Awards, Honors, and Recognitions

 

Farhan Rana

● Cornell University's College of Engineering’s Research Excellence Award (2017).

http://www.ece.cornell.edu/ece/news/awards/index.cfm?news_id=95595&news_back=

● Appointed as Joseph P. Ripley endowed chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

● Cornell University's College of Engineering’s teaching award: Michael A. Tien Excellence in Teaching Award (2017) - for the third time.

● Ranked number 2 on the list of “The 10 Best Professors at Cornell University” compiled by the magazine “Business Insider” in 2013.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-professors-at-cornell-university-2013-10

● Manuscript included in the list of top 50 “most highly cited papers ever published in the Applied Physics Letters” compiled by American Institute of Physics in 2012; “A Silicon Nanocrystals Based Memory,” S. Tiwari, F. Rana, H. Hanafi, A. Hartstein, E. F. Crabbé, and K. Chan, Appl. Phys. Lett., 68, 1377 (1996).

● Cornell University's College of Engineering’s teaching award: Michael A. Tien Excellence in Teaching Award (2010).

● Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Investigator Award  (2008).

● Appointed adjunct professor at LUMS-SSE, Pakistan (2007).  

● Cornell University's Michael A. Tien Excellence in Teaching Award (2006).

● ILX Lightwave Faculty Award (2005). 

● National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty  Career Award (2004).

● MManuscript ranked by IEEE as number 1 in the “Most Downloaded Paper” list in 2008; “Graphene Terahertz Plasmon Oscillators,” F. Rana, IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnol., vol. 7, 91 (2008).  (most downloaded papers)

● MRS BEST PAPER (RIBBON) AWARD for “All-Optical Switches Based on Intersubband Transitions in GaN/AlGaN Multiple Quantum Wells for Tbit/sec Operation,” J. Dawlaty, F. Rana, W. Schaff, Presented at the MRS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).

● "Stick of Honor" for cadet with best overall performance, Cadet College Petaro (1990).

● Gold medal for first position in the entire Board of Education, Government of Pakistan (1990).

 

 

 

Okan Koksal

● Winner of the John Bardeen Student Research Award for Excellence in Nanodevices Research at the Annual DARPA/SRC SONIC Center Review (2017).

 

Haining Wang (Alumnus)

● Winner of the Cornell ECE Best PhD Thesis Research Award (2016).

 

Jared Strait (Alumnus)

● Winner of the National Defence Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2015).

● Runner's up in the Cornell ECE Best PhD Thesis Research Award (2015).

 

Jahan Dawlaty (Alumnus)

● Nationsal Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015).

● Appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Callifornia (2011).

● QB3 University of California-Berkeley distinguished post-doctoral fellowship, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (2008).  

● SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering (2006).

● SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering (2005).

● MRS BEST PAPER (RIBBON) AWARD for “All-Optical Switches Based on Intersubband Transitions in GaN/AlGaN Multiple Quantum Wells for Tbit/sec Operation,” J. Dawlaty, F. Rana, W. Schaff, Presented at the MRS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).

● Cornell University's Excellence in Teaching Award (2002).

 

Paul A. George (Alumnus)

● Founder of the Startup company Video Note at Cornell.

● Cornell University's Merrill Presidential Scholar (2004) for best overall performance.