Awards and Recognition

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.

Mark Lewis, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering (ORIE, Systems), has been selected to the spring 2024 class of INFORMS Senior Members.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), received the prestigious 2024 Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Established in 1972, the award is given to at most one individual per year, recognizing outstanding contributions and achievements in the preservation or improvement of the environment.

Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor (CS), has been selected as a member of the American Philosophical Society for his research centered around algorithms and networks, their role in social and information systems, and their impact on society.

Zach Ulibarri, postdoc (MAE, Petro Group), was awarded  a Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The three-year postdoctoral fellowship provides recipients with resources, freedom and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational and experimental research in planetary astronomy. Ulibarri is spearheading methods of minimizing damage to delicate building blocks of life when detecting organic chemistry on icy worlds.