Awards and Recognition

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.

Carolina Muñoz‐Saez, assistant professor (EAS), has been named the Emil and Irene Moshkovich Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering, effective July 1.

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.