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Early Career Awards

We are proud of our up-and-coming faculty who have earned Early Career Awards. Their work signifies a strong and productive future for engineering research at UT.

Jon Hathaway

Jon Hathaway

Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Kai Sun

Kai Sun

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Cong Trinh

Cong Trinh

Ferguson Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

DARPA Young Investigator Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

James Ostrowski

James Ostrowski

Associate Professor
Industrial and Engineering

DoE Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Caleb Rucker

Caleb Rucker

Associate Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Haixuan Xu

Haixuan Xu

Associate Professor
Industrial and Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

DoE Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Steven Abel

Steven Abel

Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Daniel Costinett

Daniel Costinett

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

David Donovan

David Donovan

Associate Professor
Nuclear Engineering

DoE Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Siris Laursen

Siris Laursen

Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Andy Sarles

Andy Sarles

James Conklin Fellow and Associate Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Tim Truster

Tim Truster

Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Mariya Zhuravleva

Mariya Zhuravleva

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Dustin Crouch

Dustin Crouch

Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Dustin Gilbert

Dustin Gilbert

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

DoE Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Michael Jantz

Michael Jantz

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering Computer Science

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Nicholas Wierschem

Nicholas Wierschem

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Mahshid Ahmadi

Mahshid Ahmadi

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Damiano Baccarella

Damiano Baccarella

Assistant Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering

AFOSR Young Investigator, 2020

[30–40-word description of the research]:

Hector Pulgar

Hector Pulgar

Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NSF Early Career Award: XXX

[30–40-word description of the research]: