Princess U II Imoukhuede, a professor of bioengineering, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her proposal “qBio+cBio=sBio; Identifying the role of cross-family signaling in angiogenesis.”
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Xiuling Li, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as an IEEE Fellow. Li has been recognized for her contributions to semiconductor nanomaterials for electronic and photonic applications. Her research focuses on developing innovative semiconductor structures and device concepts through both bottom-up and top-down approaches.
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Nenad Miljkovic and SungWoo Nam – both professors of mechanical science and engineering – were granted Young Investigator Awards from the Office of Naval Research. They were two of just 34 scientists chosen from around the country and the only faculty from the U. of I. to be selected this year. The ONR Young Investigator Program identifies and supports young academic scientists and engineers in tenure-track appointments who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.
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Gaurav Bahl, a professor of mechanical science and engineering, was awarded a 2017 Director of Research Early Career Grant from the Office of Naval Research. This competitive award will allow him to pursue research on nonreciprocal systems for sound and microwaves.
Verena Martinez Outschoorn and Liang Yang – both professors of physics – have each been selected for 2017 NSF CAREER Awards. Martinez will use the 5-year grant to develop and implement new analytical tools to search for exotic Higgs boson decay modes, which could reveal new physics beyond the standard model and could shed light on the nature of dark matter. Yang will use his CAREER Award to develop novel analysis techniques for investigations of neutrinos, ubiquitous yet mysterious particles.
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Tandy Warnow, a University of Illinois Founder Professor of Engineering, was among the eight scientists recently elected as 2017 Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
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Liang Gao, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal on compressed fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. His research could revolutionize the microscopy field by allowing biologists to quantitatively image dynamic fluorescence events at an unprecedented speed.
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The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering has announced the pending induction of Hyunjoon Kong, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, to its College of Fellows. Kong’s research focuses on the synthesis, characterization and processing of nanobiomaterials for diagnostic imaging and molecular/cell therapies of wounds and vascular diseases and regeneration of neuromuscular interface.
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Charles E. Sing, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a 2017 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal “Developing the design rules of charge sequence to inform polymer self-assembly.”
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