# Faculty Awards& Distinctions

**Source**: https://engineering.rice.edu/research-faculty/faculty-awards-distinctions
**Parent**: https://engineering.rice.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/undergraduate-research

# **Faculty Awards** & Distinctions

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### Academy Members

#### National Academy of Engineering

- **Pedro J.J. Alvarez**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Richard Baraniuk**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Reginald DesRoches**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Menachem Elimelech**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Abbas Firoozabadi**, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- **Gene Frantz**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Naomi J. Halas**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **George J. Hirasaki**, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- **Karen Lozano**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Tony Mikos**, Bioengineering
- **Ramamoorthy Ramesh**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Rebecca Richards-Kortum**, Bioengineering
- **Pol Spanos**, Mechanical Engineering
- **Richard Tapia**, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
- **Moshe Y. Vardi**, Computer Science

#### National Academy of Sciences

- **Naomi J. Halas**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Ramamoorthy Ramesh**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Rebecca Richards-Kortum**, Bioengineering
- **Moshe Y. Vardi**, Computer Science

#### National Academy of Medicine

- **Lydia Kavraki**, Computer Science
- **Tony Mikos**, Bioengineering

#### National Academy of Inventors

- **Pulickel Ajayan**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Richard Baraniuk**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Naomi J. Halas**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Karen Lozano**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Tony Mikos**, Bioengineering
- **Satish Nagarajaiah**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Rebecca Richards-Kortum**, Bioengineering
- **Ashutosh Sabharwal**, Electrical and Computer Engineering

#### American Academy of Arts and Sciences

- **Pedro J.J. Alvarez**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Richard Baraniuk**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Reginald DesRoches**, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **Naomi J. Halas**, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Lydia Kavraki**, Computer Science
- **Tony Mikos**, Bioengineering
- **Ramamoorthy Ramesh**, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
- **Rebecca Richards-Kortum**, Bioengineering
- **Pol Spanos**, Mechanical Engineering
- **Richard Tapia**, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
- **Moshe Y. Vardi**, Computer Science

#### NAE Emeritus Members

- **Robert Bixby**, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
- **Ronald Nordgren**, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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### NSF CAREER Award Recipients

- **2024:** Nai-Hui Chia, computer science; Konstantinos Mamouras, computer science; Amanda Marciel, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Santiago Segarra, electrical and computer engineering and statistics;
- **2023:** Songtao Chen, electrical and computer engineering; Taiyun Chi, electrical and computer engineering; Yimo Han, materials science and nanoengineering; Kaiyu Hang, computer science; Lauren Stadler, civil and environmental engineering; Todd Treangen, computer science; and Hanyu Zhu, materials science and nanoengineering.
- **2022:** Nathan Dautenhahn, Computer Science; Xue (Sherry) Gao, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Anastasios Kyrillidis, Computer Science; Daniel Preston, Mechanical Engineering; Thomas Senftle, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Geoff Wehmeyer, Mechanical Engineering; Kaiyuan Yang, Electrical Engineering; Vicky Yao, Computer Science
- **2021:** Pedram Hassanzadeh, Mechanical Engineering; Yingyan Lin, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Vicente Ordóñez-Román, Computer Science; Akane Sano, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **2020:** Jesse Chan, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research; Ang Chen, Computer Science
- **2019:** Matthew Brake, Mechanical Engineering
- **2017:** Anshumali Shrivastava, Computer Science; Ashok Veeraraghavan, Computer Science
- **2016:** Aydin Babakhani, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Xaq Pitkow, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Genevera Allen, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Jeffrey Tabor, Bioengineering
- **2014:** Caleb Kemere, Electrical and Computer Engineering Isabell Thomann, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rafael Verduzco, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- **2013:** Laura Segatori, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- **2011:** Jamie Padgett, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Lin Zhong, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Swarat Chaudhuri, Computer Science
- **2010:** Junghae Suh, Bioengineering
- **2009:** Lisa Biswal, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Daniel Cohan, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Oleg Igoshin, Bioengineering; Luay Nakhleh, Computer Science
- **2008:** Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **2007:** Michael Diehl, Bioengineering; Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- **2006:** Andrew Schaefer, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
- **2005:** Robert Raphael, Bioengineering; Scott Rixner, Computer Science; Eugene Ng, Computer Science
- **2004:** Marcia O’Malley, Mechanical Engineering
- **2003:** Laura Schaefer, Mechanical Engineering
- **2002:** Robert Griffin, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Jianpeng Ma, Bioengineering, Junichiro Kono, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **2001:** Matteo Pasquali, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Marina Vannucci, Statistics
- **2000:** Dan Wallach, Computer Science
- **1999:** Satish Nagarajaiah, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- **1998:** Edward Knightly, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **1997:** Lydia Kavraki, Computer Science
- **1995:** David Johnson, Computer Science; Pedro Alvarez, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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### **Faculty Awards** & Distinctions by Year

- [2023-24](https://engineering.rice.edu/research-faculty/faculty-awards-distinctions/faculty-awards-2023-24)
- [2022-23](https://engineering.rice.edu/research-faculty/faculty-awards-distinctions/faculty-awards-2022-23)
- [2021-22](https://engineering.rice.edu/research-faculty/faculty-awards-distinctions/faculty-awards-2021-22)