NSF CAREER Award Winners

The NSF CAREER program offers the most prestigious awards in support of early career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent teaching and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. As of 2023, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has received over 100 NSF CAREER Awards.

2024

R. KōnaneBay
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Polymer Fabrication Research

LaurelHind
Chemical and Biological Engineering | Biomedical Engineering Program

Advancing Immune Response Research

ZacharySunberg
Aerospace | Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV)

Advancing AI for Autonomous Systems

2023

Allie Anderson

Carson Bruns

Longji Cui

Ankur Gupta

Joel Izraelevitz

Orit Peleg

Yida Zhang

2022


Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Nonsmooth Control Systems for Societal Networks


Computer Science

Reinforcement Learning

Eric Wustrow
Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Combating Censorship from within the Network

2021

Kyri Baker
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Addressing Grid Optimization Problems

Xudong Chen
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Better Control of Large Networked Systems

Sherri Cook
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Sustainable Solutions to Wicked Water Problems

Shu-Wei Huang
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Imagingto Catch Early Osteoarthritis

Marco Nicotra
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Hypersampled Model Predictive Control

2020

Fatemeh Pourahmadian​
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

2019

Taylor Barton
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Analog-Assisted Transceivers for Next-Generation Millimeter-Wave Systems

Peter Hamlington
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Structure and Dynamics of Highly Turbulent Premixed Combustion

Tomoko Matsuo
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Predictability of the Whole Atmosphere from Ground to Geospace

Tam Vu
Former Computer Science faculty

Earable Systems: Enabling Ear-worn Sensing and Actuating Systems for Health Care and Brain-Computer Interactions

Tam Vu

2018

Jerome M. Fox
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Biosynthesis and Evolution of Pharmaceutical Leads

Alexandra Kolla
Computer Science

Overcoming limitations to approximating combinatorial optimization problems

RongLong
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Fracture Mechanics of Soft Dissipative Materials

2017

JordanBoyd-Graber
Former ϳԹ Computer Science faculty

Human-Computer Cooperation for Word-by-Word Question Answering

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Shaun Kane
Computer Science

A New Interaction Model for Eyes-Free Exploration of Touch Screens

EricKeller
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Stateless Network Functions: Building a Better Network through Disaggregation

FranckVernerey
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)Awarded in 2017

2016

Juliet Gopinath
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Optical Vortices and Rotation

Khurram Afridi
FormerϳԹ electrical, computer and energy engineering faculty

High-Frequency Power Electronics for Wireless Power Transfer Systems

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Michael R. Shirts
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Understanding the thermodynamics of crystalline materials using advanced molecular simulation sampling methods

2015

AaronClauset
Computer Science

Hierarchical Probabilistic Models for Networks with Rich Data in Scientific Domains

ShidehDashti
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Toward a New Paradigm in Evaluating and Mitigating Urban Liquefaction

AlirezaDoostan
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Fast Surrogate Modeling for Design under Uncertainty of Complex Engineering Systems

JoelKaar
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Rational Engineering of an Ionic Liquid Tolerant Cellulase Cocktail

CoreyNeu
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Direct Measurement of Intranuclear Strain and Gene Expression in Single Cells in Vivo*

Corey Neu

GregRieker
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Frequency Comb Laser Diagnostics for Combustion Environments

FernandoRosario-Ortiz
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Impact of Effluent Organic Matter on Photochemical Processes in Surface Waters

Benjamin Shapiro
Former Computer Science faculty

Constructing Modern and Inclusive Trajectories for Computer Science Learning

Ben Shapiro

Pei Hsiu Tom Yeh
Computer Science

AdaptiveTactile Picture Books for Blind Children during Emergent Literacy