Accolades

Michael Hochberg, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has won a coveted Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work in nanophotonics. Hochberg directs the UW’s Nanophotonics Laboratory and is installing a multimillion-dollar electron beam lithography tool that will be used to create prototypes for nanotechnology designs. He was nominated by the Department of Defense and receives $1 million over five years.

Jae-Hyun Chung, aassistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for faculty early career development. The award of $400,000 over five years will support his research on using a nanostructured tip for detecting circulating DNA without amplification. This work has applications for disease diagnostics and environmental monitoring.

Brian Otis, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for research using an ultra-low power, flexible 2-D electrode array to record signals on the surface of the brain. This new approach holds promise for future neuroprosthetic devices. The five-year award provides $400,000 for his research.

Nathan Sniadecki, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a CAREER award for his research in the mechanics of vascular and smooth muscle contraction using nano-mechanical testing and computational modeling. The five-year award provides $400,000. He also studies the cellular mechanics of the cardiovascular system in relation to biomedical devices and diagnostic systems.

Junlan Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a five-year, $320,000 CAREER award for work to develop novel experimental techniques complemented by numerical and analytical approaches to study the mechanics and physics of materials and structures at small spatial and temporal scales. Interests include nanoporous materials and mechanics of biomaterials.