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Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Awards and Recognition

Fellowships and Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow

Nader Behdad (2017) – for contributions to sub-wavelength electromagnetic periodic structures

John Booske* (2008) – for contributions to vacuum electronics and microwave processing of materials

Dan Botez* (1986) – for leadership in the development of high-power semiconductor lasers

Susan Hagness (2009) – for contributions to time-domain computational electromagnetics and microwave medical imaging

Thomas Jahns* (1993) – for contributions to the development of high-performance adjustable-speed drives for industrial and aerospace applications

Hongrui Jiang (2017) – for contributions to materials and micro-scale optical tools for medical imaging

Bernard Lesieutre (2023) – for contributions to electric power system dynamic modeling, simulation and power engineering education

Zhenqiang Ma (2018) – for contributions to flexile and biodegradable microwave electronics

Luke Mawst* (2011) – for contributions to the development of high-power designs and new material systems for semiconductor diode lasers

Rob Nowak (2010) – for contributions to statistical signal and image processing

Umit Yusuf Ogras (2025) – for contributions to networks-on-chip for heterogeneous manycore architectures

Parmesh Ramanathan (2009) – for contributions to real-time systems and networks

Bulent Sarlioglu (2022) – for applications of electrical drives in the aerospace industry

Daniel van der Weide (2022) – for contributions to ultrafast terahertz electronics and biomedical applications of microwave technologies

Barry Van Veen* (2002) – for contributions to the development of subspace signal processing algorithms

Giri Venkataramanan (2024) – for contributions to control of energy resources in microgrids

American Association for Advancement of Science Fellow

John Booske* (2023)

Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska – Vice Chancellor for Research (2021)

Susan Hagness (2022)

Zhenqiang Ma (2017)

American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow

Susan Hagness (2022)

Hongrui Jiang (2016)

Zhenqiang Ma (2018)

American Physical Society Fellow

John Booske* (2011) – for pioneering contributions to the development of coherent radiation sources in the submillimeter wave and terahertz regime, in particular in the physics of sheet electron beams, advanced cathode, and interaction of high power microwave with materials

Zhenqiang Ma (2017) – for seminal contribution to the development of flexible high speed devices, microwave device technology, optoelectronics, and the innovation in the area of biodegradable environmentally benign devices

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – Moore Inventor Fellow

Daniel Ludois (2017)

Institute of Navigation Fellow

Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska – Vice Chancellor for Research (2011)

Institute of Physics Fellow

John Booske* (2022)

International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow

Mikhail Kats (2025)

Zhenqiang Ma (2020)

National Academy of Engineering Member

Vladimir Blasko – Adjunct Professor (2023)

Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska – Vice Chancellor for Research (2019)

Hao Huang – Adjunct Professor (2021)

Thomas Jahns* (2015)

National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Susan Hagness (2022)

Zhenqiang Ma (2017)

Bulent Sarlioglu (2021)

Optica (Formerly Optical Society of America) Fellow

Dan Botez* (1995)

Mikhail Kats (2025)

Zhenqiang Ma (2018)

Andreas Velten (2025)

Zongfu Yu (2020)

Royal Institute of Navigation Fellow

Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska – Vice Chancellor for Research (2014)


Early Career Awards

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Susan Hagness (2000)

Mikhail Kats (2025)

Zhenqiang Ma (2008)

Daniel van der Weide (1997)

NSF CAREER (and Young Investigator) Award

Nader Behdad (2011)

John Booske* (1990)

Jennifer Choy (2024)

Azadeh Davoodi (2011)

Christopher DeMarco* (1988)

Kassem Fawaz (2020)

Dominic Gross (2022)

Chirag Gupta (2025)

Susan Hagness (2000)

Tsung-Wei Huang (2022)

Hongrui Jiang (2008)

Ulugbek Kamilov (2021)

Mikhail Kats (2018)

Irena Knezevic (2006)

Bhuvana Krishnaswamy (2022)

Kangwook Lee (2024)

Daniel Ludois (2015)

Chu Ma (2023)

Luke Mawst* (1998)

Rob Nowak (1999)

Umit Yusuf Ogras (2017)

Dimitris Papailiopoulos (2019)

Shubhra Pasayat (2024)

Line Roald (2021)

Joshua San Miguel (2021)

Bulent Sarlioglu (2016)

Daniel van der Weide (1997)

Barry Van Veen* (1989)

Andreas Velten (2019)

Giri Venkataramanan (1993)

Ramya Korlakai Vinayak (2023)

Ying Wang (2024)

Zongfu Yu (2018)

Lei Zhou (2025)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator

Nader Behdad (2011)

Mikhail Kats (2017)

Irena Knezevic (2009)

Andreas Velten (2015)

Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator

Rob Nowak (1999)

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award

Robert Jacobberger (2025)

Hongrui Jiang (2007)

Zhenqiang Ma (2007)

Umit Yusuf Ogras (2018)

Zongfu Yu (2017)

Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Award

Ying Wang (2023)

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator

Nader Behdad (2011)

Mikhail Kats (2016)

Rob Nowak (2000)

Daniel van der Weide (1998)


Professional Society Awards

Nader Behdad – IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society – John Kraus Antenna Award – for pioneering contributions to electrically-small-antenna and reduced complexity phased-array technologies (2025)

Kassem Fawaz – Privacy Enhancing Technologies Advisory Board Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2019)

Susan Hagness – IEEE Education Society Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award – for demonstrating the benefits of a holistic approach to engineering education that emphasizes the human impact of the subject matter with a multifaceted teaching strategy to engage the whole student (2007)

Tsung-Wei Huang – Design Innovation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award (2025)

Ulugbek Kamilov – IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award – for major contributions to the theory and practice in computational imaging (2024)

Mikhail Kats – IEEE Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award  – for outstanding technical innovations and achievement in nanophotonics, especially for optical metasurfaces, light interaction with nanoscale films, and tunable nanomaterials (2020)

Mikhail Kats – IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award – for contributions in the fields of nanophotonics and optical materials, especially for metasurfaces, optics with phase-transition materials, and thermal-emission engineering (2020)

Kangwook Lee – Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Young Investigator (2022)

Luke Mawst* – IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Awardfor contributions to novel materials growth, fabrication and device design of semiconductor diode lasers (2019)

Umit Yusuf Ogras – Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (2021)

Dimitris Papailiopoulos – IEEE Education Society Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Awardfor dedication to teaching excellence, focus on student-centered learning success, and championing of active learning strategies in both his own teaching and among colleagues (2021)

Bulent Sarlioglu – IEEE Power and Energy Society Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Award – for contributions to the design, development, and manufacturing of electric motors and drives for industrial and aerospace applications (2021)

Bulent Sarlioglu – IEEE Power Electronics Society Outstanding Achievement Award in Aerospace Powerfor contributions to the research and development of high-performance electric drives for aerospace applications (2024)

Bulent Sarlioglu – Nagamori Foundation Grand Nagamori Award (2018)

Lei Zhou – American Society of Precision Engineering Early Career Award (2023)

*Denotes Active Emeritus Status