Faculty

Columbia University, New York, NY:

• APAM Department Chair (July 2012 - June 2018)
• Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (2004 - Present)
• Adjunct Professor (1985 - 2004)

International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY:

• Research Consultant (2004 - 2017)
• Research Staff Member (1987 - 2004)

• PhD, Materials Sci. & Engineering, Northwestern University
• BSci., Metallurgical Engineering, Middle East Technical University

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Member ASM, TMS-AIME, ACA, APS, Sigma Xi, IEEE, ICDD

• Hanawalt Award for rigorous physical modeling of the scattering processes from nanocrystalline materials, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2019
• Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2015
• Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2006
• Two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for research and development of computer and packaging structures
• IBM Research Division Award for research on diffusion barriers and 11 IBM Invention Plateaus for filed patents
• Adjunct Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University, 1993

• Associate professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University, 2015–
• Assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University, 2010–2015

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Society of Reproductive Investigators

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House, 2019
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Y.C. Fung Young Investigators Award, 2017
• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, 2015

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

• Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023-present
• Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018-present

• PhD, Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Electrochemical Society (ECS)

• Cottrell Scholar Award (2022)
• NSF CAREER Award (2021)
• Charles Hatchett Award (2019)
• Scialog Fellowship for Advanced Energy Storage (2018-2019)
• Charles and Katharine Darwin Research Fellowship (2017)
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017)
• Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Graduation Fellowship (2015)
• US Delegate of the 65th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates (2015)
• Experimental NMR Conference Student Travel Award (2015)
• Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship (2014)
• Eastern Analytical Symposium Graduate Student Award (2014)

• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (2018 – present)
• Amazon Visiting Academic, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Prime Air (2020 — present)
• Senior Research Scientist, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Prime Air (2018 — 2020)

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• American Physical Society

• National Science Foundation Early Career Program Award (2024)
• Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (2023)
• Early Career Program Award, Army Research Office (2022)
• Provost Diversity Award, Columbia University (2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2017)
• EDME Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Mechanics at École Polytechnique
• Fédérale de Lausanne (2016)
• Best Presentation Award, 9th International Conference on Urban Climate, 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment (2016)
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union General Assembly Conference (2014)

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Florence and Braunschweig TU University
• MS, Civil Engineering, University of Padova
• BS, Civil Engineering, University of Padova

• Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-Present
• Vice Chair of SIGEnergy, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-Present
• Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2015-2020
• Co-Chair of Smart Cities Center, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2016-Present
• CTO, Air Scientific Inc., 2014-2015
• Director of Analytics and IoT Research, Intel Labs China, 2012-2014
• Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, 2010-2012
• Engineer, Intel, 2005-2005

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Best Paper Award, ACM MobiSys, 2024
• Best Paper Award, ACM BuildSys, 2023
• Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2023
• Best Demo Runner-Up Award, ACM SenSys, 2022
• Best Poster Candidate, ACM BuildSys, 2022
• Best Demo Award, ACM SenSys, 2021
• Best Paper Award, IEEE ITEC, 2021
• Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2020
• Best Paper Candidate, ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2020
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2020
• Best Paper Runner Up Award, ACM BuildSys, 2019
• Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2018
• Best Presentation Award, IEEE VNC, 2018
• 2nd Place, App Contest, IEEE VNC, 2018
• 35 Innovators Under 35 Semi-Finalist, MIT Technology Review, 2017
• Best Paper Runner Up Award, ACM BuildSys, 2017
• Best Poster Award, ACM BuildSys, 2016
• Best Demo Runner Up, ACM SenSys, 2016
• Best Demo Award, ACM SenSys, 2011
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2006
• Best Paper Award, IEEE IPSN, 2005

• PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
• MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
• BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

• Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and in the discipline of Business, Columbia University, 2016 -
• Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School, 2010 - 2016
• Adjunct Professor, Stern School, New York University, 2014 - 2016
• Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, 2009 – 2016
• VP Professional Services/Member Advisory Board. MSpoke, Inc. 2004-2008
• Director, Deutsche Bank, 2000 - 2004
• Vice President, Credit Suisse First Boston, 1998-1999
• Associate, Morgan Stanley, 1995 – 1998
• Assistant Professor, School of Business, Rider University. 1994 - 1995

• PhD, Information Systems, New York University
• Fellow, Information Systems, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
• MA, Economics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

• Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-
• Appointment in Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical School, 2020-
• Member, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, 2020-
• Affiliate Member, Zuckerman Institute, 2022-

• NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, 2023
• Allen Distinguished Investigator, 2023
• Schaefer Research Scholar, 2023
• Pew Biomedical Scholar, 2023
• NIH Director's New Innovator, 2021
• Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists in Cell and Molecular Biology, 2017
• Chancellor’s Thesis Prize, the Sorbonne Universities, 2016
• Thesis prize from the French Nanoscience Society Nano-K, 2016
• Yang Cao-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award in Physical Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2015
• Albert J. Cross Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Departmental Citizenship, University of Chicago, 2014
• Peter Kollman Award in High Performance Computing, American Chemical Society, 2012
• Physical Sciences Division Teaching Prize, University of Chicago, 2012
• Bronze Medal at the 37th International Chemistry Olympiad in Taipei, Taiwan, 2005

• PhD, Physics, University of Paris 7
• PhD, Chemistry, The University of Chicago
• BS, Chemistry, University of Zagreb

• 2023 – Present - Director, SRC/JUMP 2 Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC)
• 2011 – Present - Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
• 2014 – Present - Founder and Faculty Director, Columbia Nano Initiative
• 2016 – Present  - AIM Photonics Institute, Leadership Council
• 2002 – Present - Director, Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University
• 2011 – 2017     - Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
• 2006 – 2010     - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
• 2007 – 2008     - Visiting Research Fellow IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs
• 2002 – 2006     - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
• 1999 – 2002     - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tellium, Inc.
• 1998 – 2007     - Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Agency
• 1995 – 2000     - Technical Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
• 1994 – 1999    - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

• Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Fellow, Optica

• Applied Physics Reviews Editors choice feature 2023
• HPCwire People to Watch Award 2022
• Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award 2021
• Bucknell University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award 2019
• IEEE Photonics Engineering Award 2016
• 2016 Herman Haus Distinguished Lecture, MIT
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, 2009
• IBM Faculty Award, 2008
• Optical Society of America Fellow, 2003
• CalTech President's Award, 1997
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 1996–1999
• National Science Foundation CAREER Program Investigator, 1995–1998
• AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991–1994

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS, Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University

• NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Magnetic Technology Division, Boulder CO 1999-2001

• NSF Career (2003)
• ARO Young Investigator (2002)

• Lecturer in Discipline, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 2015 - present   
• Director (part-time), Computing Research Facilities, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 2015 - present     
• Director, Computing Research Facilities, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 2014 – 2015
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 2008 – 2015
• Assistant Director, Computing Research Facilities, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 2008 - 2014

• Computer Society and Robotics and Automation Society, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• SIGCSE, Association for Computing Machinery
• USENIX

• Director of Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab, Columbia University, 2007-
• Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2001-
• Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2002-2005
• Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1993-2000
• Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1986-1992
• Postdoctoral Associate of Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985-1986
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1984

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET)
• An independent advisory council to the U.N. Secretary General
• ASHRAE
• AAAS

•  Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia, 1996
• Great Teacher Award 1997, Society of Columbia Graduates, 1997
• McMullen Fellowship, Cornell University
• Silver Medal in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology                
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Indian Institute of Technology, 1984
• Tuition Scholarship, ASEE

• Ph.D.,Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
• B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

• PhD, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA, Physics, Barnard College