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Early Career engineers to watch A Note from the Assistant Director

I would like to offer heartiest congratulations to you on your selection as the new NSF CAREER recipients. You have already embarked on journeys of professional success. In the coming years, I know you will help create a wonderful future for our society with bold ideas and creative solutions. With great anticipation, I await your amazing contributions to engineering and the nation. Indeed, they are already happening.

At NSF, our mission is “To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense.” We believe that talented and energetic people are absolutely critical to success in this endeavor. This CAREER award is a signal of our belief in your great potential for pushing the frontiers of knowledge, creating powerful innovations, and educating the next generation of engineers. I encourage and challenge you to reach for the stars in the next five years and beyond, and make the improbable possible.

Dr. Pramod Khargonekar NSF Assistant Director for Engineering

1 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS

Amin Arbabian Drew Hall Riccardo Lattanzi Omeed Momeni NYU Medical Center University of California Award 1454107 San Diego Award 1453675 Davis Award 1454608 Award 1454732

Vishal Monga Marvin Onabajo Jacques Rudell Vishal Saxena Pennsylvania State University Boise State University Award 1454218 Award 1451213 Award 1454098 Award 1454411

Hua Wang Jing Yang University of Arkansas Award 1454555 Award 1454471

National Science Foundation 2 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 devices and sensors

Antonio Badolato Andrei Faraon Daniel Feezell Philip Feng California Institute Case Western Reserve Award 1454021 of Technology Award 1454691 Award 1454570 Award 1454607

Anthony Hoffman Juejun Hu Mercedeh Khajavikhan Michelle Knowles Institute University of Central Florida University of Denver Award 1454076 of Technology Award 1454531 Award 1452057 Award 1453218

Xiaogan Liang Claudia Mewes Fabio Semperlotti Jing Tang University of Notre Dame Oakland University Ann Arbor Tuscaloosa Award 1453330 Award 1454552 Award 1452916 Award 1452670

3 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 devices and sensors

Sindy KY Tang Hui Yang Stanford University University of South Florida Award 1454542 Award 1454012

Looking forward to seeing a lot of these faces on the covers of gscience and engineering magazines ggggsomeday. Samir El-G hazaly

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Jennifer DeBoer Morgan Hynes Alejandra Purdue University Magana-de-Leon Award 1454558 Award 1454152 Purdue University Award 1449238

Stay in touch! Seriously, we want to hear about your accomplishments. Don Millard

5 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 Energy

Bilal Akin C. Lindsay Anderson Arindam Banerjee Peter Bermel University of Texas at Dallas Lehigh University Purdue University Award 1454311 Award 1453615 Award 1453056 Award 1454315

Jesse Bond Srabanti Chowdhury Sairaj Dhople Zoica Cerasela Dinu - West Virginia University Award 1454346 Award 1454320 Twin Cities Award 1454230 Award 1453921

Gabrielle Gaustad Lars Grabow Ryan Hartman Jiarong Hong Rochester Institute University of Alabama University of Minnesota - of Technology Award 1454384 Tuscaloosa Twin Cities Award 1454166 Award 1453062 Award 1454259

6 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 energy

Joel Kaar Daniel Ludois Shalabh Maroo George Nelson University of Colorado University of Wisconsin Syracuse University University of Alabama at Boulder Madison Award 1454450 in Huntsville Award 1454379 Award 1452230 Award 1454437

Sung Yeul Park Gregory Rieker Yuriy Roman Cassandra Rutherford University of Connecticut University of Colorado Massachusetts Institute University of Illinois at Award 1454578 at Boulder of Technology Urbana-Champaign Award 1454496 Award 1454299 Award 1454413

Arunkumar Christopher Vermillion Liping Wang Miao Yu Subramanian University of North Carolina Arizona State University University of South Carolina Virginia Commonwealth at Charlotte Award 1454698 at Award 1453912 Award 1451887 Award 1453966

7 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 energy

Xiao Zhang Washington State University Award 1454575

Each researcher here has gthe potential to shape our future. Together, imagine the ggpossibilities! Deborah Goodings 8 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 health

Josephine Allen Turgay Ayer Kartik Balachandran Bahareh Behkam Georgia Tech University of Arkansas Award 1453098 Award 1452999 Award 1452943 Award 1454226

Danielle Benoit Bryan Berger Iman Borazjani Mark Brynildsen University of Rochester Lehigh University SUNY at Buffalo Award 1450987 Award 1452855 Award 1453982 Award 1453325

David Colby Filippo Coletti Eve Donnelly Xin Ge University of Delaware University of Minnesota - Cornell University University of California Award 1454508 Twin Cities Award 1452852 Riverside Award 1453538 Award 1453645

