Awards and Honors

Research Awards and Honors for LISA Lab Graduate Students: At PSU Level

  • Vishnu Kumar, First Place in Engineering-Graduate Research Exhibition, PSU, 2022, “Machine Learning based Suicide Prediction and Development of Suicide Vulnerability Index for US Counties”
  • M. Madireddy, Third Place, Systems Approach to Drug target identification in T2DM, Poster Presentation at Network Science, Penn State, April 2010.
  • Jinwhan Lee, Honorable Mention-Graduate Research Exhibition, PSU, 1995, “Intelligent Integrated Diagnostics,”
  • Daniel T. Heinze, First Place in Engineering-Graduate Research Exhibition, PSU, 1994, “Computational Cognitive Linguistics,”
  • Sagar V. Kamarthi, First Place in Engineering-Graduate Research Exhibition, PSU, 1989, “Optical Neural Networks in Manufacturing”

Research Awards or Honors for Graduate Students: At the National & International Level

  • LiYing Cui, Best Intern at Kimberley Clark Corporation, May-August 2010
  • NRW Undergraduate Science Award for Production Logistics and Networks (One award given in a worldwide competition), 2005, Thadakamalla, H. (Co-Advisor).
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2005, Bukkapatnam, S.
  • N. Gnansambandham, Doctoral Colloquium Scholarship, for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems Conference 2005 at the Netherlands. One of the 19 internationally selected.
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 1999, Kamarthi, V.S.
  • Second Place in Graduate Research Award for Ph.D thesis, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1995, Kamarthi, V.S. (Co-Advisor).
  • Second Place in Graduate Research Award for MS thesis, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1992, Kao, C.Y.