Awards

Congratulations to IMG members Woosol Lee and Minh-Chau Le for being recognized with the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards! Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the College of Engineering, the annual awards honor students who strongly model one of the six Gator Engineering Attributes: Creativity, Leadership, Integrity, Professional Excellence, Service to the Global Community, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Woosol was awarded for Professional Excellence, while Minh-Chau was awarded for Leadership. Congratulations!

IMG Member Woosol Lee was awarded the 2023 ECE Research Excellence Award! This award is given annually to the top ECE graduate student who has excelled in their research throughout the academic year. It was announced on Monday, April 24th, at the IEEE/HKN/WECE Awards Banquet. Congratulations, Woosol!

Congratulations to IMG member Minh-Chau Le on being awarded the UF Health Cancer Center (UFHCC) Predoctoral Award! The annual UFHCC Predoctoral Awards are intended to recognize and support outstanding predoctoral candidates who are conducting innovative cancer research. Under Dr. Hugh Fan’s mentorship, Minh-Chau is conducting her dissertation work titled: “Microfluidic Platforms for the Detection of Rare Cells in Sarcomas and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.” 

Congratulations to IMG undergraduate Madison Chubb for being awarded the MAE IDEA Undergraduate Research Fellowship! This fellowship recognizes and encourages the academic achievement of students from underrepresented groups who aspire to pursue research careers. Under Dr. Hugh Fan’s mentorship, Madison Chubb will be conducting her work on engineering microfluidic devices for tumor cell isolation to study cancerous cells in the blood samples of patients. Go Gators!

Congratulations to Minh-Chau Le and Ziqi Jia for being awarded the 2022 IMG Excellence in Service Award! This award recognizes a student who dedicates himself/herself to promoting the working environment, civic engagement, and/or social harmony within the IMG community. Go Gators!

Congratulations to Sushant Rassay, Wen Sui, and Carlos Manzanas for being awarded the 2022 IMG Excellence in Research Award! This award is the highest recognition bestowed on an IMG student for his/her research, and is a mark of academic distinction for IMG students. Go Gators! 

Congratulations to Dr. David Arnold and Dr. Saeed Moghaddam for being awarded the University Term Professorship! Each year, this 3-year award recognizes a maximum of 250 tenure-track faculty members across UF for their impressive academic contributions and achievements. Congratulations to our IMG professors - we are so proud of you!

View the list of awardees from the College of Engineering here.

IMG PhD student, Faysal Hakim, received the Best Paper Award (runner up) at Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2022).

The award-winning paper is titled “X-Band Ferroelectric-on-Si Fin Bulk Acoustic Resonators with f.Q of 0.8*10¹³.”

Congratulations to Faysal Hakim on receiving this prestigious award, and for representing IMG well.

Congratulations to IMG Ph.D. student Suhas Tamvada on winning 3rd place in the graduate category at the 2022 UF MAE Poster Competition on April 21! Suhas's poster was titled, "Solving the Data Center energy crisis using a high performance phase change heat sink". Awesome job, Suhas!

IMG Ph.D.  student Sai Pranesh Amirisetti was named the Best Teaching Assistant award for 2021-22 by the ECE Graduate Student Organization.  Sai is a TA for the Semiconductor Fabrication Lab, where students learn microfabrication techniques and fabricate a diode and MEMS devices.