Awards

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Michael Link is selected for ACS ES&T Air Inaugural Excellence in Review Awards

This award recognizes those scientists who perform peer review for ACS ES&T Air in their area of expertise to a consistently high standard, in a timely fashion, and on a frequent basis throughout the year.

Alexander Maranghides Recognized as 2025 IFSJ Influencer

For over 30 years of large-scale testing experience and two decades of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire reconstructions. He has led all four NIST Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire reconstructions, with findings shaping US codes, standards and...

Terri McAllister Receives the ASCE Mujumdar Resilience Award

Dr. McAllister is being recognized for her contributions to the advancement of resilience.

Alexander Maranghides Receives the 2025 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal

For decades of important research into how fires that occur in communities adjacent to wildlands spread, what can be done to prevent them and how to protect life and property.

Amy Mensch is Selected for the 2025 ASME Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award

This award recognizes early-career women engineers who have demonstrated considerable leadership in, commitment to, and continued service to ASME. Sponsored by the Petroleum Division, the award honors the work of Lakshmi Singh, a talented early...

Dustin Cook Receives the 2025 Early Career Award in Engineering

For innovative research, technical leadership, and national-level engagement in the development of functional recovery building codes and performance assessment frameworks.

Siamak Sattar Receives the NIBS 2025 Innovator Award

NIST, FEMA, ATC, and STPI were awarded in recognition of their leadership and technical contributions to develop the NIST SP-1254 report to Congress titled “Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Re-occupancy and...

Eric Link is Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) Excellence in Research Award in Engineering

To recognize a person for outstanding research contributions in any scientific or engineering discipline.

Kamel Saidi Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences Leadership Award

For outstanding leadership and significant impacts on advanced manufacturing, construction, and emergency response capabilities and standards, particularly for the fields of robotics and 3D imaging.

50 Years of Fire Safety Advances Site Receives Communicator Award of Excellence and Award of Distinction

The 50 Years of Fire Safety Advances website received a Communicator Award of Excellence in the General-Science and Technology category and an Award of Distinction in the General-Government category. The Award of Excellence is the highest honor. It...

Li Piin Sung Receives 2025 Mattiello Lecture Award

For her exceptional contributions to the advancement of coating technology.

Marc Levitan Received the Distinguished Engineer Award

The TTU's Distinguished Engineer Award was established during the 1966–1967 academic year to recognize the most outstanding former students of the Whitacre College of Engineering. Since that time, 230 former students of the Whitacre College of...

Scott Jones Receives The 2025 ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement

For his contributions to advancing 3-D concrete printing technology, including technical publications, convention presentations, and service on ACI technical committees. He builds partnerships between industry and academia for national...

Ann Virts Receives 2025 ASTM International James A. Thomas President's Leadership Award

The ASTM International James A. Thomas President's Leadership Award is an honor presented to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and contributions to the advancement of ASTM International's standards and activities. The award is...

Jordan Weaver Receives 2024 Journal of Manufacturing Processes Outstanding Reviewer Award

For providing exceptional quality and number of peer-reviews for the SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes.

Aspasia "Sissy" Nikolaou Receives 2025 Engineer of the Year

Awarded on the basis of her career successes, support to the university, and giving back to her communities. The University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni Association selected her from among the University of Buffalo's...

David Yashar is Named ASHRAE Fellow

For substantial contributions in Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration, and the built environment.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Shelly Bagchi, Jeremy Marvel, Megan Zimmerman

For developing innovative metrology tools, standards, and global community events to advance technologies for human-robot interaction.

Matthew Speicher, John Harris, Saimak Sattar

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Harris, III, Matthew Speicher, Siamak Sattar

For developing critical improvements in seismic design criteria and evaluation of buildings in standards through an innovative research program.

2024 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Ami Reisinger, Joyce Scott, Gwynaeth Broome, LeeAnn Ginsburg, Ebonee Fitzgerald, Taylor Avery

For exemplary service, dedication, and commitment in supporting and enabling the timely, effective conduct of multiple NIST disaster investigations.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Joseph Main, Fahim Sadek, Jonathan Weigand

For developing the scientific basis for the first U.S. standard for prevention of catastrophic collapse of buildings.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Gregory Vogl

For leading development of the ASME B5.64 Single-Axis Linear Positioning Systems standard that improves performance of precision manufacturing systems.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane

For developing groundbreaking machine control solutions that allow U.S. manufacturers to make better products using additive manufacturing systems.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Siamak Sattar, Katherine Johnson, Steven McCabe, Aspasia Nikolaou

For development of a framework to accelerate the recovery of buildings, infrastructure, and communities after earthquakes.

2024 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Marc Levitan, Long Phan

These awardees with the Tornado Winds Load Team created the world’s first tornado-resistant building codes, conducting groundbreaking research that will save lives and protect critical facilities like schools, hospitals and emergency centers from extensive property damage.

