Shaina Kelly
Adeyemi Adeleye
Oscar Nordness
Alan West
Highlights from the ceremonies
Credit: Eileen Barroso
Meet the Class Day Speaker
Class Day speaker and EpiBone CEO Nina Tandon PhD’09 returns to the Engineering School to catch up with mentor and University Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. Find out how their longtime collaboration has evolved through the years and how their work on EpiBone is advancing personalized medicine. Credit: Jane Nisselson and Beatrice V. Mhando
STUDENT AWARD WINNERS
Zvi Galil Award for Improvement in Engineering Student Life
Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE)
Bernard Jaffe Prize
Yunus Kovankaya
School of Engineering and Applied Science Scholar Athlete Award
Elisa Luo
Campbell Award
Alexander Moreno
School of Engineering and Applied Science Student Activities Award
Katherine O'Reilly
Thomas "Pop" Harrington Medal
Athena Pagon
George Vincent Wendell Memorial Award
Elias Tzoc-Pacheco
Robert D. Lilley Award for Socially Responsible Engineering
Engineers Without Borders: Yuba County
Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence
Yash Vijay Amonkar, PhD
Graduate Student Life Leadership Awards
Mark Barbet, PhD
Albert Fernandez Veiga, MS
Graduate Speaker
Camille-Louise Kouba Mbayo, MS
Valedictorian and Illig Medal Winner
Ethan Wu
Salutatorian
Julia Zhao
FACULTY AWARD WINNERS
CEAA Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Lydia Chilton, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Xunyu Zhou, Liu Family Professor of Financial Engineering
Edward and Carole Kim Award for Faculty Involvement
Hardeep Johar, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award
Brian Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Presidential Teaching Award Winner
Yi Zhang, Associate in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
ALUMNI AWARD WINNER
Columbia Alumni Medalist
Alexander A. Ned BS’87, MS’90
Learn more about Lorenzo Polvani and his research
Lorenzo Polvani is the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia Engineering. He is particularly interested in quantifying and distinguishing the effects of anthropogenic forcings from natural climate variability.
ABOUT THE STUDY
JOURNAL: PNAS
TITLE: "The Montreal Protocol is delaying the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic summer"
AUTHORS: Mark R. England (1) and Lorenzo M. Polvani (2)
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz; now at the University of Exeter
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
FUNDING: This research was funded by a grant from the US National Science Foundation to Columbia University. The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.
ABOUT THE STUDY
JOURNAL: PNAS
TITLE: "Implicit learning of convective organization explains precipitation stochasticity"
AUTHORS: Sara Shamekh, Kara Lamb, Yu Huang, Pierre Gentine
Department of Earth of Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
FUNDING: The study was supported by: SS and PG acknowledge funding from European Research Council grant USMILE, from Schmidt Future project M2LiNES and from the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (STC) Learning the Earth with Artificial intelligence and Physics (LEAP), Award 2019625 - STC. KDL acknowledges support from LEAP and DOE Grant DE-SC0022323 ``Discovering Physically Meaningful Structures from Climate Extreme Data."
The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.