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 Monroe
  • 2021 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 Chakrabarty

  • Mid-Career Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems—Yiran Chen
  • Fellow, Optical Society—Sina Farsiu

  • 2021 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 Monroe
  • IEEE 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 Farsiu
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jeffrey Krolik
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics—Cynthia Rudin
  • Fellow, The Optical Society of America—Michael Gehm
  • Distinguished Member, Association of Computing Machinery—Benjamin C. Lee
  • Morton Antler Lecturer, IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts—Mary "Missy" Cummings
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M)—Yiran Chen
  • Prolific 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 Trivedi
  • Best Research Artifact Award, IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)—Maria Gorlatova

Fellowships

University Awards and Honors

  • Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke University—Shani Daily
  • Stansell 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

  • Vahid Tarokh

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 Daubechies
  • Honorary 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