Nadia Najim received both her B.S. in Mathematics and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University. She joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University as a faculty member in 2024. Her interests include improving undergraduate and graduate student teaching experiences and promoting student engagement in the classroom and outside of it.
Thomas Dietterich will receive the highest honor for a career in artificial intelligence for his four decades of intellectual leadership in machine learning. Only 23 others have received the Award for Research Excellence from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence since its inception in 1985. The first to receive the award was John McCarthy, known as the father of AI. Dietterich will accept the award in August at the annual conference 2024 IJCAI in Jeju, South Korea.
The National Science Foundation has awarded four recent graduates from Oregon State University’s College of Engineering the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000 and a $16,000 allowance for tuition and fees.
Fellows are recognized as outstanding students who demonstrate the potential to become knowledge experts in their fields, contributing significantly to research, teaching, and innovation throughout their careers.
The Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub, or CorMic, is a partnership of over 60 organizations including HP, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon Health & Science University to develop, scale, and manufacture microfluidics technologies. In 2023, the U.S. Economic Development Administration selected CorMic to be one of 31 inaugural Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs to become a global leader in microfluidics, essential for diverse applications in biomedicine, computing, and manufacturing.
Madalyn Gragg, an undergraduate in mechanical engineering and general physics, is one of three students at Oregon State University chosen to receive the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a national award established in 1986 in memory of Sen. Barry Goldwater.
In her scholarship application essay, Gragg reflected on the challenges she faced in getting into college coming from a school designated under Title I-A as a school that serves children from families experiencing poverty.
For the past two years, Iman Stephenson, a nuclear engineering student earning her bachelor’s degree this spring, has investigated how materials respond to the high temperatures (500-1000 C) specified for next-generation nuclear reactors. She says this research experience has been invaluable.
“I learned what it means to be in the nuclear engineering field from working with graduate students,” she said. “There are a lot more opportunities than I realized.”
Wei-Che Hsu, who recently earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, won first place in the Division of Laser Science poster competition.
Hsu presented his research at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, the top conference in photonics co-organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physics Society.
