Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics – Lawrence Virgin
- Vice chair & chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering – Jennifer West
- Vice chair & chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements – Marc Sommer
- Executive Council member, International Association for Computational Mechanics, John Dolbow
- 2016 Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, ASCE – Claudia Gunsch
- Best paper award, 2016 Symposium on the Theory of Computing – Henry Pfister
- Panel co-chair, The National Academies' 2017-2027 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space – Ana Barros
Early Career Awards
- Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research – Michael Lynch
- 2016 Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation for Science Advancement – Maiken Mikkelsen
- Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator, 2015 – Brent Hoffman
- Named to the World Economic Forum Young Scientist List 2015 – Amanda Randles
University and School Honors
- 2016 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (Duke University) – Elizabeth Bucholz
- Faculty Director, B.N. Duke Scholarship Program (Duke University) – Mike Gustafson
- Teamwork Award (Duke University) – Guillermo Sapiro & colleagues
- 2016 Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education (The Graduate School, Duke University) – MRSEC - Stefan Zauscher, director
- Julian Abele Graduate Mentor Award (Duke University) – Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Brenton Hoffman
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Jungsang Kim
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Roger Nightingale
- Capers and Marion McDonald Mentoring and Advising Award (Pratt School) – Claudia Gunsch
- Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Jennifer West
- Dean’s Award for Leadership in Program and Operational Excellence (Pratt School) – Deborah Fraze
- Honorary doctorate in engineering, University of Pretoria (South Africa) – Adrian Bejan
- 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi – Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Research Impact in Human-Computer Interaction Award, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech – Regis Kopper
- Honorary doctorate (DSc), Nottingham University (UK) – David Needham
- Office of Naval Research Faculty Fellow – Kishor Trivedi
- Honorary doctorate in medicine, University of Salamanca (Spain) – Blake Wilson
- Honorary doctorate in engineering, McGill University (Canada) – Henry Petroski
Distinguished and Plenary Lectureships
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2016 – Qing Huo Liu
- Plenary lecture, SPIE Biophotonics South America Symposium – Tuan Vo-Dinh
Media Recognition
- "20 Engineering Management Professors You Should Know," Online Engineering Programs – Hadley Cox, Jeff Glass, and Brad Fox
- Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Thomson Reuters – Ingrid Daubechies, David Smith, Heather Stapleton, and Mark Wiesner
- 2015 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy – Miguel Nicolelis
- Editor's Choice, Journal of Applied Physics – Adrian Bejan
- No. 2 class offered on Coursera, Business Insider – Daniel Egger
- Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, IEEE Micro 2015 – Benjamin Lee
- Selected for highlight, SPIE Women in Optics – Maiken Mikkelsen
- 10 Best Scientific Discoveries of 2015, Paste Magazine - Nenad Bursac
2014-2015
National Academy of Engineering Membership
- Elected in 2015 – Ingrid Daubechies and Mark Wiesner
Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- National Academy of Engineering Russ Prize – Blake S. Wilson
- Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society of Biomaterials – Jennifer West
- C.E.K. Mees Medal, Optical Society of America – Warren Warren
- Claude E. Shannon Award, IEEE Information Theory Society – Robert Calderbank
- John P. McGovern Award for Science, American Society of Civil Engineers – Henry Petroski
- Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson-Reuters – Jennifer West
Early Career Awards
- Young Investigator Award, Creative and Novel Ideas for HIV Research – Benjamin Yellen
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award – Brenton Hoffman and Maiken Mikkelsen
- AFOSR Young Investigator Research Award – Maiken Mikkelsen
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities – Maiken Mikkelsen
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Ashutosh Chilkoti and Robert Calderbank
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union – Ana Barros
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science – George Truskey
- Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow, Institute of International Education – Fred Boadu
- Fellow, IACM – John Board and John Dolbow
- Elected Secretary, USACM – John Board and John Dolbow
- Member, Advisory Board of DOE ASCAC – John Board and John Bolbow
- Member Spotlight, AIAA Carolinas – Earl Dowell
- Fellow, National Security Science and Engineering, US Department of Defense – Chris Dwyer
- Fellow, NAE Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering – Claudia Gunsch
- Fellow, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium – Lisa Huettel
- Life Fellow, IEEE – Hisham Massoud
- Fellow, IEEE – Guillermo Sapiro and Blake S. Wilson
- Alternate Member, IEEE – Roger Barr
- At-Large Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Education Society – Lisa Huettel
- Fellow, AIMBE College of Fellows – Lawrence Boyd, Nenad Bursac, Kathy Nightingale and Adam Wax
- Chair, AIMBE College of Fellows – Jennifer West
- Senior Fellow, UCLA B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences – Henry Petroski
- Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – Kishore Trivedi
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award – KrishChakrabarty
- 75th Anniversary Gold Medal, ASME Heat Transfer Division – Adrian Bejan
- Best Poster Award, Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association – Lisa Huettel
- Outstanding Reviewer, ASCE – Wilkins Aquino
- Research selected as IEEE Micro Top Pick of 2014 – Ben Lee
- Boeing/ASME Best Paper Award, AIAA SciTech Conference – Earl Dowell
University and School Honors
- Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (Duke University) – Warren Grill
- Elected Chair, Academic Council (Duke University) – Nan Jokerst
- Thomas Langford Lectureship Award (Duke University) – Missy Cummings
- Earl Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award (Pratt School) – Joseph Nadeau
- Inaugural Dastgheib Pioneer Award in Ocular Innovation (Duke University Eye Center) – Joseph Izatt
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Charles Wallace
- Stansell Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Jeffrey Glass
- Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Kathy Nightingale
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award – Andrew Hilton
- Meritorious Service Award (Duke University) – Connie Simmons
- Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering – Nimmi Ramanujam
- Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University (Sweden) – Blake S. Wilson
Distinguished and Plenary Lectureships
- Israel Pollack Distinguished Lecturer, Technion-Israel Institute of Techology (Israel) – Guillermo Sapiro
- IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer – Henry Pfister
- NordSecMobile Scholar (Norway) – Kishor Trivedi
- Plenary Lecturer, 7th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference – Warren Grill
- Bovay Lecturer, Texas A&M University Department of Civil Engineering – Henry Petroski
- Borland Lecturer in Hydrology, Colorado State University – Amilcare Porporato
- Plenary Speaker, European Signal Processing Conference – Guillermo Sapiro
Technology and Research Leadership
- Named US Army Chief Scientific Leader for Extramural Engineering Research Enterprise – April Brown
- Named Program Manager, DARPA – Jeff Krolik
- Member, Science Advisory Board's Drinking Water Committee, US Environmental Protection Agency – Mark Wiesner
- Member, Editorial Board of Computational Mechanics – John Board and John Dolbow
Media Recognition
- 2015 Engineering Hero, IEEE Spectrum – Robert Malkin
- Tar Heel of the Week, The News & Observer – Robert Malkin
- Top 50 List (2014), The Verge – Miguel Nicolelis
- Brilliant 10 for 2014, Popular Science – Jon Viventi
- PRISM Magazine's 20 Under 40, American Society for Engineering Education – Heileen Hsu-Kim
- MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 – Jon Viventi
2013-2014
Early Career
- Outstanding New Investigator, ASGCT and Capers & Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Charlie Gersbach
- New Investigator Award by the NC Space Grant – Nico Hotz
- DOE Early CAREER Award in Applied & Computational Mathematics – Guglielmo Scovazzi
- ONR 2014 Young Investigator Award – Michael Zavlanos
- NSF Early CAREER Development Award, ONR 2014 Young Investigator Award, and Invited Lecturer, Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Abrasion – Xuanhe Zhao
Society Member/Fellow Recognition
- Member, Academia Europaea, 75th Anniversary Gold Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, Honorary Doctorate from INSA de Lyon – Adrian Bejan
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Kam Leong
University and School
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Elizabeth Bucholz
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Nenad Bursac
- Stansell Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Stefano Curtarolo
- Outstanding Postdoc Mentor (Duke University) & Secret Provost honor in Fall - Warren Grill
- Thomas Langford Lectureship Award (Duke University) – Claudia Gunsch
- Duke Order of Omega President’s Award and Duke Interfraternity Council Faculty Recognition Award – Michael Gustafson
- Chandran Award in Neuro-Oncology (Pratt School) – Paolo Maccarini
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising (Pratt School) – Charles Parker
- Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (Pratt School) – Lori Setton
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Rebecca Simmons
- 2013 Chandran Lecture in Neuro-Oncology (Pratt School) – Jennifer West
- Dean’s Award for Leadership in Program and Operational Excellence (Pratt School) – Mark Walters
National/International
- Special recognition from Sandia National Labs for the foundational development of inverse structural-acoustics capabilities – Wilkins Aquino
