UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering faculty receive many of the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies in recognition of their leading-edge research and contributions to their fields. Here is a snapshot of the faculty recognized by their peers between June 2021 and May 2022, based on a list provided by the individual departments. 

Mahdi Abu-Omar
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Affordable Green Chemistry Award, American Chemical Society

Stephen Barley
Professor, Technology Management
The Hughes Award, Academy of Management’s Career Division 

Christopher Bates
Assistant Professor, Materials and Chemical Engineering
Rising Stars in Polymers in 2021, ACS Polymers Au
Teacher-Scholar Award, Camille Dreyfus Foundation

John Bowers
Distinguished Professor, Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Highly Cited Researchers List, Clarivate Analytic
Best Paper Award in Photonics Technology, IEEE Journal

James Buckwalter
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Francesco Bullo
Professor, Mechanical Engineering 
Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Kerem Camsari
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research

Joe Chada
Assistant Teaching Professor, Chemical Engineering
Outstanding Faculty Award, Class of 2022

Brad Chmelka
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Elected Vice President, International Mesostructured Materials Association 

Phillip Christopher
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Ipatieff Prize, American Chemical Society

Raphaële Clément
Assistant Professor, Materials 
Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 

Xi Dai
Professor, Materials 
Highly Cited Researchers List, Clarivate Analytic

Samantha Daly
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mid-Career Award, ASME Materials Division
Faculty Fellow, Paris Science and Letters University

Siddarth Day
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Potter Lecture, Division of Developmental Biology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Steven DenBaars
Mitsubishi Distinguished Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering
AAAFM-Nakamura Award, American Association for Advances in Functional Materials 

Yufei Ding
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Award, Cisco

Michael Doherty
Professor, Chemical Engineering
P.V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture, European Congress of Chemical Engineering/European Congress of Applied Biotechnology
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Glenn Fredrickson
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Nebraska Cluster for Computational Chemistry (NC3) Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

John Harter
Assistant Professor, Materials
Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 
Faculty Fellowship, Hellman Family Fellowship Foundation 

Craig Hawker
Professor, Materials
Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences

Yogananda Isukapalli
Associate Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Class of 2022

Chandra Krintz
Professor, Computer Science
Council Membership, Computing Research Association Computing Community Consortium

Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Assistant Professor, Materials
Most Valuable Presentation, Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices (WOCSEMMAD) 2022
Inaugural Recipient, Mehrabian Career Development Chair

Paul Leonardi
Duca Family Professor, Technology Management
Elected Fellow, International Communication Association

Kyle Lewis 
Chair and Professor, Technology Management
Christian A. Felipe Chair of Technology Management

Lei Li
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Best Paper Award, Association of Computational Linguistics

Igor Mezić
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Nina Miolane
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship Award, UCSB 

Diba Mirza 
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Class of 2022

Umesh Mishra
Donald W. Whittier Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Sanjit Mitra
Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected Corresponding Member, National Academy of Engineering, Brazil

Galan Moody
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Award, Cisco Research 

Arnab Mukherjee
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement 

Shuji Nakamura
Distinguished Professor, Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard J. Goldstein Energy Lecture Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Michelle O’Malley
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Nelson Phillips
Professor, Technology Management
Elected Fellow, Academy of Management

Angela Pitenis
Assistant Professor, Materials
Margaret T. Getman Service to Student Awards, UCSB

Tresa Pollock
Interim Dean and Alcoa Distinguished Professor, Materials
Elected Honorary Member, French Society of Metallurgy and Materials

Rachel Segalman
Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering and Materials
Gaden Lecture, Columbia University; Distinguished Alumni Lectureship, University of Massachusetts 

Ram Seshadri
Professor, Materials
Elected Fellow, Neutron Scattering Society of America

M. Scott Shell
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, UCSB Academic Senate

Timothy Sherwood
Professor, Computer Science
Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Research Highlight Award, Communications of Association of Computing Machinery 

Spencer Smith
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ryan Stowers
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Young Investigator Award, Breast Cancer Alliance

Dmitri Strukov
Professor, Computer Science
Research Highlight Award, Communications of Association of Computing Machinery 

Mary Tripsas
Professor, Technology Management
Distinguished Scholar Award, Academy of Management’s Technology and Innovation Management Division

Chris Van de Walle
Professor, Materials
Highly Cited Researchers List, Clarivate Analytic

William Wang
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Faculty Research Award, Google Ads 
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention, AMiner 

Stephen Wilson 
Professor, Materials
Elected Fellow, Neutron Scattering Society of America

Zheng Zhang
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation

Yangying Zhu 
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers