NSF CAREER Award Winners

The NSF CAREER program offers the most prestigious awards in support of early career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent teaching and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. As of 2023, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has received over 100 NSF CAREER Awards.

2023

Yida Zhang
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering

A New Paradigm for Stability Assessment of Critical Geo-Structures

2022


Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Nonsmooth Control Systems for Societal Networks


Computer Science 

Reinforcement Learning

Eric Wustrow
Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Combating Censorship from within the Network

2021

Kyri Baker
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Addressing Grid Optimization Problems

Xudong Chen
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Better Control of Large Networked Systems

Sherri Cook
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Sustainable Solutions to Wicked Water Problems

Shu-Wei Huang
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Imaging to Catch Early Osteoarthritis

Marco Nicotra
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Hypersampled Model Predictive Control

Danielle Szafir
Computer Science and ATLAS Institute

Data-visualization Effectiveness Research

2020

Fatemeh Pourahmadian​
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

2019

Taylor Barton
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Analog-Assisted Transceivers for Next-Generation Millimeter-Wave Systems

Peter Hamlington
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Structure and Dynamics of Highly Turbulent Premixed Combustion

Tomoko Matsuo
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Predictability of the Whole Atmosphere from Ground to Geospace

Tam Vu
Former Computer Science faculty

Earable Systems: Enabling Ear-worn Sensing and Actuating Systems for Health Care and Brain-Computer Interactions

Tam Vu

2018

Jerome M. Fox
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Biosynthesis and Evolution of Pharmaceutical Leads 

Alexandra Kolla
Computer Science

Overcoming limitations to approximating combinatorial optimization problems 

Rong Long
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Fracture Mechanics of Soft Dissipative Materials

2017

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Former Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Computer Science faculty

Human-Computer Cooperation for Word-by-Word Question Answering

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Shaun Kane
Computer Science

A New Interaction Model for Eyes-Free Exploration of Touch Screens

Eric Keller
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Stateless Network Functions: Building a Better Network through Disaggregation

Franck Vernerey
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Awarded in 2017

2016

Juliet Gopinath
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Optical Vortices and Rotation

Khurram Afridi 
Former Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder electrical, computer and energy engineering faculty

High-Frequency Power Electronics for Wireless Power Transfer Systems

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Michael R. Shirts
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Understanding the thermodynamics of crystalline materials using advanced molecular simulation sampling methods

2015

Aaron Clauset
Computer Science

Hierarchical Probabilistic Models for Networks with Rich Data in Scientific Domains

Shideh Dashti
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Toward a New Paradigm in Evaluating and Mitigating Urban Liquefaction

Alireza Doostan
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Fast Surrogate Modeling for Design under Uncertainty of Complex Engineering Systems

Joel Kaar
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Rational Engineering of an Ionic Liquid Tolerant Cellulase Cocktail

Corey Neu
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Direct Measurement of Intranuclear Strain and Gene Expression in Single Cells in Vivo*

Corey Neu

Greg Rieker
Rady Mechanical Engineering

Frequency Comb Laser Diagnostics for Combustion Environments

Fernando Rosario-Ortiz
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering 

Impact of Effluent Organic Matter on Photochemical Processes in Surface Waters

Benjamin Shapiro 
Former Computer Science faculty

Constructing Modern and Inclusive Trajectories for Computer Science Learning

Ben Shapiro

Pei Hsiu Tom Yeh
Computer Science

AdaptiveTactile Picture Books for Blind Children during Emergent Literacy

2014-1995

  • Arunprakash Karunanithi, former faculty 
  • Joseph Bunch, former faculty 
  • Jennifer Cha, Chemical & Biological 
  • Virginia Ferguson, Rady Mechanical 
  • John McCartney, former faculty 
  • Todd Murphey, former faculty 

              

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