- AMS Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2014-15 and WIMEK Research Fellowship, Wageningen University, Netherlands – Ana Barros
- 2014 IEEE Communication Society Award for Advances in Communication – Robert Calderbank
- “Lifetime Achievement Award” Humboldt Research Award, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany – Krish Chakrabarty
- Awarded the 2015 Nevada Medal (awarded by the state of Nevada for a preeminent scientist/engineer) – Missy Cummings
- Graduate of ELATE Leadership Program – Linda Franzoni
- Inaugural recipient of the BMES Innovator Award for Cell & Molecular Bioengineering and the 2014 Arthritis Foundation Investigator Award – Farsh Guilak
- Earl H. Brown Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award – Henri Gavin
- Selected as one of the Top 20 Science & Technology Professors in North Carolina – Ben Lee
- Doak Award: International award for the most-cited paper in the past three years for the Journal of Sound Vibration – Brian Mann
- Elected to the Venice Institute of Science, Letters, and Arts, part of the worldwide circuit of National Academies – Marco Marani
- Italian Ministry of Research & University: “Messengers of Knowledge” University of Palermo and Distinguished Visiting Professorship Univ. Fed. Pernambuco (Brazil) – Amilcare Porporato
- 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar Grant – Monty Reichert
- Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award, ICCV – Guillermo Sapiro
- Selected as one of the Top 20 Science & Technology Professors in North Carolina – Neal Simmons
- Best Paper Award, 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture – Dan Sorin
- Distinguished Service Award, Assoc. of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors – Mark Wiesner
- Bull City Hall of Fame, Durham Chamber of Commerce – Blake Wilson
2012-2013
Faculty Early Career Awards
- Rising Star Award, Society for Physical Regulation in Medicine and Biology: Charles Gersbach
- Searle Scholar Award; Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, March of Dimes: Brent Hoffman
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities: Nico Hotz
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineering (PECASE): Heileen Hsu-Kim
- NSF Early CAREER Award; Early Career Researcher’s Award, AVES Biomaterial Interfaces Division: Xuanhe Zhao
Research and Professional Leadership Awards
- Dennis Gabor Award, SPIE: David Brady
- Hamming Medal, IEEE: Robert Calderbank
- Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award, Biomedical Engineering Society: Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Nemmers Prize in Mathematics: Ingrid Daubechies
- Grand Conceptor Engineering Excellence Award, American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina: Marc Deshusses
- IGTI J.P. Davis Award, ASME: Robert Kielb and Lawrie Virgin
- Frontier Research Scientist, Korean Academy of Science & Technology: Jungsang Kim
- Leadership Excellence Award, American Institute of Hydrology: Miguel Medina
- Barnet-Uzgiris Product Safety Design Award: Henry Petroski
- Diversity Award, Biomedical Engineering Society: Monty Reichert
- James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials: David Smith
- Distinguished Service Award, Biomedical Engineering Society: George Truskey
- Clemson Award for Applied Research: Kam Leong
Teaching Awards
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke Graduate School: Dale Bass
- Outstanding Post-Doc Mentor Award, Duke University: Adam Wax
Professional Society Recognition
- Member, Atmospheric & Hydrospheric Science Section, AAAS: Ana Barros
- Associate Fellow, World Academy of Arts & Sciences; Honorary Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Adrian Bejan Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Mathematical Society: Robert Calderbank
- Fellow, Controlled Release Society College of Fellows: Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Full Member, Acoustical Society of America: Linda Franzoni
- Member, National Academy of Engineering: Kam Leong
- Fellow, ASME: Robert Kielb
- Senior Member, IEEE: Jeff Krolik
- Fellow, American Society for Mechanical Engineers: Brian Mann
- Senior Member, IEEE: Kathy Nightingale
- Frontier Fellow, National Academy of Engineering: Desiree Plata
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Distinguished Professor Visiting Fellow (CNPq) Brazil: Amilcare Porporato
- Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering; Fellow, SPIE: Nimmi Ramanujam
- Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society: Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Guillermo Sapiro
- Fellow, Optical Society of America: David Smith
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Pei Zhong
2011-2012
Faculty Early Career Awards
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers: Ben Lee
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers: Charles Gersbach
- Google Research Award: Ben Lee
- Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics Division: Xuanhe Zhao
Research Awards
- 2011 Clemson Award for Applied Research, Society for Biomaterials: Kam Leong
- 2011 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature: Ashutosh Chilkoti
