Faculty Honors
Here is a selection of awards received by UW College of Engineering Faculty (emeriti included).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Edward D. Lazowska (CSE)
MacArthur Fellows
2011 - Shwetak Patel (CSE, EE)
2007 - Yoky Matsuoka (CSE)
National Academy of Engineering
2012 - David Stahl (CEE)
2011 - Henry M. Levy (CSE)
2010 - Dennis P. Lettenmaier (CEE)
2009 - Matthew O'Donnell (BioE)
2009 - David Auth (BioE)
2006 - Susan Eggers (CSE)
2005 - Allan S. Hoffman (BioE)
2002 - Buddy D. Ratner (BioE)
2001 - Edward D. Lazowska (CSE)
2000 - James B. Bassingthwaighte (BioE)
1996 - Akira Ishimaru (EE)
1994 - Bruce A. Finlayson (ChemE)
1993 - Irene C. Peden (EE)
1987 - Bishnu S. Atal (EE)
1986 - Albert S. Kobayashi (ME)
1972 - Albert L. Babb (ChemE)
1969 - Edward Wenk Jr. (CEE)
National Academy of Sciences
1996 - Richard Karp (CSE)
1993 - Bishnu S. Atal (EE)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2009 - Michael Hochberg (EE)
2008 - Cecilia Aragon (HCDE)
2007 - Maya Gupta (EE)
2005 - Suzie Hwang Pun (BioE)
2004 - Wei Li (ME)
2004 - Raadhakrishnan Poovendran (EE)
2003 - Yoky Matsuoka (CSE)
2000 - Alon Halevy (CSE)
1999 - Chris Diorio (CSE)
1997 - Deirdre Meldrum (EE)
Sloan Research Fellowships
2012 - Shwetak Patel (CSE and EE)
2011 - Anup Rao (CSE)
2011 - Georg Seelig (CSE and EE)
2011 - Paul Wiggins (BioE and Physics)
2010 - Luis Ceze (CSE)
2010 - Christine Luscombe (MSE)
2009 - James Lee (CSE)
2008 - Tadayoshi Kohno (CSE)
2005 - Venkatesan Guruswami (CSE)
2005 - Mark Oskin (CSE)
2004 - Steve Gribble (CSE)
2004 - David Wetherall (CSE)
2003 - Pedro Domingos (CSE)
2003 - Zoran Popovic (CSE)
2001 - Scott Hauck (CSE and EE)
2001 - Raj Rao (CSE)
2001 - Steve Seitz (CSE)
2001 - Dan Suciu (CSE)
2000 - Brian Curless (CSE)
2000 - Chris Diorio (CSE)
1999 - Alon Halevy (CSE)
1995 - David Salesin (CSE)
1994 - Tom Anderson (CSE)
1994 - Eve Riskin (CSE and EE)
See also
- Engineering faculty NSF Early CAREER Award recipients
- College of Engineering's Diamond Awards
- UW Honors and Awards page (UW Office of Research)
Recent Honors
Kannan M. Krishnan (MSE) is being honored with the 2012 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for an article on biomedical nanomagnetics. 4/12 More »
Georg Seelig (CSE, EE) has been named a recipient of a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award. 4/12 More »
Jim Pfaendtner (ChemE) has won an NSF CAREER award to develop a new multi-scale computational modeling toolkit to guide bioprocess design and optimization. 3/12 More »
Shwetak Patel (CSE, EE) has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship in recognition of early-career achievements and potential for being among the next generation of scientific leaders.2/12 More »
David Stahl (CEE) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work applying molecular microbial ecology to environmental engineering. 2/12 More »
Alex Jen (MSE) has been elected a
2012 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). 2/12 More »
Peter Pauzauskie (MSE) has won an AFSOR Young Investigator award to support his research into laser refrigeration of optically-insulated cryophotonic nanocrystals. 1/12 More »
Xiaodong Xu (MSE) has won an NSF CAREER award to support his research into the quantum electronic and optoelectronic phenomena of graphene. 1/12 More »
Marco Rolandi (MSE) has won an NSF CAREER award for a project to investigate biocompatible protonic transistors and to help students learn and communicate nanoscience and nanotechnology concepts through graphics. 1/12 More »
Carl Ebeling, Dan Suciu, and David Wetherall (all CSE)

were acknowledged for achievements in architecture and design of reconfigurable systems and computer network design. 12/11 More »
Shwetak Patel (CSE, EE) has been awarded a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship (the "genius" award) for "envisioning cutting-edge new tools to address pressing social challenges." 9/11 More »
Jessica Lundquist (CEE) was named one of the "Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive & Emerging Leaders" by Diversity MBA Magazine. 8/11 More »
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Alex K-Y Jen (MSE) and Buddy Ratner (ChemE, BioE) have been named Fellows of American Chemical Society. 8/11 More »
Five CoE faculty have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences: Henry Levy (CSE, automatic due to election to NAE), Lee Huntsman (BioE), Alex K-Y Jen (MSE), Shaoyi Jiang (ChemE), and Mary Lidstrom (ChemE). 8/11 More »








