Faculty awards and honors 2016-17
Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from August 2016 through January 2017.
Rizwan Ahmad, research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Orlando P. Simonetti, professor of cardiovascular medicine and radiology, received a two-year $423,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their work creating technology measuring blood oxygen levels in real time without needing to break the skin.
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Sheikh Akbar and Associate Professor Patricia Morris are building better sensors to detect potentially hazardous gasses with the help of $732,975 from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research.
Bhavik Bakshi, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, was appointed as the Richard M. Morrow Endowed Chair in chemical engineering.
Güzin Bayraksan, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, received a National Science Foundation grant for her work in stochastic programming. She was also the recipient of the INFORMES ENRE Best Publication Award in Environment and Sustainability.
Industrial and Systems Engineering Associate Professors Güzin Bayraksan and Ramteen Sioshansi and Professor Antonio Conejo were awarded a Sustainable and Resilient Economy Seed Grant for their work studying design and operation of energy and water infrastructures under disasters.
Paul Berger, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Bharat Bhushan, Ohio Eminent Scholar and the Howard D. Winbigler Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, published a new book Biophysics of Skin and Its Treatments.
Tarunjit Butalia, research associate professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was awarded the Luminosa Award for Unity from the Focolare Movement.
Chi-Chih Chen, research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association.
Yuejie Chi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical informatics, received a $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research building a unified framework to manage data more strategically.
Hanna Cho, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was received the Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Ann Christy, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, received the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Excellence in College and University Teaching Award.
Ann Christy, professor of food, agriculture and biological engineering; Mark Ruegsegger, associate professor of biomedical engineering; and Robert Siston, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, were chosen for their exceptional teaching to serve as mentors in the university’s Faculty FIT program.
Antonio Conejo, professor of industrial and systems engineering, and electrical and computer engineering, recently had his book, “Investment in Electricity Generation and Transmission,” published.
Four Materials Science and Engineering faculty are leading or contributing to more than $12 million in Department of Energy-funded research focused on advancing vehicle sustainability. Professor Glenn Daehn and his team received $2.7 million from the Department of Energy to continue their work developing technology to create multi-material lightweight vehicles. Assistant Professor Jenifer Locke will work with Arconic and Honda on a breakthrough resistance spot riveting (RSR) method to join aluminum and steel. DNV Designated Chair Gerald Frankel and Locke will partner with PPG Industries to develop new coating and adhesives that enable carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic/aluminum closure panels and validate corrosion testing methods. Also, Professor Alan Luo will team up with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership to investigate the use of magnesium sheet for vehicle applications.
Tamal Dey and Prasun Sinah, professors of computer science and engineering, along with Eylem Ekici, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Carol Smidts, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, were named Fellows by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
Carol Duhigg, program coordinator for electrical and computer engineering, was named 2016 Campus Alumni Relations Liaison of the Year by The Ohio State University Alumni Association.
Hesham El Gamal, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named a 2016 Highly Sited Researcher by Thomas Rueters for the third year in a row.
Daniel Gallego-Perez, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received $230,000 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his research developing novel cell therapies. He also received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for this DiaComp Pilot program.
Nima Ghalichechian, research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a $40,000 grant for his research of radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical and microsystems from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
Maryam Ghazisaeidi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received $365,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Young Investigator Research Program for her alloy systems research.
Tyler Grassman, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and Steven Ringel, professor and Neal Smith Endowed Chair of electrical and computer engineering, received $1.125 million from the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for their research improving the efficiency of solar cells.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, professor and chair of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, received the Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation for her contributions to the field of satellite navigation. She also received a prestigious award for her outstanding accomplishments in the field of geodetic science and engineering named after University of Warmia and Mazury former professor Lubomir W. Baran.
Abhishek Gupta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $174,994 National Science Foundation grant for his work on protecting internet-connected control systems.
Levent Guvenc, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Bilin Aksun Guvenc, visiting professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Center for Automotive Research, and Keith Redmill, assistant clinical professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $200,000 CPS EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the Smart Shuttle.
