Awards and Recognition

Z. Jane Wang, professor, was recognized as the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2025 Stanley Corrsin Award. Wang was selected “for original and innovative work on insect flight that provided fundamental insights into unsteady aerodynamics, flight efficiency, flight stability, and neural control, and for opening new dimensions of research in biological fluid dynamics.”

Jack Hare, assistant professor, has received the American Physical Society’s 2025 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research. Hara was cited for “For the development and exploration of pulsed-power experimental platforms to investigate magnetic reconnection in novel regimes and, in particular, their use in the study of reconnection in the presence of strong radiative cooling.”

Greg Fuchs, the James R. Meehl Professor in School of Applied and Engineering Physics, has been elected as fellows of the American Physical Society. The election was announced Oct. 10 by the society, and recognize physicists for exceptional achievements in research, leadership and service within the field, and significant contributions to physics education.

Jamol Pender, associate professor, and former Ph.D. student Andrew Daw were named as finalists in the 2025 MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Award for their paper “The Co-Production of Service: Modeling Services in Contact Centers Using Hawkes Processes” (published in Management Science).

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, had his paper, “Molecular Representation Learning: Cross-Domain Foundations and Future Frontiers,” featured with art on the front cover of Digital Discovery.

Rick Evans, the emeritus Robert N. Noyce Director of the Engineering Communications Program, received the IEEE ProComm 2025 Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, had his review paper on applying large language models to materials science featured with art on the inside front cover of Advanced Materials.

Fengqi You, professor, had his study “Exploring Chemical Space with Chemistry-Inspired Dynamic Quantum Circuits in the NISQ Era” featured on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

Two Cornell Engineering doctoral student were awarded fellowships by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Pascal Caraccioli Salinas, a doctoral student in geological sciences, received the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and Joshua Luoma, a doctoral candidate in applied physics, received the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship.

Zhiting Tian, professor, has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship, an extremely selective award given to top performers in the DARPA Young Faculty Award pool.