National Honors

Below is a select list of national honors received by our faculty.

NSF CAREER Award
(Faculty Early Career Development Award)
2024 M Hassan Najafi, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number: 2339701
2022 Xu Yuan, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number:2146447
2021 James Nelson, Biology, NSF Award Number:2046460
2021 Mohsen Amini Salehi, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number:2047144
2021 Nicholas Kooyers, Biology, NSF Award Number:2045643
2017 Sheng Chen, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number: 1750886
2011 Miao Jin, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number: 1054996
2009 Danella Zhao, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number: 0845983
2005 Dmitri Perkins, Computing and Informatics, NSF Award Number: 0448055
2004 Hongyi Wu, Computing and Informatics,NSF Award Number: 0347686

NARSAD Young Investigator Award
(Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Award)
2009 Karen Smith, Biology

Fulbright Scholar
November 2021-June 2022, Loren Cassin Sackett, Biology, Unifying ‘omics to illuminate wildlife disease dynamics in Colombia
February 2020-March 2020, Sonya HsiuYueh Hsu, Computing and Informatics, Dashboard Intelligence of Social Media
January 2020-March 2020, Loren Cassin Sackett, Biology, The Influence of Microbiome on Wildlife Disease Dynamics
August 2014-December 2014, Raymond Bauer, Biology, Collaborative Testing of Hypotheses on Latitudinal Gradients in Reproduction of Commercially and Ecologically Important Marine Shrimps
November 1993-May 1994, T.N.R. Rao, Computing and Informatics, Applications of Coding to Computer System Fault-Tolerance

ONR Summer Research Fellow
(Office of Naval Research)
2008-2011, 2013 Gabriela Petculescu, Physics

AAAS Fellow
(American Association for the Advancement of Science)
2002 Raymond Bauer, Biology
2002 Darryl Felder, Biology

ASA Fellow
(American Statistical Association)
2011 Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy, Mathematics

ASA Fellow
(Acoustical Society of America)
2013 Natalia A. Sidorovskaia

IEEE Fellow
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2010 Nian-Feng Tzeng, Computing and Informatics
1999 Magdy Bayoumi, Computing and Informatics

ASGSR Founder's Award
(American Society for Gravitational and Space Research)
2009 Karl Hasenstein, Biology

Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award
2012 Raymond Bauer, Biology
2009 Darryl Felder, Biology

Certificate of Commendation for Exemplary Service
(Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force)
2012 Jenneke Visser, Geosciences

AAPG Distinguished Service Award
(American Association of Petroleum Geologists)
2013 Brian Lock, Geosciences

Meritorious Service Award
(IEEE Circuits and Systems Society)
2009 Magdy Bayoumi