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)