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, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering

• 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  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or 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  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or 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  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or 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  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or NSF CAREER Award); AFOSR Young investigator Award
• Konrad Rykaczewski  Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium attendees
• Sefaattin Tongay  National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (or 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

• Samuel Ariaratnam  elected ASCE Fellow
• Mikhail Chester  Top 5% Teaching Award
• G. Edward Gibson Jr.  American Society of Civil Engineers 2016 Peurifoy Construction Research Award 
• Ed Kavazanjian  NSF ERC
• Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown  2016 Fulton Facutly Exemplar
• Larry Mays  Fellow, International Water Association; American Society of Civil Engineers Ven Te Chow Award; Academy of Civil Engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Barzin Mobasher  American Concrete Institute (ACI) Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award
• Narayanan Neithalath  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar;  American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
• Kristen Parrish  Top 5% Teaching Award
• Bruce Rittmann  2016 AAEES Gordon Maskew Fair Award; 2016 Perry L. McCarty/AEESP Founders’ Award
• Shane Underwood  Top 5% Teaching Award
• Enrique Vivoni  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
• Paul Westerhoff  2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar, 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor

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