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Deepak Vashishth Deepak Vashishth elected as a Fellow of the AAAS

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Professor Deepak Vashishth, Yamada Corporation Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Engineering & Precision Medicine, to the 2024 Class of AAAS Fellows. The Fellows are a distinguished cadre recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology to administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.

Deepak Vashishth Deepak Vashishth awarded the Professor V. Srinivasan Memorial Award

Dr. Pingkun Yan Pingkun Yan named IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer

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Xinrui Song and Navid Nizam Navid Nizam and Xinrui Song Awarded Belsky Award

Navid Nizam, doctoral candidate in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, and Xinrui Song, doctoral candidate in Dr. Pingkun Yan's Deep Imaging Analytics Lab, have both received the 2025 Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering.

The School of Engineering at RPI awards several Belsky awards each year to graduate students with a strong academic record and outstanding contributions to computer science engineering. 

BME News Image Amogh Shetty Awarded Kelch Undergraduate Research Award

Amogh Shetty, an RPI senior doing research in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, has been awarded the Jo Anne and David Kelch '60 Undergraduate Research Award for his project, "Deep Learning-Based Data Fusion for Super-Resolution Time-Resolved Fluorescence Image Generation and Fluorescence Lifetime Parameter Estimation."

Elizabeth Blaber Elizabeth Blaber Awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Among them is BMED's Professor Elizabeth Blaber.

Juergen Hahn Juergen Hahn quoted in NY Times Article

Juergen Hahn was recently quoted in an article by the New York Times on the rise of autism diagnoses and what might potentially be underlying this increase in the numbers: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/health/what-causes-autism.html

Condell Eastmond Condell Eastmond award F31

Condell Eastmond, doctoral student in Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Laboratory, has been awarded an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, funded by NIBIB. The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.