Awards and Honors

Sijin Li, assistant professor (CBE), is one of the recipients of this year’s Schwartz Research Fund Grant. The selection committee described Li’s proposal as “exciting” and “innovative.” The Schwartz Research Fundis made possible by generous support from Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65, chemistry majors in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Zhiting Tian, associate professor (MAE), and Jillian Goldfarb, associate professor (CBE), each received a $1,500 Schwartz grant to support conference-related travel.

Stephen Wicker, professor (ECE, Systems), was elected professor emeritus, effective March 1, 2024.

Karin Elizabeth Olson Hoal, Wold Family Professor in Environmental Balance and Human Sustainability (EAS), has been selected by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive the Fulbright US Scholar award to Australia in the academic year 2024-25. The Fulbright Program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. It is the world's largest and most diverse international educational exchange program.

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor (ECE), was named one of Intel's 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award winners for collaborative research on “Verifying Domain-Specific Optimization in HeteroCL using Polyhedral Analysis" with Intel.

Riley Culberg, assistant professor (EAS), recently had his NASA Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science proposal selected for funding. Entitled "Multi-Mission Synthetic Aperture Radar Signatures of Greenland's Ice Slabs", this project will use data from multiple satellite and airborne radar missions to study how meltwater refreezing has expanded the Greenland Ice Sheet's runoff zone from the mid-2000s to the present day. Culberg also was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research Grant by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

The Cornell University Board of Trustees voted on the following named professorships at its January meeting:

• Allison Godwin, the Dr. G. Stephen Irwin ’67, ’68 Professor in Engineering Education Research (CBE)
• Thorsten Joachims, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor (CS)
• Vibha Kalra, the Fred H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering (CBE)
• Andrew Myers, the Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering (CS)
• Alyosha Molnar, the Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering (ECE)
• Gennady Samorodnitsky, the Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor in Productivity (ORIE)
• Gennady Shvets, the J. Preston Levis Professor (AEP)

The Board also approved the following:

• Nikolaos Bouklas was elected associate professor (MAE) with indefinite tenure, effective February 1, 2024..
• Vibha Kalra was elected professor (CBE) with indefinite tenure, effective February 1, 2024.

Francesca Parise, assistant professor (ECE, Systems) and Yu Zhong (MSE) both received 2024 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program grants.

Hunter Adams, lecturer (ECE), is featured in the IMAX film Space: The New Frontier. The film explores the new era of space travel and exploration opened up by mission-based companies like SpaceX. 

Sijin Li, assistant professor (CBE), is one of the recipients of this year’s Schwartz Research Fund Grant. The Schwartz Research Fund is made possible by generous support from Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65, chemistry majors in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Hakim Weatherspoon, professor (CS), was named one of the University of Washington College of Engineering's 2024 Diamond Award honorees for “Embracing the Power of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.”