Honors & Awards

Honors and Awards

Michal Lipson:

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) Award, 2021
Board advisor on the board of directors, POET Technologies, 2022
Top 1% most highly cited researcher in Physics since 2014, by Thomson-Reuter
John Tyndall Award, IEEE Photonics and Optica Societies, 2021.
Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2019
Comstock Prize in Physics (NAS), 2019. Awarded once every 5 years, for “innovative discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, broadly interpreted.”
IEEE Photonics Award 2019. The award is presented for outstanding achievements in photonics and is the highest IEEE honor in photonics.
Honorary Degree of Doctor in Science, Trinity College of Dublin, 2018.

Amir Safavi-Naeini:

Sloan Fellowship (2020)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2021)
Chambers Fellow (2021)
Moore Inventor Fellowship (2022)
Jason Herrmann: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)
Hubert Stokowski: Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2020)
Felix Mayor: Best Poster Award (Hybrid Optomechanics Meeting, Ascona Switzerland, 2020)

Shanhui Fan:

R. W. Wood Prize, Optica (2022).
Simons Investigator in Physics (2021).

Anthony Grbic:

Anthony Grbic, John. L. Tishman Professor of Engineering, endowed professorship, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Jul. 1, 2023

Anthony Grbic, Senior Associate Chair, departmental leadership position, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Jun. 1, 2023

Anthony Grbic, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML), Jan. 2022 – Jan. 2025. Grbic’s DML is entitled “Extreme Field Control with Electromagnetic Metasurfaces”. DMLs are internationally recognized experts and technical leaders in their fields within the Society. The DMLs present talks to local chapters world-wide and serve as ambassadors for the MTT-S. They travel to MTT-S Chapters or Joint Chapters with other IEEE Societies, Student Chapters.

Cody Scarborough, Finalist, Best Electromagnetics Paper Competition, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Mar. 2022

Anthony Grbic, David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, March 2022.

Cody Scarborough, First Place, Student Paper Competition, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2021). This symposium is the premier international conference on Metamaterials, Sept. 2021.

Cody Scarborough and Zhanni Wu, joint third place, Best Experimental Poster Competition sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA) at the Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, June 30, 2021, for the following papers:

C. Scarborough and A. Grbic, “A novel boundary condition for spatially-discrete traveling-wave modulation,” Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, poster, June 30, 2021, Finalist, OSA Early Career Best Poster Competition.

Z. Wu, C. Scarborough, and A. Grbic, “Space-time modulated metasurfaces with finite stixel size: Three Operation Regimes,” Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, poster, June 30, 2021, Finalist, OSA Early Career Best Poster Competition.

Cody Scarborough, Finalist, Student Paper Competition, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), Sept. 2021, for the following paper:

C. Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Efficient subharmonic frequency conversion using space-time coupled bound states in the continuum,” International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), pp. 1-3, New York, New York, Sept. 20-25, 2021.

Anthony Grbic, IET A.F. Harvey Prize 2021, shortlisted with five others worldwide. Invited to submit a proposal for the final stage (stage 2) of the selection process. https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-scholarships/a-f-harvey-prize/

Cody Scarborough and Anthony Grbic, First Place, Best Student Paper Award, https://www.eucap2021.org/awards/eucap-best-paper-awards-and-best-student-paper-awards-winners, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2021, for the following paper:

C. Scarborough and A. Grbic, “The interpath relation for spatially-discrete traveling-wave modulated structures,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, pp. 1-4, 2021, Mar. 22-26, 2021 (invited).

Cody Scarborough and Anthony Grbic, Finalist, Best Electromagnetics Paper Award, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2021, for the following paper:

Zhanni Wu, Participant, Rising Stars 2020, University of California, Berkeley. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/risingstars/2020/participants/wu_z.shtml. Participants are selected based on academic excellence, interest in a faculty career in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering, and a commitment to advancing equity and inclusion. Rising Stars is an intensive workshop aimed at increasing the number of women interested in pursuing academic careers. This annual event was launched at MIT in 2012 and previously hosted by UC Berkeley in 2014.

