Viterbi School of Engineering Faculty Research Award Winners



Year


2025

Faculty Name


Joshua Yang

Yasser Khan

Quntao Zhuang

Yong Chen

Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz

Department


ECE

ECE

ECE

AME

CEE

Type


Senior

junior

junior

use-inspired

Chevron

Year


2024

Faculty Name


Eva Kanso

Wade Hsu

Maral Mousavi

Qifa Zhou

Not Awarded

Department


AME

ECE

BME

BME

N/A

Type


Senior

junior

junior

use-inspired

Chevron

Year


2023

Faculty Name


Antonio Ortega

Sean (Xiang) Ren

Cristina Zavaleta

David Barnhart

Birendra Jha

Department


ecE

CS

BME

ASTE

CHEM

Type


Senior

junior

junior

use-inspired

Chevron

Year


2022

Faculty Name


Qifa Zhou

Niema Pahlevan

Phebe Vayanos

Keith Chugg

Shaama Sharada

Department


BME

AME

ISE

ECE

CHEM

Type


Senior

junior

junior

use-inspired

Chevron

Year


2021

Faculty Name


Urbashi Mitra

Megan McCain

Satyandra “SK” Gupta

Department


ECE, CS

BME

AME

Type


Senior

junior

use-inspired

Year


2020

Faculty Name


Shrikanth Narayanan

George Ban-Weiss

Eun Ji Chung

Krishna Nayak

Department


ECE

CEE

BME

ECE

Type


Senior

junior

Junior

use-inspired

Year


2019

Faculty Name


Alan Willner

Emilio Ferrara

Maryam Shanechi

Petros Ioannou

Department


EE

CS

ee

ee

Type


Senior

junior

Junior

use-inspired

Year


2018

Faculty Name


Daniel Lidar

Shrikanth Narayanan

Ilias Diakonikolas

Han Wang

Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely

Department


EE

EE

cs

ee

cs

Type


Senior

senior

Junior

junior

use-inspired

Year


2017

Faculty Name


Massoud Pedram

Stacey Finley

Jongseung Yoon

Viktor Prasanna

Department


EE

BME

CHEMS

EE & CS

Type


Senior

Junior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2016

Faculty Name


Petros Ioannou

Burcin Becerik-Gerber

Shrikanth Narayanan

Department


EE

CEE

EE & CS

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2015

Faculty Name


Jerry Mendel

Noah Malmstadt

Andreas Molisch

Department


EE

MFD

EE

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2014

Faculty Name


Iraj Ershaghi

Malancha Gupta

Yu-Han Chang

Rajiv Maheswaran

Department


MFD

MFD

ISI

ISI

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Use-inspired

Year


2013

Faculty Name


Mei Breuer

Andrea Hodge

Constantinos Sioutas

Department


EE

MFD

CEE

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2012

Faculty Name


Aiichiro Nakano

Michelle Povinelli

richard roberts

Department


cs

EE

mfd

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2011

Faculty Name


hai wang

andrea armani

ellis meng

Department


AME

MFD

bme

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2010

Faculty Name


rajiv kaila

steve cronin

paul debevec*

Department


phys

ee

cs

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Year


2009

Faculty Name


muhammad sahimi

michael neely

Carl Kesselman

Milind Tambe

Department


ce

ee

ise

cs

Type


Senior

Junior

Use-inspired

Use-inspired

Year


2008

Faculty Name


martin gundersen

Kirk Shung

hossein hashemi

pin wang

Department


ee

bme

ee

ce

Type


Senior

Senior

Junior

Junior

Year


2007

Faculty Name


priya vashishta

krishna nayak

david kempe

Department


cs

ee

CS

Type


Senior

Junior

Junior

Year


2006

Faculty Name


ari requicha

tzung hsiai

Department


cs

bme

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


2005

Faculty Name


behrokh khoshnevis

bhaskar krishnamachari

Department


ise

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


2004

Faculty Name


richard leahy

chongwu zhou

Department


ee

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


2003

Faculty Name


robert sholtz

shri narayanan

Department


ee

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


2002

Faculty Name


robert kalaba*

firdaus udwadia

stefan schaal

Department


bme

cs

ame

Type


Senior

Senior

Junior

Year


2001

Faculty Name


barry boehm

gaurav sukhatme

Department


cs

cs

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


2000

Faculty Name


mihailo trifunac

maja Matarić

constantinos sioutas

Department


ce

cs

ce

Type


Senior

Junior

Junior

Year


1999

Faculty Name


terence langdon

ulrich neumann

Department


chems

cs/imsc

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1998

Faculty Name


masanobu shinozuka*

peter beerel

Department


ce

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1997

Faculty Name


theodore berger

antonio ortega

Department


bme

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1996

Faculty Name


william steier

fokion egolfopoulos

Department


ee

me

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1995

Faculty Name


michael arbib

bingen yang

shahram ghandeharizadeh

Department


cs

cs

me

Type


Senior

Junior

Junior

Year


1994

Faculty Name


p. vijay kumar

alan willner

c.c. jay kuo

Department


ee

ee

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Junior

Year


1993

Faculty Name


alexander sawchuk

Department


ee

Type


Senior

Year


1992

Faculty Name


daniel dapkus

alison mccurdy*

Department


ee

ee

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1991

Faculty Name


len adleman

julian domaradzki

Department


cs

ae

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1990

Faculty Name


e. phillip muntz

muhammad sahimi

Department


ae

chems

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1989

Faculty Name


seymour ginsburg*

edward goo

Department


cs

chems

Type


Senior

Junior

Year


1988

Faculty Name


anupam madhukar

Department


chems

Type


Year


1987

Faculty Name


elsa garmire*

Department


ee

Type


Year


1986

Faculty Name


irving reed

Department


ee

Type


Year


1985

Faculty Name


terrence langdon

Department


chems

Type


Year


1984

Faculty Name


h.k. cheng

Department


ae

Type


Year


1983

Faculty Name


F.A. Kroger*

Department


chems

Type


Year


1982

Faculty Name


robert hellwarth

Department


ee

Type


Year


1981

Faculty Name


leonard silverman

Department


ee

Type


Year


1980

Faculty Name


curtis wittig*

tony maxworthy*

Department


ee

me/ae

Type


Year


1979

Faculty Name


m. bass*

Department


ee

Type


Year


Faculty Name


former VSOE faculty*

Department


Type


Published on December 12th, 2016

Last updated on April 25th, 2025