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

  1. David Pozar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1984*
  2. Christopher Hollot, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1988 *
  3. David Reckhow, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1989 *
  4. James Rinderle, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1990*
  5. Dimitrios Maroudas, Chemical Engineering, 1995
  6. Dennis Goeckel, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
  7. Lixin Gao, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
  8. Ana Muriel, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2002
  9. Tilman Wolf, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005
  10. Jonathan Rothstein, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2006
  11. Jeffrey Davis, Chemical Engineering, 2007
  12. Erin Baker, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2008
  13. Eric Polizzi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009
  14. Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009
  15. Casey Brown, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2011
  16. Jenna Marquard, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, 2012
  17. Qiangfei Xia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013
  18. David Irwin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013
  19. Hari Balasubramanian, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2013
  20. David Irwin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
  21. Joseph Bardin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
  22. Michael Zink, Electrical and Computer Programming, 2014
  23. Caitlyn Butler, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015
  24. Boris Lau, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015
  25. Shelly Peyton, Chemical Engineering, 2015
  26. Colin Gleason, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2018
  27. Dan Holcomb, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2018
  28. Juan Jiménez, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
  29. Stephen Nonnenmann, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
  30. Yubing Sun, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2019
  31. Jun Yao, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019
  32. Lauren Andrews, Chemical Engineering, 2020
  33. Peter Beltramo, Chemical Engineering, 2020
  34. Xian Du, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2020
  35. Jungwoo Lee, Chemical Engineering, 2020
  36. Sarah Perry, Chemical Engineering, 2020
  37. Omar Abdelrahman, Chemical Engineering, 2021
  38. Simos Gerasimidis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021
  39. Guangyu Xu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021
  40. Peng Bai, Chemical Engineering, 2022
  41. Ashish Kulkarni, Chemical Engineering, 2022
  42. Fatima Anwar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  43. Wen Chen, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2023
  44. Siyuan Rao, Biomedical Engineering, 2023
  45. Yeonsik Noh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  46. Emily Kumpel, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2024
  47. Robert Niffenegger, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024
  48. Jinglei Ping, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2024
  49. Govind Srimathveeravalli, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2024
  50. Meghan Huber, , Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2025

Notable Awards:

Fulbright U.S. Scholar

John Haddad Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

  • Stacyann Bailey (2023)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program Award

  • Siyuan Rao (2023)
  • Siyuan Rao (2022)
  • Jinglei Ping (2019)

DARPA Young Faculty Award

  • Peng Bai (2024)
  • Amir Arbabi (2024)
  • Qiangfei Xia (2012)
  • Joseph Bardin (2011)

American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award

  • Sarah Perry (2024)
  • Jessica Schiffman (2019)

ONR Young Investigator Program Awardee

  • Joseph Bardin (2015)
  • Jonathan Rothstein (2005)
  • David Schmidt (2002)

Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence: American Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Ashish Kulkarni (2024)

Outstanding Young Engineer Award, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

  •  Joseph Bardin, (2020)

Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Early Career Award

  • Jinglei Ping (2020)

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award

  • Ashish Kulkarni (2019)
  • Shelly Peyton (2015)

2019 President Young Investigator Award from the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Jungwoo Lee (2019)

Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society

  • Shannon Roberts (2019)

President’s Science and Technology Initiative Award

  • Jae-Hwang Lee (2016)

Department of Energy Early Career Research Awards:

  • Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (2013)

NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Awards

  • Sanjay Raman (2000; received prior to joining UMass Amherst)
  • Casey Brown (2006)

Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program Award

  • Stephen Frasier (1998)