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Awards and Recognition

  • Zhang, team earn best paper award

    April 21, 2025

    Zhiru Zhang, professor, and his team received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025) for their work on “SmoothE: Differentiable E-Graph Extraction.” The work is done by Cornell graduate students Yaohui Cai, Kaixin Yang, and Chenhui Deng, in collaboration with Prof. Cunxi Yu at the University of Maryland.

  • Abers chosen Chair-elect of Earthscope board

    April 21, 2025

    Geoff Abers, William and Katherine Snee Professor, has been chosen as Chair-elect for Earthscope’s Board of Directors. This nonprofit operates NSF-funded major geophysical instrumentation and data.

  • You’s study featured on ES&T cover

    April 21, 2025

    Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, had his study “Robust Assessments of Lithium Mining Impacts Embodied in Global Supply Chain Require Spatially Explicit Analyses” featured on the cover of Environmental Science & Technology.

  • You study featured on cover of ES&T

    April 7, 2025

    Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, had his study “Climate Sustainability through AI-Crypto Synergies and Energy Transition in the Digital Landscape to Cut 0.7 GtCO2e by 2030featured on the cover of the Environmental Science & Technology.

  • Three faculty receive promotions

    April 7, 2025

    Dean Lynden Archer has announced the following faculty promotions:

    • Michael O. Thompson, professor, Materials Science and Engineering, was elected professor with indefinite tenure, effective April 1.
    • Alexandra Coso Strong, associate professor, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure, effective April 1, 2025.
    • Jian Xun Wang, associate professor, was elected associate professor with indefinite tenure, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, effective with Cornell appointment to regular professorial title, anticipated for July 1, 2025.
  • Hare wins NSF Early Career Award

    March 31, 2025

    Jack Hare, assistant professor, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. Hare will use his award to develop a new platform for producing turbulent plasma in the laboratory, and new methods for measuring plasma turbulence.

  • Wagner serving as Board of Governors President

    March 24, 2025

    Aaron Wagner, professor, is serving as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society’s Board of Governors for 2025.

  • Li receives Engaged Opportunity Grant

    March 24, 2025

    Qi Li, associate professor, was part of a team that received an Einhorn Center Engaged Opportunity Grant to upgrade the Coddington Road Community Center for all-season youth programming.

  • Goldberg honored for community-engaged innovation

    March 10, 2025

    David Goldberg, associate professor, has been selected to receive a 2025 Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Goldberg’s commitment and ability to integrate community engagement into his courses, leadership, or research programs stood out to the selection committee. The awards will be conferred at a dinner event on Tuesday, April 8.

  • Hanrath elected Croll Professor

    March 3, 2025

    Tobias Hanrath has been elected the Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems for a four-year term, effective September 15, 2024.