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Awards & Recognition
2020-2021 National Recognition and Professional Leadership Member , National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (U.S. Department of Energy/White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)—Jungsang Kim and Christopher Monroe2021 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ECE Distinguished Educator Award—Lisa G. Huettel Early Career Awards Professional Society Recognition Fellow , Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics—Robert Calderbank Vitold Belevitch Award —Krishnendu ChakrabartyMid-Career Award , IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems—Yiran ChenFellow , Optical Society—Sina Farsiu2021 ASEE Southeast Section Outstanding Teaching Award—Lisa G. Huettel Outstanding Leadership Award , IEEE Technical Committee on Secure and Dependable Measurement—Hai Li IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Distinguished Research Award for 2020—Hai Li Fellow , Optical Society—Chris MonroeIEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award —Kishor Trivedi 2019-2020 National Recognition and Professional Leadership Professional Society Recognition Fellow , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Sina FarsiuFellow , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jeffrey KrolikFellow , Institute of Mathematical Statistics—Cynthia RudinFellow , The Optical Society of America—Michael GehmDistinguished Member , Association of Computing Machinery—Benjamin C. LeeMorton Antler Lecturer , IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts—Mary "Missy" CummingsEditor-in-Chief , IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M)—Yiran ChenProlific Author Award, Asia and South Pacific Automation Conference (ASD-DAC)—Yiran Chen Alan O. Plait Award for Tutorial Excellence , 2021 Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)—Kishor TrivediBest Research Artifact Award , IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)—Maria GorlatovaFellowships University Awards and Honors Undergraduate Mentor of the Year , Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke University—Shani DailyStansell Family Distinguished Research Award, Pratt School of Engineering—Ken Brown Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research, Pratt School—Aaron Franklin News Media Recognition 2018-2019 National Academy of Engineering Membership National Research and Professional Leadership Awards Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Krishnendu Chakrabarty North American Laureate-International Award for Women in Science, UNESCO & L'Oreal—Ingrid Daubechies Professional Society Recognition Fellow, American Physical Society—Willie Padilla and Ken Brown Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Hai "Helen" Li IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award—Lisa G. Huettel IEEE Bob Madge Innovation Award—Krishnendu Chakrabarty Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery—Yiran Chen Early Career Awards Early Career Award, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems—Miroslav Pajic University and School Honors Bass Connection Professor (Duke University)—Stacy Tantum and Vahid Tarokh Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Illinois Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)—Qing Ho Liu Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award (Fudan University and Zhongzhi Enterprise Group)—Ingrid Daubechies Media Recognition Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics—Steven Cummer and David Smith 2017-2018 National Research and Professional Leadership Awards Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (United States of America)—Guillermo Sapiro Invitational Fellowship (Short-term S: Nobel Prize Level), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan)—Krishnendu Chakrabarty Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Germany)—Yiran Chen Professional Society Recognition Fellow, The Optical Society (OSA)—Jungsang Kim Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Yiran Chen Trustee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics—Missy Cummings Inductee, IEEE Computer Society's High Performance Computer Architecture Hall of Fame—Benjamin Lee Aerodynamics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics—Kenneth C. Hall Technical Achievement Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society—Qing Liu Computational Electromagnetics Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society—Qing Liu Outstanding Member of the Editorial Board Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society—Sina Farsiu Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery—Hai "Helen" Li At-Large Member, IEEE Education Society Board of Governors—Lisa Huettel Scientific Advisory Panel Member, Fields Institute (Canada)—Vahid Tarokh Early Career Awards National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award—Galen Reeves Kalvi Fellow, National Academy of Sciences and the Kalvi Foundation—Guglielmo Scovazzi Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society—Maiken Mikkelsen University and School Honors William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics (City University of Hong Kong)— Ingrid DaubechiesHonorary Professor, Xidian University (China)—Krishnendu Chakrabarty Member, Bass Society of Fellows (Duke University)—Aaron Franklin and Michail Zavlanos Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Warren Grill Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Steve Cummer Dean's Award for Leadership in Program & Operational Excellence (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Amy Kostrewa Media Recognition Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters)—David Smith 2016-2017 National Academy of Engineering Membership Elected in 2017 – Blake Wilson National Research and Professional Leadership Awards Member, National Academy of Inventors – David Smith Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award – Sina Farsiu Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – Krishnendu Chakrabarty Cultural Diversity Award, International Meeting for Autism Research – Guillermo Sapiro Professional Society Recognition