Marshall becomes First Black Woman President of ANS
Lisa Marshall, inaugural assistant extension professor and director of outreach, retention and engagement in the Department of Nuclear Engineering (NE) at NC State, started her term as president of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) in June 2024. Marshall has been a member of ANS since 2005.
Horn receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship
Tim Horn, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, became the second faculty member at NC State to be awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship. Horn previously received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2022, an honor that only seven NC State faculty have ever received.
Lietz wins DOE award for plasma research
Amanda Lietz, assistant professor in NE, won an award from the Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program for her project “Incorporating Kinetic Effects in Fluid Models of Low Temperature Plasmas via Machine Learning.” Lietz will receive $900,000 over five years. She and her research team aim to develop a new computational method for low temperature plasmas modeling to better inform engineering for applications that use plasmas.
Two faculty members win NSF CAREER Awards
John-Paul Ore, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a Faculty Early Career Development award, also known as the CAREER Award, from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ore has received $594,739 for his project, “Robust and Lightweight Formal Methods for Mobile Robot System Development.” Ore and his team aim to reduce the cost and improve the scalability of lightweight formal methods for robotic software systems, laying the foundation for the next generation of automated testing and analysis of robotic systems.
Chau-Wai Wong, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), received a CAREER Award for $598,752. His project, “Fighting Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning,” focuses on enhancing privacy in federated learning and addresses vulnerable federated learning schemes that may leak sensitive information through improper privacy definitions or malicious attacks. Expected contributions include a deeper understanding of privacy risks and more robust defense mechanisms that can be applied to enhance the privacy of federated learning systems.
Three COE faculty members named Fulbright Scholars
Three COE faculty members have joined the 2024-25 class of Fulbright Scholars:
Fernando Garcia Menendez, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, is at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, studying the impacts of pollution from wildfires.
Jason Hou, associate professor in NE, is working with Politecnico di Milano in Italy to promote nuclear energy by advancing understanding of advanced nuclear reactor technologies.
Adriana San Miguel Del-gadillo, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is at the Universidade do Algarve in Faro, Portugal, studying C. elegans as a novel model for studying aberrant stress granule formation.
Oralkan and Augustyn win Alcoa Foundation Awards
Ömer Oralkan, professor in ECE, won the 2024 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award, which is given to senior faculty members for research accomplishments made over a five-year period at NC State. Oralkan researches the intersection of electrical engineering and the life sciences, particularly as they pertain to supporting systems for diagnostics and therapy.
Veronica Augustyn, associate professor and Jake and Jennifer Hooks Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2024 Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Award, which recognizes early-career faculty members for research achievements over three years. Augustyn’s research group focuses on the synthesis and characterization of materials for electrochemical energy and environmental technologies, including batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrolyzers and fuel cells.
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