Past Early Career Achievement Award Recipients

Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology, USA
For innovative and pioneering contributions in the field of bioelectronic devices from wearable biosensors for continuous personalized health monitoring to synthetic micro/nanorobotics for in vivo biomedical applications.

Catherine Chang
Vanderbilt University, USA
For innovative contributions to human functional neuroimaging research that have advanced the interpretation and analysis of fMRI data.

Carmen Poon
For contributions to wearable sensing and endoscopic surgery.

Chulhong Kim
For contributions to multi-scale photoacoustic imaging from super-resolution atomic force photoactivated microscopy for research to systems for clinical applications.

Lei Ding
For significant contributions to neural engineering and biomedical imaging.

Danielle S. Bassett
For her pioneering and fundamental contributions to neural and systems engineering, including formalizing graph-based representations of neuroimaging data, characterizing human brain network architecture in health and disease, and discovering a network- based predictor of individual differences in human learning.

Qi Wang
For his contribution to neural engineering and biomedical instrumentation, including measuring biomechanical properties of skin and tissue, building a tactile display for a virtual Braille system, and discovery of a neural basis for sensory adaptation in behavior.

Muhammad H. Zaman
For seminal contributions to developing novel quantitative experimental and computational models of tumor development, growth and metastasis and for developing new engineering tools to address high impact global health challenges.

Utkan Demirci
For your significant contributions to the invention of microfludic droplets and its impact in low-cost, disposable, point of care dignostics.

Jose M. Carmena
For significant contributions to the development of cortical brain-machine interfaces for the restoration of sensory-motor function in neurologically impaired patients.

Dario Farina
For outstanding contributions on in biomedical signal processing and electrophysiology with fundamental applications in the study of neural control of movement and in motor rehabilitation.

Silvestro Micera
For contributions on the development of implantable neuroprostheses and biomechatronic devices for the restoration of sensory-motor function.

Ali Khademhosseini
For contributions at the interface between engineering, biomaterials, and biological sciences. In particular, the application of micro– and nanoengineered biomaterials and surface modification approaches for biomedicine.

Tejal Desai
For pioneering work in the field of bioMEMS focusing on implantable therapeutic microtechnology, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and cell-based sensing, and for advancing biomedical engineering education in micro-to-nano biotechnologies.

Alejandro Frangi

Stephen Boppart
For significant advances in the field of optical biomedical imaging including the development of molecular contrast enhancing probes and techniques in optical coherence tomography.

Susan Hagness

Paolo Vicini
For innovative developments in the theory and application of engineering software design, modeling, and simulation methods to an extensive array of relevant problems in modern biomedical research.

Dorin Panescu
For groundbreaking research in ratio frequency (RF) cardiac catheter alNation, the invention alx1 development of cardiac alNation mappng systems, alx1 systems of mcAti{ie electrodes.

David Beebe
Significant contributions to the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and their applications in medicine and biology.

James Collins

Zhi-Pei Liang

Metin Akay

Joan E. Sanders

Atam P. Dhawan

Rory A. Cooper

Yitzhak Mendelson

Blake Hannaford

Janie M. Fouke

Yongmin Kim

George V. Kondraske