National Science Foundation CAREER Awards

National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards are among the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education in their work.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a National Science Foundation-wide program that offers awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

The following Clark School faculty have been recognized with National Science Foundation Faculty Young Investigator/Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards:

2025 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Huertas Cerdeira Mechanical Enginnering	Award Biomimetic caudal fins for elucidating flow mechanics that lead to optimal engineered propeller performance
	Winner Kaiqing Zhang Electrical & Computer Engineering	Award Theoretical Foundations of Multi-agent Learning in Dynamic Environments

2024 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Avik Dutt Mechanical Engineering	AwardNanophotonic synthetic dimensions for scalable analog Hamiltonian simulators and sensing
	Winner Jenna Mueller Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardStudying biophysical properties of the cervix to engineer models of cervical dysplasia
	Winner Sahil Shah Electrical and Computer Engineering	AwardExploring Mixed-Signal Computation for Energy-Efficient and Robust Brain-Machine Interfaces
	Winner Sanghamitra Dutta Electrical and Computer Engineering	AwardInformation-Theoretic Measures for Fairness and Explainability in High-Stakes Applications
	Winner Cheng Gong Electrical and Computer Engineering	AwardMultiferroicity in van der Waals Heterostructures

2023 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Erika Moore Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardEngineering Extracellular Matrix Ligands for Macrophage Control
	Winner Eleonora Tubaldi Mechanical Engineering	AwardReconfigurable Dynamic Metamaterials Interacting with Flowing Fluids

2022 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner You Zhou Materials Science and Engineering	AwardCrystalizing electrons in coupled atomically thin semiconductors
	Winner Kevin Daniels Electrical and Computer Engineering	AwardReal-Time, Selective Gas Sensing in Complex Gas Compositions by Molecular Sieving via Robust Two-Dimensional Heterostructures
	Winner Christoph Brehm Aerospace Engineering	AwardHigh-Speed Boundary Layer Transition on Realistic Non-Smooth Surfaces
	Winner Allison Reilly Civil and Environmental Engineering	AwardStrengthening US Infrastructure and Communities through Science-Informed Disaster Policy and Engineering Civic Engagement

2021 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Taylor Woehl Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	AwardSingle Particle Visualization of Chemical Processes During Multimetallic Nanocrystal Synthesis
	Winner Chen Zhang Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	AwardA New Paradigm for Creating Silica Membranes from Polymer Hollow Fiber Templates
	Winner Katharina Maisel Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardDeciphering the nanoparticle-lymphatic vessel interface for modulating immunity
	Winner Katrina Groth Mechanical Engineering	AwardModernizing Risk Assessment Through Systematic Integration of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)
	Winner Shelby Bensi Civil and Environmental Engineering	AwardTranscending Barriers between Natural Hazard Researchers, Educators, and Practitioners - An Integrative Approach to Multi-Hazard Probabilistic Assessment
	Winner Gregg Duncan Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardExtracellular Barriers to Adeno-Associated Viral Gene Therapy

2020 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Ryan Sochol Mechanical Engineering, Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardHigh-Aspect-Ratio Multi-Material Three-Dimensional Microstructures via Microfluidic Direct Laser Writing
	Winner Mark Fuge Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Systems Research	AwardLearning Design Representations: The Effect of Differential Geometric Manifolds on the Inference of Design Structure
	Winner Kimberly Stroka Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardForm, Function, and Mechanics of Cell-Cell Junctions in the Heterogeneous Vascular Endothelium
	Winner Giuliano Scarcelli Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardLight-sheet Brillouin microscopy for mechanical analysis of tissue morphogenesis

2019 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Yasser Shoukry†	AwardDecision Procedures for High-Assurance, AI-Controlled, Cyber-Physical Systems

2018 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Steven M. Jay Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardMechanistic Investigations to Enable Rationally Designed Biomanufacturing of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Exosomes
	Winner Jin-Oh Hahn Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Systems Research	AwardEnabling "White-Box" Autonomy in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems
	Winner Stuart Laurence Aerospace Engineering	AwardEffects of thermal nonequilibrium on the acoustic noise radiated by a compressible turbulent boundary layerStuart Laurence
	Winner Hosam Fathy Mechanical Engineering	AwardIdentifiability Optimization in Electrochemical Battery Systems

2017 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Akua A. Asa-Awuku Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	AwardToward an Understanding of Secondary Aerosol Formation, Particle ageing in Droplets, and Cloud Processing
	Winner Charalampos Papamanthou Electrical and Computer Engineering	AwardTowards Practical Systems for Trustworthy Cloud Computing

