Awards

Student Awards and Honors

  1. Ben Streetman Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2024
  2. Third Place Best Student Paper Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), June 2024
  3. Best Poster Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, June 2024
  4. Mentoring Fellowship to Hanson Yao, UT ECE, April 2021
  5. DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) to Joshua Campbell, March 2024.
  6. NASA Space Technology Graduate Research (NSTRO) Fellowship to Ian Anderson, March 2024.
  7. Second Place Best Paper Award to Omar Barrera, IEEE International Microwave Filter Workshop (IMFW), Feb. 2024
  8. Ben Streetman Award to Jack Kramer, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2023
  9. Best Student Oral Award Finalist to Omar Barrera, IEEE International Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023.
  10. Best Student Oral Award Finalist to Tzu-Hsuan Hsu, IEEE International Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023.
  11. Best Student Poster Award Finalist to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023.
  12. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2023), May 2023.
  13. Texas ECE Graduate Achievement Award to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, May 2023
  14. Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship to Omar Barrera, Dec. 2022.
  15. Best Student Paper Award to Kristi Nguyen, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2022), Oct. 2022.
  16. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IEEE IC-MAM 2022), July 2022.
  17. Student Research Competition Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE Texas Symp. on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), April 2022.
  18. Mentoring Fellowship to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, April 2021

Dr. Ruochen Lu Awards and Honors

  1. IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award, Sept. 2024
  2. Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, March 2024.
  3. NSF Career Award NSF, Jan. 2024.
  4. IEEE MTT-S Microwave Award IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, May 2022.
  5. Texas ECE Early Career Fellow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin, September 2021.
  6. Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, May 2019.
  7. Best Student Paper Award IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2018), October 2018.
  8. Best Student Paper Award IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2017), July 2017.
  9. Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Outstanding Research Award Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, May 2017.
  10. LAM Research Award College of Engineering, UIUC, October 2015.