Fellow, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson Fellow, American Geophysical Union – Steve Cummer Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Xin Li Early Career Awards NSF CAREER Award – Miroslav Pajic Analytic Chemistry 2017 Young Innovator Award – Tony Jun Huang Beckman Young Investigator, Beckman Foundation – Yiyang Gong Bessel Prize, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Maiken Mikkelsen Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation – Yiyang Gong Vallee Young Investigator, Vallee Foundation – Yiyang Gong Young Investigator Award, Army Research Office – Maiken Mikkelsen Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research – Maiken Mikkelsen and Miroslav Pajic University and School Honors Stansell Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Guillermo Sapiro Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin Media Recognition "Top 100 Discoveries of 2016," Discover Magazine – Xiling Shen Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters) – David Smith and Ingrid Daubechies Highly Cited Computer Vision Researchers (AMiner.org) – Guillermo Sapiro, Landon Cox, and Bruce Maggs Highly Cited Computer Science and Engineering Researchers (Guide2Research.com) – Kishor Trivedi and Guillermo Sapiro 2015-2016 National Research and Professional Leadership Awards Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo 2016 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – Warren Grill 2016 Technology Award, Eduard Rhein Foundation – Blake Wilson Professional Society Recognition Hans Fischer Senior Research Fellow, Technical University of Munich – Krishnendu Chakrabarty IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award – Krishnendu Chakrabarty William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award – Krishnendu Chakrabarty Senior area editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing – Sina Farsiu Pascal Rol Award for Best Paper in Ophthalmic Technologies at the SPIE Photonics West 2015 – Sina Farsiu Best paper award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society International Conference on Humanoid Robots – Kris Hauser Fellow, Optical Society of America – Qing Huo Liu Associate Editor in Chief, IEEE Micro – Dan Sorin Early Career Awards 2016 Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation for Science Advancement – Maiken Mikkelsen University and School Honors Faculty Director, B.N. Duke Scholarship Program (Duke University) – Mike Gustafson Teamwork Award (Duke University) – Guillermo Sapiro & colleagues Julian Abele Graduate Mentor Award (Duke University) – Adrienne Stiff-Roberts Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Jungsang Kim Office of Naval Research Faculty Fellow – Kishor Trivedi Honorary doctorate in medicine, University of Salamanca (Spain) – Blake Wilson Distinguished Lectureships and Speakerships IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2016 – Qing Huo Liu Keynote speech, Predictive Multiscale Materials Modeling conference (Cambridge University) – Stefano Curtarolo Invited talk, 5th Annual Karles Invitational Conference on Neuroelectronics – Warren Grill Keynote lecture, 2016 Medical and Scientific Advisory Council Meeting, Dystonia Medical Research Foundation – Warren Grill Media Recognition "20 Engineering Management Professors You Should Know," Online Engineering Programs – Jeff Glass Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Thomson Reuters – Ingrid Daubechies and David Smith Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, IEEE Micro 2015 – Benjamin Lee Selected for highlight, SPIE Women in Optics – Maiken Mikkelsen 2014-2015 National Academy of Engineering Membership Elected in 2015 – Ingrid Daubechies Research and Professional Leadership Awards National Academy of Engineering Russ Prize – Blake S. Wilson Claude E. Shannon Award, IEEE Information Theory Society – Robert Calderbank Professional Society Recognition Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Robert Calderbank Fellow, IACM – John Board Elected Secretary, USACM – John Board Member, Advisory Board of DOE ASCAC – John Board Fellow, National Security Science and Engineering, US Department of Defense – Chris Dwyer Fellow, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium – Lisa Huettel Life Fellow, IEEE – Hisham Massoud Fellow, IEEE – Guillermo Sapiro and Blake S. Wilson At-Large Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Education Society – Lisa Huettel Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – Kishor Trivedi IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award – Krishnendu Chakrabarty Best Poster Award, Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association – Lisa Huettel Research selected as IEEE Micro Top Pick of 2014 – Ben Lee Early Career Awards National Science Foundation CAREER Award –Maiken Mikkelsen AFOSR Young Investigator Research Award – Maiken Mikkelsen Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities – Maiken Mikkelsen University and School Honors Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (Duke University) – Warren Grill Elected Chair, Academic Council (Duke University) – Nan Jokerst Stansell Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Jeffrey Glass Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award – Andrew Hilton Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University (Sweden) – Blake S. Wilson Distinguished Lectureships and Speakerships Israel Pollack Distinguished Lecturer, Technion-Israel Institute of Techology (Israel) – Guillermo Sapiro IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer – Henry Pfister NordSecMobile Scholar (Norway) – Kishor Trivedi Keynote Speaker, AIMBE Annual Meeting 2015 – Warren Grill Keynote Speaker, 3rd Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think – Warren Grill Plenary Lecturer, 7th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference – Warren Grill Plenary Speaker, European Signal Processing Conference – Guillermo Sapiro Technology and Research Leadership Named US Army Chief Scientific Leader for Extramural Engineering Research Enterprise – April Brown Named Program Manager, DARPA – Jeff Krolik Member, Editorial Board of Computational Mechanics – John Board