Honoring Recent Award Recipients: In the Spotlight

Dr. Soheil Behnezhad, Associate Professor, whose research in theoretical computer science focuses on graph algorithms and the theoretical foundations of big data algorithms, including sublinear time algorithms and parallel algorithms.

Dr. Steven Holtzen, Assistant Professor, whose work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and programming languages focuses on systems of probabilistic modeling and reasoning.

Dr. Wei Xie, Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, who develops risk-based interpretable AI advancing the scientific understanding of biological, physical, and chemical mechanisms across multiple scales.

Dr. Aravind Nagulu, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, whose research encompasses analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, analog computing, and hardware for large-scale quantum computing systems.

Dr. Qing Zhao, Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, who develops computational modeling tools based on electronic structure theory to design catalysts for energy and sustainability applications.

Dr. Yizhi You, Assistant Professor in Physics, whose research focuses on quantum many-body theory, particularly the study of collective phenomena arising from quantum mechanical effects in systems of correlated electrons.

Dr. Jonathan Blazek, Assistant Professor in Physics, whose work in observational and theoretical cosmology focuses on understanding the universe using astronomical surveys that cover large areas of the sky.

Dr. Eno Ebong, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, whose Mechanobiology Laboratory studies how mechanical forces of blood flow and tissue stiffness affect endothelial cells, with a focus on understanding the protective gel-like glycocalyx layer to facilitate protection from disease.

Dr. Ambika Bajpayee, Associate Professor in Bioengineering, whose research utilizes concepts of nanomedicine and bio-electrostatics to design polypeptides and protein-based carriers for targeted and sustained delivery of therapeutics to connective tissues.

Dr. Tommaso Melodia, William Lincoln Smith Professor and Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, whose research focuses on modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networks, with applications to intra-body networks of implantable devices and tactical cognitive radio networks.

Dr.  Nian Sun, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Physics, whose work encompasses new magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and integrated ferroic microsystems for sensing, memory, power, and RF electronics, as well as novel electrochemical sensors for disease diagnosis.