2016 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Michael Gollner Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering	AwardUnderstanding the Mechanisms of Wildland Fire Spread (Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplement)
	Winner Anya R. Jones Aerospace Engineering, Maryland Robotics Center	AwardFlow Physics of Aerodynamic Forcing in Unsteady Environments
	Winner Behtash Babadi Electric and Computer Engineering	AwardDeciphering Brain Function Through Dynamic Sparse Signal Processing
	Winner Jeremy Munday†	AwardIntegrated Research and Education on Hot Carrier Effects in Plasmonics
	Winner Piya Pal Electrical and Computer Engineering†	AwardSmart-Sampling and Efficient Prior-aware Inference for High Dimensional Signals

2015 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Silvina Matysiak Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardCombining Research and Education via the Exploration of Peptide-Lipid
	Winner Johan Larsson Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardNon-equilibrium wall-bounded turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers
	Winner Dana Dachman-Soled Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research	AwardNon-Black-Box Cryptography: Defending Against and Benefiting from Access to Code

2014 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Dongxia Liu Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	AwardSurface Crystallization of Reactive Oxygen Permeable Hydroxyapatite-Based Membranes for Direct Methane Oxidative Conversion
	Winner Baoxia Mi Civil and Environmental Engineering†	AwardGraphene-enabled Synthesis and Surface Modification of Water Separation Membranes
	Winner Christopher Jewell Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardDissecting the Role of Biomaterials in Lymph Nodes to Study and Shape Immunity
	Winner Michael Rotkowitz Electric and Computer Engineering	AwardDecentralization and Parsimony for Implementable Control of Massively Interconnected Systems
	Winner Stanislav I. Stoliarov Fire Protection Engineering	AwardUnderstanding Flammability of Charring Polymers

2013 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Yu Chen Fischell Department of Bioengineering†	AwardMulti-scale Imaging of Neural Interconnects using MRI-compatible Parallel Photonic Needle Interface

2012 Winners

	Winner	Award
	Winner Lei Zhang Civil and Environmental Engineering	AwardReliability as an Emergent Property of Transportation Networks
	Winner Jeffery Klauda Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	AwardSecondary Active Membrane Transporters: Determining Protein Structure and Transport Mechanisms with a New Hybrid Simulation
	Winner Oded Rabin Materials Science and Engineering, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics	AwardPlasmonics with a Twist-Chiral Nanostructures for Advanced Spectroscopy
	Winner Ian White Fischell Department of Bioengineering	AwardPaperBased Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Inkjet Fabricated Device

Faculty Awardees in prior years

Pamela Abshire, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Ella Atkins, Aerospace Engineering†
Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ella Atkins, Aerospace Engineering†
Ilias Balaras, Mechanical Engineering
Rajeev Barua, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Jennifer Becker, Biological Resources Engineering
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steven G. Buckley, Mechanical Engineering
John Cumings, Materials Science and Engineering
Michel Cukier, Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Jaydev Desai, Mechanical Engineering
Donald DeVoe, Mechanical Engineering
Sheryl Ehrman, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
John Fisher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Alison Flatau, Aerospace Engineering
Manoj Franklin, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Reza Ghodssi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Romel Gomez, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Satyandra Kumar Gupta, Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Jeffrey Hollingsworth*
Timothy Horiuchi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Adam Hsieh, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Bruce Jacob, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter Keleher, Electrical and Computer Engineering**
Richard La, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
K. J. Ray Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andre Marshall, Aerospace Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering
Nuno Martins, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Thomas E. Murphy, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Derek Paley, Aerospace Engineering
Darryll J. Pines, Aerospace Engineering
Linda Schmidt, Mechanical Engineering
Ray Sedwick, Aerospace Engineering
Joonil Seog, Materials Science and Engineering, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Benjamin Shapiro, Aerospace Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Elisabeth Smela, Mechanical Engineering
Santiago Solares, Mechanical Engineering
David B. Stewart, Electrical and Computer Engineering**
V. S. Subrahamanian, Institute for Systems Research
Peter Sunderland, Fire Protection Engineering
Ichiro Takeuchi, Materials Science and Engineering
Leandros Tassiulas, Electrical and Computer Engineering**
Sennur Ulukus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Edo Waks, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Norman M. Wereley, Aerospace Engineering
Min Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Donald Yeung, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Miao Yu, Mechanical Engineering

*CMPS faculty affiliated with Electrical and Computer Engineering
**no longer affiliated with Electrical and Computer Engineering
†no longer affiliated with UMCP