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Indian-American scientists receive early career presidential awards
Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers.
The White House. /
President Biden recently recognized 400 early career scientists across the United States with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
The honorees which included 19 Indian Americans, who were recognized under 14 participating agencies within the various government departments, were celebrated for their groundbreaking research and contributions to advancing science and technology.
Army research office
Mohit Bansal is the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley and his bachelor’s degree from IIT Kanpur. His work in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning has earned multiple ACL Best Paper Awards.
Department of Defense
Ashutosh Giri, assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island; Ritu Raman, the Eugene Bell Career Development assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; and Ashwin Shahani, associate professor at the University of Michigan were recognized.
Department of Energy
Rajamani Gounder, the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, who focuses on catalysis and sustainable chemical processes along with Vedika Khemani, a physicist at Stanford University, who focuses on the intersection of many-body quantum condensed matter physics and quantum information theory received the award.
Department of Education
Maithilee Kunda, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering and deputy director of psychometrics, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation from Vanderbilt University, who researches AI and cognitive modeling was named.
National Institutes of Health
The recipients included Kavita Arora, division director, general obstetrics and gynecology, at UNC school of medicine; Ambika Bajpayee, associate professor in bioengineering from Northeastern University; Jayeeta Basu, assistant professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Ekta Khurana, associate professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine; Kanaka Rajan, computational neuroscientist in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and founding faculty in the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University; Nirali Shah, physician-scientist who serves as the head of the Hematologic Malignancies Section of the Pediatric Oncology Branch at NIH .
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nadir Jeevanjee, former Harry H. Hess Postdoctoral Fellow at The Department of Geosciences at Princeton University; Aaditya Ramdas, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning; Soumik Sarkar, Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow in Engineering and professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University; Dipali Sashital, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Iowa State University in Ames; Bhuvana Srinivasan, professor in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington wer
Department of Veterans Affairs
Umamaheswar Duvvuri, the Mendik Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine was the only Indian American in this department.
These scientists exemplify excellence in research and innovation, underscoring the vital contributions of Indian-Americans to global progress.
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