Honors & Awards

Professor Ali Javey Named 2023 IEEE Fellow

January 1, 2023

BSAC Co-Director Ali Javey has been named to the list of 2023 IEEE Fellows. Elevation to IEEE Fellow is conferred upon senior members of IEEE with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields...Read more about Professor Ali Javey Named 2023 IEEE Fellow

BSAC Co-Director, Professor Liwei Lin Named 2022 Bakar Fellows Spark Award Recipient

August 1, 2022

The Bakar Fellows Spark Award is designed to accelerate Berkeley faculty-led research to tangible, positive societal impact through commercialization. Through a competitive application process, faculty members are selected as Bakar Faculty Fellows and awarded...Read more about BSAC Co-Director, Professor Liwei Lin Named 2022 Bakar Fellows Spark Award Recipient

Shiekh Zia Uddin Receives the 2022 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award

May 1, 2022

Please join BSAC in congratulating Shiekh Zia Uddin of the Javey group on being awarded the 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award.

The MRS Award recognizes "students...Read more about Shiekh Zia Uddin Receives the 2022 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award

Alexander Alvara Awarded the 2021 Space Science Lab's Lin Fellowship

July 16, 2021

Please join BSAC in congratulating Alexander Alvara of the Pister group on being awarded the 2021 Space Science Lab's Lin Fellowship.

Alexander is a doctoral student in the Berkeley mechanical...Read more about Alexander Alvara Awarded the 2021 Space Science Lab's Lin Fellowship

BSAC Co-Director, Professor Ming Wu Wins 2020 IEEE EDS Robert Bosch MEMS Award

January 1, 2020

BSAC Co-Director Ming Wu wins the 2020 IEE EDS Robert Bosch MEMS Award for his pioneering contributions in MEMS optical switches and optoelectronic tweezers.

The award was established in 2014 "to recognize and honor advances in the invention, design, and/or fabrication of micro- or nano-...Read more about BSAC Co-Director, Professor Ming Wu Wins 2020 IEEE EDS Robert Bosch MEMS Award

BSAC Co-Director, Professor Roya Maboudian Named 2019-2020 Bakar Fellow

June 1, 2019

The Bakar Fellows Program at UC Berkeley fosters faculty entrepreneurship in the STEM+ fields including Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Architecture. On a competitive basis, Bakar Fellows are awarded discretionary research support to...Read more about BSAC Co-Director, Professor Roya Maboudian Named 2019-2020 Bakar Fellow

Siebel Scholar Award 2019: Marc Chooljian

September 14, 2018
Congratulations to Siebel Scholar award recipient Marc Chooljian!

The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes top students at the world’s leading graduate schools of bioengineering, business, computer science and energy science. The program, now in its 18th year, comes with a $35,000...Read more about Siebel Scholar Award 2019: Marc Chooljian

Prof. Michel Maharbiz, 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award

Transducers 2017 Best Paper Award: Yumeng Liu - Advisor Prof. Liwei Lin, AN AC SENSING SCHEME FOR MINIMAL BASELINE DRIFT AND FAST RECOVERY ON GRAPHENE FET GAS SENSOR

2017 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America (OSA): Prof. Ming Wu OPTOELECTRONIC TWEEZERS invention

MEMS 2017 Best Paper Award: Eric Sweet - Advisor Prof. Liwei Lin, 3D PRINTED THREE-FLOW MICROFLUIDIC CONCENTRATION GRADIENT GENERATOR FOR CLINICAL E. COLI-ANTIBIOTIC DRUG SCREENING

Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen WON 2017 IEEE Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award

2016 Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper Hao-Yen Tang1, Yipeng Lu2, Fari Assaderaghi3, Michael J. Daneman3, Xiaoyue Jiang1, Martin Lim3, Xi Li1, Eldwin J. Ng3, Utkarsh Singhal1, Julius M. Tsai3, David A. Horsley2, Bernhard E. Boser1

Prof. David A. Horsley and Prof. Bernhard E. Boser WON the Alexander Schwarzkopf Award 2016 for Technological Innovation

Dr. Tae Joon Seok and Sangyoon Han (advisor Prof. Ming C. Wu) are the Collegiate Inventors 2015 Winner: SWAPS (Silicon Waveguide Array Photonic Switch)

Richard S. Muller and Richard M. White are the recipients of the 2013 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award

David Horsley's Research Team Secures DARPA Grant

Transducers 2013 Poster Award:  Single-Layer Microfluidic Spring Diodes via Optofluidic Lithography
Ryan Sochol, C.C. Glick, A. Lu, M. Wah, T. Brubaker, K.Y. Lee, K. Iwai, L.P. Lee and L. Lin

IEEE UFFC, EFTF, and PFM 2013 Oral Paper Award: 120-µW GSM Phase Noise-Compliant Pierce Oscillator Referenced to a 61-MHz Wine-Glass Disk Resonator
Thura Lin Naing and C. T.-C. Nguyen

Transducers 2013 Outstanding Oral Paper Award:  A Micromechanical Resonant Charge Pump, Y. Lin, R. Liu, W.-C. Li, M. Akgul, and C. T.-C. Nguyen

Transducers 2013 Outstanding Poster Award:  High-Temperature Stable Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Energy Harvester Utilizing Elastically Supported Diaphragms, Y.-J. Lai, W.-C. Li, C.-M. Lin, V.V. Felmetsger, and A.P. Pisano

MEMS 2013 Outstanding Paper Award: ENHANCEMENT OF MECHANICAL Q FOR LOW PHASE NOISE OPTOMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS
Tristan O. Rocheleau, Alejandro J. Grine, Karen E. Grutter, Robert A. Schneider, Niels Quack, Ming C. Wu, and Clark T.-C. Nguyen

NSF awards $2 million to develop flexible bioelectronics systems - Congratulations!: Prof. Michel M. Maharbiz

Bakar Fellows Program - Congratulations!: Prof. Michel M. Maharbiz

Linear Technology Acquisition of Dust Networks Extends Wireless Sensor Networking Capabilities

Luke Lee awarded Gates Foundation grant

IEEE Sensors 2011 Best Paper Award: Richard Xu and Michael Seidel Integrated Centralized Electric Current Monitoring System Using Wirelessly Enabled Non-Intrusive AC Current Sensors

Ryan Sochol, Ryan Ruelos, Valerie Chang, Megan Dueck, Professor Luke Lee and Professor Liwei Lin: Outstanding Paper Award at the 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers ’11)

Ali Javey: DOE awards $25 million to UC Berkeley, Stanford to lower cost of solar power

Pisano Awarded Columbia University 2009 Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering Achievement

Ali Javey wins Early Career Award in Nanotechnology

Luke Lee wins Ho-Am Prize in Engineering

Ali Javey wins MDV Innovators Award

Kris Pister wins the 2009 International Society of Automation (ISA) Albert F. Sperry Founder Award

David A. Horsley receives 2009 Dean’s Faculty Award

Luke P. Lee receives IEEE EMBS Award

Ali Javey receives 2009 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research

Luke P. Lee, keynote speaker for IEEE MEMS 2009

Albert P. Pisano included in 100 Notable People in the Medical Device Industry

Ming Wu, Microlab Director [video]

Ali Javey, NAE 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium

Bernhard Boser Elected Vice President of IEEE SSCS

2007 IEEE Award: Professor Richard S. Muller

BSACers Receive Bioengineering Awards

2007 OSA Engineering Excellence Award Winner: Ming C. Wu

Kris Pister receives 2006 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize