National and International Academies
National Academy of Medicine
Junior Investigator Awards
Sloan Research Fellow
School of Engineering Awards
Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award
Qinyuan Jiang
Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Rice Advanced Materials Institute
Rising Star Award
Erica Harris
Interim Senior Department Administrator, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hardy M. Bourland Award for Distinguished Service
Jeancarlo Guzman
Finance Specialist, School of Engineering and Computing
Lisa Giron
Senior Department Administrator, Statistics
Curriculum Innovation Award
Rebecca Schreib
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering and Computing
Geoff Wehmeyer
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Roy E. Campbell Faculty Development Award
Avantika Gori
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching & Research Excellence by Tenure-Track Faculty Award
Yimo Han
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher Award
Caleb Bashor
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & BioSciences
Teaching & Research Excellence by Tenured Faculty Award
Hanyu Zhu
Associate Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Adviser Award
Richard Baraniuk C. Sidney
Burrus Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Faculty Research Award
Matteo Pasquali
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Society Fellows
American Society of Civil Engineers
Jamie Padgett
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Society of Rheology
Matteo Pasquali
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering
Marcia O'Malley
Mechanical Engineering
Jeffrey Tabor
Bioengineering
American Physical Society
Geoffroy Hautier
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Marcia O'Malley
Mechanical Engineering
Edward Knightley
Electrical and Computer Engineering
American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AICheE)
Lisa Biswal
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Association for Computing Machinery
Eugene Ng
Computer Science
American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Peter Lillehoj
Mechanical Engineering
Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN}
Leif E. Peterson
Statistics
Highly Citied Investigators
Pulickel Ajayan
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Pedro J.J. Alvarez
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Menachem Elimelech
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Naomi Halas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shihong Lin
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jun Lou
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Aditya Mohite
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Robert Vajtai
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Omid Veiseh
Bioengineering
Haotian Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Other Faculty Awards
2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching
Bilal Ghosn
Bioengineering
ELATES Fellow
Renata Ramos
Bioengineering
2025 ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture
Gang Bao
Bioengineering
2025 Global Biomaterials Leadership Award, Chinese Association for Biomaterials
Antonios Mikos
Bioengineering
President, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Michael King
Bioengineering
President-Elect, Biomedical Engineering Society
Jane Grande-Allen
Bioengineering
Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society for Biomaterials
Omid Veiseh
Bioengineering
2025 Presidential Award for Mentoring
Walter Chapman
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2025 Provost's Award for Outstanding Doctoral Adviser
Lisa Biswal
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Braskem Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science, AIChE
Matteo Pasquali
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2025 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award, AIChE
Michael Wong
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2026 Marks-lpatieff Award in Catalysis, American Chemical Society
Haotian Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Best Fundamental Paper, AIChE South Texas Section
Jason Adams
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nagamori Award and Grand Nagamori Award
Marcia O'Malley
Mechanical Engineering
O.C. Zienkiewicz Medal, Polish Association for Computational Mechanics
Pol Spanos
Mechanical Engineering
2025 Provost's Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement
Jamie Padgett
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2025 Charles W. Duncan Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty
Lauren Stadler
Civil and Environmental Engineering
ASCE George W. Housner Structural Control & Monitoring Medal
Satish Nagarajaiah
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sidney Loeb Award, European Desalination Society
Menachem Elimelech
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Outstanding Contributions to Education, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston
Reginald DesRoches
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Distinguished Member, American Society for Civil Engineers
Reginald DesRoches
Civil and Environmental Engineering
CAPEES-UCEEF Lifetime Achievement Award
Qilin Li
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2026 Shiri Satyapal Mayor Memorial Lecture, Indian Membrane Society
Menachem Elimelech
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Paul L. Busch Award, Water Environment Federation
Lauren Stadler
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Benjamin Franklin Award in Civil Engineering
Pedro Alvarez
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Junior Achievement Hall of Fame
Reginald DesRoches
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2025 J. M Ko Award Laureate
Jamie Padgett
Civil and Environmental Engineering
ES&T Engineering Best Paper Award
Qilin Li
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Distinguished Scholar, Membrane Society of Australasia
Menachem Elimelech
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2025 Higher Education Professor of the Year, Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network
Karen Lozano
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
2025 Honoree, NSBE Houston Professionals
lllya Hicks
Computational and Applied Math and Operations Research
Richard M. Fulrath Award, The American Ceramic Society
Lane Martin
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Distinguished Scientist, Sontag Foundation
Christina Tringides
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Renaming of Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge in his honor
Richard Tapia
Computational and Applied Math and Operations Research
Honorary Doctorate, University of Szeged
Robert Vajtai
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching
Elizabeth McGuffey
Statistics
Purdue University KCS Pillai Memorial Lecture
Marina Yannucci
Statistics
Defender of Courage Award, Holocaust Remembrance Association
Moshe Vardi
Computer Science
Amazon Research Award
Christopher Jermaine
Computer Science
Named University Professor, Rice University
Lydia Kavraki
Computer Science
2025 Computer-Aided Verification Award
Moshe Vardi
Computer Science
IEEE TCCH Outstanding Leadership Award
Moshe Vardi
Computer Science
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop
Arko Barman
Statistics
President-Elect, Houston Chapter of American Statistical Association
Christine Peterson
Statistics
2026 NAAI Academy Award Laureate
Moshe Vardi
Computer Science
2025 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award
Edward Knightley
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ashu Sabharwal
Electrical and Computer Engineering
TAMEST Hill Prize in Engineering
Naomi Halas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected to Council, National Academy of Sciences
Naomi Halas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Materials Today Rising Star in Quantum Materials & Electronics
Andrey Baydin
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, American Physical Society
Junichiro Kono
Electrical and Computer Engineering
2025 Elizabeth Gillis Award
Victoria Langlais
School of Engineering and Computing, Dean's Office