{"id":830,"date":"2023-08-28T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ndukaifelab\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2023-11-20T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:59:27","slug":"awards-and-honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ndukaifelab\/awards-and-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

List of Awards and Honors (Prof. Ndukaife):<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023 Best and Brightest: Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2024 Young Investigator Award<\/p>\n

2023 NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators\u2019 Award (MIRA) for Outstanding Investigators at NIGMS<\/p>\n

2023 Optica Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize<\/p>\n

2023 SPIE Senior Membership<\/p>\n

2023 IEEE Senior Membership<\/p>\n

2023 Optica Senior Membership<\/p>\n

2023 Named Nanoscale Emerging Investigator in Nanotechnology and Nanoscience<\/p>\n

2022 NSF CAREER Award<\/p>\n

2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Nature\u2019s Light Science and Applications<\/p>\n

2022 Member of Vanderbilt University Faculty Research Awards Committee<\/p>\n

2021 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Research<\/p>\n

(among five faculty members from all ranks selected across Vanderbilt University)<\/p>\n

2020 Light Science and Applications Global Rising Stars of Light Award<\/p>\n

(a global campaign for the most brilliant young scientists in optics-related field with submissions<\/p>\n

from USA, Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, UK)<\/p>\n

2020 Alumni Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award<\/p>\n

2019 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship Award<\/p>\n

2019 Vanderbilt Provost Research Studios Award<\/p>\n

2018 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award<\/p>\n

2017 The year 2017 Prize in Physics by Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation in recognition of work on<\/p>\n

\u201cplasmon nano-optical tweezers\u201d (awarded to the top graduating doctoral candidate at Purdue<\/p>\n

University annually)<\/p>\n

2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, College of Engineering, Purdue University<\/p>\n

2016 Gordon Research Conference Emerging Topic Talk (Selected out of all participants) GRC on<\/p>\n

Plasmonics and Nanophotonics, for talk on \u201cShaping the Future of Plasmon Nano-Optical<\/p>\n

Tweezers\u201d<\/p>\n

2016 Elected as Co-chair of 2018 Gordon Research Seminar on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics<\/p>\n

2015 Golden Torch Award by National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE): Named \u201cGraduate<\/p>\n

Student of the Year\u201d<\/p>\n

2015 Best Paper Award at the ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum<\/p>\n

2016 NSBE Graduate Student Professional Conference Scholarship<\/p>\n

2015 NSBE Graduate Student Professional Conference Scholarship<\/p>\n

2015 Inducted into the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana<\/p>\n

2015 Participated at the summer school on Complex Photonics at the international school of Physics<\/p>\n

Enrico Fermi in Varenna, Italy<\/p>\n

2012 NSBE Board of Corporate Affiliates Scholarship<\/p>\n

2011 Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society<\/p>\n

2005-2009 University of Lagos Endowment Scholarship for maintaining First Class GPA<\/p>\n

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List of Student Awards and Honors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023 Guodong Zhu<\/strong>: Best Paper Award at SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference<\/p>\n

2023 Sen Yang:<\/strong> International Young Scientist Fellowship Award<\/p>\n

2023 Moreen Habib:<\/strong> 2nd place prize for REHSS research symposium<\/p>\n

2022 Sen Yang<\/strong>: Overall Best Paper Award in Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n

2021 Chuchuan Hong<\/strong>: Overall Best Paper Award in Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and<\/p>\n

Engineering<\/p>\n

2021 Chuchuan Hong<\/strong>: Overall Best Paper Award across Vanderbilt School of Engineering<\/p>\n

2021 Chuchuan Hong<\/strong>: Inaugural C. F. Chen Best Paper Award in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

2020 Sen Yang<\/strong>: 3rd place prize, VINSE Nanoday presentation for his poster on \u201cparticle-assisted<\/p>\n

trapping in symmetry-breaking quasi-BIC system<\/p>\n

2018 Rayni Jules<\/strong>: Second place poster award in the NSBE Technical Research Exhibition for his poster<\/p>\n

on \u201cfrequency-based self-assembly on plasmonic gold metasurfaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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