Ryan Harne, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was awarded the 2016 Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
John Horack, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy, has been appointed vice editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Society of Astronautics.
Thomas Hund, biomedical engineering associate professor, was awarded a $65,000 grant from the Saving tiny Hearts Society for his work studying congenital heart defects in children.
Emre Koksal, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his student won third place in an app design competition at the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference.
Steve Lavender and Carolyn Sommerich, associate professors of industrial and systems engineering, received a Midmark grant for their work assessing the effects of equipment and layout of exam rooms.
Kevin Liu, research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a $317,893 Communications and Information Foundations grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new distributed algorithmic techniques for enhancing the use of next-generation complex networks.
Alan Lou, professor of materials science and engineering, was recognized for outstanding scholarship in the field of new material design methodology and honored at in international computational thermodynamics and materials conference in Japan.
Industrial and Systems Engineering Professors William Marras, Phil Smith and Dave Woods, along with Associate Professors Steve Lavender and Carolyn Sommerich, and Assistant Professor Mike Rayo were awarded a five-year Training Project Grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Lavander, Marras and Sommerich also received a two-year grant from the Ohio BWC Research Grant Program to investigate methods of firefighter-paramedics handling heavy patients.
Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Steven Niezgoda and Professor Yunzhi Wang received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore ways to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants.
Andre Palmer, professor and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was awarded three grants totaling $5.5 million from the National Institutes of Health for his research of oxygen delivery to tissue-engineered constructs and work to create a safer and more viable red blood cell substitutes.
Dhabaleswar K. Panda, professor of computer science and engineering (CSE), was chosen as principal investigator of the project “Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network” thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation. CSE research scientists Xiaoyi Lu and Hari Subramoni will serve as co-principal investigators for the project. CSE research scientist Khaled Hamidouche also is a key member of the team.
Halil Sezen, professor of structural engineering, was named Educator of the Year by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and an American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow for his contributions to scholarship and service.
Abdollah Shafieezadeh, professor of civil engineering, and his team are improving the speed and accuracy of which officials can predict a hurricane’s impact on structures, communities and power grids with the support of two National Science Foundation Grants totaling more than $1 million.
Jonathan W. Song, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded an $100,000 Pelotonia Idea Grant for his research, “3-D View of Micro-Environment to Study Development of Advanced Cancer.”
Haijun Su, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received a $977,778 award from the National Science Foundation to support his research to greatly improve the safety of co-robotic systems. Su is joined by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professors Marcelo Dapino and Junmin Wang as co-principal investigators.
Charles Toth, research professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, received the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Schwidefsky Medal for his contributions to the field of photogrammetric theory and practice.
Junmin Wang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and his multidisciplinary team received a four-year $800,000 National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems award for the project, “CPS: Synergy: Cyber-Human Vehicle Systems for Driving Safety Enhancement.”
An interdisciplinary team of Ohio State engineering and physics researchers received a three-year $1.071 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop new equipment capable of discovering novel magnetic resonance phenomena. Led by Fengyuan Yang, professor of physics, the research team includes P. Chris Hammel, professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics; John Volakis, professor of electrical and computer engineering; Joseph Heremans, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and physics; Rolando Valdes Aguilar, assistant professor of physics; Zeke Johnston-Halperin, associate professor of physics; and Denis Pelekhov, director of the NanoSystems Laboratory.
Rama Yedavalli, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Materials Science and Engineering Associate Professor Wei Zhang, along with Professors Yunzhi Wang and Antonio Ramirez, were awarded a $500,000 Early Stage Innovations grant from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program to advance additive manufacturing.
Wei Zhang, associate professor of welding engineering, was awarded the American Welding Society’s Adams Memorial Membership Award.
Yuan Zheng, professor of electrical and computer engineering and a leader in robotics research, was named Ohio State’s 2016 Innovator of the Year.
