Quantum Devices Award

MIT professor Tomás Palacios was the recipient of the Compound Semiconductor Week CSW2026 Quantum Devices Award. Palacios was recognized "for significant advancements in wide bandgap semiconductors and nanostructures to improve electronics and pave the way for heterogeneous integration with Si CMOS."

Choi, Kumar Win Best Paper Award

Lead author Mingeun Choi and advisor Professor Satish Kumar (Georgia Tech) were among the team presented the Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award in the Emerging Technologies and Fundamentals Track at IEEE ITherm 2026 for their paper, “DeepONet-Enabled Fast and Scenario-Aware Spatial Temperature Prediction of a Vertical Power Delivery Module for Hyperscale Data Centers.” 

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

Professor Suman Datta (Georgia Tech) was awarded the 2026 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, which is given annually to an individual or a team of up to three people for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology. 

Datta was honored for his "contributions to and leadership in high-performance and energy-efficient logic transistor research." 

EDAA Achievement Award

The European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) has selected Professor Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Arizona State) to receive the 2026 EDAA Achievement Award.

This award recognizes Chakrabarty's outstanding lifetime contributions to the areas of electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems.