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Junior Faculty Awards

The School of Engineering and Applied Science gives junior faculty awards annually to recognize assistant professors for their early-career excellence in research and teaching.

SEAS offers three junior faculty awards; each award includes a financial component of $50,000:

E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award

Established “to promote the recruitment and retention of junior faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science by providing annual awards in support of research and teaching.” Clarity in exposition is also an important criterion.

Howard B. Wentz Award

Established “to attract and retain the most talented junior faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.”

Rheinstein Award

Established “to provide special grants to junior faculty in the School of Engineering who have shown exceptional promise, to assist said faculty to further their work in their chosen fields.”

Guidelines

Department chairs from CBE, CEE, ECE, MAE, and ORFE can nominate one faculty member for a Junior Faculty Award.

The COS department chair can nominate two faculty members for a junior faculty award – given that the number of eligible junior faculty in COS is more than double compared to other engineering departments.

Please nominate faculty members who have not been a previous recipient of these awards.

Please keep nomination materials for each candidate within a two-page limit.

Nominations are due in April each year and discussed during the chairs-only meeting of the Dean’s Executive Council. The award recipient is recognized at the SEAS spring faculty meeting, usually held in May.

Junior Faculty Award recipients

Listed below are the Junior Faculty Award recipients by year.

  • Jerelle Joseph (CBE) – Wentz
  • Ryan Kingsbury (CEE) – Wentz
  • Parastoo Abtahi (COS) – Wentz
  • Alex Lombardi (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Saien Xie (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Ryne Beeson (MAE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Marcella Lusardi (CBE) – Wentz
  • Jesse Jenkins (MAE) – Wentz
  • Jaime Fernández Fisac (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Jyotirmoy Mandal (CEE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Ellen Zhong (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Ben Eysenback (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Reza Moini (CEE) – Wentz
  • Professor Huacheng Yu (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Aimy Wissa (MAE) – Wentz
  • Professor Bartolomeo Stellato (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Jonathan Conway (CBE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Yuri Pritykin (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Yasaman Ghasempour (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Ravi Netravali (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Jason Klusowski (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Andres Monroy-Hernandez (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Chi Jin (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Emily Davidson (CBE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Kelsey Hatzell (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Michael Webb (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Karthik Narasimhan (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Danqi Chen (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Minjie Chen (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Daniel Cohen (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Boris Hanin (ORF) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Michele Sarazen (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Olga Russakovsky (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Yuxin Chen (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Ludovic Tangpi (ORF) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Jonathan Mayer (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Luc Deike (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Ian Bourg (CEE) – Wentz
  • Professor Zachary Kincaid (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Miklos Racz (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Jia Deng (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Jeff Thompson (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Anirudha Majumdar (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Pierre-Thomas Brun (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Mark Weinberg (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Nathalie de Leon (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Gillat Kol (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Mykhaylo Shkolnikov (ORF) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Andrej Kosmrlj (MAE) – Rheinstein2017-2018
  • Professor Mark Zhandry (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Kaushik Sengupta (ECE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Samory Kpotufe (ORF) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Sujit Datta (CBE) Rheinstein
  • Professor Jose Avalos (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Claire White (CEE) – Wentz
  • Professor Arvind Narayanan (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Prateek Mittal (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Julia Mikhailova (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Ning Lin (CEE) – Wentz
  • Professor Barbara Engelhardt (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Alejandro Rodriguez (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Michael Mueller (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Liu (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Mark Brynildsen (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor David Wentzlaff (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Sigrid Adriaenssens (CEE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Alexander Glaser (MAE) – Wentz
  • Professor Clifford Brangwynne (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Branko Glisic (CEE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Zeev Dvir (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Philippe Rigollet (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor Hakan Tureci (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Mark Braverman (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Rodney Priestley (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Ramon van Handel (ORF) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Naveen Verma (ELE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Andrew Houck (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Elie Bou-Zeid (CEE) – Keyes/Emerson2009-2010
  • Professor James Link (CBE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Michael McAlpine (MAE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Gerard Wysocki (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor James Link (CBE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Michael McAlpine (MAE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Gerard Wysocki (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Celeste Nelson (CBE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Michael Freedman (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Kelly Caylor (CEE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Alexandre d’Aspremont (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor David Blei (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Boaz Barak (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Mikko Haataja (MAE) – Wentz
  • Professor Jason Fleischer (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Luigi Martin (MAE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Olga Troyanskaya (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor Maria Garlock (CEE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Patrick Cheridito (ORF) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Mung Chiang (ELE) – Wentz
  • Professor David Walker (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Craig Arnold (MAE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Young (CEE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Moses Charikar (COS) – Wentz
  • Professor L Peh (ELE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Stanislav Shvartsman (CBE) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Jeffrey Carbeck (CBE) – Wentz
  • Professor Rowley (MAE) – Wentz
  • Professor Ronnie Sircar (ORF) – Wentz
  • Professor David August (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Weiss (ELE)- Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Mona Singh (COS) – Rheinstein
  • Professor Edgar Choueiri (MAE) – Wentz
  • Professor Thomas Funkhouser (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor Adam Finkelstein (COS) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor N. Jeremy Kasdin (MAE) – Keyes/Emerson
  • Professor R. Wang (COS) – Rheinstein