- 2011 Clarke Prize, National Water Research Institute: Mark Wiesner
- New Product Award at the MCEE 2011: Laurens Howle
- 2011 NIH Director's New Innovator Award: Charles Gersbach
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union: Amilcare Porporato
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Laurens Howle
- Honorary Fellow, Romanian Academy: Adrian Bejan
- Senior Fellow in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas: Ana Barros
- Fellow of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland: Adrian Bejan
- Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences: Chris Dwyer
- President-Elect, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP): Mark Wiesner
- Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society: Warren Grill
- U.S. Delegate, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics: Linda Franzoni
Teaching Awards
- 2011 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring: Farshid Guilak
- 2011 DSCD Yasundo Takahashi Education Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division: Devendra Garg
2010-2011
Early Career Awards
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award: Lingchong You
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award: Chuan-Hua Chen
- 2010 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award: Rebecca Willett
- DARPA Young Faculty Award: Chuan-Hua Chen
- 2011 International Union of Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics: Stefano Curtarolo
- Department of Energy Early Career Research Award: Heileen Hsu-Kim
Teaching Awards
- Klein Family Distinguished Award: Jonathan Protz
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award: Daniel Sorin
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research: Gregg Trahey
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising: Devendra Garg
Research Awards
- 2011 Award for Spectrochemical Analysis from the American Chemical Society: Tuan Vo-Dinh
- 2011 ASME Lyapunov Award: Earl Dowell
- Plasma Science Achievement Award, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society: Tom Katsouleas
- 2011 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature, Society for Biomaterials: Ashutosh Chilkoti
- 2010 Clemson Award for Basic Research in Biomaterials, Society for Biomaterials - William Reichert
- 2011 Celebration of Engineering Technology Award (CETI) from FIATECH: Matt Reynolds
- NIH Merit Award - Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging of Cardiac Tissue: Gregg Trahey
- NIH Merit Award - Innovations in Shock Wave Lithotripsy Technology: Pei Zhong
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award: Nimmi Ramanujam
Professional Society Recognition
- Fellow, Institute of Physics: Stefano Curtarolo
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Pei Zhong
- Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Kenneth Hall
- Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering: Gabriel Lopez
- Nicolas Andry De Bois-Regar, Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons: Farshid Guilak
- Fellow, IEEE: Steve Cummer
- Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery: Chris Dwyer
- Chair, NIH Neurotechnology Study Section: Warren Grill
- Scientist Development Grant, American Heart Association: Charles Gersbach
- President's Award, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering: Henri Gavin
2009-2010
Early Career Awards
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): Chris Dwyer
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award: Andrey Khlystov
- 2009 IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology: Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Teaching Awards
- Capers & Marion McDonald Mentoring & Advising Award: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Capers & Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award: David Katz
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award: Robert Malkin
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award: Joseph Nadeau
- U.S. Green Building Council’s Green Building Curriculum Recognition Award for 2009: Duke Smart Home Program
- Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference Information Technology Corporate Award: Dina Requena
- 2009 James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award, National Chi Epsilon: Joseph Nadeau
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee: Devendra Garg
Research Awards
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science: Mark Wiesner
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America: Nimmi Ramanujam
- Fellow, Optical Society of America: Adam Wax
- Fellow, International Photonics Society (SPIE): Adam Wax
- Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering: David Brady
- Lord-Chandran Professor of Engineering: Richard Fair
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award: Kam Leong
- Hartwell (Foundation) Individual Biomedical Research Award: Charles Gersbach
Professional Society Recognition
- President, Biomedical Engineering Society: George Truskey
- President of the American Institute of Hydrology: Miguel Medina
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America: Nimmi Ramanujam
