Notable External Faculty Awards
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards
* Presidential Young Investigator Awards, an NSF program operating from 1984 to 1991 and replaced by the NSF CAREER Awards
- David Pozar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1984*
- Christopher Hollot, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1988 *
- David Reckhow, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1989 *
- James Rinderle, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1990*
- Dimitrios Maroudas, Chemical Engineering, 1995
- Dennis Goeckel, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
- Lixin Gao, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
- Ana Muriel, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2002
- Tilman Wolf, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005
- Jonathan Rothstein, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2006
- Jeffrey Davis, Chemical Engineering, 2007
- Erin Baker, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2008
- Eric Polizzi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009
- Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009
- Casey Brown, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2011
- Jenna Marquard, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, 2012
- Qiangfei Xia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013
- David Irwin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013
- Hari Balasubramanian, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2013
- David Irwin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
- Joseph Bardin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
- Michael Zink, Electrical and Computer Programming, 2014
- Caitlyn Butler, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015
- Boris Lau, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015
- Shelly Peyton, Chemical Engineering, 2015
- Colin Gleason, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2018
- Dan Holcomb, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2018
- Juan Jiménez, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
- Stephen Nonnenmann, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
- Yubing Sun, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
- Jun Yao, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019
- Lauren Andrews, Chemical Engineering, 2020
- Peter Beltramo, Chemical Engineering, 2020
- Xian Du, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2020
- Jungwoo Lee, Chemical Engineering, 2020
- Sarah Perry, Chemical Engineering, 2020
- Omar Abdelrahman, Chemical Engineering, 2021
- Simos Gerasimidis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021
- Guangyu Xu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021
- Peng Bai, Chemical Engineering, 2022
- Ashish Kulkarni, Chemical Engineering, 2022
- Fatima Anwar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
- Wen Chen, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2023
- Siyuan Rao, Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Notable Awards:
Department of Energy Early Career Research Awards:
- Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (2013)
ONR Young Investigator Program Awardee
- Joseph Bardin (2015)
- Jonathan Rothstein (2005)
- David Schmidt (2002)
Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Early Career Award
- Jinglei Ping (2020)
Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program Award
- Stephen Frasier (1998)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program Award
- Jinglei Ping (2019)
- Siyuan Rao (2022)
DARPA Young Faculty Award
- Joseph Bardin (2011)
- Qiangfei Xia (2012)
NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Awards
- Sanjay Raman - ECE, 2000 (received prior to joining UMass Amherst)
- Casey Brown (2006)
National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award
- Shelly Peyton (2013)
Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award
- Shelly Peyton (2015)
- Ashish Kulkarni (2019)
President’s Science and Technology Initiative Award
- Jae-Hwang Lee (2016)
2019 President Young Investigator Award from the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Jungwoo Lee (2019)
American Chemical Society Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award
- Jessica Schiffman, (2019)
Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society
- Shannon Roberts (2019)
Outstanding Young Engineer Award, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
- Joseph Bardin, (2020)
