Faculty awards and honors

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Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from August 2017 through January 2018.

Bhavik Bakshi, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Jeff Bielicki, assistant professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, and Jay Martin, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, were awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a team that examines the possible effects of deglobablization and model scenarios that might play out in the Midwest.

Guzin Bayraksan, associate professor of integrated systems engineering, was awarded the INFORMS Volunteer Service Award at the Distinguished level for her service in 2016-2017 in providing exceptional service as the vice chair of optimization under uncertainty.

Bharat Bhushan, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Howard D. Winbigler Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, published the fourth edition of the Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology.

Jacob Boswell, assistant professor of landscape architecture, and Justin Parscher, assistant professor of practice of landscape architecture, received an honorable mention in the 2017 LA+ IMAGINATION Design Ideas Competition for their design A Fraudulent Atoll. Boswell also won an honorable mention for a collaborative design with senior landscape architecture student Marty Koelsch titled The Black Swamp Armada.

Zhenhua Chen, assistant professor of city and regional planning, published his book, Big Data for Regional Science.

Katrina Cornish, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, received the A. E. Thompson Career Achievement Award at the 2017 International Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops Conference.

Marcelo Dapino, Honda R&D Americas Chair and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and the Smart Vehicle Concepts Center were granted a five-year funding renewal. Center researchers conduct scholarly research on smart materials applied to ground and aerospace vehicles. 

Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, associate professor of biomedical engineering and surgery, led the “Superhydrophobic Heart Valve Prosthesis” project which received a four-year, $2.9 million R01 award from the National Institutes of Health. He also won a grant for over $228,000 for two years from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Superomniphobic Flow Controlled Prosthetic Heart Valve.”

Tamal Dey, professor of computer science and engineering and mathematics, Facundo Memoli, associate professor of computer science and engineering and mathematics, and Yusu Wang, professor of computer science and engineering, led a team that received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to leverage geometry and topology to address challenges inherent with increasingly complex data.

Liang-Shih Fan, C J Easton Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received AIChE's 2017 Ansys Particle Technology Forum Service Award, which recognizes lifetime outstanding scientific/technical contributions to the field of particle technology. 

Gerald Frankel, Det Norske Veritas Chair and professor of materials science and engineering, was named Mentor of the Year by The Ohio State University Postdoctoral Advisory Council.

Todd Gannon, section head of architecture, published his book, Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech.

Samir Ghadiali, professor of biomedical engineering, has been named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering effective September 1, 2018.

Nima Ghalichechian, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a three-year $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance wireless communication.

Perena Gouma, professor of materials science and engineering, was named Edward Orton, Jr., Chair in Ceramic Engineering.

Tyler Grassman, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering, led a team of faculty from across the college that was awarded an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation toward the acquisition of a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope.

Jianjun Guan, associate professor of materials science and engineering, received $1.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to devise injectable therapies that could make recoveries shorter and lives longer.

Richard T. Hart, Edgar C. Hendrickson Designated Professor and chair of biomedical engineering, received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his outstanding service and commitment to the society.

W.S. Winston Ho, distinguished professor of engineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and his research group received $71,364 in funding from the Office of Technology Commercialization's Accelerator Awards program to advance their spiral-wound membrane module for gas separation.

David Hoelzle, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won the National Science Foundation Scalable Nanomanufacturing for Integrated Systems Award and $1.5 million in funding to develop an autonomous manufacturing framework that learns on the job.

John M. Horack, Neil A. Armstrong Chair of Aerospace Policy and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named the co-chair of International Astronautical Federation Select Committee on Satellite Commercial Applications.

Dee Jepsen, associate professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, was named president of the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health.

Jason Kentner, associate professor of practice of landscape architecture, received a Merit Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for his Pizzuti Collection Sculpture Garden.

Asimina Kiourti, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Vibhor Krishna, assistant professor of neurological surgery, and Zheng Joyce Wang, professor of communication, were awarded a $395,556 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance wireless neural implant technology.

Sanjay Krishna, George R. Smith Chair in Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his team of students won a potential $3 million in grant funding via the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office.

Jesus J. Lara, associate professor of city and regional planning, published his book, Latino Placemaking and Planning: Cultural Resiliency and Strategies for Reurbanization.

Jun Liu, professor of biomedical engineering and ophthalmology, and Cynthia Roberts, professor of biomedical engineering, ophthalmology and surgery, received a $1.925 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the separate effects of corneal stiffness and intraocular pressure (IOP) on the biomechanical assessment of the eye.

Randy Moses, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named senior associate vice president for research for The Ohio State University.

Erdal Ozkan, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Andre Palmer, chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was awarded a fourth four-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for $2.8 million for his work on engineering PEGylated earthworm hemoglobin as a safe and efficacious red blood cell substitute for use in transfusion medicine.

Siddharth Rajan, associate professor of materials science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering, won the prestigious Young Investigator Award at the 33rd North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Kubilay Sertel, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a three-year $450,000 National Science Foundation grant for his research proposal, “Compact Polarimetric THz Sensor for Reflectometric Imaging” and a NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant for $225,000 to develop automated and non-invasive testing of high-frequency integrated circuits.

Haijun Su, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, biomedical engineering and ophthalmology, won the Lois Hagelberger-Huebner Young Investigator Award from the Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation.

Longya Xu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, won the prestigious Nikola Tesla Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Wei Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, was named the CrowdFlower AI for Everyone Challenge winner for her project “LanguageNet,” which will create multilingual data and enable deep learning techniques for cutting-edge natural language processing research.

Rama Yedavalli, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named the recipient of the Platinum Jubilee Award by the Indian Institute of Science.

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