Each spring, UROP students nominate research mentors who have demonstrated exceptional guidance and teaching in a research setting for the Outstanding UROP Mentor Award. Award recipients are selected by the UROP team based on these amazing nominations.

Prior recipients:

2023-24

• Prof. In Song Kim, Political Science

• Prof. Connor W. Coley, Chemical Engineering/Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• Dr. John Joseph, Research Scientist, Center for Biomedical Innovation

• Ceili Li-Fong Peng, Graduate Student, Biology/Media Lab

2022-23

• Prof. Navid Azizan – Mechanical Engineering
• Halie Olson – PhD student, Brain + Cognitive Sciences
• Prof. Basima Tewfik – Sloan School of Management
• Kathryn Yammine – PhD student, Chemistry

2021-22

• Prof. Ariel L. Furst – Chemical Engineering
• Crystal Owens – PhD student, Mechanical Engineering

2020-21

• Prof. Mike Short – Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Prof. Susan Solomon – EAPS
• Ferran Alet – PhD student, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
• Crystal Lee – PhD student, Science, Technology, and Society

2019-20

• Prof. Yufei Zhao – Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• Alexander Amini – Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab – Distributed Robotics Group
• Carmelo Ignaccolo – Graduate Student, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Civic Data Design Lab

2018-19

• Prof. Iain Cheeseman – Professor of Biology; Member, Whitehead Institute
• Angela Q. Zhang – Graduate Student, Health Sciences & Technology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research – Irvine Lab

2017-18:

• Prof. Canan Dagdeviren – Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.
• Alex Hanson, Graduate Student, Research Lab for Electronics (RLE), Power Electronics Research Group

2016-17:

• Prof. Krishna Rajagopal, William A. M. Burden Professor of Physics, Dean for Digital Learning
• Jose Ordovas-Montanves, Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Sciences and Technology, Shalek Lab

2015-16:

• Prof. Regina Bateson, Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Sampriti Bhattacharyya, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, d’Arbeloff Robotics Research Lab

2014-15:

• Prof Kay Tye, Associate Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute of Learning and Memory
• David Warsinger, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lienhard Research Group

2013-14:

• Prof. Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Luke Mooney, Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences, Biomechatronics Group

2012-13:

• Prof. Kerri Cahoy, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Armon Sharei, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Langer Lab

2011-12:

• Prof. Tanja Bosek, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Chair of the Program in Geology, Geochemistry & Geobiology
• Halil Tekin, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Langer Lab

2010-11:

• Prof. Jeff Gore, Associate Professor of Physics
• Ying Diao, Graduate Student, Department of Chemical Engineering

2009-10:

• Prof. Paulo Lozano, M. Aleman-Velasco Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Venkataramanan Soundararajan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Engineering, Sasisekharan Lab

2008-09:

• Prof. Joseph Sadighi, Department of Chemistry
• Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Graduate Student, Health Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies

2007-08:

• Prof. Gabriella Sciolla, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Dr. Jill Crittenden, Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences , Graybiel Lab

2006-07:

• Prof. Vladan Vuletic, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics
• Hector Hernandez, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Drennan Research & Education Laboratory

2005-06:

• Prof. Amy Keating, Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
• Ali Khademhosseini, Postdoctoral Associate, Health Sciences and Technology, Langer Lab