Each department chair was asked to nominate one faculty member who had had an exceptional year in teaching, in research or in service, or some combination thereof. The nominations were reviewed by a committee of four persons. They were Professor Can Korman, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, NAC member and SEAS alumnus Gulu Gambhir (VP and CTO of the Technology Services Sector, Northrop Grumman), NAC member and SEAS alumnus Anirudh Kulkarni (founder and CEO of Customer Value Partners) and SEAS alums Karl and Vicki Gumtow (co-founders of CyberPoint International).
Three faculty are recipients of the faculty recognition award. They are: 1) James Hahn (CS), 2) Megan Leftwich (MAE) and 3) Tian Lan (ECE). Each recipient receives $7500.
Professor Tian Lan had an outstanding year in research in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and IoT. He received $1.7M in funding from ONR and NSF, and published 17 peer-reviewed articles in his field’s top conferences and journals, including INFOCOM, SIGMETRICS, ICDCS, DSN, CLOUD, Globecom, Transactions on Networking, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Transactions on Network and Service Management, and Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Professor Lan is a co-winner of the 2017 Hegarty Innovation Award for his work on cybersecurity. He also provides outstanding student mentorship – he advises 4 doctoral students and has graduated one student who is placed at AT&T Labs.