Cody Scarborough, Exceptional Student Contributions Award, https://congress2020.metamorphose-vi.org/index.php/awards, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2020), September 2020, for the paper:

C. Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Modified Floquet boundary condition for open boundary problems with N-Path symmetry,” International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2020), pp. X027-X029, New York, NY, Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2020.

Zachary Fritts, Awardee, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Sept. 2020.

Andrea Alù:

May 16, 2023: IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
The Distinguished Achievement Award is given annually to recognize outstanding career achievement by an individual in the field of antennas and propagation. The Prize consists of 2,000$ and a certificate.

April 4, 2023: 2022 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award for Advanced Photonics
Advanced Photonics, SPIE
With the paper “Photonics of time-varying media”, Advanced Photonics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 014002 (32 pages), February 14, 2022.
The Advanced Photonics Editor-in-Chief Choice Awards recognize exceptional papers, based on the importance of the work to the optics and photonics field.

March 11, 2023: 2021 Brillouin Medal
International Phononics Society
The Brillouin Medal honors a specific seminal contribution, as presented by up to three related publications, by a single researcher or up to three researchers working in collaboration, in the field of phononics (including phononic crystals, acoustic/elastic metamaterials, wave propagation in periodic structures, nanoscale phonon transport, coupled phenomena involving phonons, topological phononics, and related areas).

November 6, 2022: Annual Award of eLight
ELight, Springer Nature
For the manuscript ‘Floquet metamaterials,’ which has been selected as highly downloaded/cited paper in eLight.

September 16, 2022: 2022 Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

April 1, 2022: Distinguished Professor
City University of New York
The title of Distinguished Professor is conferred on an individual by the University Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. CUNY Distinguished Professors comprise a small number of exceptional individuals. That number is currently limited to 250. Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession. This honor is granted in recognition of the quality and impact of the nominee’s scholarship.

November 16, 2021: 2021 Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

June 7, 2021: AAAFM-Heeger Award
American Association for Advances in Functional Materials
‘For his seminal contributions to the realization of engineered functional materials and metamaterials, and their applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’
The AAAFM-Heeger Award (named after Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Laureate) is a prestigious prize conferred on an outstanding, dynamic young researcher for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the field of Functional Materials. The maximum age considered is 45 years. The awards will be presented at the 3rd AAAFM-UCLA Conference on Functional Materials, which will be held in University California, Los Angeles, June 16-18, 2021.

June 4, 2021: Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (Laureate)
The New York Academy of Sciences – Physical Sciences and Engineering Category

The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in three disciplinary categories of science and engineering. The Blavatnik National Awards are conferred at a formal ceremony in New York City each fall. The Laureate receives $250,000, the largest unrestricted scientific prize for America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers.

April 7, 2021: Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
‘For his seminal contributions to nano-optics, nano-photonics, plasmonics and phononics, including the discovery of giant non-reciprocity, non-linear phenomena, and enhanced light-matter interactions using nanostructured materials, metasurfaces and metamaterials’
The $10,000 Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research is awarded annually to an outstanding mid-career scientist for significant academic achievements in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The prize enables an interchange of knowledge between the Center’s scientists and nanoscientists worldwide.

March 16, 2021: Materials Research Society Fellowship
Materials Research Society
‘For seminal contributions to the realization of engineered materials and metamaterials, and their several applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’
The title of MRS Fellow honors those MRS members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide. The maximum number of new Fellow appointments each year is limited up to 0.2% of the current MRS regular membership and to those with continuous engagement with MRS. Thus, the distinction is highly selective.

Sep. 22, 2020: Breakthrough of the Year in Physics
Physics World
With the paper G. Hu, Q. Ou, G. Si, Y. Wu, J. Wu, Z. Dai, A. Krasnok, Y. Mazor, Q. Zhang, Q. Bao, C. W. Qiu, and A. Alù, “Topological Polaritons and Photonic Magic Angles in Twisted α-MoO3 Bilayers,” Nature, Vol. 582, pp. 209-213, June 11, 2020.

