ECE Department 2020-21 Awards and Honors
Faculty Awards
Prof. Peter Willett was awarded the 2020 AAUP Excellence in Research and Creativity Career Award. This award recognizes scholarship with a national and international reputation, outstanding service in promoting scholarship at UConn, and long term impact on UConn scholarship.
Prof. Willett was also part of a team at NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation that was awarded the Science and Technology Organization Scientific Achievement Award for their “Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Information Fusion for Maritime Situational Awareness” project.
Prof. John Ayers was awarded the 2020 College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Educator Award in recognition of his outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level over the last 30 years.
Prof. David Tonn received the 2020-21 CETL Outstanding Adjunct Teaching Award for his commitment to teaching.
Prof. Bahram Javidi was awarded the C.E.K Mees Medal from the Optical Society, which recognizes original uses of optics in across multiple fields.
Graduate Student Awards
Raja Hari Gudlavaletti received the Bronze Prize of the DTS Student Research Award at the 20th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting for his poster “Highly Miniaturized, Low-Power CMOS ASIC for Long-Term, Needle Implantable CGMs“, co-authored with Allen Legassey, Pik-Yiu Chan, Joon-Sung Kim and Profs. Diane J. Burgess, Fotios Papadimitrakopolous, and Faquir Jain.
Graduate Students Daniel Trombetta, Ghananeel Rotithor, and Iman Salehi and their advisor Prof. Ashwin Dani were selected as a finalist for the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress 2020 Application Paper Prize for their paper “Human Intention Estimation using Fusion of Pupil and Hand Motion.”
Fellowships
| Roman Mays | GEM Fellowship |
| Peter Douglas | GAANN Fellowship |
| Aalvee Asah Kausani | GAANN Fellowship |
| Elizabeth Baranovic | GAANN Fellowship |
| Brandon D’Agostino | GAANN Fellowship |
| Arshiah Mirza | GE Fellowship |
| Zhe Zhang | GE Fellowship |
| Yishu Bai | GE Fellowship |
| Tashfiq Kashem | GE Fellowship |
| Alex Maric | GE Fellowship |
| Adnan Mohammad | GE Fellowship |
| Brandon D’Agostino | REU Fellowship |
| Suleyman Demirhan | REU Fellowship |
| Colt Nichols | REU Fellowship |
| Raihan Khan | Intern Fellowship |
| Mina Sadeghi Najafabadi | Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
| Zongze Li | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Rakiul Islam | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Saidjafarzoda Ilhom | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Hamza Omar | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Gang Yao | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Andrew FInelli | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Zhe Zhang | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Adnan Mohammad | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Kushboo Mittal | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Wenjie Huang | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Jiachen Tu | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Husien Salama | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| James Wilson | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Zongyuan Shen | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Raja Gudlavaletti | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Arshiah Mirza | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Hasan Talukder | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Altan Unlu | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Tashfiq Kashem | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Xuesong Lu | Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Raihan Khan | Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Kushboo Mittal | Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Rakiul Islam | Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Raja Gudlavalletti | Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Brittany Smith | NSF-GRFP |
TA Awards
| Tashfiq Kashem | Fall 2019 TA Award |
| Ryan Saltus | Fall 2019 TA Award |
