Recent Awards & Honors
Gina Adam
Dr. Adam served as the Vice-Chair of the “Disruptive Technologies” committee of the IEEE EDTM conference, held virtually March 6 through 9, 2022, where she also chaired a technical session and led a short course, “Devices and Material Innovation for New Paradigms of Computing”
Amir Aslani
Dr. Aslani was nominated as a candidate for Athletics (as chosen by) Professor of the Year for his contribution to the academic success of GWU student athletes, and chosen as one of five finalists
Dr. Aslani selected as the Engineer’s Council’s ECE Professor of the Year
Dr. Dehghanian was one of 10 finalists (out of over 200 applicants) for the Moore Inventor Fellows program
Dr. Dehghanian received the newly-created IEEE Electrical Safety Committee's Young Professional Achievement Award, which was presented to him during the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop on March 7-11, 2022
Dr. Dehghanian received the 2022 Office of the Vice Provost for Research Early Career Research Award for being recognized as a most promising up-and-coming research, whose trajectory has shown remarkable early success with more to come,” specifically in regards to his research in power systems engineering and smart-grid technologies
Dr. Lan began serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Dr. Sorger was named Lead Chair for the 2022 IEEE IPC Conference on Computational Photonics, Optical Data Science, and Machine Learning
Dr. Sorger was elected as a Fellow of SPIE
Dr. Sorger was named as part of the Active Tunable Optical Material Systems (ATOMS) IRG, focusing on active tunable optical materials, specifically complex oxides and chalcogenides phase change compounds. The IRG’s objective is to develop new optical materials with on-demand optical property modulation capabilities by combining AI-based material discovery, material synthesis & characterization, photonic device implementation, foundry process integration, and exploration of applications such as optical routing, active metasurfaces, and optical analog computing
Dr. Subramaniam’s paper, “Enhancing Flexibility and Functionality of SCNs: Feasibility Demonstration of Evolution Scenario Toward Any-Core Access, Nondirectional, and Contention-Less Spatial Channel Cross-Connect”, was a Top 10 Downloaded Paper from IEEE/Optica for October, November, and December of 2021
- April 1, 2021—October 31, 2021 Awards & Honors
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Ahmed Louri
Appointed as a Fellow for the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, an academic, non-profit, and non-governmental interdisciplinary organization of AI industries, including the computing, communication, power, biology, medical and transportation industries. The association aims to build a broad AI industry to promote the development and appreciation of AI in different fields of science and technology.
Selected by GW’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) to receive its 2021 Distinguished Research Award, which is given to only one GW faculty member per year. Faculty members receiving this award have made significant contributions in research and scholarship to the university and society.
Volker Sorger
Elected a Fellow of the Optica (formally OSA), joining a distinguished group of members who have served Optica and the optics and photonics community with distinction.
Named to receive a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award for his proposal, “Photonic Processor and Artificial Intelligence Rapid Prototyping and Test System,” which will support hardware AI systems that accelerate AI data processing and machine learning algorithms.
Dr. Santiago Solares (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Dr. Volker Sorger earned the Applied Electronic Materials Cover Award for their publication, “Strain-Induced Spatially Resolved Charge Transport in 2H-MoTe2.”
Shahrokh Ahmadi
Selected to receive GW’s 2021 George Washington Award, which recognizes student, faculty or staff who have made exceptional contributions to the university, either by developing students’ abilities to the fullest; providing superior instruction and facilities; providing for a balanced program of student extracurricular activities; or leveraging its historical, geographical and functional relationship to the nation’s capital.
Payman Dehghanian
Selected to receive the Washington Academy of Sciences’ 2021 Early Career Award in Electrical & Computer Engineering “for enhancing the reliability, resilience, and operational endurance of the nation’s electric power delivery infrastructure against environmental stressors and man-made cyber and physical threats.”
Received the 2021 Defense TechConnect Innovation Award for his technology, “No Sparks No Fire: Saving Human Lives via Ultra-Fast Detection and Prevention of Wildfire-Triggering Events in Power Grids,” at the 2021 Defense TechConnect Innovation and Expo, held Oct. 18-21, 2021.
Mona Zaghloul
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent No. 11,013,462 for “Wearable Wireless Multiple-Lead ECG Sensor Embedded in a Flexible Finger Ring” to Dr. Mona Zaghloul, Dr. Zhenyu Li (Biomedical Engineering) and Dr. Quang Dong (Biomedical Engineering alumnus).
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent No. 11,035,792 for “Nanohole Array Based Sensors with Various Coating and Temperature Control” to Dr. Mona Zaghloul, her student Yangyang Zhao, Dr. Stephen Semancik (NIST) and Dr. Kurt Benkstein (NIST).
Can Korman
Received a certificate of appreciation from the IEEE Magnetics Society for his service as Chair of the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia chapter from 2002 to 2020.
Dr. Korman’s published paper, “Economic Hysteresis and its Modeling,” in Elsevier SSRN was in the Top 10 of downloaded papers during the week of Nov. 7, 2021.