Awards and Recognition

Todd Cowen, professor, and Seth Schweitzer, research associate, have received a 2026 Cornell Atkinson-The Nature Conservancy (TNC) award for their work on Smart Flow Sensors For Smart Stormwater Management

Jessica Rush Leeker, professor of practice, won an honorable mention from the Center for Teaching Innovation for their 2025-26 Creative Teaching Awards.

Jamol Pender, associate professor, has been awarded the 2026-2027 Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship by the American Mathematical Society. The Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship was established by the AMS in 2021 to further excellence in mathematics research and to advance the participation and success of Black mathematicians in the research community.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, had his paper on machine learning pipelines for the design of solid-state electrolytes featured with art on the front cover of Materials Horizons.

Traci Nathans-Kelly, the Robert N. Noyce Director of the Engineering Communications Program, and Suzanne Lane, senior lecturer, are members of an IEEE Professional Communication Society working group that published a guide outlining the need, scope, and areas of work for the responsible integration of AI into professional communication, technical education, and practice.

Anastasia Bizyaeva, assistant professor, has received the 2025 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, given by the IEEE Control Systems Society. The Axelby award recognizes an outstanding paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, for its originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity.

Jose F. Martínez, the Lee Teng-hui Professor of Engineering, has been named a 2025 Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Member, which recognizes their remarkable successes in computing beyond the norm. The ACM Distinguished Member designation is highly selective, with recipients chosen by their peers for their exceptional technical accomplishments and dedicated community service within the profession. Martínez was named for his contributions to adaptive and highly programmable parallel architectures.

Chris Lastovicka, assistant director of digital strategy for Cornell Engineering marketing and communications, received the Game Changer Award, for developing or implementing a new approach, at the President’s Awards for Employee Excellence.

Three Cornell engineering research teams have been chosen as recipients of AI and Climate Fast Grants, to explore strategies to reduce energy use in AI industries and to integrate AI in environmental research.

• The Green Choice: Enabling Sustainable Generative AI through Flexible System Co-Design, led by Udit Gupta, assistant professor.

• AI-powered confidence in additive construction, led by Sriramya Nair, assistant professor, and Nils Napp, assistant professor.

• AI-enabled robotic eDNA sampling of waterways, led by Kirstin Petersen, associate professor.

Grace Barcheck, assistant professor, and Riley Culberg, assistant professor, have received an award from the NSF Arctic Natural Sciences program to conduct a field study of how hydrology beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet changes through the summer.