Faculty Awards and Honors
2013-2014

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Casey Ankeny, Top 5% Teaching Award
David Frakes, Arizona Innovation Challenge award from the Arizona Commerce Authority for EndoVantage
Vikram Kodibagkar, National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER Award)

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) President’s Award
Selçuk Candan, Top 5% Teaching Award
Wing Cheng, Top 5% Teaching Award
Georgios Fainekos, National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award, or CAREER Award
Subbarao Kambhampati, elected president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Top 5% Teaching Award
Yann-Hang Lee, Top 5% Teaching Award
Huan Liu, ASU President’s Award for Innovation to Huan Liu, Fred Morstatter and Shamanth Kumar for “Empowering Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief with Social Media and Data Analytics
Ross Maciejewski, U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation for his work on the Port Resilience for Operatonal/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism Team (PROTECT)
Ryan Meuth, Top 5% Teaching Award
Douglas Montgomery, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Honorary Member
Greg Nielson, Visualization Career Award from the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community
Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, appointed to U.S. National Science Board; selected as a 2013 Fellow of the National Academies of Inventors
Ming Zhao, National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award, or CAREER Award

Selected Best Paper Awards

Gail-Joon Ahn, Best Paper Award at the Fourth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2014) in San Antonio, TX for “RiskMon: Continuous and Automated Risk Assessment and Mobile Applications”
IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering Best Paper Award to Shuai Huang, Jing Li, Kewei Chen, Teresa Wu, Jieping Ye, Xia Wu and Li Yao for “A Transfer Learning Approach for Network Modeling”
Yafeng Lu and Feng Wang (Ross Maciejewski, Advisor) received the Visual Analytics Science and Technology Challenge award for their work entitled “Excellent Visual Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data”
Lydia Manikonda, Tathagata Chakraborty, S. De, K. Talamadupula and Subbarao Kambhampati received the Systems Demonstration People’s Choice Award for “AI Mix: How a Planner can Help Guide Humans Towards a Better Crowdsourced Plan” at the Int’l. Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2014)
Jieping Ye, Best Paper, KDD (Knowledge, Discovery & Data Mining) Conference 2013, “Querying Discriminative and Representative Samples for Batch Mode Active Learning”

James Aberle, Top 5% Teaching Award
Bertan Bakkaloglu, Top 5% Teaching Award
Chaitali Chakrabarti, Top 5% Teaching Award
Douglas Cochran, Top 5% Teaching Award
Rodolfo Diaz, Top 5% Teaching Award
Stephen Goodnick, Top 5% Teaching Award
Michael Goryll, Top 5% Teaching Award
Kory Hedman, Top 5% Teaching Award
Jennifer Kitchen, Top 5% Teaching Award
Stephen Phillips, IEEE appointee to ABET Board of Directors
Martin Reisslein, IEEE Fellow
Lalitha Sankar, National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER Award)
Nongjian (NJ) Tao, winner, Fourth Annual Innovation Award from Microscopy Today
Vijay Vittal, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Advisory Council

James Adams, Fulton Engineering 2014 Teaching Excellence Award
Panos Artemiadis, AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Candace Chan, Faculty Achievement Awards, award for Best Innovation
Aditi Chattopadhyay, Regents Professor (2014); Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology
Werner Dahm, Top 5% Teaching Award
Marcus Herrmann, Top 5% Teaching Award
Hanqing Jiang, Faculty Achievement Awards, award for Best Innovation
Stephen Krause, 2014 William Elgin Wickenden Award of the American Society for Engineering Education
Nathan Newman, IEEE Fellow
Pedro Peralta, Neutron Award, Thermal Mention, from the Advanced Test Reactor National User Science Facility, Nuclear Energy University Program for the poster presentation “Microstructural Effects on Thermal Conductivity of Uranium Oxide: A 3-D Multiphysics Simulation.” By H. Lim†, K. Rudman†; R. McDonald†, K. Krishnan†; P. Peralta, P. Dickerson, D. Byler, C. Stanek; K. McClellan. Summer 2013, Idaho Falls, ID
Kaushal Rege, ASP New Investigator Awards
Kiran Solanki, Air Force Young Investigator Research Program; Orr Early Career Award, Materials Division of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Robert Wang, Air Force Young Investigator Research Program

Keith Hjelmstad, Engineers Week 2014 Engineering Educator of the Year
Paul Johnson, Brown and Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award in Remediation; AZ Water Association Nathan Burbank Environmental Educator of the Year; Top 5% Teaching Award
Larry Mays, 2014 Julian Hinds Award
T. Agami Reddy, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Solar Energy Division Yellott Award
Bruce Rittmann, American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) 2014 Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal
Kenn Sullivan, International Facilities Management Association 2013 Educator Award
Pingbo Tang, Recent Alumni Achievement Award, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Enrique Vivoni, 2014 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

Nancy Cooke, Chair, National Academies of Science Committee on the Science of Team Science
Shawn Jordan, National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER Award)
Thomas Schildgen, Fred Hartman Award: National Award of Recognition presented by the International Graphic Arts Education Association, University of Wisconsin – Stout (July 2013)