- Senior Member, IEEE: Chris Dwyer
- Technical Expert, World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Health Technology: Robert Malkin
- Board Member, National Academies Board on Global Science and Technology: Nan Jokerst
- IEEE Golden Core Member: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Design & Test of Computers Journal: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Board of Governors of the IEEE Council for Electronic Design Automation: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Member, 2009 DARPA Computer Science Study Group, Department of Defense: Chris Dwyer
- Editor, Biomedical Optics Express: Joseph Izatt
- NIH grant review study section for cancer nanotechnology partnership: David Needham
- Department of Defense breast cancer research program integration panel: Nimmi Ramanujam
2008-2009
Early Career Awards
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) - Stefano Curtarolo
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award – Claudia Gunsch
- National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award – Chuan Hua Chen
- 2009 IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology - Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- 2008 Young Investigator Award in Experimental Science, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences – Stefan Zauscher
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award - Chuan-Hua Chen
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award - Chris Dwyer
Teaching Awards
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Craig Henriquez
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award - Brian Mann
- Capers and Marion McDonald for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Steve Cummer
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - Pei Zhong
- Duke University Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- 2009 James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award, National Chi Epsilon – Joseph Nadeau
Research Awards
- 2008 Daniel Guggenheim Medal Award – Earl Dowell
- 2008 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society - Kishor Trivedi
- John Booker Medal of Excellence, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics - Tomasz Hueckel
- Bronze Medal, Army Science Conference – Stefan Zauscher, Pei Zhong
- Best Paper Award Force Protection /Survivability session, Army Science Conference – Stefan Zauscher, Pei Zhong
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - Mark Wiesner
- Best paper award, 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - Matt Reynolds
Professional Society Recognition
- President, Biomedical Engineering Society – George Truskey
- President of the American Institute of Hydrology – Miguel Medina
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Farshid Guilak
- Norm Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications, American Association of Engineering Societies – Henry Petroski
- Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers – Henry Petroski
- Forensic Engineer of the Year 2008, ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering – Henry Petroski
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Robert Malkin
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America - Joseph Izatt
- Fellow of the IEEE – David Brady
- Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery - Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Fellow of the IEEE – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society - Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Distinguished Overseas Young Scholar, National Science Foundation of China – Qing Liu
- Senior member of the IEEE - Lisa Huettel
- Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers – David Schaad
- Inaugural chair, Nanotechnology Study Section at the National Institutes of Health - Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Chair of the Optical Society of America Image Sensing and Pattern Recognition Group – David Brady
- Representative to the United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Acoustical Society of America (ASA) – Linda Franzoni
2007-2008
Early Career Awards
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator – Brian Mann
- 2008 Young Investigator Award from the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences - Stefan Zauscher
- Young Investigator award, International Association for Computational Mechanics - John Dolbow
- National Science Foundation CAREER award - Jeffrey T. Scruggs
- National Science Foundation CAREER award - Romit Roy Choudhury
Society Recognition and Research Awards
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Tod Laursen
- Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers - Henry Petroski
- Senior Member, IEEE – Daniel Sorin
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society – Ana Barros
- Fellow, IEEE – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Fellow, IEEE – William Joines
- 2008 Daniel Guggehneim Medalist - Earl Dowell
- Spirit of St. Louis Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineering - Earl Dowell
- Fellow, American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering – Craig Henriquez
- Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Memorial Lectureship Award, International Council of Aeronautical Sciences in Anchorage - Earl Dowell
- President, Biomedical Engineering Society - George Truskey
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - Piotr E. Marszalek
- Fellow, SPIE - Joseph Izatt
- 2008 Donald Q. Kern Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Adrian Bejan Fluid Science Research Award, Institute of Fluid Science - Adrian Bejan
- Devendra P. Garg Award for Intelligent Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Devendra Garg
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Advisory Committee - Warren Grill
- Chair, Nanotechnology Study Section, National Institute of Health - Ashutosh Chilkokti
Teaching and Mentoring Awards
- 2007-08 ASEE Southeast Section Outstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award – Henri Gavin
- Duke 2007-08 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award – Henri Gavin
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring – Martha Absher
- American Council on Education Fellowship – Monty Reichert
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award – Wanda Krassowska
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award - Benjamin B. Yellen
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Warren M. Grill
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - Joseph A. Izatt
- Duke 2008 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring - Justin Jaworski
2006-2007
Early Career Awards
- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering - Lingchong You
- National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - Rebecca Willett
- National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - Stefano Curtarolo
- Office of Naval Young Investigator - Stefano Curtarolo
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator - Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Society Leadership and Recognition
- American Academy of Nanomedicine Program Committee - David Needham
- American Academy of Nanomedicine Board of Directors - David Needham
- Chair, 24th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy - April Brown
- Member, FDA Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee - Farshid Guilak
- Chair, Joint Tribology Conference - Josiah Knight
- Editorial Board, Journal of Neural Engineering - Warren Grill
- Member, National Science Board panel on Retention Rates in Undergraduate Engineering - Kristina Johnson
- Chair, NIH Computer Modeling Review Group - Mort Friedman
- Associate Editor, Nanomedicine - David Needham
- Chair, Program Review, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University - Mort Friedman
- Member, Defense Advanced Resaerch Projects Agency Computer Science Study Panel - Rebecca Willett
- Co-editor, Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics - Adrian Bejan
- Elected to American Philosophical Society - Henry Petroski
- Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Henry Petroski
- Fellow of the American Heart Association - Mort Friedman
- College of Fellows of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering - Warren Grill, Joseph Izatt, and Fan Yuan
- Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering - David Brady
Teaching, Mentoring and Research Awards
- 2007 Walter J. And Angeline Crichlow Trust Prize - Earl Dowell
- Luikov Medal - Adrian Bejan
- 2006 Inteligent Optimal Design Prize - Sylvie Lorente
- 2006 Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award - Ronald Jaszczak
- Best Paper Award, 20th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design - Krish Chakrabarty
- National Academies Keck Future Award - Warren Grill
- Spirit of St. Louis Award - Earl Dowell
- Richard Skalak Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Morton Friedman
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - David Brady
- Award for Journalism, Northern Virginia Post, Society of American Military Engineers - Henry Petroski
- Scientific American 50 - David Smith and David Schurig
- Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award - Devendra Garg
- Duke Med Scholar - Farshid Guilak
- 2007 Boston University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award - Warren Grill
- Best Paper for 2006, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering - Morton Friedman and Healther Himburg
- Van C. Mow Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Lori Setton
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Kathryn Nightingale
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award - Joseph Nadeau
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Rsearch - Earl Dowell
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - George Truskey
2005-2006
Early Career Award
- Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers - Silvia Ferrari
- American Academy of Nanomedicine Young Investigator Award - Stefan Zauscher
- Beckman Young Investigator Award - Jingdong Tian
- National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - Jungsang Kim
- National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - Sule Ozev
Society Leadership and Recognition
- Expert panel member, International Physiome Project - Mort Friedman