Sep. 22, 2020: 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

June 23, 2020: Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries
Simons Foundation
Simons Collaborations bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance in which a significant new development has created a novel area for exploration in an established field. They provide up to 16M$ of funding for up to 8 years of basic research activities.

Nov. 26, 2019: National Academy of Inventors Fellowship
National Academy of Inventors
‘For having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society’
Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The program has 1,060 Fellows worldwide representing more than 250 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 38,000 issued U.S. patents, which have generated over 11,000 licensed technologies and companies, and created more than 36 million jobs. In addition, over $1.6 trillion in revenue has been generated based on NAI Fellow discoveries. With the induction of the 2018 class, there are now more than 125 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 502 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; 40 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 57 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science, 34 Nobel Laureates, 3 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering recipients, 304 AAAS Fellows, 200 IEEE Fellows, and 164 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, among other awards and distinctions.

Oct. 25, 2019: AAAS Fellowship
American Association for the Advancement of Science
‘For distinguished contributions to the field of electromagnetics and photonics, particularly for the modeling and applications of artificial materials and metamaterials’
AAAS member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished may, by virtue of such meritorious contribution, be elected a Fellow by the Council.

Sep. 16, 2019: MDPI Best Paper Award
Metamaterials 2019
With the paper Y. Radi, A. Alù, “Nonreciprocal Metagratings”

Sep. 15, 2019: 2019 Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

June 24, 2019: IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
‘For contributions to novel electromagnetic materials and their application’
The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award was established in 2001 to recognize outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications. Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board. The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and a 10k$ honorarium.

June 21, 2019: IET A F Harvey Prize Engineering Research Prize (Finalist)
Institute of Engineering and Technology
The prize is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding achievement in engineering research in the fields of medical, microwave and radar or laser/optoelectronic engineering, with the prize fund (350k GBP) awarded to support further research led by the recipient.

May 7, 2019: Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (Finalist)
The New York Academy of Sciences – Physical Sciences and Engineering Category
The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in three disciplinary categories of science and engineering. The Blavatnik National Awards are conferred at a formal ceremony in New York City each fall.

May 1, 2019: Vannevar Bush Faculty
Department of Defense
The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) is the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact. As a 5-year fellowship with up to $3 million in funding, the VBFF supports new, out-of-the box ideas where researcher creativity intersects with the unknown. Vannevar Bush Fellows represent a cadre of experts that provide invaluable direction to the DoD in its scientific efforts and also train the next generation of scientists and engineers.

April 8, 2019: Metamorphose President
Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials

Oct. 1, 2018: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administrative Committee Member
IEEE AP-S

Sep. 25, 2018: IUMRS – MRS Singapore Young Researcher Award 2018
Materials Research Society

Sep. 5, 2018: 2018 Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

September 15, 2023: Sander Mann, APS Best Theory Paper Award, Metamaterials 2023
Maximum Asymmetric Absorption and Scattering in Bianisotropic Particles

July 18, 2023: Shixiong Yin, Eliasoph Fellowship
City University of New York

May 21, 2023: Adam Overvig, Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists (Finalist)
New York Academy of Sciences

April 12, 2023: Yoshiaki Kasahara, USNC-URSI Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
Dispersion Engineered Nonlocal Metasurfaces with Customizable Wavefront-Selectivity

January 10, 2023: Shixiong Yin, USNC-URSI Student Paper Award (3rd Place)
Temporal Scattering at Passive Time-Interfaces

January 5, 2023: Shixiong Yin, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant

October 15, 2022: Gengyu Xu, 2022 Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Postdoctoral Fellowship, IEEE AP-S

September 15, 2022: Seunghwi Kim, Best Experimental Paper Award (1st Prize), Metamaterials Conference
Virtual Excitations Enhance the Resolution of Metamaterial Superlenses

July 14, 2022: Yoshiaki Kasahara, IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition (1st Prize), IEEE AP-S URSI Conference
Chiral Nonlocal Metasurfaces for Frequency-Selective Wavefront Shaping

December 20, 2020: Diego Farfan, URSI-USNC Student Paper Contest (3rd place), National Radio Science Meeting
Radio-Transparent Dielectric Core Metasurface Antenna

December 20, 2020: Yoshiaki Kasahara, URSI-USNC Student Paper Contest (Finalist), National Radio Science Meeting
Hybrid Lens with Near Unitary Numerical Aperture in Transmissive Mode

Other Awards and Recognitions

M. Lipson, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) Award, 2021
M. Lipson, Board advisor on board of directors, POET Technologies, 2022
A. Safavi-Naeini, Moore Inventor Fellowship
V. Ansar (Stanford), Bloch Fellowship
S. Fan, R. W. Wood Prize, Optica (2022).
A. Grbic, David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, March 2022.
T. Kippenberg, Honorable Mention in the DLS Poster Competition at CLEO 2022 for the poster titled “Microwave-optical transduction using high overtone bulk acoustic resonances”
A. Alù, M. Lipson, S. Fan, T. Kippenberg, Highly Cited Researchers (2021)
A. Alù, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York (2021)
C. Scarborough (UMich), Finalist, Best Electromagnetics Paper Competition, 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Mar. 2022
Y. Kasahara (CUNY), IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition (1st Prize), IEEE AP-S URSI Conference, Denver, CO
S. Kim (CUNY), Best Experimental Paper Award, Metamaterials 2022, Siena, Italy
C. Scarborough (UMich), Finalist, Best Electromagnetics Paper Competition, 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Mar. 2022
C. Scarborough (UMich), First Place, Student Paper Competition, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2021). This symposium is the premier international conference on Metamaterials, Sept. 2021.
Y. Kasahara (CUNY), IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition (1st Prize), IEEE AP-S URSI Conference, Denver, CO
S. Kim (CUNY), Best Experimental Paper Award, Metamaterials 2022, Siena, Italy
K. Wang (Stanford), Tenure-track faculty at MacGill University, Canada
A. Dutt (Stanford), Tenure-track faculty at U Maryland
Y. Radi (CUNY), Tenure-track faculty at Syracuse University
A. Hofstrand (CUNY), Tenure-track faculty at New York Institute of Technology
C. Scarborough (UMich), Tenure-track faculty at CU Boulder
K. Wang (Stanford), Tenure-track faculty at MacGill University, Canada
A. Dutt (Stanford), Tenure-track faculty at U Maryland
Y. Radi (CUNY), Tenure-track faculty at Syracuse University
A. Hofstrand (CUNY), Tenure-track faculty at New York Institute of Technology
C. Scarborough (UMich), Tenure-track faculty at CU Boulder
M. Lipson, Board advisor on board of directors, POET Technologies, 2022
A. Safavi-Naeini, Moore Inventor Fellowship (2022)
V. Ansar (Stanford), Bloch Fellowship (2022)
S. Fan, R. W. Wood Prize, Optica (2022)
A. Grbic, David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, March 2022.
T. Kippenberg, Honorable Mention in the DLS Poster Competition at CLEO 2022 for the poster titled “Microwave-optical transduction using high overtone bulk acoustic resonances”
A. Alù, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York (2022)
A. Alù, M. Lipson, S. Fan, T. Kippenberg, Highly Cited Researchers (2021)
C. Scarborough (UMich), First Place, Student Paper Competition, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2021). This symposium is the premier international conference on Metamaterials, Sept. 2021.
M. Lipson, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) Award (2021)
Shanhui Fan, Simons Investigator in Physics
Anthony Grbic, IET A.F. Harvey Prize 2021, shortlisted with five others worldwide. Invited to submit a proposal for the final stage (stage 2) of the selection process.
Anthony Grbic, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML), Jan. 2022 – Jan. 2025. Grbic’s DML is entitled “Extreme Field Control with Electromagnetic Metasurfaces”.
Harish Krishnaswamy, 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award.
Harish Krishnaswamy, 2020 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Best Student Paper Award -2^nd Place.
Amir Safavi-Naeini, Sloan Fellowship (2020)
Amir Safavi-Naeini, NSF CAREER Award (2020)
Amir Safavi-Naeini, DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2021)
Amir Safavi-Naeini, Chambers Fellow (2021)
Andrea Alù: AAAFM-Heeger Award, American Association for Advances in Functional Materials (2021), ‘For his seminal contributions to the realization of engineered functional materials and metamaterials, and their applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’
Andrea Alù: Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (Laureate, 2021), The New York Academy of Sciences – Physical Sciences and Engineering Category
Andrea Alù: Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2021), ‘For his seminal contributions to nano-optics, nano-photonics, plasmonics and phononics, including the discovery of giant non-reciprocity, non-linear phenomena, and enhanced light-matter interactions using nanostructured materials, metasurfaces and metamaterials’
Andrea Alù: Materials Research Society Fellowship (2021), Materials Research Society, ‘For seminal contributions to the realization of engineered materials and metamaterials, and their several applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’
Andrea Alù: 2020 Breakthrough of the Year in Physics, Physics World, With the paper G. Hu, Q. Ou, G. Si, Y. Wu, J. Wu, Z. Dai, A. Krasnok, Y. Mazor, Q. Zhang, Q. Bao, C. W. Qiu, and A. Alù, “Topological Polaritons and Photonic Magic Angles in Twisted α-MoO3 Bilayers,” Nature, Vol. 582, pp. 209-213, June 11, 2020.
Andrea Alù, Shanhui Fan, Michal Lipson, 2020 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
Michal Lipson, Elected Member of CMC Members-at-Large (NAS), (2021)
Michal Lipson, Vice President, Optical Society of America, (2020-2021)
Michal Lipson, 2021 John Tyndall Award, IEEE Photonics society and OSA, 2020
Cody Scarborough and Zhanni Wu, joint third place, Best Experimental Poster Competition sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA) at the Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, June 30, 2021, for the following papers: 1) Scarborough and A. Grbic, “A novel boundary condition for spatially-discrete traveling-wave modulation,” Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, poster, June 30, 2021, Finalist, OSA Early Career Best Poster Competition. 2) Wu, C. Scarborough, and A. Grbic, “Space-time modulated metasurfaces with finite stixel size: Three Operation Regimes,” Waves in Time-Varying Media Workshop Series, poster, June 30, 2021, Finalist, OSA Early Career Best Poster Competition.
Cody Scarborough, Finalist, Student Paper Competition, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), Sept. 2021, for the following paper: Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Efficient subharmonic frequency conversion using space-time coupled bound states in the continuum,” International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), pp. 1-3, New York, New York, Sept. 20-25, 2021.
Cody Scarborough and A. Grbic, First Place, Best Student Paper Award, https://www.eucap2021.org/awards/eucap-best-paper-awards-and-best-student-paper-awards-winners, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2021, for the following paper: Scarborough and A. Grbic, “The interpath relation for spatially-discrete traveling-wave modulated structures,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, pp. 1-4, 2021, Mar. 22-26, 2021 (invited).
Cody Scarborough and A. Grbic, Finalist, Best Electromagnetics Paper Award, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), March 2021, for the following paper: Scarborough and A. Grbic, “The interpath relation for spatially-discrete traveling-wave modulated structures,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, pp. 1-4, 2021, Mar. 22-26, 2021 (invited).
Zhanni Wu, Participant, Rising Stars 2020, University of California, Berkeley.
Cody Scarborough, Exceptional Student Contributions Award, https://congress2020.metamorphose-vi.org/index.php/awards, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2020), September 2020, for the paper: Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Modified Floquet boundary condition for open boundary problems with N-Path symmetry,” International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2020), pp. X027-X029, New York, NY, Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2020.
2021 Columbia EE Collaborative Research Award (Aravind Nagulu).
2021 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award (Negar Reiskarimian, Aravind Nagulu and Tolga Dinc).
2020 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award Finalist (Aravind Nagulu).
2020 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Best Student Paper Award – 2^nd Place (Negar Reiskarimian, Mohammad Khorshidian).
2020 Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence (Negar Reiskarimian).
ADI 2020 ISSCC Outstanding Student Designer Award (Sohail Ahasan and Mohammad Khorshidian).
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (Ahmed Kord).
Jason Herrmann: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)
Hubert Stokowski: Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2020)
Felix Mayor: Best Poster Award (Hybrid Optomechanics Meeting, Ascona Switzerland, 2020)
Cody Scarborough, Honorable Mention, Student Paper Competition, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, July 2019, for the following paper: C. Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Modified Floquet scattering matrix method for solving N-path networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, pp. 1-2, Atlanta, GA, July 7-12, 2019.
Zhanni Wu, Honorable Mention, Student Paper Competition, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, July 2019, for the following paper: Z. Wu and A. Grbic, “Serrodyne frequency translation using time-modulated metasurfaces,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, pp. 1-2, Atlanta, GA, July 7-12, 2019.
University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan, October 2018. This award is for mid-career faculty who have demonstrated remarkable contributions to the University through outstanding achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in the service activities of the university and elsewhere.
Zhanni Wu, Finalist, Student Paper Competition, The 12th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2019. This symposium is the premier international conference on metamaterials, Sept. 2018, for the following paper: Z. Wu and A. Grbic, “A transparent, time-modulated metasurface” International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials), pp. 1-3, Espoo, Finland, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 2018.
Our research was highlighted in the following article: I. Fadelli, “An electronically tunable metasurface that rotates polarization,” Phys.org, March 12, 2018.
M Lipson Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2019
M Lipson received Comstock Prize in Physics (NAS), 2019
M Lipson received IEEE Photonics Award, 2019
M Lipson ranked Thomson-Reuter, top 1% most highly cited researcher in Physics
2018 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award – 1^st Place (Harish Krishnaswamy’s student).
2019 Columbia EE Jury Award (Negar Reiskarimian).
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) 2019 Graduate Fellowship (Aravind Nagulu).
ADI 2019 ISSCC Outstanding Student Designer Award (Aravind Nagulu).
2018-2019 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (Aravind Nagulu and Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi).
DARPA Riser at the DARPA 60^th Anniversary Symposium (Negar Reiskarimian).
2019 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Invited Attendee (Harish Krishnaswamy).
2019 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award for “For Original and Important Early Career Contributions in Integrated Phased Arrays, Millimeter-Wave CMOS Power Amplifiers, Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers, and Non-Reciprocal Integrated Circuits”. (Harish Krishnaswamy)

Highlights

Galiffi, S. Yin, and A. Alù, “Tapered Photonic Switching,” Nanophotonics 11, 3575 (2022). [Press release]
Nagulu, X. Ni, A. Kord, M. Tymchenko, S. Garikapati, A. Alù, and H. Krishnaswamy, “Chip-Scale Floquet Topological Insulators for 5G Wireless Systems,” Nature Electronics 5, 300 (2022). [Press release, IEEE Spectrum, Phys.org]
Yin, E. Galiffi, and A. Alù, “Floquet Metamaterials,” E-Light 2, 8 (2022), (invited paper). [Nanowerk, News and Views]
Kawaguchi, A. Alù, and A. B. Khanikaev, “Non-Reciprocal Parity-Time Symmetry Breaking Based on Magneto-Optical and Gain/Loss Double Ring Resonators,” Optical Materials Express 12, 1453 (2022). [Spotlight]
Abdollahramezani, O. Hemmatyar, M. Taghinejad, H. Taghinejad, A. Krasnok, A. A. Eftekhar, C. Teichrib, S. Deshmukh, M. El-Sayed, E. Pop, M. Wuttig, A. Alù, W. Cai, and A. Adibi, “Electrically Driven Reprogrammable Phase-Change Metasurface Reaching 80% Efficiency,” Nature Communications 13, 1696 (2022). [Phys.org]
Galiffi, R. Tirole, S. Yin, H. Li, S. Vezzoli, P. A. Huidobro, M. G. Silveirinha, R. Sapienza, A. Alù, and J. B. Pendry, “Photonics of Time-Varying Media,” Advanced Photonics 4, 014002 (2022), (invited paper). [SPIE Newsroom]
Xu, X. Su, X. Zhang, L. Dong, L. Liu, Y. Shi, Q. Wang, M. Kang, A. Alù, S. Zhang, J. Han, and W. Zhang, “Mechanically Reprogrammable Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurface for Microwaves,” Advanced Photonics 4, 016002 (2022). [Cover, Physics World, SPIE Newsroom]
Zhang, B. Peng, S. Kim, F. Monifi, X. Jiang, Y. Li, P. Yu, L. Liu, Y. X. Liu, A. Alù, and L. Yang, “Optomechanical Dissipative Solitons,” Nature 600, 75 (2021). [News and Views]

Patents and Patent Disclosures

US Provisional Patent Application, with title ‘Passive Optical Retro Reflective Identification Tagging for Optical Positioning,’ joint inventors: Sang-Yeon Cho, Weimin Zhou, Andrea Alù, Adam C. Overvig, assignee: Army Research Laboratory, City University of New York, March 2023.

US Provisional Patent Application, with title ‘Leaky-Wave Metasurface Antennas for Arbitrary Aperture Synthesis,’ joint inventors: Andrea Alù, Gengyu Xu, Adam C. Overvig, Yoshiaki Kasahara, assignee: City University of New York, April 10, 2023.

US Provisional Patent Application, with title ‘Passive Optical Metasurface Performing Analog Spatio-Temporal Differentiation for Event-Based Image Processing,’ joint inventors: Andrea Alù, Michele Cotrufo, Sedigheh K. Esfahani, assignee: City University of New York, July 2023.

U.S. Patent Application, Inventors: A. Grbic and C. Scarborough, Efficient Computation of Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulated Structures, Application No.: 17/898,622, Filing Date: August 30, 2022

US Provisional Patent Application No. 63333696, with title ‘Dispersion Engineered Load to Extend the Bandwidth of Electrically Small Antennas,’ joint inventors: Younes Radi, Ahmed Makkawy, Andrea Alù, assignee: City University of New York, April 22, 2022.

US Patent No. 10,673,407, with title ‘Microelectromechanical Resonant Circulator,’ joint inventors: Matteo Rinaldi, Cristian Cassella, Andrea Alù, Dimitrios Sounas, Ahmed Kord, assignee: Northeastern University; Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, File date: November 14, 2017; Grant date: June 2, 2020.

US Patent No. 10,804,583, World Patent No. 2018/052935, with title ‘Magnetless Non-Reciprocal Devices Using Modulated Filters,’ joint inventors: Ahmed Kord, Dimitrios Sounas, Andrea Alù, assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, File date: September 13, 17 Grant date: October 13, 2020. [Licensed to Silicon Audio RF Circulator, LLC]

US Provisional Patent Application, with title ‘Non-Foster Antennas and Resonators Beyond Chu’s Limit with Floquet Impedance Matching,’ joint inventors: Andrea Alù, Huanan Li, Ahmed Makkawy, assignee: City University of New York, April 3, 2019.

US Provisional Patent Application, with title ‘N-Way, Ultra-Broadband, Magnetic-Free Non-Reciprocity based in Switched-Capacitor Networks,’ joint inventors: Aravind Nagulu, Mykhailo Tymchenko, Andrea Alù, Harish Krishnashwamy, assignee: Columbia University, City University of New York, September 17, 2019.

Scarborough and A. Grbic, “Computational Boundary Condition (the Interpath Relation) for Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulated Electromagnetic Structures”, Invention Disclosure U-M 2021-223, July 2021.

Optical mode-division multiplexing using selected mode coupling between an optical resonator and a signal transmission line M Lipson, LW Luo, LH Gabrielli, US Patent App. 16/042,735, 2019