Jonsson School Spotlights Stellar Faculty, Staff, Students
Faculty, staff and graduate teaching assistants in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science celebrated the end of a successful 2022-2023 academic year at the annual Schoolwide Meeting and Awards Ceremony on May 5,2023
Dr. Stephanie G. Adams, Jonsson School dean, had named the year as the Year of Gratitude. At the beginning of the year, Jonsson School employees each received a rock inscribed with the word “Gratitude” as a reminder of gratitude for all who keep the school going. The Jonsson School experienced another year of rapid growth, so at the meeting, Adams said that more than 20 faculty positions will be added in the fall of 2023. She also announced the winning name in the Jonsson School’s magazine naming competition, “Voyager”. The name Voyager was suggested by Sayantan Kundu, computer science graduate student.
School leaders including Elaine Pearson, associate dean of administration, and Dr. John Hansen, associate dean for research, recognized leaders across the Jonsson School for their efforts in and outside of the classroom. Faculty were recognized for their work as top researchers and for their excellence in teaching. The University of Texas at Dallas also honored top PhD students and faculty, so these award winners were recognized at the schoolwide awards event.
University-Level Awards
UT Dallas President’s Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction
(Non-Tenure-System Members)
Dr. Tariq Ali
associate professor of instruction in bioengineering
2023 Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence
Undergraduate Research Mentoring
Dr. Joseph Friedman
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering
Faculty
Mentoring
Dr. Rashaunda Henderson
Eugene McDermott Professor of electrical and computer engineering
Best Dissertation
Award
Kinjal Basu MS’18, PhD’22
Natural Language Understanding and Commonsense Reasoning Using Answer Set Programming and Its Applications
Research mentor:
Dr. Gopal Gupta
David Daniel
Thesis Award
Bhanu Teja Vankayalapati
Methods for Onboard Condition Monitoring of SiC MOSFET-Based Converters
Research mentor: Dr. Bilal Akin
Dissertation Award–Honorable Mention
Matteo Puccioni PhD’21
Advisor: Dr. Valerio Iungo
Hamed Alemansour PhD’22
Advisor: Dr. Reza Moheimani
Danyal Siddiqui PhD’22
Advisor: Dr. Danieli Rodrigues
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Priyanshkumar Patel MS’23
Taek Kang
Staff Awards
Tammy Emery
electrical and computer engineering
Vicente Torres
computer science
Karen
bioengineering
Andrew Bittner
mechanical engineering
Cheryl Summers
Dean’s Office
Faculty Research Awards
Dr. Katherine Brown
assistant professor of instruction bioengineering
Dr. Yue Zhou
assistant professor
mechanical engineering
Dr. Todd Griffith
associate professor
mechanical engineering
Dr. Aria Nosratinia
professor
electrical and computer engineering
Teaching Awards
Undergraduate
Tenure-System
Dr. D.T.Huynh
computer science
Graduate
Tenure-System
Dr. Sriraam Natarajan
computer science
Undergraduate
Non-Tenure-System
Dr. Oziel Rios
mechanical engineering
Teaching Assistant Awards
Lindy Patterson
bioengineering
Cody Hatfield
computer science
Shengjie Li
computer science
Ka Yaw Teo
computer science
Merve Apalak
electrical and computer engineering
Mohammad Hasan Ghaderi
electrical and computer engineering
SM Al Islam Ovy
mechanical engineering
Trent Sakakini
mechanical engineering