Faculty Honors from 2005 to 2006
Jan Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering,presented the plenary lecture at the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences and at the International Symposium on Mechanical Waves in Solids.
Luis Amaral, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, was named a Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research by the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Guillermo Ameer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received part of a $3.5 million grant from the State of Illinois that will fund three separate stem cell research projects and received a 2006 NSF CAREER Award.
Annelise Barron, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and of biomedical engineering, gave the Thiele Lecture in chemical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She was also appointed to the committee on biomolecular materials and processes for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Zdenek Bazant, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He presented a plenary keynote lecture at the 16th European Conference on Fracture, at the European Conference on Computational Modeling of Concrete Structures (EURO-C), and at the 7th International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage and Durability of Concrete and Concrete Structures. He also delivered the plenary opening lecture of the National Concrete Convention and at the Structural Engineering Convention of India. He delivered the Mindlin Lecture at the Quadrennial U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and was honored by a Special Issue of the International Journal of Fracture.
Randy Berry, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks.
L. Cate Brinson, chair and Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Brinson is also serving on the National Academies’ panel on benchmarking the research competitiveness of the United States in mechanical engineering.
Linda Broadbelt, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering,was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award and was appointed to the committee of visitors for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Fabian Bustamante, Yan Chen, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, assistant professors of electrical engineering and computer science, and Peter Dinda, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, won a Microsoft Trustworthy Computing 2006 Award.
Wei Chen, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received the Intelligent Optimal Design Prize at the 18th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology.
Alok Choudhary, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, gave the keynote talk at the 2005 International Conference on Computers and Communications.
Pablo Durango-Cohen, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received an NSF CAREER Award.
Isaac Daniel, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, will receive the M.M. Frocht Mechanics Educator of the Year Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics.
Mark Daskin, professor of industrial engineering and management science,was inducted into the Edelman Academy and has been offered visiting appointment at the University of Kent Business School.Daskinwas also elected fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Bartosz Grzybowski, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, was named a 2006 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, he received the American Chemical Society Division of Colloids and Interfaces Unilever Award, an NSF CAREER Award and a 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant.
Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Intellext Inc. were honored with a 2005 Chicago Innovations Award for their Watson software.
Gordon Hazen, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, received the 2004 Meritorious Service Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Herbst LaZar Bell, the firm founded by Walter Herbst, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering, received six 2005 Good Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.
Mark Hersam, professor of materials science and engineering, was honored at the White House as a recipient of the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, received the 2006 AVS Peter Mark Award and the 2006 Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium Faculty Research Award.
Tito Homem-de-Mello, associate professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, received the 2004 Meritorious Service Award from INFORMS.
Wallace Hopp, Breed University Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, was named a fellow of both the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society and the Production and Operations Management Society. He also won the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Award for 2006.
Seyed Iravani, associate professor of industrial engineering and management science, won the IIE Operations Research Division Teaching Excellence Award.
William Kath, professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics, was named codirector of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.
A. K. Katsaggelos, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, gave a plenary lecture at the IEEE WirelessComm and gave the opening keynote lecture at the 2005 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.
Dave Kelso, associate professor of biomedical engineering, received a 4-year, $4.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Raymond Krizek, Stanley F. Pepper Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was selected the 2006 Karl Terzaghi Lecturer.
Harold Kung, professor of chemical and biological engineering, presented a plenary lecture on “Nanotechnology and Heterogeneous Catalysis” at the 13th Brazilian Congress on Catalysis. He was also elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Chung-Chieh Lee, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been named SBC Research Professor.
Debiao Li, professor of biomedical engineering, was elected fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering and professor of civil engineering, is serving as chair of the executive committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ applied mechanics division.
Thomas Mason, professor of materials science and engineering,won the 2006 Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award.
Sanjay Mehrotra, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, was appointed director of the Optimization Technology Center, operated by Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University. He was elected vice president of INFORMS and vice chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society and received the INFORMS 2005 Moving Spirit Award.
Gokhan Memik, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received the 2005 Department of Energy Early Career Award in Mathematical, Informational, and Computational Sciences.
Seda Ogrenci Memik, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received an NSF CAREER Award.
Phillip Messersmith, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of materials science and engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and received the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award.
William Miller, professor of chemical and biological engineering, joined the newly established Scientific Advisory Board of the Stem Cell Network of Canada and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hooman Mohseni, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science,received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Barry Nelson, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, was named editor in chief of Naval research Logistics and was elected a fellow of INFORMS.
Jorge Nocedal, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and industrial engineering and management sciences, was appointed to the editorial board of SIAM Review.
Don Norman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, presented the keynote lecture to the International Symposium on Intelligent Environments and presented the Allan D. Shocker lecture to the New Product Design and Business Development program. Norman also received an honorary doctorate in industrial engineering from the rector of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands.
Greg Olson, professor of materials science and engineering,was named the ASM Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecturer for 2006.
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, professor of materials science and engineering,has been elected to the Solid State Science Committee of the National Research Council.
Julio Ottino, dean, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and McCormick School Professor, is serving on the National Academies’ panel on benchmarking the research competitiveness of the United States in chemical engineering. He delivered the Reilly Lectureship in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
Thrasos Pappas, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Mary Phillips, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was selected McCormick Teacher of the Year by students and faculty.
John Rudnicki, professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering, was awarded the M.A. Biot Medal at the CTAM06.
Rod Ruoff, professor of mechanical engineering, was appointed editor of a special issue of Composites Science & Technology and was named distinguished chair visiting professor at the SAINT-Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, South Korea.
Peter Scheuermann, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, served as vice general chair of the ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.
Surendra Shah, Walter P. Murphy of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was appointed to the National Academy of Engineering.
Mary Silber, professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics, was elected vice chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Dynamical Systems.
Karen Smilowitz, assistant professor of industrial engineering and management science, was appointed to the Junior William A. Patterson Chair in Transportation.
Samuel Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine, has been named to the “Scientific American 50,” the magazine's annual list of leaders in science and technology.
Jack Tumblin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received a grant from Adobe Systems, Inc. to support research work for the ‘LookLab’ and gave a Banquet Speech at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference and invited talks on computational photography at Cambridge University and Max Planck Institute.
Peter Voorhees, chair and professor of materials science and engineering,provided testimony to the United States Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science and Space.
Jay Walsh, senior associate dean and professor of biomedical engineering, won the 2006 William B. Mark Award from the American Society for Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and was named Adviser of the Year by McCormick students and faculty.
William White, professor of industrial engineering and applied sciences, is the author of a new book, From Day One: CEO Advice to Launch an Extraordinary Career, geared to those seeking their first job or who want to manage their career for outstanding results.
Ying Wu, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been appointed to the editorial board of Machine Vision and Applications
