Faculty Awards
The following awards honor Penn Engineering faculty and students who have made outstanding contributions to their fields. The awards recognize excellence in academics, teaching and research.
Faculty Awards:
Firooz Aflatouni (ESE): 2024 Fellow of Optica
Firooz Aflatouni (ESE): 2023 Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) Emerging Inventor of the Year
Rajeev Alur (CIS): 2024 Donald E. Knuth Prize
Robert Carpick (MEAM) and Andrew Rappe (MSE): National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry part of a phase two award from its Centers for Chemical Innovation (CMCC) program
André DeHon: 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
André DeHon (ESE, CIS), Jing Li (ESE, CIS), and Jonathan M. Smith (CIS): U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grant
Eric Detsi (MSE): MACH2 Proposal (H2 Hub) from the Biden-Harris Administration
Joe Devietti (CIS): Penn Fellows
Edgar Dobriban (CIS): 2023 Sloan Research Fellow
Paul Ducheyne (BE): 2023 International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM) Hironobu Oonishi Memorial Award
Nader Engheta (ESE): 2023 Franklin Medal
Nader Engheta (ESE): 2023 Caltech Distinguished Alumni
Liang Feng (MSE): U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellow
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2025 Fleming Prize
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2024 Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2025 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): Real Academia de Farmacia de Galicia
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): Highly Cited Researcher 2023
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): Keystone Symposia Fellows Early Career Scientist
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): Journal of Nanobiotechnology Rising Star Award 2023
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2023 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2023 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): Elected member, Royal Academy of Pharmacology (Galicia)
César de la Fuente (BE, CBE): 2023 Rao Makineni Lectureship Award
Riccardo Gottardi (BE): 2023 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Lei Gu (ESE): ARPA-E award
Hamed Hassani (ESE): IEEE Information Theory Society 2023 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
Hamed Hassani (ESE): 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
David Issadore (BE): Lab on a Chip & Dolomite Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship Award
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2024 Materials Today Rising Star Award
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2024 Optica’s Adolph Lomb Medal
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2023 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Peter Mark Memorial Award
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2023 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2023 American Chemical Society (ACS) Nano Lectureship Award
Deep Jariwala (ESE): 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nano Early Career Award
Dinesh Jayaraman (CIS): NSF Career Award
Kevin Johnson (CIS): Elected President of The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
Kevin Johnson (CIS): 2023 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award
Cherie Kagan (ESE): Humboldt Research Award
Dohyung Kim (CBE): Unilever Award
Dohyung Kim (CBE): KSEA Young Investigators Grant
Jina Ko (BE): 2023 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Innovator Award
Insup Lee (CIS): Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Distinguished Leadership Award 2023
Insup Lee (CIS): 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Daeyeon Lee (CIS): 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from American Chemical Society (ACS)
Benjamin C. Lee (ESE): Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (2024)
Gushu Li (CIS, ESE): Intel’s Rising Star Award (2024)
Jing (Jane) Li (ESE): 2023 Benjamin Franklin Key Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Philadelphia Section
Nikolai Matni (ESE): 2024 AFOSR YIP Award
Mike Mitchell (BE): 2023 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Mike Mitchell (BE): 2023 Innovation in Dental Medicine and Engineering to Advance Oral Health (IDEA)Prize
Chinedum Osuji (CBE): 2022-2023 Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellow
Michael Posa (MEAM): National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award
Michael Posa (MEAM): 2023 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Foundation Early-Career Spotlight Award
Allison Pouch (BE): 2024 Cardiac Center Innovation Award
Tal Rabin (CIS): 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
Jordan Raney (MEAM): Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Jordan Raney (MEAM): National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award
Aaron Roth (CIS): Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern
Anthony Sigillito (ESE): 2023 Intel rising star award
Warren Seider (CBE): 2023 AIChE Founders Award
Warren Seider (CBE): 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Sydney Shaffer (BE): 2023 Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) Christopher Marshall Award
Kathleen J. Stebe (CBE): 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Schowalter Lecturer
Cynthia Sung (MEAM): 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Philadelphia Section Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award
Val B. Tannen (CIS): Academia Europaea in 2023
René Vidal (ESE): 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
Kyle Vining (MSE): 2023 Innovation in Dental Medicine and Engineering to Advance Oral Health (IDEA)Prize
Kyle Vining (MSE): Hartwell Foundation Biomedical Research Award
Rakesh Vohra (ESE): INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
Karen I. Winey (MSE): 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Shu Yang (MSE): 2023 AAAS Fellow
Shu Yang (MSE): 2023 American Chemical Society (ACS) Langmuir Lectureship Award
Shu Yang (MSE): 2022-2023 Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellow
Shu Yang (MSE): 2022 Cozzarelli Prize for Engineering and Applied Sciences from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Mark Yim (MEAM): NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research Infrastructure
Jimmy Zhang (ESE), Rohit Bhikule (MEAM), Chandravaran Kunjeti, Jason Xie and Rahul Mangharam (ESE): 12th Annual F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix
To view faculty awards and honors prior to June 2023, please visit the news archive.