FACULTY (Listed by calendar year)
2026
Yu Sun — National Science Foundation CAREER Award Muyinatu (Bisi) Bell — Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
Tinoosh Mohsenin — WSE Excellence in Mentoring and Advising Award
Sathappan Ramesh — WSE Excellence in Teaching Award
Tinoosh Mohsenin and Sathappan Ramesh display their WSE Excellence awards.
2025
Michael I. Miller — 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Muyinatu (Bisi) Bell — Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award
Lucas Buccafusca — Robert B. Pond, Sr. Excellence in Teaching Award
Rama Chellappa — 2025 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award
Kamal Choudhary — Fellow, American Physical Society in the Topical Group of Data Science
Sanjeev Khudanpur — Papers selected by ICASSP as among the most impactful in the conference’s 50-year history.
Vishal M. Patel — Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for 2025; Fellow, IEEE; Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Jerry Prince — 2025 Data Science and AI Institute Demonstration Projects Award
Berrak Sisman — 2025–2026 Faculty Research Award from the Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI)
Laureano Moro Velazquez — Whiting School of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award
2024
Muyinatu (Bisi) Bell — Alan T. Waterman Award
Rama Chellappa — Edwin Land Medal; Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Vishal Patel — Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition
Ed Schlesinger — Singapore Public Service Medal
2023
Muyinatu (Bisi) Bell — Fellow, Optica; Fellow, SPIE
Rama Chellappa — PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award; National Academy of Engineering
STUDENTS (Listed by academic year)
2025–2026
Michael Kruppa (Advisor: Jerry Prince) — Douglas A. Davids Fellowship (Fellowship) Zachary Sinha (mentored by BDP Daniel Kammen) — The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR) award Jacob Lombardo (Advisor: Susanna Thon) — Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Fellowship in Electrical Engineering (Fellowship)
Evan Bell (Advisor: Yu Sun) — Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Fellowship in Electrical Engineering (Fellowship)
Wenhan Guo (Advisor: Yu Sun) — Virginia and Edward Wysocki, Sr. Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Fellowship)
Jiarui Wang (Advisor: Mahyar Fazlyab) — Kewei Yang and Grace Xin Fellowship (Fellowship)
Van Viet Nguyen (Advisor: Vishal Patel) — Edwin D. and Rachel Lowthian Endowed Fellowship (Fellowship)
Yen-Ju Lu (Advisor: Jesus Villalba Lopez) — Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI) Fellowship (Fellowship)
Cyan Siyuan Huang (Advisor: Rama Chellappa) — Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI) Fellowship (Fellowship)
Amandeep Kumar (Advisor: Vishal Patel) — Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI) Fellowship (Fellowship); Amazon AI PhD Fellowships (Fellowship)
Lakshmideepakreddy Manda (Advisor: Mahyar Fazlyab) — National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (Fellowship)
Jacob Lombardo (Advisor: Susanna Thon) — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) (Fellowship)
Alessandro Ascani Orsini (Advisor: Nitish Thakor) — Rita Levi Montalcini Scholarship (Dompé Foundation)(Fellowship)
Jacob Lombardo (Advisor: Susanna Thon) — Rubenstein Fellowship (Fellowship)
Shigeng Wang (Advisor: Sijia Geng) — Rubenstein Fellowship (Fellowship)
Agustin Castellano (Advisor: Enrique Mallada) – Whiting School of Engineering Teaching Assistant Award
Amir Hussein (Advisor: Sanjeev Khudanpur) – Best Paper Award, International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025)
2024–2025
Hunter Saylor (Advisor: Susanna Thon) — AI-Driven Advancements in Microelectronics (ADAM): NSF NRT Trainee Program Fellowship (Fellowship)
Aiden Tomov (Advisor: Amy Foster) — AI-Driven Advancements in Microelectronics (ADAM): NSF NRT Trainee Program Fellowship (Fellowship)
Zhimeng Wang (Advisor: Enrique Mallada) — Carl E. Heath Fellowship for the Support of Graduate Women in Engineering (Fellowship)
Natasha Ninan (Advisor: Mark Foster) — Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Fellowship in Electrical Engineering(Fellowship)
Bright Nnadi (Advisor: Ralph Etienne-Cummings) — Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Fellowship in Electrical Engineering (Fellowship)
Amir Hussein (Advisor: Sanjeev Khudanpur) — Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI) Fellowship (Fellowship)
Aiden Tomov (Advisor: Amy Foster) — Kewei Yang and Grace Xin Fellowship (Fellowship)
Zhimin Shao (Advisor: Rama Chellappa) — Lila May Walkden Flounders Fellowship (Fellowship)
Savannah Hays (Advisor: Jerry Prince) — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) (Fellowship)
Dylan Poppert (Advisor: Trac Tran) — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) (Fellowship)
Yijun Zhang (Advisor: Susanna Thon) — Payback Fellowship (Fellowship)
Anqi Feng (Advisor: Jerry Prince) — Predoctoral Visiting Fellow, National Institute on Aging (NIH) (Fellowship)
Haben Gebrekidan (Advisor: Emad Boctor) — Rubenstein Fellowship (Fellowship)
Mikolaj Walczak (Advisor: Tinoosh Mohsenin) — Virginia and Edward Wysocki, Sr. Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Fellowship)
2023–2024
Thomas Shaddix (Advisor: Ralph Etienne-Cummings) — APL Graduate Fellowship (Fellowship)
Samuel Schmidgall (Advisor: Rama Chellappa) — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) (Fellowship)
Aaron Gibbs (Advisor: Amy Foster) — Percy Pierre Doctoral Fellowship (Fellowship)
Aaron Gibbs (Advisor: Amy Foster) — Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative (Fellowship)