Celebrating Faculty and Students Awards for Fall 2024
Duke Engineering faculty and students garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the summer
Faculty Awards
- Adrian Bejan won American Society of Mechanical Engineers Medal
- Pranam Chatterjee received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health
- Stefano Curtarolo was elected to the European Academy of Sciences
- Shaundra Daily won the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Computing Machinery
- Liang Feng was named to ARPA-E’s first cohort of its Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) program
- Charles Gersbach won an Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Scholar Award to work toward reprogramming immune cells for the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Lisa Huettel was selected to take part in the Institute on Inquiry, Equity and Leadership in the Academic Department, organized by the Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network
- Jungsang Kim won the Quantum World Congress’s 2024 Academic Pioneer of the Year Award
- Nimmi Ramanujam won a Department of Defense 2024 Innovator Award to improve the detection and treatment of early-stage breast cancer
- Michael Reiter was the recipient of the 2024 Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY)
- Michael Rubinstein, Stephen L. Craig and Team won a 2024 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize
- Michael Rubinstein won the National American Chemical Society Award in Polymers
- Kishor Trivedi won the 2024 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing by the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
- Mark Wiesner was presented with the 2024 Simon W. Freese Award and delivered the Freese lecture at this year’s meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Environmental & Water Resources Institute
Graduate Student Awards
- ECE PhD student Qijia Huang won the Best Paper Runner-up award at the 9th IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies
- ECE PhD student Md Sazzadur Rahman won the best paper award at the 82nd Device Research Conference
- ECE PhD student Guanglei Zhou received 3rd place in the CADT 2024 poster competition of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
Undergraduate Awards
- Undergraduates Amy Chau (MEMS) and Shivam Singh (BME) won Tau Beta Pi scholarships