Awards

Student Awards and Honors

1. NSF NRT Q-CAT Fellowship to Hanson Yao, National Science Foundation, July 2026
2. IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship to Jayanth Pandit, IEEE MTT-S Society, July 2026
3. Best Poster Award to Ian Anderson, Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, June 2026
4. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Vivek Tallavajhula, National Science Foundation, Apr. 2026
5. Second Place Best Paper Award to Ian Anderson, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM), Apr. 2026
6. Second Place Student Research Competition Award to Gautham Ramanarayanan, IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), Apr. 2026
7. MRSEC Research Poster Award to Jayanth Pandit, UT MRSEC, Apr. 2026
8. Mentoring Fellowship to Vivek Tallavajhula, UT ECE, Mar. 2026
9. Mentoring Fellowship to Neinei Du, UT ECE, Mar. 2026
10. Ben Streetman Award to Omar Barrera, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2025
11. IEEE EDS Master Student Fellowship to Vivek Tallavajhula, IEEE Electron Devices Society, Nov. 2025
12. Third Place Award, IEEE MTT-S Student Design Competition to Mihir Chaudhari, IEEE MTT-S Society, June 2025
13. Texas ECE Top Teaching Assistant to Vivek Tallavajhula, UT ECE, May 2025
14. NSF GRFP Honorable Mention to Naveed Ahmed, National Science Foundation, Apr. 2025
15. Texas Quantum Institute Fellowship to Jack Kramer, Texas Quantum Institute, Mar. 2025
16. UT Graduate Continuing Fellowship to Jack Kramer, The University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 2025
17. IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Research Award to Mihir Chaudhari, IEEE MTT-S Society, Feb. 2025
18. IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE MTT-S Society, Jan. 2025
19. Ben Streetman Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2024
20. Third Place Best Student Paper Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), June 2024
21. Best Poster Award to Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, June 2024
22. DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) to Joshua Campbell, U.S. Department of Defense, Mar. 2024
23. Mentoring Fellowship to Hanson Yao, UT ECE, Mar. 2024
24. NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellowship to Ian Anderson, NASA, Mar. 2024
25. Second Place Best Paper Award to Omar Barrera, IEEE International Microwave Filter Workshop (IMFW), Feb. 2024
26. Ben Streetman Award to Jack Kramer, UT Microelectronic Research Center, Nov. 2023
27. Best Student Oral Award Finalist, Omar Barrera, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
28. Best Student Oral Award Finalist, Tzu-Hsuan Hsu, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
29. Best Student Poster Award Finalist, Sinwoo Cho, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2024), Nov. 2023
30. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2023), May 2023
31. Texas ECE Graduate Achievement Award to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, May 2023
32. Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship to Omar Barrera, Cadence Design Systems, Dec. 2022
33. Best Student Paper Award to Kristi Nguyen, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2022), Oct. 2022
34. Best Student Paper Award to Jack Kramer, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM 2022), July 2022
35. Student Research Competition Award to Sinwoo Cho, IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), Apr. 2022
36. Mentoring Fellowship to Kristi Nguyen, UT ECE, Apr. 2021

Dr. Ruochen Lu Awards and Honors

1. Rising Star of Microsystems Award, Hilton Head Workshop, 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, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, 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, National Science Foundation, Jan. 2024
6. IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, May 2022
7. Texas ECE Early Career Fellow, UT Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sept. 2021
8. Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award, UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 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, UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2017
12. LAM Research Award, UIUC College of Engineering, Oct. 2015