Four engineering faculty received CAREER awards in 2019-20

Four faculty in the Swanson School of Engineering received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation during fiscal year 2019-20, bringing to 15 the number of the school’s faculty who have received the awards since 2016.

According to NSF, the CAREER Program is its most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

The 2020 recipients include:

Takashi D-Y Kozai, assistant professor of bioengineering, received $437,144 for Uncovering the Impact of Traditional and Novel Chronic Stimulation Modalities on Neural Excitability and Native Neuronal Network Function.

Sangyeop Lee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, received $500,000 for Machine Learning Enabled Study of Thermal Transport in Polycrystalline Materials from First Principles.

Jason Shoemaker, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, received $547,494 for Enabling Immunomodulatory Treatment of Influenza Infection using Multiscale Modeling.

Feng Xiong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received $500,00 for Scalable Ionic Gated 2D Synapse (IG-2DS) with Programmable Spatio-Temporal Dynamics for Spiking Neural Networks.

For more information about the research projects, go to the Swanson School of Engineering’s website.