- Expert panel member, NIH's Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases - Lori Setton
- National Academies, Keck Futures Initiative Program Committee for "Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Devices for the Body and Mind - Warren Grill
- National Institutes of Health, Instrumentation and Systems Development Study Section in Center for Scientific Review - William Reichert
- U.S. National Committee for the UNESCO International Hydrology Program - Ana Barros
- National Institutes of Health: Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Special Emphasis Panel - Piotr Marszalek
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Senior Member of the IEEE - Warren Grill
- Member, National Research Council Biomolecular Materials and Processes Committee - David Needham
- Delegation Member, U.S. State Department/National Academies Global Developments in Emerging Science and Sensor Networks 2005 - Nan Jokerst
- Member of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP), Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study - Roni Avissar
- Vice-Chair, Microscopy and OCT Technical Group, Optical Society of America's Science and Engineering Council - Adam Wax
- Marshall Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration, Orthopedic Research Society - Farshid Guilak
- Chairman of the Membership and Education Services Council, Optical Society of America - Adam Wax
- Editorial Board of Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing - Warren Grill
- Global Indus Technovators Awards for 2005 - Nimmi Ramanujam
- Board of Governors, IEEE Engineering Management Society - Brad Fox
- 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review - Jonathan Protz
- Board of Directors, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) - Kristina Johnson
- Director, Boston Scientific Corp. - Kristina Johnson
- Editorial Board of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics - Robert Clark
- Editor in Chief, NanoBiotechnology Journal - Tuan Vo-Dinh
- Member, Model Expert Group of the Americas - Andrew Schuler
- Fellow, Electrochemical Society - Hisham Massoud
Teaching, Mentoring and Research Awards
- Descartes Award, European Union - David R. Smith
- Washington Award - Henry Petroski
- 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) - Hisham Massoud
- 2005 Department of Defense Cleanup Project of the Year - Larry Carin
- 2005 International Crime Analysis Association Research Award - Silvia Ferrari
- 2005 Benjamin Franklin Key Award - Benjamin Yellen
- 2005 Rayleigh Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Robert Clark
- Chandran Research Award for Molecular Imaging in Neuro-oncology - Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Chancellor's Medal, Louisiana State University - Farshid Guilak
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Henri Gavin
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - David R. Smith
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award - John Board
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Adam Wax
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - Linda Franzoni
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising - David Schaad
- Leading at Duke, Outstanding Volunteer Advisor - David Schaad
- University of Michigan School of Engineering's Alumni Society Merit Award - Gregg Trahey
- University of Southern California 2006 Alumnus Award in Academia - Nan Marie Jokerst
2004-2005
Early Career Awards
- National Science Foundation Career Award — Silvia Ferrari
- National Science Foundation Career Award — Daniel Sorin
- R. H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics — John Dolbow
- Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 2005 Early Career Award — Adam Wax
Society Leadership and Recognition
- SRC Invention Recognition Award — Hisham Z. Massoud
- Edward F. Obert Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers — Adrian Bejan
- Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America — Robert Clark, Qing Huo Liu
- Member of the Physics Resources Policy Committee of the American Institute of Physics— Nan Jokerst
- Associate editor of the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power— Kenneth Hall
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering – Lori Setton
- Associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering— Karl Linden
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — Qing Huo Liu
- Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation — Jeff Glass
- Member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board — Henry Petroski
- Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers — Henri Gavin
- Editor, Water Resources Research— Amilcare Porporato
- Member of the Executive Committee of Integrated Land-Ecosystem-Atmosphere Project of the IGBP — Roni Avissar
- Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award— Kristina Johnson
- Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Service Award— Robert Plonsey
- Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society— Roger Barr, Robert Plonsey, Mort Friedman
Teaching, Mentoring and Research Awards
- Catalyst for Institutional Change Award, Quality Education for Minorities Network — Monty Reichert
