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NSF Early CAREER Awards

NSF CAREER awards recognize and support new faculty members who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Each award includes a substantial grant to support the faculty member's research. Data from 2001 to present.

Year Recipient Department
2023 Michelle DiBenedetto Mechanical Engineering
2022 Mehmet Kurt Mechanical Engineering
Prashanth Rajivan Industrial & Systems Engineering
2021 Sam Burden Electrical & Computer Engineering
Michael Gomez Civil & Environmental Engineering
2018 Shayan Oveis Gharan Computer Science & Engineering
Leah Findlater Human Centered Design & Engineering
Jon Froehlich Computer Science & Engineering
Yin Tat Lee Computer Science & Engineering
Brett Maurer Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mo Li Electrical & Computer Engineering
Peter Pauzauskie Material Science & Engineering
Kate Starbird Human Centered Design & Engineering
Kat Steele Mechanical Engineering
Zachary Tatlock Computer Science & Engineering
2017 Alvin Cheung Computer Science & Engineering
Cole DeForest Chemical Engineering
Ali Farhadi Computer Science & Engineering
Sreeram Kannan Electrical & Computer Engineering
Katharina Reinecke Computer Science & Engineering
Franziska Roesner Computer Science & Engineering
Thomas Rothvoss Computer Science & Engineering
Emina Torlak Computer Science & Engineering
2016 Maya Cakmak Computer Science & Engineering
Sean Munson Human Centered Design & Engineering
Anshu Narang Aeronautics & Astronautics
Peter Pauzauskie Materials Science & Engineering
Jinkyu "JK" Yang Aeronautics & Astronautics
2015 Shyamnath Gollakota Computer Science & Engineering
Daniela Rosner Human Centered Design & Engineering
Chris Rudell Electrical Engineering
Katherine Steele Mechanical Engineering
2013 Michael Dodd Civil & Environmental Engineering
2012 Kai-Mei Fu Electrical Engineering and Physics
James Pfaendtner Chemical Engineering
Marco Rolandi Materials Science & Engineering
Xiaodong Xu Materials Science & Engineering
2011 Antonino Ferrante Aeronautics & Astronautics
James Fogarty Computer Science & Engineering
Archis Ghate Industrial & Systems Engineering
2010 Linda Ng Boyle Industrial Systems and Engineering (transferred to UW)
Julie Kientz Human Centered Design & Engineering
Charlotte Lee Human Centered Design & Engineering
Georg Seelig Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
2009 Magda Balazinska Computer Science & Engineering (transferred to UW)
Luis Ceze Computer Science & Engineering
Jae-Hyun Chung Mechanical Engineering
Maryam Fazel Electrical Engineering
Yoshi Kohno Computer Science & Engineering
Brian Otis Electrical Engineering
Nathan Sniadecki Mechanical Engineering
Junlan Wang Mechanical Engineering (transferred to UW)
2008 Alberto Aliseda Mechanical Engineering
Christine Luscombe Materials Science & Engineering
Jonathan Posner Mechanical Engineering (transferred to UW)
Amy Shen Mechanical Engineering (left UW)
Hong Shen Chemical Engineering
2007 Xiaohu Gao Bioengineering
James Lee Computer Science & Engineering
Babik Amir Parviz Electrical Engineering
Wendy Thomas Bioengineering
2005 Dan Grossman Computer Science & Engineering
Suzie Pun Bioengineering
2004 Venkatesan Guruswami Computer Science & Engineering (left UW)
Bruce J. Hinds Materials Science & Engineering
Tara Javidi Electrical Engineering (left UW)
Eric Klavins Electrical Engineering
Wayne Li Mechanical Engineering (left UW)
Xingde Li Bioengineering (left UW)
2003 Dwayne D. Arola Materials Science & Engineering (transferred to UW)
Yoky Matsuoka Computer Science & Engineering (transferred to UW)
Kristi Morgansen Aeronautics & Astronautics
Kai Strunz Electrical Engineering
Jennifer Turns Human Centered Design & Engineering
2002 Steven Gribble Computer Science & Engineering
Jim Hermanson Aeronautics & Astronautics (transferred to UW)
Mehran Mesbahi Aeronautics & Astronautics (transferred to UW)
Mark Oskin Computer Science & Engineering
Rajesh Rao Computer Science & Engineering
David Wetherall Computer Science & Engineering
2001 Stuart Adler Chemical Engineering
Jeffrey Bilmes Electrical Engineering
Albert Folch Bioengineering
Dieter Fox Computer Science & Engineering
Vikram Jandhyala Electrical Engineering
Shaoyi Jiang Chemical Engineering
Alexander Mamishev Electrical Engineering
Radha Poovendran Electrical Engineering
Zoran Popovic Computer Science & Engineering
Dan Suciu Computer Science & Engineering