Awards

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.

Congratulations to IMG undergraduate student Alexander Reilly on winning 1^st place in the undergraduate category at the AIAA Region II Student Conference hosted on April 4-5, 2022 at the Georgia Institute of Technology! Alexander gave a presentation titled, "Development and Fabrication of an Ultrasonic MEMS Anemometer for Use in Low-Pressure Environments". Great job Alexander! 

IMG member Shayla Breedlove, a PhD student in the Multidisciplinary Nano and Microsystems (MNM) Lab, becomes one of 15 members of the inaugural class of OpticaWorldwide Amplify Scholars, which supports Black students and their passion for light science.

Shayla is supervised by Dr. Zmuda and Dr. Yoon. Congrats!