Awards and Honors

Liane Fitzgerald, director of engineering advising, is one of this year’s two Professional Staff Undergraduate Academic Advising Award winners.  Liane was selected from a group of 20 nominees that included a stellar group from Engineering:  Ashley Blank (MAE), Liane Fitzgerald, Nadine Porter (DPE), Sharon Kaplan (BME), and Nick Wagner (CEE).

Teresa Jordan, the J. Preston Levis Professor of Engineering Emerita (EAS), has been selected to receive the Leopold von Buch Plaque by the German Geological Association, given to one person each year to honor "outstanding overall achievements in the geosciences." The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society’s GeoSaxonia 2024, to be held in September in Dresden, Germany.

Emmanuel Giannelis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering (MSE), received the annual Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy Award for his support of the program while serving as Cornell's vice provost for research and innovation.

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor (ECE), Nikhil Garg, assistant professor (ORIE, Cornell Tech), and Rachee Singh, assistant professor (CS), have received Amazon Research Awards. Zhang’s research topic is “A Unified Approach to Tensor Graph Optimization.” Garg received his award for “Recommendation systems in high-stakes settings,” while Singh’s award was for “Accelerating collective communication for distributed ML.”

Shivaun Archer, senior lecturer (BME), has received the 2024 Outstanding Teacher Award from the St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. The award recognizes Archer’s contributions in developing 28 innovative labs across the biomedical engineering curriculum and her deep caring for students.

Christina Lee Yu, assistant professor (ORIE), has received the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award for fundamental contributions at the interface of learning, control and information theory impacting a diverse set of applications.

Rong Yang, assistant professor (CBE), has been selected to receive a 2023 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award and designation as a Hartwell Investigator. The Hartwell competition funds early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research to benefit children. Yang will be introduced at the 2024 Hartwell Annual Meeting Biomedical Research, scheduled for September 22-25 at Duke University.

David Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies (ORIE), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. He was honored for distinguished contributions to combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and the theory and applications of data science, and for leadership.

Esak (Isaac) Lee, assistant professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences (BME), has received an NSF Early CAREER Award for his project titled “Cancer-associated secondary lymphedema on-chip.”

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor (ECE), and his students received the Best Paper Award at FPGA 2024 for their work "Formal Verification of Source-to-Source Transformations for HLS." This is a joint effort with Colorado State University.