Celebrating Faculty and Students Awards for Summer 2023

10/25/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Duke Engineering faculty and students garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the summer

Faculty Awards

Adrian Bejan (MEMS) won a silver medal in the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards in Science and Cosmology for his book “Time and Beauty.” 
Pranam Chatterjee (BME) won a 2022 Hartwell Biomedical Research Award.
Yiran Chen (ECE) won a 2024 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics In Computational Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award, for his work titled “End-to-End Detection-Segmentation System for Face Labeling.” 
Yiran Chen (ECE) won the 2023 Outstanding Technical Research Achievement Award from the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section.
Jeff Glass (ECE) was appointed to the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) Standing Council. 
Joe Izatt (BME) was selected for a fellowship to build skills in equity-centered academic leadership as an Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellow.
Gaby Katul (CEE) was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the main societal organization that deals with weather and climate.  
Samira Musah (BME) received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.
Amanda Randles (BME) won the Association for Computing Machinery SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing.   
Tuan Vo-Dinh (BME) and his startup Minutia, which is pursuing a functional cure for Type 1 diabetes, won the first American Diabetes Association Innovation Challenge.

Ang Li (PhD, ECE) won the 2023 IEEE Technical Committee of Cyber Physical Systems Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award and is now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. 
Aritra Ray (PhD, ECE) won first place in the ICDH Student Research Competition at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health 2023.  
Shomik Verma (PhD, MEMS) won a 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States. 
Zhiyao Xie (PhD, ECE) received an outstanding PhD Dissertation Award from ACM SIGDA. 
Eric Yeats (PhD, ECE) won a DOE SCGSR Fellowship.

Matt Brune, a recent CEE graduate, won second prize in the FAA Data Challenge competition. 
Sydney Hunt, a graduating senior in ECE/CS, and 2020 BME graduate Maya Sheth were awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University. 
Arthur Tsang, a recent graduate in CEE, won the Thornton Tomasetti Foundation National 2023-2024 Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in structural engineering at the University of California – Berkeley.