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Faculty Awards

The Office of Faculty Development and Success is excited to highlight the accomplishments of our engineering faculty. The following are internal and external faculty awards announced from April 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026.

College Awards

AwardAwardeeDepartmentYear
Lampe Distinguished Professor in Biomedical EngineeringAshley BrownBME2025
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished ProfessorCaterina GallippiBME2025
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for ExcellenceRoger NarayanBME2025
Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security SciencesWilliam EnckCS2025
Goodnight Early Career Innovators AwardXiaorui LiuCS2025
C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty AwardRussell KingISE2025
Salah E. Elmaghraby Distinguished Student AwardWill KirschenmanOperations
Research Graduate Program
2025

University and State Awards

AwardAwardeeDepartmentYear
Junior Faculty Development AwardAmol YadavBME2025
University Faculty ScholarDerek KamperBME2026
University Faculty ScholarMatthew FisherBME2025
Yang Family Biomedical Scholars AwardRahima BenhabbourBME2026
University Faculty ScholarBrina MontoyaCCEE2026
Gertrude Cox Award (Teaching w/ Tech)Ignacio DominguezCS2025
NC State Outstanding Teacher AwardJason KingCS2025
Goodnight Early Career InnovatorRuozhou YuCS2025
Goodnight Early Career InnovatorYuchen LiuCS2025
Alumni Assoc. Dist. Grad. ProfessorshipOla HarryssonISE / CAMAL2025
Goodnight Early Career InnovatorJames BraunMAE2025
University Faculty ScholarJie YinMAE2026
Goodnight Early Career InnovatorJingjie HuMAE2025
Alumni Assoc. Dist. Grad. ProfessorshipKatherine SaulMAE2026
University Faculty ScholarVenkateswaran NarayanaswamyMAE2026
Goodnight Early Career InnovatorRuijuan XuMSE2025
University Faculty ScholarGe YangNE2026

National Awards

AwardAwardeeDepartmentYear
ACS Rubber Division Charles Goodyear MedalGregory McKennaCBE2026
SRC Aristotle AwardGregory ParsonsCBE2025
2025 Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering PedagogyLisa BullardCBE2025
2025 ACS Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship AwardMilad AbolhasaniCBE2025
Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the InstituteMilad AbolhasaniCBE2025
Inductee to LSU College of Engineering Hall of DistinctionPhil WestmorelandCBE2025
Omicron Delta Kappa (The National Leadership Society) 2025 Pillar of Leadership Award in Academics and ResearchRichard SpontakCBE2025
ACS POLY Division FellowRichard SpontakCBE2026
2025 Charles D. Scott AwardRobert KellyCBE2025
NSF CAREER AwardWentao TangCBE2026
NSF CAREER AwardXiaorui LiuCS2025
NSF CAREER AwardYuchen LiuCS2025
ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher AwardZhishan GuoCS2025
Student Paper AwardFangyuan ChengISE2025
IISE Fellow AwardJingyan DongISE2025
IISE Fellow AwardJulia AbateISE2025
Student Paper AwardNathan SandersISE2025
NSF CAREER AwardRenran TianISE2025
2025 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation AwardYunsoo HaISE2025
NAI FellowCheryl XuMAE2025
NSF CAREER AwardDariush HeiranianMAE2026
ONR Young Investigator AwardJames BraunMAE2026
AAAS FellowSrinath EkkadMAE2026
NSF CAREER AwardRuijuan XuMSE2025
Scialog Collaborative Innovation AwardRuijuan XuMSE2025
ELATES FellowshipMaria MayorgaOperations Research Graduate Program2025

International Awards

AwardAwardeeDepartmentYear
Controlled Release Society’s (CRS) 2025 Women in Science AwardRahima BenhabbourBME2025
2026 American Society for Metals International Gold MedalRoger NarayanBME2025
Americas Regional Winner of the 2025 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship AwardMilad AbolhasaniCBE2025
Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 2025 Charles D. Scott AwardRobert KellyCBE2025
ACM FellowTim MenziesCS2025
IEEE FellowXipeng ShenCS2025
Constellation Research AI150 ListEd AddisonMaster of Engineering Management Program2025
Vinness-Pillay Award for Applied Polymer ScienceMartin ThuoMSE2025
Optica FellowGe YangNE2025

Previous Years Awards

Awards Archives

View an archived list of past awards winners.