Category: Awards
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César de la Fuente Wins Inaugural NEMO Prize, Will Develop Rapid COVID Virus Breath Tests
Congratulations to Cesar de la Fuente who won the Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity, or NEMO Prize! Judges from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Perelman School of Medicine awarded its first NEMO Prize to César de la Fuente, PhD, who proposed a paper-based COVID diagnostic system that could capture viral…
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Danielle Bassett Named American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Danielle Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering, who has been named a Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE is a non-profit organization that focuses on advancing medical and biological engineering. “AIMBE’s mission is to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit…
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Professor Paris Perdikaris accepts the Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising
Congratulations to Professor Paris Perdikaris who has been recognized for the care, attention, and advice he offers his students. In March, 2020 Professor Perdikaris accepted The Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising. This award recognizes faculty who are dedicated to helping students realize their educational, career, and personal goals Paris’s work spans a wide…
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Congratulations to Professor Paris Perdikaris
Congratulations are in order for Professor Paris Perdikaris who has been selected to receive an Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for his proposal titled: Self-supervised Learning for Rapid Forecasting, Generalization, and Judicious Decision-making in Dynamic and Stochastic Environments Abstract: The machine learning revolution…
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John Bassani Awarded ASME’s 2019 Daniel C. Drucker Medal
Congratulations to Professor John Bassani who has been awarded ASME’s 2019 Daniel C. Drucker Medal! He was awarded this metal by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Read more about Professor Bassani and his award here.
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Danielle S. Bassett Promoted to full Professor
Congratulations to Professor Danielle S. Bassett on her promotion to full professor in Penn Engineering’s school of Bioengineering. Professor Bassett was previously the J Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering. The goal of Professor Bassett’s group is to ” isolate problems at the intersection of basic science, engineering, and clinical medicine that can be tackled using…
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Aleksandra Vojvodic promoted to Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Congratulations to Professor Aleksandra Vojvodic who has been promoted to the position of Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Prior to this, Aleks was the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation. Aleks received her MS in Physics from Lund University in Sweden in 2004 and her PhD from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in…
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Amish Patel named Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Congratulations to Professor Amish Patel who has been promoted to Associated Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Amish is a core member of the PICS faculty whose research focuses on achieving a molecular-level understanding of solvation and transport in aqueous and polymeric systems. Prior to his role as an Associate Professor at Penn Engineering, Amish…
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Professor John Crocker named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Nominated by the Topical Group on Soft Matter, Professor John Crocker has been named an American Physical Society Fellow for his contributions to the microrheology of soft matter and cells, and to DNA-directed colloidal self-assembly.