Category: Awards and Honors

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8 Engineering faculty win NSF CAREER awards in 2023-24

Between 2023-24, eight Notre Dame faculty in the College of Engineering received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in recognition of their potential as innovators, both in research and education. CAREER awards come with five years of …

Shreya Kumar

Shreya Kumar to receive 2024 ND Women in Engineering Impact Award

Shreya Kumar, assistant teaching professor of computer science and engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award. The annual award honors a faculty or staff member in the Notre Dame College of Engineering “who has …

Siddharth Joshi

Siddharth Joshi receives NSF CAREER award to create bio-inspired microelectronics for autonomous systems

Siddharth Joshi, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, which supports early-career faculty who show exceptional promise as researchers and academic role models. Joshi’s research focuses on the …

Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu receives 2023 Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the 2023 Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC). DAC is the largest industry event devoted to electronic computer-aided …

Yiyu Shi

Yiyu Shi named a top innovator in DAC’s Under 40 Innovator Awards

Yiyu Shi, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is one of four recipients of the 2023 Under-40 Innovator Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC). DAC is the largest industry event devoted to electronic computer-aided design. The award …

Adam Czajka

Adam Czajka receives NSF CAREER award to improve biometric security

Adam Czajka, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. CAREER awards are among the highest honors awarded to young faculty. Czajka’s research focuses on human biometrics and security, …

Nitesh Chawla

Nitesh Chawla named fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for outstanding contributions in machine learning

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, has named Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, a fellow. Chawla, an expert in machine learning, …

Tijana Milenkovic

Tijana Milenkovic to receive 2023 ND Women in Engineering Impact Award

Tijana Milenkovic, professor of computer science and Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2023 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award. The annual award honors a faculty or staff member in the Notre Dame College of …

Karla Badillo-Urquiola

Karla Badillo-Urquiola named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

Karla Badillo-Urquiola, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a Clare Boothe Luce professorship. The professorship, funded by the Clare Boothe Luce Program of the Henry Luce Foundation, provides support to women in STEM …

Jane Cleland-Huang

Jane Cleland-Huang named Freimann Professor of Computer Science

Jane Cleland-Huang, professor and chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. She was named the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science on July 1, 2022. Appointment to an endowed chair is one of the highest honors …