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award — Donald Bliss
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award — Ashutosh Chilkoti
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award – Larry Bohs
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research — Leslie Collins
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising — Michael Gustafson
- Duke Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring — Monty Reichert
Service Awards
- P.M. Ku Meritorious Award, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers — Josiah Knight
- Pratt Distinguished Service Award – Hadley Cocks
2003-2004
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award - Adam Wax
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award - Andrew Schuler
- 2004 Ragnar Granit Prize - Robert Plonsey
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America - David Brady
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator - Silvia Ferrari
- Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Service Award - Morton Friedman
- 2003 ASME Edwin F. Church Medal for Distinguished Service to Mechanical Engineering Education - Devendra Garg
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Lisa G. Huettel
- Society of Women Engineer's Achievement Award - Kristina Johnson
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - Karl Linden
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Henry Petroski
- President of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Roger Barr
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Barry Myers
- Editor-in-Chief, North American, Journal of Biomechanics - Farshid Guilak
- Member of National Institutes of Health's Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Science Section - Laura Niklason
- Board of Director, World Council on Biomechanics - Lori Setton
- Steering Committee, North Carolina Tissue Engineering Interest Group - Lori Setton
- Permanent Member, National Institutes of Health, Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Study Section - Lori Setton
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke Graduate School - Lori Setton
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Henry Petroski
- 2004 Institute Research Institute Maurice Holland Award - Jeff Glass
- Invited participant National Academy of Engineering 10th Annual Frontiers in Engineering Symposium - Robert Clark
- Invited participate Japan-America 4th Annual Frontiers in Engineering Symposium - Robert Clark
- Member of National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section - Gregg Trahey
2002-2003
- Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame – Kristina M. Johnson
- Board of Directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society – George Truskey
- President-elect of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – Roger Barr
- Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Study Section in the Center for Scientific Review – Lori Setton
- 2003 Ellwood Award from FACCT, the Foundation for Accountability – Professor Emeritus William (Ed) Hammond
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Electrochemical Society Award in Solid State Science and Technology – Richard Fair
- National Science Foundation Early Career Award from the Division of Materials Research – Stefan Zauscher
- QEM (Quality Education for Minorities) Catalyst for Institutional Change Award – Martha Absher
- Delegate to the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering – Mort Friedman
- ASME Board of Governors Recognition Award for Accomplishments as Chair of the Board of Director of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of the ASME – Robert Kielb
- Board of Director of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of the ASME – Kenneth Hall
- 2003 Electrochemical Society Award in Solid State Science and Technology – Richard B. Fair
- Distinguished Lecturer of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Adrian Bejan
- Editor-in-chief, North America, for the Journal of biomechanics – Farshid Guilak
- Duke University Diversity Award – Martha Absher
- Member of the World Council for Biomechanics – Lori Setton
- Co-chair of National Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences committee on the Endpoints of High Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel – John Ahearne
- President of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication engineers – Josiah Knight
- Chair of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science – Jeffrey Krolik
- Fulbright Scholar
- Member Air Force Board of Science and Technology of National Academy of Engineering – Earl Dowell
- Co-chair of Aviation R&D Steering Committee of ASME/White House OSTP Committee
- Advisory Board Member, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering – Tod Laursen
- President of the American Medical Informatics Association – W. Ed Hammond
- Chair of the Global Water Cycle Science Steering Committee, US Global Climate Research Program – Roni Avissar
- National Research Council award for outstanding contributions to hydrology – Roni Avissar
- Member of the National Research Council Committee on Radiative Forcing on Climate – Roni Avissar