Awards and Honors

Several Cornell Engineering staff have been nominated for this year's President's Awards for Employee Excellence.The Excellence Awards Reception - which is by invitation only for nominees, award winners and invited guests - will be held Tuesday, November 7. Check out this year's full list of nominees.

Thoughtful Leader
Jessie Hilliker, Erin Mulrooney, Lauren Stulgis

Culture of Belonging
Rose Howard, Chris Lastovicka, Megan Whitman

Mission-Possible
Celia Evans, Reeve Hamilton

Game-Changer
Myrian Alarcon

One Cornell
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(Ashley Blank, Rose Howard, Trisica Munroe, Lyn Park, Leon Stoll)

Todd Humphreys Ph.D. '08 (MAE) recently received the Johannes Kepler Award.  It is the top honor of the Institute of Navigation's Satellite Division. More information about Dr. Humphreys and his award can be found at https://www.ion.org/awards/2023-Kepler.cfm.  

Engaging, passionate, amazing, genuine, truly outstanding – these are just a few of the adjectives used to describe faculty members receiving Teaching and Advising Awards at the 2023 Cornell Engineering Fall Faculty Reception hosted Sept. 12 in the Statler Ballroom. See the winners and nominating information on the Cornell Engineering news page.

Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor (CEE), received a 2024 WCC Rising Star Award for excellence in the scientific enterprise from the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) of the American Chemical Society.

Britney Schmidt, associate professor (EAS), has been named the 2023 John F Nye Lecturer by the American Geophysical Union. The lecture is presented annually and recognizes recent accomplishments and ability to present exciting scientific research and findings to AGU member scientists outside the Cryosphere section.

Zhiting Tian, associate professor (MAE), has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to receive a 2023 Young Faculty Award. DARPA will be funding Tian’s research proposal titled “Transient, nanoscale temperature mapping of active RF devices.”

Sadaf Sobhani, assistant professor (MAE), has been selected for a 2023 NASA Early Career Faculty Award. NASA will be funding Sobhani’s research proposal titled “Precision Ionic Liquids for Advanced Spacecraft Thermal Management (PLASMa).”

Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor (CS), received an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award for his work on runtime verification, software testing and the unification of these techniques towards transforming how software quality assurance is done today.

Dmitry Savransky, associate professor (MAE), has been named a senior member of SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics.

Rob Shepherd, associate professor (MAE, Systems), has been chosen for the 2024-26 cohort of the Defense Science Study Group, which introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to the United States’ security challenges.