Awards & Recognition

Shirley Ahn and Casey De Finnda are part of this year’s Hellman Fellowship, a program supporting early-career faculty across the University of California system. The professors are working to make a difference in the world by advancing human health and improving wastewater treatment.

Assistant Professor Bruno Carciofi’s lab has won a UC Davis Lab Safety Award for its hazard communication. Department co-safety coordinator Victor Duraj also earned a Safety Star.

For the first-ever UC Dialogue Fellows, Amir Saeidi, assistant professor of teaching in materials science and engineering, will help students navigate disagreements to strengthen teamwork and prepare them for professional practice.

Ali Moghimi, associate professor of teaching in biological and agricultural engineering at UC Davis, has been honored for his support of student success with an Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award from NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising.

Inspired by the farming communities where he grew up, electrical and computer engineering undergraduate Luis Blas developed an AI-powered platform that assesses crop quality in real time.

Sabyasachi Sen, professor and chair of materials science and engineering at UC Davis, is the 2026 recipient of the American Ceramic Society’s George W. Morey Award, which celebrates outstanding, original contributions to glass science and technology.

The UC Davis professor of biomedical engineering and surgery has been elected to the 2026 class of Biomedical Engineering Society Fellows. The honor is reserved for members who demonstrate outstanding achievement and have made significant contributions to the field of biomedical engineering and the BMES community.

Cheemeng Tan, a professor of biomedical engineering, leads an interdisciplinary and multi-campus research team working on a method for room temperature storage of cellular therapies, aiming to make the life-saving potential of these therapies much more accessible and cheaper than ever before.

The associate professor of materials science and engineering, received the Best Startup Award for her work as co-founder and head of monitoring, reporting and verification and environmental strategy at Equatic.

Nathan Gonzalez, a student studying scalable quantum technologies in the College of Engineering, has received a UC Noyce Graduate Student Fellowship for outstanding doctoral research. The program supports doctoral students at the forefront of computational health, quantum information science and cybersecurity.