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EE Faculty Early Career Award Winners

April 1, 2001

The quality of our faculty is outstanding. A large portion of the faculty have received recognition early in their careers:

Early Career Awards

  • All nine of the Assistant Professors hired from July 1998-June 2001 have received the NSF Early Career Development Award. A total of ten Electrical Engineering Faculty have received the NSF Early Career Development Award (Azizoglu, Bilmes, Bohringer, Hauck, Jandhyala, H. Liu, Mamishev, Poovendran, Shi, Wilson)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (Meldrum)
  • Seven have received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (Atlas, Christie, Denton, Kuga, C.C. Liu, Riskin, Hannaford)
  • Four have received NSF Research Initiation Grants (Azizoglu, Chizeck, Dunham, Riskin)
  • NSA Rising Star Award (Poovendran)
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator (ONR PYI) Award (H. Liu)
  • Two have been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (Hauck, Riskin)
  • NIH Research Career Special Emphasis Award (Meldrum)
  • NIH Career Development Award (Afromowitz)
  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Award (Hannaford, Y. Kim)