With their wealth of research experience and abundant accomplishments, Samueli School faculty represent the best and brightest in the field of engineering. From national awards to media recognition to international honors and research collaborations, our faculty continue to make an impact.
BRAVO
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou,
Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to those pursuing research, education and applications in engineering and technical fields. The NAE citation noted Foufoula-Georgiou’s contributions to hydrology and hydroclimatology with applications to engineered systems across scales. She has released groundbreaking research findings on topics ranging from regional climate and extreme heat events to river delta dynamics. Additionally, Foufoula-Georgiou was recently named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has awarded Kyriacos Athanasiou the 2018 Savio L-Y. Woo Translational Biomechanics Medal in recognition of his exceptional contributions to bioengineering. Athanasiou, Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, researches musculoskeletal and cartilaginous tissues, and develops clinical instruments and devices. He focuses primarily on regeneration of cartilage, specifically tissue found in knee, hip and shoulder joints, and in the temporomandibular joint. ASME honored him for “inventing intraosseous infusion (injection directly into the marrow of a bone), developing corresponding patented technologies and translating those technologies to clinical use worldwide.”
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 6
Anne Lemnitzer, associate
Xiaoqing Pan, Endowed
14
8
26
Presidential Young Investigator Awardees
NSF CAREER Awardees
professor of civil and environmental engineering, earned the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award to support her work in structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Lemnitzer will receive $500,000 to advance her large-scale experimental studies and numerical modeling of deep-foundation systems. She will address the shortcomings associated with current analysis and design recommendations and work toward establishing a next-generation framework, possibly prompting the introduction and implementation of novel instrumentation technologies and sustainable materials – such as green concrete – to reduce the carbon footprint.
National Academy of Engineering Members
Chair in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering and materials science, was one of 16 materials scientists worldwide elected a 2018 fellow of the Materials Research Society for distinguished research accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research. Pan, who directs the university’s Irvine Materials Research Institute, was singled out for “pioneering the development and innovative application of atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy and in situ techniques, leading to understanding ferroelectricity, domain dynamics and catalytic reactions.”
Tryphon T. Georgiou,
Chancellor’s Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the 2017 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. This is the fourth time Georgiou has won the award, a record that only two other academics have attained since the establishment of the honor in 1975. The award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the past two years in the society’s journal, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, based on originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance of significance in applications and clarity.
2017-18 DEAN’S REPORT