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Nearly 70 ¼ø»Æʦapp Faculty Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists

¼ø»Æʦapp faculty members have been recognized among the world’s top 2% of scientists, according to the annual Stanford–Elsevier ranking. This distinction highlights ¼ø»Æʦapp’s growing global impact across disciplines, with honorees representing fields spanning engineering, science, medicine, business, neuroscience, nursing, the humanities, marine science, and criminology and criminal justice. Here’s a closer look:

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
  • Valentine A. Aalo, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Mohsen Ahmadi, Ph.D., graduate research assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Waseem Asghar, Ph.D., associate chair and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceÌý
  • Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Sensing Institute (I-SENSE) fellow
  • Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Leif A. Carlsson, Ph.D., J.M. Rubin Foundation Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
  • Manhar R. Dhanak, Ph.D., professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
  • Isaac E. Elishakoff, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
  • Eduardo B. Fernandez, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Borko Furht, Ph.D., professor and director of the NSF Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Hari Kalva, Ph.D., chair and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Stewart A.L. Glegg, Ph.D., professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
  • Kevin Yunqing Kang, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering
  • Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., Motorola Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Oge Marques, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Arslan Munir, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Zhen Ni, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., professor, director of the Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI) and a fellow of the ¼ø»Æʦapp Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Yufei Tang, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Sensing Institute (I-SENSE) fellow
  • Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu, Ph.D., professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics EngineeringÌý
  • Hanqi Zhuang, Ph.D., associate dean and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Ph.D., professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
CHARLES E. SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF SCIENCE