Awards and Recognition

Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis Professor (CS), received a 25-year test of time award from the Association for Computational Linguistics for her paper, “Measures of Distributional Similarity.”

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor of Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), had his study “A Versatile Deep Learning Pipeline for Transferable Chemical Data Extraction” featured on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

Celia Evans, associate director for Engineering Learning Initiatives, has been selected to be a Fulbright Specialist. For the next three years, Evans can be matched with institutions in other countries seeking support in discussing, setting up, designing or assessing evidence-supported peer education or training – particularly in engineering and STEM education – as they write a Fulbright grant proposal around these and related topics.  

Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor (CEE), had her study “Electrochemical Coproduction of Hydrogen, Oxygen” featured on the cover of the journal Energy & Fuels, with artwork from Rob Kurcoba, graphic designer for Cornell Engineering.

Nicholas Wagner, undergraduate student service coordinator (CEE), has been named a finalist for this year’s Campus Student Service Award.

Krystyn Van Vliet, vice president for research and innovation and professor (MSE, BME), has been named one of City & State New York’s 2024 Trailblazers in Higher Education, for connecting “the university’s research communities with external funding and facilitates the local, regional and national collaborations that translate research into societal impact.”

Marjolein van der Meulen, the Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME, MAE), has been named associate vice provost in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation and will support research communities focused on physical systems, encompassing theoretical and applied disciplines including astronomy and particle physics, materials enabling quantum technology and medical imaging technology.

Seth Saltiel, assistant research professor (EAS), has received a $2M U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science award for his paper, “Process-based experimental and machine learning approaches for controlling fracture network generation in the brittle-ductile crust.”

Maha Haji, assistant professor (MAE, Systems), and Sunny Jung, professor (BEE), will use a new $2.6M grant from NOAA Sea Grant to continue work on a microplastic collecting robot called MOLLUSCA.

Jan Lammerding, professor (BME), will be part of an “International Networks of Excellence” award through the Leducq Foundation. The project, titled PRIORITY: cardio-laminoPathy: fRom pathomechanIsms tO peRsonalIzed TherapY, aims to understand the causes and progression of LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy and develop personalized therapies. The award period begins January 2025.