Faculty awards and honors
Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from August 2019 through January 2020.
Lisa Abrams, associate chair of engineering education, earned the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers’ Outstanding Engineering Educator Award.
Igor Adamovich, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, leads a collaborative research center, supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, focused on the advancement of plasma science. Ohio State will receive $1.2 million of the muti-institutional center’s five-year, $3 million award.
College of Engineering faculty Anant Agarwal (ECE), Nima Ghalichechian (ECE), Abhishek Gupta (ECE), Lisa Hall (CBE) and Alan Luo (MSE) received inaugural research awards from the IIT Bombay-Ohio State Frontier Science and Engineering Research Center’s Frontier Center Scholars Program.
Shamsul Arafin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Vicky Doan-Nguyen, assistant professor of materials science and engineering; Joerg Jinschek, associate professor of materials science and engineering; Roberto Myers, professor of materials science and engineering; and Ruike Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; each received $40,000 grants for nascent and innovative materials research through The Ohio State University Materials Research Seed Grant Program
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Bhavik Bakshi received two of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' most prestigious awards in environmental and sustainable engineering—the AIChE Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering and the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award.
Integrated Systems Engineering Associate Professor Güzin Bayraksan has been elected chair of the Stochastic Programming Society.
Ohio Eminent Scholar of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Bharat Bhushan received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tyumen, Russia.
Knowlton School Professor of Architecture Beth Blostein and Lecturer Bart Overly received an Honor Award for Out of Town as one of the best-designed buildings in Columbus at the 2019 AIA Columbus Architecture Awards.
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Zhenhua Chen received an Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) research grant of $174,908 to study the impact of distracted driving on the severity and frequency of vehicle crashes in the United States.
Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering Enam Chowdhury recently won a $410,000 Department of Energy (DOE) award under the High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas program to develop ultrahigh intensity diagnostics for LaserNetUS facilities.
Professor Jennifer Clark has been named the next section head of city and regional planning.
Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty members Bradley Clymer, Tawfiq Musah, Lee Potter, Andrea Serrani, Fernando Teixeira and Saeedeh Ziaeefard received Spring 2019 Outstanding Teacher awards from the ECE department.
Integrated Systems Engineering Professor Antonio Conejo was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Stuart Cooper has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society Polymer Division.
Monica Cox, chair of engineering education, leads a team that received $1,031,700 from the Kern Family Foundation for the “Institutionalization and Expansion of Entrepreneurially Minded Learning from the First-Year to Capstone” project. Co-investigators include engineering education faculty members Lisa Abrams, Krista Kecskemety and Rachel Kajfez. Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Professor Gonul Kaletunc leads a team that also received $100,000 from the foundation for “Expanding Integration of Entrepreneurial Minded Learning: Faculty Learning Communities for Improving Mentoring Skills.” Co-investigators include Cox, Kalish as well as faculty members Rachel Kleit and Ann Christy.
Monica Cox, chair of engineering education, published a new book, Demystifying the Engineering PhD.
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Glenn Daehn received the 2019 Charles S. Barrett Silver Medal from the Colorado School of Mines.
Karen C. Dannemiller, assistant professor in civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, received a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for her research on novel indicators of mold growth in homes.
Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Vicky Doan-Nguyen received the Standford R. Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship from the American Physical Society for substantial contribution to the advancement of synthesis and in-situ local structure probes of energy storage and energy conversion materials.
Engineering Education Assistant Professors Emily Dringenberg and Rachel Kajfez received $574,270 through the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Core Research Program to investigate how different pathways intended to increase diversity in engineering may fail due to unintended negative influences on students’ beliefs and identities.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor L.-S. Fan has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Hamish Fraser received ASM International's 2019 Henry Marion Howe Medal.
Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Daniel Gallego-Perez has received a $250,000 grant from the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation to develop novel therapies for Alzheimer’s disease by harnessing the power of skin-derived stem cells.
Associate Dean for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska was nominated to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) by President Donald J. Trump.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Liang Guo and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Renee Zhao received $330,000 from Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to miniaturize an implantable insulin pump to work automatically within the body. ECE Professor Asimina Kiourti is also a collaborator.
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Ryan Harne received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of adaptive structures and material systems.
Landscape Architecture Professor Dorothée Imbert has been named the new director of the Knowlton School, beginning autumn semester 2020. She was also named one of the 25 Most Admired Educators in 2019 by DesignIntelligence.
Waleed Khalil, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is co-director of two new joint Centers of Excellence conducting multidisciplinary research in the area of hardware-enabled cybersecurity through innovation and development of new AMS domain security. The centers received a $6 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Nimbis Services to support their work.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emre Koksal received the 2019 BizTech "Inventor of the Year" award from Columbus Business First.
Sanjay Krishna, George R. Smith Chair in Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, earned the 2020 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award for his pioneering work and impact in the infrared field.
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Alan Luo leads team that received $535,000 from the Reducing EMbodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute for two recycling efficiency projects. Luo also received The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Light Metals Division Technology Award for outstanding long-term service to the light metals industry.
Randy Moses, senior associate vice president for research administration and professor of electrical and computer engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the field of signal processing, with applications to spectral analysis, array signal processing and radar imaging.
City and Regional Planning Assistant Professor Yasuyuki Motoyama’s book From Innovation to Entrepreneurship: Connectivity-based Regional Development was published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Andre F. Palmer has been named a Fenburr Ohio Eminent Scholar.
Kevin Passino, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led the new Mental Health @ OSU Conference last summer.
Biomedical Engineering Professors Devina Purmessur and Natalia Higuita-Castro lead an interdisciplinary team that received a one-year, $368,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R61 award to investigate novel minimally invasive and non-addictive therapies for low back pain.
Judit Puskas, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, was named one of four Distinguished Professors of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Assistant Professor Eduardo Reátegui and Professor Emeritus L. James Lee received a $821,000 first-phase grant from the Common Fund of the National Institutes for Health. It will support the study of extracellular vesicles—different types of nanometer-sized particles naturally secreted by both healthy and cancerous cells.
Steven Ringel, professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) was named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Alan Ritter received a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for his research in natural language processing.
Center for Automotive Research Director Giorgio Rizzoni has been appointed to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) COMVEC™ Executive Council.
Cynthia Roberts, professor of biomedical engineering, received the Lans Distinguished Lecturer Award from the International Society of Refractive Surgery for innovative contributions to the field of refractive surgery, especially in the correction of astigmatism.
Ramteen Sioshansi, a professor of integrated systems engineering, leads a core team of faculty from across the university on a $2.98 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant to develop and implement bold, transformative models for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate education training.
Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Huan Sun received approximately $499,000 in funding from the Army Research Office for her research on advancing human and machine question answering via human-machine collaboration.
Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Ben Walter's investigation of novel therapies for low back pain has earned a two-year National Institutes of Heath (NIH) R21 award. Collaborators include Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Carlos Castro and Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Derek Hansford.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Scientist Eric Walton won the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association’s Honorary Life Membership Award for his distinguished work in antenna and radar technology.
Yunzhi Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, received The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) Cyril Stanley Smith Award for outstanding contributions to the science and technology of materials structure and the 2020 TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award for long-lasting contribution to design, syntheses, processing, and performance of engineering materials with significant industrial applications.
Marvin White, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was honored with the Pioneering Achievement Award from the International Image Sensor Society.
David B. Williams, dean of the College of Engineering, was selected to receive an Honorary Fellowship by the council of the Royal Microscopical Society for preeminence in microscopy and related branches of science.
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Rama Yedavalli’s new textbook, Flight Dynamics and Control of Aero and Space Vehicles, was published by Wiley.
