Awards and Recognition

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.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized two faculty members in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science with Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Test of Time Awards, which will be given at STOC 2024 in in Vancouver, June 24-28. David Williamson, professor (ORIE), has been selected for the 30-year Test of Time Award. Jon Kleinberg ’93, the Tisch University Professor (CS), has been chosen for the 20-year Test of Time Award.

Andrew Myers, professor (CS), has been named chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Executive Committee.

Rong Yang,assistant professor (CBE), was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Presented by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, this award is presented to faculty who are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.

Samitha Samaranayake, associate professor (CEE, Systems), has been selected to participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2024 Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering.