Faculty Awards and Honors
2015-2016

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

  • David Brafman  Women & Philanthropy Award; Mayo-ASU seed grant; R21 Grant; AZ Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium Grant
  • Christopher Buneo  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Jeffrey Kleim  Top 5% Teaching Award; 2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
  • Scott Parazynski  inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame
  • Marco Santello  NSF Brain I/UCRC (co-PI); NIH R21; Grainger Foundation Award; NSF Grant
  • Sydney Schaefer  NIH KO1; Admin Supplement to existing NIH Grant

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

  • Gail-Joon Ahn  Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); 2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
  • Ron Askin  2016 Distinguished Alumni for Excellence in Academia from Lehigh University
  • Linda Chattin  A. Alan B. Pritsker Outstanding Industrial Engineering Teacher Award
  • Adam Doupé  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Gerald Farin  Emeritus Faculty Award (posthumous)
  • Sandeep Gupta  Founding EIC Elsevier Smart Health
  • Jingrui He  NSF CAREER Award; IBM Faculty Award
  • Ihan (Sharon) Hsiao  Young Researcher Award
  • Dijiang Huang  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Subbarao Kambhampati  Became the president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; was the program chair for the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Karthik Kumar  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Huan Liu  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar; CIDSE Best Researcher Senior Faculty; WWW2016 Best Poster Award
  • Ross Maciejewski  CIDSE Best Researcher Junior Faculty
  • Ryan Meuth  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Phillip Miller  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Pitu Mirchandani  Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Brian Nelson  Best app-based game and Overall Second Prize for Weather Trouble; European Game-based Learning Conference
  • Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan  Appointed to National Academy of Inventors board
  • Jorge Sefair  2015 ICS Student Paper Prize
  • Paulo Shakarian  2016 Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
  • Hanghang Tong  Ten Year Highest Impact Paper Award; IEEE ICDM (International Conference on Data Mining) 2015
  • Sarma Vrudhula  Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Erin Walker  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Teresa Wu  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
  • Guoliang Xue  elected to VP for Conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, 2016-2018; Appointed to the Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE Communications Society, 2016-2019

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

  • Bertan Bakkaloglu Teaching Excellence Award
  • Mariana Bertoni  2016 Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor
  • Jennifer Blain Christen  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or NSF CAREER Award)
  • Douglas Cochran  Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology
  • Yu Cao  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Junseok Chae  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Stephen Goodnick  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Zachary Holman  2016 Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor
  • Michael Kozicki  2016 Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
  • Martin Reisslein  2016 Dresden Senior Fellowship
  • Lalitha Sankar  PI for $1.4M cyber security award jointly funded by the NSF and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) w/ co-PI’s Kory Hedman and Oliver Kosut
  • Brian Skromme  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Andreas Spanias  2015 Honorary Award in Recognition of Scholarly Achievements and Contributions in Computer Science, presented by the University of Pireaus and the UNESCO Club
  • Nongjian Tao  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar; ISE Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry
  • Shimeng Yu  NSF CAREER Award; Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Award
  • Junshan Zhang  ARPA-E Award

School for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy

  • James Adams  2016 Neurological Health Foundation Visionary Award
  • Ron Adrian  Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Panagiotis Artemiadis  Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendee
  • Spring Berman  2016 Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor; Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award
  • Candace Chan  NSF CAREER Award; Humboldt Fellowship
  • Nik Chawla  2016 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  • Werner Dahm  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Lenore Dai  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Tirupalavanam Ganesh  2016 Tooker Professor
  • Matthew Green  2016 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Young Membrane Scientist Award
  • Ximin He  NSF CAREER Award; AFOSR Young investigator Award
  • Konrad Rykaczewski  Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendees
  • Sefaattin Tongay NSF CAREER Award; Top 5% Teaching Award
  • César Torres  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
  • Liping Wang  2016 Elsevier/Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer Raymond Viskanta Award

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

The Polytechnic School

  • Albert Brown  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Adam Carberry  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Nancy Cooke  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar; appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine new Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG); designated a National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Mark Henderson  ASU President’s Professor
  • Kiril Hristovski  Medal of Merit for Macedonia
  • Shawn Jordan  Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendees
  • Jimmy Kimberly  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Micah Lande  2016 Tooker Professor; Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendee
  • Jeremi London  Best Paper Award, 2015 Australian Association for Engineering Education Conference
  • Pavlos Mikellides  Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Mary Niemczyk   Provost’s Teaching Fellow
  • Marc O’Brien Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Thomas E. Schildgen  Illinois State University 2015 College of Applied Science and Technology Hall of Fame; Frederick D. Kagy 2015 Life Achievement Award
  • Angela Sodemann  Top 5% Teaching Award; Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendee
  • Wenlong Zhang  Science Foundation Arizona Bisgrove Scholar Award

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  • Mary Niemczyk, elected Provost’s Teaching Fellow, Provost’s Teaching Academy

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