Five Princeton Engineering faculty members are among the recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER awards during the past year.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards 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. Each award provides a minimum of $400,000 over five years, enabling early-career academic scientists and engineers to build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

New awardees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science are:

Adji Bousso Dieng, an assistant professor of computer science, for the project Foundations of investigative intelligence;

Ben Eysenbach, an assistant professor of computer science, for the project Unsupervised and autonomous reinforcement learning of skills;

Tian-Ming Fu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering, for the project Three-dimensional large-scale biomechanical sensing within developing vertebrates;

Ryan Kingsbury, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, for the project Beyond size and charge: leveraging electronic structure properties towards precise, programmable ion separations;

and Alex Lombardi, an assistant professor of computer science, for the project Foundations of post-quantum and quantum cryptography.