Research Excellence Awards

Research Excellence Awards were first established in 2015 to recognize the importance of leadership in innovative research.

2022 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
RecipientPeter McMahonDepartment

AEP

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Francesco Monticone

Department

ECE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Jin Suntivich

Department

MSE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Damek Davis

Department

ORIE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Grace Xing

Department

MSE/ECE
joint appointment

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Matt DeLisa

Department

CBE

Rank

Professor

2021 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
RecipientKhurram AfridiDepartment

ECE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Joel Brock

Department

AEP

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Greeshma Gadikota

Department

CEE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Lena Kourkoutis

Department

AEP

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Kirstin Petersen

Department

ECE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

David Shmoys

Department

ORIE

Rank

Professor

2020 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Iwijn De Vlaminck

Department

BME

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Christina Delimitrou

Department

ECE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Madeleine R. Udell

Department

ORIE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Gregory D. Fuchs

Department

AEP

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Hadas Kress-Gazit

Department

MAE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Minglin Ma

Department

BEE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Silvia Ferrari

Department

MAE

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Christopher K. Ober

Department

MSE

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Jie Shan

Department

AEP

Rank

Professor

2019 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Damian E. Helbling

Department

CEE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Mert Sabuncu

Department

ECE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Olivier Desjardins

Department

MAE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Peter I. Frazier

Department

ORIE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Jan Lammerding

Department

BME

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Carla P. Gomes

Department

CS

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Debdeep Jena

Department

MSE

Rank

Professor

2018 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Ludmilla Aristilde

Department

BEE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Ankur Singh

Department

MAE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Chris Schaffer

Department

BME

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Fengqi You

Department

CBE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Patrick Reed

Department

CEE

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Natalie Mahowald

Department

EAS

Rank

Professor

Recipient

David Muller

Department

AEP

Rank

Professor

2017 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Illana Brito

Department

BME

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Robert Shepherd

Department

MAE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

David Bindel

Department

CS

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Susan Daniel

Department

CBE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Geoff Abers

Department

EAS

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Chris Xu

Department

AEP

Rank

Professor

2016 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Christopher A. Alabi

Department

CBE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

C. Lindsay Anderson

Department

BEE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

Department

BME

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Farhan Rana

Department

ECE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Darrell Schlom

Department

MSE

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Bart Selman

Department

CS

Rank

Professor

2015 Award Winners

RecipientDepartmentRank
Recipient

Christopher Battan

Department

ECE

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Nate Foster

Department

CS

Rank

Assist. Professor

Recipient

Brian J. Kirby

Department

MAE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Richard Robinson

Department

MSE

Rank

Assoc. Professor

Recipient

Lawrence Bonassar

Department

BME

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Matthew P. DeLisa

Department

CBE

Rank

Professor

Recipient

Uli B. Wiesner

Department

MSE

Rank

Professor