NSF CAREER Award Winners (IE version)

Below is a gallery of Rensselaer’s CAREER Award winners with a brief description of their research.


• Alhussein Abouzeid • Srinivas Akella • Kurt Anderson • Murak Arcak • Kristin Bennett • Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc • Christopher Bystroff • Chris Carothers • Wai Kin “Victor” Chan • Wilfredo Colón • Natacha DePaola • Petros Drineas • Partha Dutta • Daniel Freedman • Daniel Gall • Shekhar Garde • Jose Holguin-Veras • Ken Jansen • Koushik Kar • Pawel Keblinski	• James Kilduff • Nikhil Koratkar • Peter Kramer • Yuri Lvov • Achille Messac • Ana Milanova • Marianne Nyman • Assad Oberai • Richard Radke • Ganapathiraman Ramanath • Chang Ryu • Susan Sharfstein • Biplab Sikdar • Michael Symans • Carlos Varela • Dan Walczyk ’91 • George Xu • Mohammed Zaki • Mourad Zeghal • Xi-Cheng Zhang Former Faculty Members • Pulickel Ajayan • Wesley Huang • Vera Kettnaker • Julie Stenken • Thomas Yu	Click on a name at left for a brief description of the professor's research.




Since 1983, NSF has used a series of grant programs to support promising young faculty at the beginning of their academic careers. The following Rensselaer faculty and former faculty members have received grants prior to the institution of the current NSF CAREER Award (and PECASE). The history and description of these grants are found on the NSF Web site. W. Randolph Franklin (1984) Presidential Young Investigator Steven Cramer (1989) Presidential Young Investigator Joseph Pegna (1990) Presidential Young Investigator* James Turner (1990) Presidential Young Investigator* Ahmed Elgamal (1990) Presidential Young Investigator* Jacob Fish (1992) NSF Young Investigator Award Antoinette Maniatty (1993) NSF Young Investigator Award Linda Schadler (1994) NSF Young Investigator Award (at Drexel) Thierry Blanchet (1994) NSF Young Investigator Award Chuanyi Ji (1995) Faculty Early Career Award* Todd Przybycien (1996) Faculty Early Career Award* *No longer at Rensselaer