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Faculty honors

Sanjay Kumar, RObert RItchie and Peidong Yang

Top scholars named AAAS fellows

12/02/20 — Engineering professors Sanjay Kumar (bioengineering), Robert Ritchie (mechanical engineering and materials science) and Peidong Yang (chemistry and materials science) are among five Berkeley scholars elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

New & noteworthy

11/05/20 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Boubacar Kanté selected among 2020 cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows

09/16/20 — Associate EECS professor is a pioneer in topological light sources and lasers
Junqiao Wu in the atrium of Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Bakar Prize winner hopes to harness sun’s power

06/22/20 — Junqiao Wu, professor of material science and engineering, awarded campus's new $225,000 prize for real-world potential of his thermal-powered material transformations
Royal Society building in London

Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society

04/29/20 — Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy
Dan Kammen

Dan Kammen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04/23/20 — Professor of energy and resources, public policy and nuclear engineering is one of 9 new Berkeley faculty members

New & noteworthy

04/14/20 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Paulo Monteiro at LBNL synchrotron

Monteiro selected for elite engineering honor

04/14/20 — Civil and environmental engineering professor Paulo Monteiro was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Nuclear engineering professor Per Peterson

Peterson honored as top engineer

04/14/20 — Nuclear engineering professor Per Peterson has joined the ranks of National Academy of Engineering members.
Jack Moehle

Jack Moehle receives top earthquake engineering award

03/05/20 — The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute bestowed Moehle, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, with the George W. Housner Medal
Ruzena Bajcsy

Ruzena Bajcsy honored for ‘upending science’

02/27/20 Popular Mechanics — Popular Mechanics magazine named EECS professor Ruzena Bajcsy as one of 37 women who "upended science, tech, and engineering for the better." Bajcsy, who conducted pioneering work in robotics and artificial intelligence, joins a list that includes Katherine Johnson of NASA and Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie
Sanjam Garg and Aditya Parameswaran

Two engineering faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

02/12/20 — Sanjam Garg, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), and Aditya Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment in EECS and the School of Information, were among nine Berkeley faculty members to win the prestigious research honor.
Per Peterson and Paulo Monteiro

Two Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

02/06/20 — Per Peterson and Paulo Monteiro are among 78 Berkeley Engineering faculty members in the National Academy of Engineering
Tarek Zohdi

Tarek Zohdi named 2019 AAM Fellow

01/02/20 American Academy of Mechanics — Tarek Zohdi, Chancellor's Professor and Will C. Hall Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics. This is an honor accorded to only one person per year in the country.
IEEE Mefdal of Honor winner Chenming Hu

Chenming Hu awarded IEEE Medal of Honor

12/06/19 IEEE — The electrical engineering and computer sciences professor emeritus was recognized for his distinguished work with semiconductor models, particularly 3D device structures.
Rebecca Abergel and David Schaffer

Abergel, Schaffer named to AAAS

11/26/19 — Rebecca Abergel, assistant professor of nuclear engineering, and David Schaffer, professor of bioengineering and of chemical and biomolecular engineering, are among five Berkeley faculty members named new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Grace Gu and Raluca Ada Popa

Two faculty named top innovators

10/25/19 — Grace Gu and Raluca Ada Popa were included in MIT Technology Review's 2019 list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”

Alum honored as MEMS pioneer

10/25/19 — Kurt Peterson was awarded the 2019 IEEE Medal of Honor for his contributions to microelectromechanical systems research.
Aaron Streets

Streets named Pew Scholar

10/25/19 — Professor Aaron Streets is joining the 2019 Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences.

New & noteworthy

10/25/19 — Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
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