Awards & Honors

• Andrea Prosperetti Research Computing Faculty Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2023. 

  • The award recognizes tenured and tenure-track faculty within the Cullen College of Engineering who have demonstrated a singular achievement in the prior calendar year in the broadly defined topics of scientific computing and data science.

• W.T. Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2019. 

  • • The W.T. Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award is the highest teaching honor conferred by the Cullen College of Engineering on its full-time faculty and recognizes an extended commitment to excellence in teaching and instruction.

• Adviser of Maruti Mudunuru, Melosh Award, given to the best paper in computational mechanics, 2015. 

• Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2015. 

  • • This award recognizes outstanding teaching by full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty in the Cullen College of Engineering.

• New Faculty Award, University of Houston, 2012.

• TAMU Student-Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), Texas A&M University, 2009. 

  • • Awarded to less than 10 faculty members each semester in the whole college of engineering, Texas A&M University.

• In top 2% (out of over 100,000 students) in the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, 1996.

• Secured a rank of 197 out of over 100,000 students all over India in Roorkee Entrance Examination, 1996.

• Received a merit certificate from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India, for being among the top 0.1% in Mathematics nationwide, 1996.

National/International Level

• 2023, Kripa ADHIKARI: Travel grant from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) to attend the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Conference, Albuquerque. (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2019, Mohammad JOSHAGHANI: Travel award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to attend the SIAM CSE19 Conference in Spokane, Washington, February 25-March 1, 2019.

• 2018, Mohammad JOSHAGHANI: Winner of Computational Mechanics Student Competition at EMI 2018, Boston. (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2016, Maruti MUDUNURU: Melosh Medal, which is given to the best student paper in Computational Mechanics, Duke University

• 2015, Maruti MUDUNURU: Student travel award from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, ASME IMECE 2015 conference. The award is typically given to 10-15 students.

• 2015, Justin CHANG: Travel grant from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) to attend the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics conference.

• 2015, Justin CHANG: Selected to participate in the Argonne Training Program for Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). The official selection statement reads: “With around 65 participants accepted each year, admission to the ATPESC program is highly competitive. ATPESC is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.” (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2014-2015, Justin CHANG: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Research Award. (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2015, Saeed KARIMI: Travel grant from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics to attend the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE15) in Salt Lake City. He won the award based on the conference talk abstract, statement of purpose, and reference letter. The title of his talk is "Monolithic multi-time-step coupling methods for transient systems." (College of Engineering Article) (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2013, Maruti MUDUNURU: Travel grant from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics to attend the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE13) in Boston. He won the award based on the abstract (and reference letters): "A robust non-negative numerical framework for diffusion-controlled bimolecular-reactive systems." (CEE UH News web-link)

• 2012, Maruti MUDUNURU: Scholarship from the American Society of Indian Engineers (ASIE).

• 2011, The following abstract has been awarded a travel grant from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) to present at the USNCCM 2011 conference: "On the performance of high-order finite element models with respect to maximum principles and the non-negative constraint," G. S. Payette, K. B. Nakshatrala, and J. N. Reddy.

• 2011, Maruti MUDUNURU: Travel grant from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) to attend the USNCCM 2011 conference. He won the award based on the abstract: "A mathematical model and computational framework for degradation / healing of materials and structures," M. K. Mudunuru, and K. B. Nakshatrala.

City/State Level

• 2022, Kripa ADHIKARI: SEAoT Houston Chapter Scholarship

University/College/Department Level

• 2023, Kripa ADHIKARI, UH Chevron Energy Fellowship. (UH eNews Coverage)

• 2021,  Hsuan-Wen (Sharon) HUANG: Best Dissertation Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. [Co-advised the student with Dr. Yi-Lung Mo.]

• 2018, FNU WITARTO: Best Dissertation Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. [Co-advised the student with Dr. Yi-Lung Mo.]

• 2017, Justin CHANG: Best Dissertation Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 

• 2015, Maruti MUDUNURU: Best Dissertation Award, Cullen College of Engineering. (College of Engineering News Article.)

• 2015, Maruti MUDUNURU: Best Dissertation Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 

• 2014, Aisula SALIYEVA: Provost Undergraduate Research Scholarship (PURS).

• 2014, Mohammad ALI: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

• 2012-2013, Justin CHANG: First-year fellowship from the Houston Endowment.

• 2012, Adolfo ARANZALES: Provost Undergraduate Research Scholarship (PURS).

• 2010, Shriram SRINIVASAN: First place in both Aerospace Engineering Session and Taxonomy, 13th Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

• 2010, Harsha NAGARAJAN: Second place in Taxonomy (Computational Sciences session), 13th Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.