FACULTY
Our faculty members have been recognized by a string of professional-recognition awards in Engineering and Applied Science.
These include
National Academy of Engineering - 2
NSF Career Awardees – 9
IEEE Fellows – 18
APS Fellows – 6
OSA Fellows – 3
Guggenheim Fellowship – 3
Humboldt Fellowship – 1
Fulbright – 1
Great Teacher Award – 3
and several IEEE and OSA awards.
STUDENTS
In addition to our faculty awards the electrical engineering department is proud of the achievements of our graduates and undergraduate students, many of these achievements are in the form of awards given each year. We list below the most recent winners of department awards.
Graduate Awards
| Armstrong Memorial Award |
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Awarded to one outstanding candidate for the M.S. to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of communications and electronics. |
| 2000-2001 | Stephen Collins |
| 2001-2002 | Shouribrata Chatterjee |
| 2002-2003 | Alberto-Lopez Toledo |
| 2003-2004 | Robert Schell |
| 2004-2005 | Ari Klein |
| 2007-2008 | Xiaoping Liu |
| 2008-2009 | Larry Ning-Nai Chen |
| 2009-2010 |
Baradwaj Vigraham |
| 2010-2011 |
Chengrui Le |
| 2011-2012 |
Pablo Martinez Nuevo |
| Jury Award |
| Established in 1991 for outstanding achievement by a graduate student in the areas of system communication or signal processing. |
| 2001-2002 | Hari Sundaram |
| 2002-2003 | Petar Mocilovic |
| 2003-2004 | Ana Radovanovic |
| 2004-2005 | Glen Cowan |
| 2006-2007 | Kai Yang |
| 2007-2008 | Jian Tan |
| 2008-2009 | Frank Zhang |
| 2009-2010 |
Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis |
| 2010-2011 | Ali Tajer and Jun Wang |
| 2011-2012 | Guido Jajamovich and Chen Gong |
| Millman Award (Outstanding TA) | |
| 2001-2002 | Sumit Chopra and Rita Wouhaybi |
| 2002-2003 | David Schwartz and Sambarta Ghattacharjee |
| 2007-2008 | Eric Zavesky and Wei Jiang |
| 2008-2009 | Jared Roseman and Vincent Lee |
| 2009-2010 |
Berk Birand and Robert Turetsky |
| 2010-2011 |
Jacob Mower and John Sarik |
| 2011-2012 |
Ning Guo and Yitian Gu |
Undergraduate Awards
| Armstrong Memorial Award |
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Awarded to one outstanding B.S. student to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of communications and electronics. |
| 2001-2002 | Nathalia Napitupulu |
| 2002-2003 | Amar Doshi |
| 2003-2004 | Ari Klein |
| 2004-2005 | Guy Sivan |
| 2005-2006 | William McLaughlin |
| 2006-2007 | Justin Foster |
| 2007-2008 | Frank Zovko |
| 2008-2009 | Lennon Lee |
| 2009-2010 | Devanand Suresh Sukhdeo |
| 2010-2011 | She McKeon |
| 2011-2012 | Tao Mai |
| Computer Engineering Award of Excellence | |
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Awarded each year by vote of the Computer Engineering faculty to an outstanding senior in the Computer Engineering program. |
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| 2001-2002 | Andrew Howard |
| 2002-2003 | Meena George |
| 2003-2004 | Boris Mark |
| 2004-2005 | Bogdan Caprita |
| 2005-2006 | David Lau |
| 2006-2007 | Oren Sivan |
| 2007-2008 | Stephen Robinson |
| 2008-2009 | Peter Tsonev |
| 2009-2010 |
Richard Anthony Sampson and Shafee Al Haquee |
| 2010-2011 | Yi-Peng Huang |
| 2011-2012 | David Hughes and Raymond Barker |
| Everitt Student Award | |
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Given to two students who rank in the top 10 percent of their department, have an active interest in telecommunications, and are active in a professional organization. Sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium. |
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| 2001-2002 | Ping Hsin Lee Sambarta Bhattacharjee |
| 2002-2003 | Jonah Paul Tower and Wei Kei/td> |
| 2003-2004 | Scott Arfin and Ting-Hsiang Wu |
| 2004-2005 | Joshua Rubin and David Klaver |
| 2005-2006 | William Wong and Rosanna Ohba |
| 2006-2007 | Suman Ravuri and Hua Gao |
| 2007-2008 | Steven Callendar |
| 2008-2009 | Robert Chen and Nimit Mehta |
| 2009-2010 | Pitcha Prasitmeeboon and Kevin Luke |
| 2010-2011 | Humphrey Huang and Aaron Pollak |
| 2011-2012 | Ravi Netravali and Stephen Pomes |
| Department Research Award | |
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Awarded by the faculty of Electrical Engineering to one outstanding graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding passion and accomplishment in research. |
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| 2008-2009 | Matthias Bahlke |
| 2009-2010 |
Jaisi Chen |
| 2010-2011 | Christian Whitehouse |
| 2011-2012 | Warren Cheng |
| Department Service Award | |
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Awarded by the faculty of Electrical Engineering to one outstanding graduating senior who has made significant contributions to the department and community at large. |
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| 2008-2009 | Sammuel Subbarao |
| 2009-2010 |
Daniel Y. Bendavid |
| 2010-2011 |
Natalia Baklitskaya |
| 2011-2012 |
Sean Zimmerman |