9 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 health

Fatemeh Hassanipour Jin He Caryn Heldt Christine Hendon University of Texas Florida International Michigan Technological Columbia University at Dallas University University Award 1454365 Award 1454334 Award 1454544 Award 1451959

Brenton Hoffman Kristopher Kilian Sang Wook Lee Somin Lee University of Illinois at Catholic University University of Michigan Award 1454257 Urbana-Champaign of America Ann Arbor Award 1454616 Award 1452763 Award 1454188

Christian Metallo Kathryn Miller-Jensen Kristin Myers Shikha Nangia University of California, Columbia University Syracuse University San Diego Award 1454301 Award 1454412 Award 1453312 Award 1454425

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Ramin Pashaie Amit Pathak Edward Sander Evan Scott University of Wisconsin Washington University Milwaukee Award 1454016 Award 1452728 Award 1453576 Award 1454300

Erkin Şeker Sarah Stabenfeldt Katherine Steele Matthias Stephan University of California Arizona State University University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Davis Award 1454282 Award 1452646 Research Center Award 1454426 Award 1452492

I’m thrilled to see the inspiring careers represented in these pages. JoAnn Lighty National Science Foundation 11 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 INFRASTRUCTURE

Shideh Dashti Matthew Eatherton Matthew Eckelman Venkata Gadhamshetty University of Colorado Virginia Tech Northeastern University South Dakota School of at Boulder Award 1453960 Award 1454414 Mines and Technology Award 1454431 Award 1454102

Eric Hernandez Michael Lepech Ali Nejat Tong Qiu University of Vermont Stanford University Pennsylvania State University Award 1453502 Award 1453881 Award 1454650 Award 1453103

Jennifer Rice Ketan Savla Pingbo Tang University of Florida University of Southern Arizona State University Award 1452911 California Award 1454654 Award 1454729

12 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 MANUFACTURING

Michael Baldea Jeong-Hyun Cho Weiwei Deng Adam Feinberg University of Texas at Austin University of Minnesota - University of Central Florida Carnegie Mellon University Award 1454433 Twin Cities Award 1454406 Award 1454248 Award 1454293

Rebecca Kramer Arif Malik Matthew McCarthy Manu Prakash Purdue University Saint Louis University Drexel University Stanford University Award 1454284 Award 1454405 Award 1454407 Award 1453190

Gurpreet Singh Murali Sundaram Keith Tyo University of Cincinnati Northwestern University

Award 1454151 Award 1454181 Award 1452549

13 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 MATERIALS

Avinash Dongare Jaafar El-Awady Kendra Erk Bora Gencturk University of Connecticut Purdue University University of Houston Award 1454547 Award 1454072 Award 1454360 Award 1453757

Stefano Gonella Douglas Holmes Julian Rimoli Aaron Stebner University of Minnesota - Georgia Tech Colorado School of Mines Twin Cities Award 1454153 Award 1454104 Award 1454668 Award 1452488

Kay Wille Ning Wu University of Connecticut Colorado School of Mines Award 1454574 Award 1454095

14 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 ROBOTICS AND CONTROL

Behcet Acikmese Ran Dai Todd Humphreys Girish Krishnan University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Austin University of Illinois at Award 1454543 Award 1453637 Award 1454474 Urbana-Champaign Award 1454276

Marco Pavone C. David Remy Conor Walsh Stanford University University of Michigan Award 1454737 Ann Arbor Award 1454472 Award 1453346

This is the class most likely to change the future. Grace Wang

15 National Science Foundation NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN

Amitabh Basu Alireza Doostan David Goldberg Srikanth Jagabathula Johns Hopkins University University of Colorado Georgia Tech University Award 1452820 at Boulder Award 1453929 Award 1454310 Award 1454601

Fatma Kılınç-Karzan Xiaopeng Li Nader Motee Sebastian Pokutta Carnegie Mellon University Mississippi State University Lehigh University Georgia Tech Award 1454548 Award 1453949 Award 1454022 Award 1452463

Yue Wang Yanchong Karen Zheng Enlu Zhou Clemson University Massachusetts Institute Georgia Tech Award 1454139 of Technology Award 1453934 Award 1452875

16 NSF Engineering CAREER Class of 2015 water and environment

Omar Abdul-Aziz Caitlyn Butler Brian Chaplin John Fortner Florida International University of Massachusetts University of Illinois Washington University University Amherst at Chicago Award 1454656 Award 1454435 Award 1452613 Award 1453081

Huilin Gao Johan Larsson Boris Lau Kelly Pennell Texas A&M University of Maryland University of Massachusetts Award 1454297 College Park Amherst Award 1452800 Award 1453633 Award 1454443

Christina Remucal Fernando Rosario-Ortiz Timothy Vadas Qiong Zhang University of Wisconsin University of Colorado University of Connecticut University of South Florida Madison at Boulder Award 1454448 Award 1454559 Award 1451932 Award 1453906

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