ECE Faculty: CAREER, PECASE and Young Investigator Awards

The National Science Foundation CAREER (formerly known as the Presidential Young Investigator Award) and PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) awards are the foundation's most highly-esteemed awards for junior faculty members. They were established to recognize and support the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Recipients are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the missions of their institutions.

The YIA (Young Investigator Award) Programs support faculty research and encourage faculty teaching and research careers. Recipients have typically held their graduate degrees for fewer than five years. There are a variety of agencies which honor junior faculty members through YIA programs. This list includes, but is not limited to, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office (ARO) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Photo Name / Project Award Year
Mona Jarrahi

Mona Jarrahi
Conduct fundamental physical studies on the ultrafast dynamics of carriers in semiconductor nanostructures

Next Generation Photomixer-based Terahertz Sources

Plasmonics-enabled Ultra-short Carrier Liftime Photo conductors for High Power Terahertz Generation

ONR Young Investigator Award
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NSF CAREER Award
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DARPA Young Faculty Award
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2012

2011


2010
Mina Rais-Zadeh Mina Rais-Zadeh
"Chip-Scale Precision Timing Unit for PicoSatellites"


MEMS Reconfigurable Filters for Multi-Band Low-Power Radios

NASA Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty [More Info]

NSF CAREER Award
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2012

2010
Raj Nadakuditi Raj Nadakuditi
Fundamental Limits and Algorithms for Quiet Signal Detection, Estimation and Classification		 ONR Young Investigator Award
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Tal Carmon Tal Carmon

Continuous On-chip Extreme UV Emitter

 AFOSR YIA
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2010
Pei-Cheng Ku Pei-Cheng Ku

Nitride Semiconductor Single-Photon Emitters and Photon Entanglement

 DARPA Young Faculty Award
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Wei Lu Wei Lu

Understanding, Development and Applications of Nanoscale Memristor Devices

 NSF CAREER Award
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Silvio Savarese Silvio Savarese

Toward Discovering the 3D Geometrical and Semantic Structure of Objects and Scenes

 NSF CAREER Award
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Clay Scott Clay Scott

Guided Sensing

 NSF CAREER Award
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Zhengya Zhang

Zhengya Zhang

Removing Energy Barrier towards Capacity-Approaching Information Transmission and Storage

 NSF CAREER Award
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Anthony Grbic Anthony Grbic


Advances in Metamaterial Structures and Devices

New Approach to Manipulating Electromagnetic Fields: Nearfield Focusing Plates

 PECASE
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NSF CAREER Award
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AFOSR YIA
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2008


2008
David Wentzloff David Wentzloff

3D Wireless Interconnect for Crossbar Routing in Many-Core Processors

 DARPA Young Faculty Award
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Jamie Phillips Jamie Phillips
Oxide Electronics for Integrated Microsystems and Displays

Ferroelectric Heterostructure Integration With GaAs Optoelectronic Devices

 DARPA Young Faculty Award [More Info]

NSF CAREER Award		 2007



2003
Achilleas Anastasopoulos Achilleas Anastasopoulos

Exploring the Complexity Limits of Joint Data Detection and Channel Estimation: Exact, Polynomial-Complexity Solutions and Ultra-Fast Approximations

 NSF CAREER Award 2004
Robert Dick Robert Dick

Analysis, Design, and Synthesis of High-Performance, Low-Power, Real-Time Embedded Systems

 NSF CAREER Award 2004
Michael Flynn Michael Flynn

Improving Analog/digital Interfaces to CMOS Signal Processing Systems

 NSF CAREER Award 2004
S. Sandeep Pradhan S. Sandeep Pradhan

New Architectures for Distributed Compression and Communication of Delay-Sensitive Information in Sensor Networks

 NSF CAREER Award 2004
Mingyan Liu Mingyan Liu

Capacity-Driven Design of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

 NSF CAREER Award 2003
Dennis Sylvester Dennis Sylvester

Improving Technology-EDA Integration Through Interconnect Design Tools for Nanometer Design

 NSF CAREER Award 2002
Todd Austin Todd Austin

New Directions in Speculative Execution

 NSF CAREER Award 2001
Yogesh Gianchandani Yogesh Gianchandani

High Force, High Speed Electro-Thermal Micro-Actuators: Design, Fabrications, and Applications

 NSF CAREER Award 2000
Marios Papaefthymiou Marios Papaefthymiou
Parallel Integer Programming for Architectural-Level VLSI Design		 NSF CAREER Award

ARO Young Investigator Award

 1996

1995
Eric Michielssen Eric Michielssen

Electromagnetic Component Design Using Genetic Algorithms

 NSF CAREER Award 1995
Jeff Fessler Jeff Fessler

Statistical Methods for Improved Attenuation Correction in Emission Computed Tomography		 NIH FIRST 1993
Khalil Najafi Khalil Najafi NSF Young Investigator Award 1992
Stéphane Lafortune Stéphane Lafortune

Modeling, Analysis and Control of Discrete Event Systems

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1990
Andrew Yagle Andrew Yagle
Inverse scattering (2-D layer stripping)

Fast Algorithms for Estimation and Inverse Scattering

 ONR Young Investigator Award

NSF Young Investigator Award		 1990


1988
Jim Freudenberg Jim Freudenberg

Robust Design of Multivariable Feedback Systems

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1988
Jessy Grizzle Jessy Grizzle

Nonlinear Control Systems

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1987
Greg Wakefield Greg Wakefield

Constrained Spectral Estimation

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1987
Herb Winful Herb Winful

Nonlinear Phenomena in Optical Fibers and Semiconductor Lasers

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1987
Wayne Stark Wayne Stark

Performance Analysis of Spread-Spectrum Systems

 NSF Young Investigator Award 1985

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