Awards

Congratulations to IMG member Woosol Lee who has received  the 2022 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship Award for the project titled “Highly efficient mmWave based far-field wireless power transfer system using metaconductors and metamaterials.” This is a very prestigious award given to only 12 students in the world each year in the IEEE MTT society.

Congratulations to IMG Member Woosol Lee who has received the 2022 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Fellowship Award. This is a highly prestigious and competitive honor for Ph.D. students in IEEE AP-S, and the goal of this award is to encourage pursuit of careers in advanced electromagnetics. The award selection is based on creativity and quality of the proposed project as well as discussion of the technical interests and skills of the student. The title of his project, under the supervision of Dr. Y.K.

The cover of Applied Physics Letters' first issue of 2022 features the work of IMG members Dr. Jaesung Lee and Prof. Philip Feng and their collaborator. In the article, “Design of strongly nonlinear graphene nanoelectromechanical systems in quantum regime,” the authors show that atomically thin nonlinear nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) can offer sufficient anharmonicity for quantum NEMS to behave like artificial atoms, thus feasible to enable qubit devices with much smaller footprints than today’s qubit hardware.

The recent article titled, "Resolving Mechanical Properties and Morphology Evolution of Free-Standing Ferroelectric Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂" targets the accurate extraction of Young's modulus, built-in stress, and crystal morphology change upon release of hafnia-zirconia thin films. Hafnia-zirconia is uniquely positioned to revolutionize nanoscale transducers, allowing for nanomechanical sensors and actuators to be monolithically integrated within CMOS.

Congratulations to IMG graduate students Tahmid Kaisar and Enamul Yousuf on being selected to receive the Best Research Work Award and the Best Student Presentation Award, respectively, at the 67^th American Vacuum Society (AVS) International Symposium (Oct.

IMG PhD student, Troy Tharpe, received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuator and Microsystems (Transducers 2021).

The paper that received the award is titled "IN-PLANE BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATORS USING 50NM-THICK NANO-LAMINATED FERROELECTRIC HF0.5ZR0.5O2."

Congratulations to Troy Tharpe, and the co-author Faysal Hakim, on receiving this prestigeous award, and representing IMG well.

IMG professor Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian has been awarded the DARPA Director’s Fellowship—a prestigious award usually given to only a very few Young Faculty Award winners each year. Excellent work, and thank you for representing IMG so well!

To read more: https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2021/04/16/tabrizian-receives-2021-darpa-directors-award/

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Z. Hugh Fan, Ph.D., Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Fan was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for significant contributions to the field of microfluidics, particularly in device development and biomedical applications.

Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian, IMG and ECE professor, has been awarded the 2020-21 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall! Excellent work, and congratulations!

For more: https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2021/02/19/tabrizian-receives-2020-21-khargonek...

Congratulations to IMG Professor Dr. Saeed Moghaddam for his induction as an ASME Fellow! The ASME Committee of Past Presidents awards this distinction to recognize member candidates who have made outstanding engineering achievements. Stellar work!