Advanced communications
-Open Radio Access Network (Open-RAN)
-Quantum communications
-Spectrum sharing
-Wireless (RF)
Artificial intelligence
-AI measurement and evaluation
-Autonomous systems
--Automated vehicles
--Autonomous laboratories
-Applied AI
-Fundamental AI
-Hardware for AI
-Machine learning
-Trustworthy and responsible AI
Bioscience
-Bioeconomy
--Biological data
-Bioimaging
-Bioinformatics
-Biomanufacturing
-Biomaterials
-Biometrology
-Biosecurity
--Biosurveillance
--Genomic cybersecurity
--Nucleic acid sequence screening
-Cell measurements
-Engineering / synthetic biology
--Biofabrication
--Cell-free systems
--Genome engineering
--Protein engineering
-Gene delivery systems
-Genome editing
-Genomics
-Glycomics
-Metabolomics
-Microbial measurements
-Proteomics
Buildings and Construction
-Building codes and standards
-Building control systems
-Building damage and repair
-Building economics
-Building materials
-Energy efficiency
-Heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment
-Indoor air quality
-Structural engineering
-Thermal comfort
Chemistry
-Analytical chemistry
-Chemical engineering and processing
-Chemical thermodynamics and chemical properties
-Molecular characterization
-Theoretical chemistry and modeling
-Thermochemical properties
Electronics
-Electromagnetics
-Flexible electronics
-Magnetoelectronics
-Optoelectronics
-Organic electronics
-Semiconductors
-Sensors
-Superconducting electronics
Energy
-Alternative energy
-Conventional energy
-Electric power / smart grid
-Fuels
Environment
-Air / water / soil quality
-Climate Measurements
-Environmental health
-Greenhouse gas measurements
-Marine science
-Sustainability
Fire
-Fire detection
-Fire dynamics and science
-Fire fighting
-Fire modeling
-Fire risk reduction
-Materials flammability
-Structural fire resistance
-Wildland urban interface fire
Forensic Science
-Digital evidence
-Drugs and toxicology
-Firearms and toolmarks
-Forensic biometrics
-Forensic genetics
-Trace evidence
Health
-Biopharmaceuticals
-Cell and gene therapy
-Clinical diagnostics
--Cancer
--Medical imaging
-Food and nutrition
-Human microbiome
-Precision medicine
-Regenerative medicine and advanced therapy
--Flow cytometry
Information technology
-Biometrics
-Cloud computing and virtualization
-Complex systems
-Computational science
-Conformance testing
-Cyber-physical systems
--Smart cities
-Cybersecurity and privacy
--Cryptography
--Cybersecurity education and workforce development
--Cybersecurity measurement
--Identity and access management
--Privacy engineering
--Risk management
--Securing emerging technologies
--Trustworthy networks
--Trustworthy platforms
-Data and informatics
--Human language technology
--Information retrieval
--Natural language processing
-Digital twins
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
-Interoperability testing
-Location based services
-Mobile
-Networking
--Mobile and wireless networking
--Network management and monitoring
--Network modeling and analysis
--Network security and robustness
--Network test and measurement
--Next generation networks
--Protocol design and standardization
--Software defined and virtual networks
-Software research
--Software testing
-Usability and human factors
--Accessibility
-Video analytics
-Virtual / augmented reality
-Visualization research
-Voting systems
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
-Factory communications
-Factory operations planning and control
-Interoperability in manufacturing
-Machining
-Manufacturing economics
-Manufacturing quality assurance
-Manufacturing systems design and analysis
-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-Product data
-Robotics
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
-Composites
-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
-Superconductors
Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
-Pressure and vacuum metrology
-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
-Nanochemistry
-Nanoelectronics
-Nanofabrication / manufacturing
--Lithography
--Self-assembly
-Nanofluidics
-Nanomagnetics
-Nanomaterials
-Nanomechanics
-Nanometrology
-Nanophotonics
-Nanophysics
-Nanoplasmonics
Neutron research
Performance excellence
-Assessment tools and services
-Baldrige award
-Baldrige examiners
-Baldrige Framework and Criteria
-Best practices
-Leadership development
Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
-Biological physics
-Condensed matter
-Electron physics
-Magnetics
-Nuclear physics
-Optical physics and communications
-Quantum information science
-Radiation
-Spectroscopy
-Thermodynamics
-Time and frequency
Public safety
-Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear / Explosives (CBRNE)
-First responder preparedness
-Law enforcement
-Public safety communications research
-Response robots
Resilience
-Community resilience
--Recovery
--Resilience metrics
-Disaster and failure studies
-Earthquake risk reduction
-Resilience economics
-Resilient materials
-Windstorm impact reduction
Standards
-Accreditation
-Calibration services
-Conformity assessment
-Documentary standards
-Frameworks
-Quality assurance
-Reference data
-Reference instruments
-Reference materials
-Standards education
Technology transfer
Transportation
-Aerospace
-Automotive