Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
Alyssa Fidanza, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2021 Alp Sahin Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2022 Jack Grubbs Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
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2017 Neehar Mukra Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Huimin Ren Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Josh Gershlak Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2019 Paulo Carvalho Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Carl Soderhjelm, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2014 Douglas MacFarland Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2017 Christopher Chagnon Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2018 Ying Zhou Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2021 Zahra Noori Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Office of Sustainability

Experimental Study of Drying of Paper with Ultrasound Mechanism
Tiatiana Egorova, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Payam Razavi Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Manufacturing Engineering
2017 Muping Chen Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics

Outstanding Master's Thesis
2021 Jidapa Thadajarassiri Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
Melissa Mobley, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2019 Alexandra Valiton Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Zheng Nie Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Suhas Srinivasan Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Jeffrey Bibeau Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2019 Devdip Sen Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Robert Orr, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Shari Worthington Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2019 Cassandra Brzycki Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering

Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

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2021 Munevver Elif Asar Sarikaya Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Office of Sustainability

Reducing Carbon Footprint of Energy-Intensive Industrial Drying by Smart Dryers
2022 Logan Gaudette Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Joel K. Kearns Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2017 Anthony G. Spangenberger Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2021 John Trainor Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Aerospace Engineering
Mi Feng, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2018 Matt Ryder Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Feiyi Wang Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Mark Lawrence Strauss Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2018 Lindsay Lozeau Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2019 Tess Meier Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
Rodica Neamtu, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Megan O'Brien, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2017 Mina Shojaeizadeh Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2021 GQP Team: Aishwarya Ramakrishnan, Lyzanne Dsouza, Akshay Sadanandan, Somesh R Patel Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Kyle Fitzpatrick-Schmidt Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
Kim Kelly, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2019 Michael Yereniuk Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2021 Peter VanNostrand Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2021 Megan Mancuso Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2018 David Dolivo Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Boya Zhou Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Meng Wang Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Yuwei Zhai Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2019 Masoud Loeian Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering