Student Awards and Honors

1. Ben Streetman Award to Omar Barrera, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2025
2. IEEE EDS Master Student Fellowship to Vivek Tallavajhula, Nov. 2025
3. Third Place Award, IEEE MTT-S Student Design Competition, to Mihir Chaudhari, June 2025
4. Texas ECE Top Teaching Assistant to Vivek Tallavajhula, May 2025
5. NSF GRFP Honorable Mention to Naveed Ahmed, NSF, Apr. 2025
6. Texas Quantum Institute Fellowship to Jack Kramer, Texas Quantum Institute, Mar. 2025
7. UT Graduate Continuing Fellowship to Jack Kramer, The University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 2025
8. IEEE MTT-S Undergradaute Research Award to Mihir Chaudhari, IEEE MTT-S Society, Feb. 2025
9. IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE MTT-S Society, Jan. 2025
10. Ben Streetman Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2024
11. Third Place Best Student Paper Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), June 2024
12. Best Poster Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, June 2024
13. DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) to Joshua Campbell, Mar. 2024
14. NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellowship to Ian Anderson, Mar. 2024
15. Second Place Best Paper Award to Omar Barrera, IEEE International Microwave Filter Workshop (IMFW), Feb. 2024
16. Ben Streetman Award to Jack Kramer, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2023
17. Best Student Oral Award Finalist, Omar Barrera, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
18. Best Student Oral Award Finalist, Tzu-Hsuan Hsu, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
19. Best Student Poster Award Finalist, Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
20. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2023), May 2023
21. Texas ECE Graduate Achievement Award to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, May 2023
22. Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship to Omar Barrera, Dec. 2022
23. Best Student Paper Award to Kristi Nguyen, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2022), Oct. 2022
24. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM 2022), July 2022
25. Student Research Competition Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), Apr. 2022
26. Mentoring Fellowship to Hanson Yao, UT ECE, Apr. 2021
27. Mentoring Fellowship to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, Apr. 2021

Dr. Ruochen Lu Awards and Honors

1. Rising Star of Microsystems Award, Hilton Head Work Shop, Transducer Research Foundation, March 2026
2. Second Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), Sept. 2025
3. IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award, Sept. 2024
4. Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mar. 2024
5. NSF CAREER Award, NSF, Jan. 2024
6. IEEE MTT-S Microwave Award, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, May 2022
7. Texas ECE Early Career Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin, Sept. 2021
8. Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, May 2019
9. Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2018), Oct. 2018
10. Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2017), July 2017
11. Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Outstanding Research Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, May 2017
12. LAM Research Award, College of Engineering, UIUC, Oct. 2015