Faculty Awards 2015-2016
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During the academic year 2015-2016, faculty members were recognized for their research or teaching. Click on a name to see additional information about that faculty member.
| Name | Award | Date | Primary Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiaolin Zheng | Resonate Award, Resnick Institute at Cal Tech | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Perry McCarty | Stanford Engineering Hero | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Howard Zebker | Fellow, American Geophysical Union | 2016 | Electrical Engineering |
| David Tse | Claude E. Shannon Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2016 | Electrical Engineering |
| David Lentink | CAREER Award, National Science Foundation | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Scott Hubbard | Henry Clay Distinguished Kentuckian Award, Kentucky Society of Washington | 2016 | Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Jens Norskov | European Invention Award, European Patent Office | 2016 | Chemical Engineering |
| Alberto Salleo | Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford Teaching Honor | 2016 | Materials Science and Engineering |
| Stephen Boyd | Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford Teaching Honor | 2016 | Electrical Engineering |
| Andrea Montanari | James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Information Theory Society | 2016 | Electrical Engineering |
| Calvin Quate | Kavli Nanoscience Prize, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation, The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research | 2016 | Electrical Engineering, Emeritus |
| Mac Schwager | Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | 2016 | Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Ken Goodson | Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, ASME and Pi Tau Sigma | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| William Chueh | Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Henry and Camille Dreyfus Foundation | 2016 | Materials Science and Engineering |
| Antony Jameson | Best Aerodynamics Paper, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Applied Aerodynamics Conference | 2016 | Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Ron Hanson | Energy Systems Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant |
2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Greg Deierlein | Lifetime Achievement Award, American Institute of Steel Construction | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ronnie Borja | Maurice A. Biot Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ali Boehm | Huber Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ali Mani | CAREER Award, National Science Foundation | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Sanjiva Lele | Aeroacoustics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 2016 | Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| William Chueh | Research Fellow in Chemistry, Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation | 2016 | Materials Science and Engineering |
| Michael Bernstein | Research Fellow in Computer Science, Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation | 2016 | Computer Science |
| Greg Valiant | Research Fellow in Computer Science, Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation | 2016 | Computer Science |
| Jonathan Fan | Research Fellow in Physics, Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation | 2016 | Electrical Engineering |
| Serafim Batzoglou | Innovator Award, International Society of Computational Biology | 2016 | Computer Science |
| Dan Boneh |
National Academy of Engineering |
2016 | Computer Science, Electrical Engineering |
| Beth Pruitt | College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Juan Santiago | College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) | 2016 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Ram Rajagopal | CAREER Award, National Science Foundation | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Christian Linder | CAREER Award, National Science Foundation | 2016 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Jens Norskov |
Murray Raney Award, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society |
2015 | Chemical Engineering |
| Mark Jacobson | Cozzarelli prize, National Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Martin Hellman | A.M. Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 2015 | Electrical Engineering |
| Sebastian Thrun | Honorary doctorate, University of Delft | 2015 | Computer Science |
| Pierre Khuri-Yakob | College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) | 2015 | Electrical Engineering |
| Krishna Shenoy | College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) | 2015 | Electrical Engineering |
| Abbas El Gamal | Hamming Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2015 | Electrical Engineering |
| Jelena Vuckovic | Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, American Physical Society |
2015 | Electrical Engineering |
| Jure Leskovec | Lagrange Prize, Fondazione CRT Foundation | 2015 | Computer Science |
| Nick McKeown | C&C Prize, NEC C&C Foundation Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
2015 | Computer Science, Electrical Engineering |
| Martin Casado | C&C Prize, NEC C&C Foundation | 2015 | Computer Science |
| Ken Goodson | Donald Q. Kern Award, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) | 2015 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Chris Re | MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation | 2015 | Computer Science |
| Jens Norskov | The Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters | 2015 | Chemical Engineering |
| Jeff Koseff | Fellow, American Physical Society | 2015 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Bill Dally | Funai Achievement Award, Information Processing Society of Japan | 2015 | Computer Science |
| Yi Cui | Resonate Award, Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute | 2015 | Materials Science and Engineering |