Princeton Engineering faculty members Michelle DiBenedetto and Ben Eysenbach 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.

Michelle DiBenedetto, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received an award for the project Particle dynamics at the free surface: waves, turbulence, and microplastics.

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