Highlights, 2020-21

October 8, 2021

National accolades, multiple early career awards, and professional recognitions. See who captured top honors in 2021

National Recognition and Professional Leadership

2021 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ECE Distinguished Educator Award

Member, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (U.S. Department of Energy/White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)

Member, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (U.S. Department of Energy/White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)

Early Career Awards

Army Research Office Young Investigator Award

NSF CAREER Award

American Chemical Society (ACS) Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship

NSF CAREER Award

NSF CAREER Award

Professional Society Recognition

Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Vitold Belevitch AwardIEEE-HKN Asad M. Madni Outstanding Technical Achievement and Excellence Award

Mid-Career Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems; ACM Fellow

Fellow, Optical Society

Lisa Huettel

Lisa Huettel

2021 ASEE Southeast Section Outstanding Teaching Award

Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Secure and Dependable Measurement; IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on VLSI Distinguished Research Award

Fellow, Optical Society

IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award

IEEE Information Society's Most Influential Paper Award

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Major research centers

In advanced computing and intelligent systems, materials discovery and development, and personal, environmental, and population health

$39.7million

In new funding in FY 2021

The level of new funding this year marks an all-time high for Duke ECE

#1 in U.S. faculty research productivity in computer engineering, as reported by Academic Analytics 2020
#6 in US faculty productivity in electrical engineering. Source: Academic Analytics 2020