Student Awards

Members of STL do great things!  While winning awards is not why we do what we do (we love science and engineering and want to make an impact on the world...), our members are often recognized for their accomplishments!  See below for a sampling of awards

• Nic Conta and Katherine Sohn, two undergraduate students working in STL, won the Best Presentation and Best Poster Awards at the end of summer student research presentations.  Congratulations on the clean sweep (and the $750 cash prizes)! Nic Conta and Katherine Sohn (2022)

• Dissertation Year Fellowship - Siyuan Liu (2022-2023)

• TANMS CLIMB Award for undergraduate research - Chelsea Lai (2021)

• TANMS CLIMB Award for graduate research - Maggie Xiao (2020)

• TANMS CLIMB Award for undergraduate research - Natalie Lin (2020)

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Ben Pound  (2017-2022) 

• Dissertation Year Fellowship - Maggie Xiao (2020-2021)

• Distinguished PhD Research Award in Physical and Wave Electronics - Sidhant Tiwari (2020)

• Distinguished M.S. Thesis in Physical & Wave Electronics Award - Amanda Marotto (2019)

• TANMS CLIMB Award for graduate research - Sidhant Tiwari (2019)

• MAE graduate student poster competition - Ling Li (2019)

• Edward K. Rice Award for Outstanding M.S. student in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering - Maggie Xiao (2019)

• Best Student Presentation Award Winner at the 2019 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference - Maggie Xiao (2019)

•  Advanced Light Source (ALS) Doctoral Fellowship in Residence - Maggie Xiao (2018-2019)

• Dissertation Year Fellowship - Sidhant Tiwari (2018-2019)

• Best Student Paper Award at IEEE IFCS 2018 - Sidhant Tiwari (2018-2019)

• Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award by the ECE Department - Maggie Xiao (2018)