UB Honors and Awards
In a world that is often splintered by disinformation, you promote reason, collaboration and evidence-based knowledge. By bringing your ideas, discoveries and innovation to bear on your profession and your discipline, you are furthering the narrative of contemporary issues and creating solutions to pressing problems. In doing so, you are making a profound difference here at UB and beyond."
-UB President Satish Tripathi, 2020 Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence
Each year, UB recognizes the academic excellence of highly accomplished faculty members.
UB Distinguished Professor
The Office of the Provost created the rank of UB Distinguished Professor to honor full professors who have achieved national or international recognition as experts in their fields of study. UB Distinguished Professors are members of the faculty who have been full professors for a minimum of five years with a demonstrated record of excellence in artistic or scholarly contributions.
Hui Meng
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2018
Mark T. Swihart
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2014
Paschalis Alexandridis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2002
Venu Govindaraju
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2009
David Kofke
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2004
Russ Miller
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2002
UB Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award
The Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement was created by the University at Buffalo in 2002 to honor outstanding professional achievement that has been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years. This award was created to recognize an unprecedented accomplishment in a senior scholar's career, distinguishing a body of work of enduring importance that has gone beyond the norm in a particular field of study.
Haiqing Lin
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2021
Mettupalayam Sivaselvan
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2021
Wenyao Xu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2021
Tevfik Kosar
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2020
Tarunraj Singh
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2020
Gang Wu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2020
Paul DesJardin
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2019
Jun Zhuang
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2019
Kemper Lewis
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2017
Blaine Pfeifer
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2017
Susan Zonglu Hua
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2015
Jinhui Xu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2015
Jeffrey Errington
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2014
Shambhu Upadhyaya
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2013
Chang Wen Chen
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2012
Sriram Neelamegham
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2011
Hui Meng
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2011
Li Lin
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2010
Mark T. Swihart
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2010
Stelios Andreadis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2009
Jonathan Bird
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2008
Michel Bruneau
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2007
Vladimir Mitin
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2005
Chunming Qiao
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2005
Venu Govindaraju
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2003
Paschalis Alexandridis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2002
Rajan Batta
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2002
David Kofke
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2002
UB Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award
Introduced in 2002, the University at Buffalo’s Exceptional Scholar Award for Young Investigators celebrates a recent superior achievement of a scholar in his/her field of study. Such an achievement will have distinguished the recipient as an up-and-coming scholar, as well as earned the individual acclaim for his/her work, which could be a published work or other scholastic or artistic endeavor.
Negar Elhami-Khorasani
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2021
Kenneth Joseph
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2021
Huamin Li
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2021
Changyou Chen
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2020
Ning Dai
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2020
Mostafa Nouh
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2020
James Chen
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2019
Shi Li
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2019
Oliver Kennedy
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2018
Lukasz Ziarek
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2018
Lu Su*
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2017
Zhi Sun*
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2017
Chi Zhou
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2017
Qiaoqiang Gan
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2016
Jonathan Lovell
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Award year: 2016
Steven Y. Ko*
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2014
Jun Zhuang
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2013
Atri Rudra
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2011
Murat Demirbas
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2010
Igor Jankovic
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2006
Albert Titus
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Award year: 2006
Jeffrey Errington
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2005
Stelios Andreadis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2003
Ann Bisantz
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2002
John Crassidis
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2002
Sriram Neelamegham
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2002
UB Teaching Innovation Award
Established to honor exceptional educational pedagogy, UB’s Award for Teaching Innovation was created in 2003 to recognize faculty who have contributed significantly to engaging students with new methods and approaches to teaching. The award recognizes faculty members whose innovative teaching methods have a demonstrable effect on enhancing student learning-outcomes.
Atri Rudra
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2021
Varun Chandola
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2020
Aaron Estes
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2020
Jun Zhuang
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2020
Jason Armstrong
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2019
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas*
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2018
Alexander Nikolaev
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2017
Lukasz Ziarek
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2017
Steven Y. Ko*
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2016
Albert Titus
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Award year: 2010
UB Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award
The UB Distinguished Postdoc Mentoring Award was established in 2009 to recognize UB faculty members who excel in the mentoring of postdoctoral scholars, and to highlight the importance of effective and intentional mentoring of postdocs.
David Kofke
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2019
UB Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award
The Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award, established by UB's Graduate School in 2011, annually honors and publicly recognizes exceptional excellence in faculty mentoring of graduate students at UB. Award recipients are faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding and sustained support and development of graduate students from course completion through research and subsequent career placement. Nominees for the award must be current members of the UB Graduate Faculty and have held faculty appointment at UB for at least five years.
Shambhu Upadhyaya
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2021
Jun Zhuang
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2020
Stelios Andreadis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2019
Sargur N. Srihari
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2018
Venu Govindaraju
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2017
Rajan Batta
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2015
Paschalis Alexandridis
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2012
UB President Emeritus and Mrs. Myerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring
This award, which was established in the spring of 2011, recognizes the outstanding faculty mentorship that currently exists at UB and seeks to encourage further faculty commitment to and participation in the undergraduate research and creative experience.
Lukasz Ziarek
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2021
Lora Cavuoto
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2020
Wenyao Xu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Award year: 2020
Kwang W. Oh
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2019
Johannes Hachmann
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2018
John Crassidis
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2017
Mark T. Swihart
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Award year: 2015
James Jensen
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Award year: 2013
Kemper Lewis
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Award year: 2013
Jun Zhuang
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Award year: 2012
Jennifer L. Zirnheld
Department: Electrical Engineering
Award year: 2011
UB Student Association Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching
The Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Award is given by the University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association. The award is named for Plesur, a beloved teacher and scholar in the Department of History who died in 1987, and recognizes commitment to students and quality of teaching. Recipients are nominated and selected for the awards by students.
Adrienne Decker
Department: Engineering Education
Award year: 2007
UB Student Association Accessibility Award
The Accessibility Award is given by the University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association. It honors outstanding professors who “go above and beyond to ensure the inclusiveness of all their students, regardless of their disabilities." Recipients are nominated and selected for the awards by students.
Filip Stefanovic
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Award year: 2020
