College Announces 2023 Outstanding Alumni

The College is proud to announce the recipients of its 2023 Outstanding Alumni Awards, including five Distinguished Alumni and five Outstanding Young Alumni.
Tilman Wolf Receives Fulbright Specialist Award for Engineering Education, Training Activities in Gambia
Tilman Wolf (ECE) will complete a project in Gambia under a Fulbright Specialist Program Award.
ECE Participants Shine at New England Hardware Security Day
The event convenes many students, researchers, practitioners, and industry partners in the field of hardware security to share their work and foster new ideas.
Pioneering Research on Memristors Pushes the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence Hardware
Professor Qiangfei Xia's groundbreaking research substantially suppresses “noise” in memristors, creating a potential boon for large-scale AI applications.
Nicholas Tooker and Shira Epstein Team up as iCons Teaching Fellows
Tooker and Epstein will teach iCons 389H; a team-oriented, student-driven, discovery laboratory in which students address real-world, energy-related issues.
ECE’s Jun Yao Collaborates on “Electronic Nose” That Could Transform Health Monitoring
Jun Yao collaborates on research led by Derek Lovley to employ a nanowire, grown from common bacteria, that can be engineered into a tool for health monitoring.
Hari Balasubramanian and Daniel Holcomb Share the College Outstanding Teaching Award
The award recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members at the College of Engineering for exceptional instructional accomplishments.
Jay Taneja Contributes to Groundbreaking Textbook on “Development Engineering”
Taneja’s Ghana project serves as a key case study for first ever “development engineering” textbook, focusing on underserved communities in developing regions.
Three College of Engineering Faculty Members Receive Prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
Siyuan Rao of BME, Wen Chen of MIE, and Fatima Anwar of ECE each win the National Science Foundation’s most esteemed award for young researchers.
Welcome to New Faculty Members Sean McBeath and Xuan “Silvia” Zhang
McBeath studies water and wastewater treatment, while Zhang works on electronic design automation, integrated circuits, and computer architecture.
CoE Undergrads Brown, Kelly, and Molom-Ochir Honored as Rising Researchers
UMass Amherst selects College of Engineering students Lauren Brown, Lauren Kelly, and Tergel Molom-Ochir for the fall 2022 class of Rising Researchers.