Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. The awards are conferred annually at the White House following recommendations from participating agencies.
| Year | Professor |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Ashutosh Giri* |
Young Investigator and Young Faculty Awards
The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program and DARPA Young Faculty Award are highly competitive awards that support early career academic scientists and engineers who who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.
| DARPA Young Faculty Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Professor | Project |
| 2024 | Yang Lin | Precision in Miniature: Revolutionizing MPS with Digital Acoustofluidics and Nanoscale 3D Printing |
| ONR Young Investigator Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Professor | Project |
| 2021 | Ashutosh Giri* | Unraveling the Microscopic Dynamics of Coupled Energy States in Nanostructures |
| 2021 | Brennan Phillips | Ultralight, Economical, and Adaptable Solutions for Deep-Sea UUVs And Distributed Sensing Using Fiber-Optic Tethers |
| 2020 | Kaushallya (Kay) Adhikari | Information Theoretic Design of Sparse Arrays and Adaptive Algorithms to Maximize Detection in Real Sonar Systems |
| 2017 | Tao Wei* | Sub-Terahertz-Range-Interrogated Fiber-Optic Systems for Distributed Sensing Applications |
DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award
A selective award given to top performers in the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) pool.
| Year | Professor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Yang Lin | Precision in Miniature: Revolutionizing MPS with Digital Acoustofluidics and Nanoscale 3D Printing |
CAREER Awards
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
| Project Start Date | Professor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 06/01/2026 | Irene Andreu | CAREER: Transport and transport effects of magnetic nanoparticles in bacterial biofilms |
| 05/01/2026 | Yang Lin | CAREER: Low-Frequency Acoustic Damping Metamaterials Based on Trapped Bubbles |
| 07/01/2025 | Weiwei Jia | CAREER: Redefining Memory Virtualization in Clouds |
| 06/01/2025 | Reza Abiri | CAREER: “Versatile and high-performance shared autonomy paradigms for assistive and rehabilitation robots” |
| 01/01/2024 | Ryan Poling-Skutvik | CAREER: “Telechelic triblock copolymers as a platform to design functional colloidal gels.” |
| 07/01/2022 | Hui Lin | PARP: Mislead Physical-Disruption Attacks by Preemptive Anti-Reconnaissance for Power Grids Cyber-Physical Infrastructures |
| 04/01/2021 | Joseph Goodwill | Closing the Rural Water and Education Gap with a Simple Advanced Oxidation Process |
| 05/15/2020 | Bin Li* | Wireless Collaborative Mixed Reality Networking: Foundations and Algorithms for Joint Communication, Computation, and Learning |
| 07/01/2019 | Daniel Roxbury | Spectral imaging for sub-cellular nanometrology and nanotoxicology |
| 06/01/2019 | Yi Zheng* | Investigation of Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared Energy Conversion and Cooling |
| 06/01/2017 | Kunal Mankodiya | CPS: Internet of Wearable E-Textiles for Telemedicine |
| 05/01/2014 | Vinka Craver | Bacterial adaptation mechanism to chronic exposure to nanoparticles and its implications to nanomanufacturing and public health |
| 02/15/2012 | He Huang* | Understanding and Analyzing User-Prosthesis Interaction for Designing a Volitional Controller for Powered Lower Limb Prostheses |
| 04/01/2011 | Haibo He | AIS – An Integrated Optimization and Prediction Framework for Machine Intelligence based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming |
| 02/15/2011 | Geoffrey Bothun | Nanoparticle-Bacterial Membrane Interactions and their Role in Nanotoxicology |
| 02/01/2007 | Yan Sun | Building Trust in Distributed Networks: Theories, Architecture and Applications |
| 06/01/2005 | Frederick Vetter* | Novel Engineering Analyses of Cardiac Hypertrophy |
| 02/01/2003 | David Chelidze | Phase Space Warping and Stochastic Interrogation: A New Paradigm for Damage Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Other Notable Recognitions
| Year | Professor | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ryan Poling-Skutvik | Cottrell Scholar |
| 2024 | Musa Jouaneh | IEEE Outstanding Teaching |
| 2023 | Arun Shukla | Daniel C. Drucker Medal |