Electronic Materials & Photonics

The Electronic Materials and Photonics Division presents three awards annually at the International Symposium: student travel award, the student poster/presentation award, and the postdoc travel award.

Student Travel Award

The Electronic Materials & Photonics Division (EMPD) Student Travel Award is given annually to graduate and undergraduate students who have been invited to submit to the EMPD session at the Internal Symposium. Students are selected from presenters at regional AVS conferences. Multiple awards are anticipated.

List of Recipients

2024 - Anusha Kamath Manjeshwar, University of Minnesota
2024 - Shivasheesh Varshney, University of Minnesota
2024 - Anshuman Thakral, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Student Poster/Presentation Award

Student Poster/Presentation Award is given at the annual AVS International Symposium and Exhibition. All abstracts, both poster and oral, submitted to an EMPD session will be automatically considered. The presenting author must be a graduate or undergraduate student at the time of submission. Awards will be judged on the scientific merit and originality of their research, their contribution to it, as well as the quality of their presentation. Poster award candidates must be present during the EMPD poster session for judging.  The Award consists of a certificate and a $500 cash prize. Multiple awards are anticipated.

List of Recipients

2025 - Xiaokai Zhu, Duke University
2025 - Basak Bagci, North Carolina State University
2025 - Ikenna Chris-Okoro, North Carolina A&T University

2024 - Brian Mills, MIT
2024 - Sonam Yadav, New Mexico State University
2024 - Stefan Schröder, Kiel University
2024 - Nelia Zaiats, Lunds University

2023 - S. Novia Berriel, Unviersity of Central Florida
2023 - Asir Intisar Khan, Stanford University
2023 - M. A. Mort, University of California at Davis
2023 - Shane Witsell, Oregon State University

2022 - Shubham Awate, University of Pittsburg
2022 - Souvik Bhattacharya, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2022 - Charlotte van Dick, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Fur Materialen und Energy
2022 - M.A. Mort, University of California at Davis
2022 - Jared Phillips, Indiana University-Purdue

2019 - Felipe Cassaro Frazatto, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
2019 - Bo Kyung Park, University of New Mexico
2019 - Raja Sekhar Bale, University of Missouri-Kansas City
2019 - Peter Litwin, University of Virginia

2018 - Lucas Stucchi-Zucchi, State University of Campinas
2018 - Katherine Burzynski, University of Dayton
2018 - Min P. Khanal, Auburn University
2018 - Sarun Atiganyanum, University of New Mexico

2017 - Yoshikazu Kaji, Kogakuin University
2017 - Christopher Brewer, University of Florida
2017 - Kayla Cooley, Penn State
2017 - Elizabath Philip, University of Alabama

Postdoctoral Travel Award

Postdoctoral Travel Award is given annually to postdoctoral fellows who have an accepted abstract AND will be presenting an EMPD presentation at the International Symposium. All abstracts will be reviewed and multiple awards are anticipated.

List of Recipients

2023 - Samantha Jaszewski, Sandia National Laboratories

2019 - Monu Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
2019 - Qing Tu, Northwestern University
2019 - Omur Dagdeviren, Yale University

2017 - Hilal Cansizoglu, University of California – Davis
2017 - Samantha Rosenberg, Naval Research Laboratory
2017 - Shouvik Chatterjee, University of California Santa Barbara

2016 - Burcu Ozden, Auburn University
2016 - Heping Ding, Texas A&M University
2016 - Victoriia Babicheva, Georgia State University

2015 - Rafik Addou, University of Texas at Dallas
2015 - Joshua Wood, Northwestern

2014 - James Dorman, University of Konstanz
2014 - Jian Li, University of Toledo
2014 - Weina Peng, University of Texas at Dallas
2014 - Xiuguo Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2013 - Stephen McDonnell, University of Texas at Dallas

2011 - Barry Brennan, University of Texas at Dallas
2011 - Esmerelda Yitamben, Esmerelda Yitamben

2010 - Michael Zwolak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2010 - Shaoping Shen, The Ohio State University
2010 - Tracy Lovejoy, University of Washington

2008 - Louis Piper, Boston University
2008 - Yufeng Dong, The Ohio State University

2007 - Liam S.C. Pingree, University of Washington
2007 - Craig H. Swartz, University of Canterbury

2006 - Aram Amassian, Cornell
2006 - Teresa Barnes, NREL
2006 - Jiang Lu, Texas A&M University

2005 - F. Servando Aguirre, University of Texas at Dallas
2005 - Lyudmila Goncharova, Lyudmila Goncharova
2005 - Jay Kim, Naval Research Laboratory
2005 - Michael Mastro, Naval Research Laboratory
2005 - Joshua A. Robinson, Naval Research Laboratory
2005 - Yuri M. Strzhemechny, Texas Christian University
2005 - Yu Wang, Rutgers
2005 - Li Yan, University of North Carolina

2004 - Jennifer Gerbi, University of Illinois?
2004 - Levente Klein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2004 - Tong Zhao, University of California, Berkeley

2003 - Xiaojun Weng, University of Michigan
2003 - Jian-Ming Tang, University of Iowa
2003 - Nikolay Shtinkov, École Polytechnique Montreal
2003 - Mantu Hudait, The Ohio State University
2003 - Jennifer Gerbi, Argonne National Laboratory

2002 - Billie Abrams, University of Florida
2002 - Xiaoling L. Sun, The Ohio State University
2002 - Jennifer Gerbi, Argonne National Laboratory

2001 - Yuri Strzhemechny, The Ohio State University
2001 - Markus Morgenstern, Universität Hamburg
2001 - Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory
2001 - Mark Overberg, University of Florida
2001 - Olivier Pluchery, Agere Systems

2000 - Shupan Gan, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
2000 - Conrad R. Stoldt, University of California, Berkeley
2000 - Danny Porath, Tel-Aviv University
2000 - Jinju Lee, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
2000 - James S. Hess, University of Delaware

1999 - Robert Therrien, North Carolina State University
1999 - Esther Kim, University of Houston
1999 - Alex P. Young, The Ohio State University
1999 - William F. Seng, Auburn University