2019 Award Recipients
Recipient |
Award |
| Swee Balachandran, Marco Feliú, Brendan Duffy, Andrew Peters, Kyle Smalling |
The Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) presented its AUVSI XCELLENCE award — 2nd Place in the Category of Detect and Avoid Solutions – to NIA Research Engineer Dr. Swee Balachandran, recognizing research performed by a team which included NIA Research Scientist Marco Feliú, and NIA Research Engineers Brendan Duffy, Andrew Peters and Kyle Smalling. |
| Swee Balachandran, Kyle Smalling, Nick Rymer |
A paper co-authored by NIA Research Engineer Dr. Swee Balachandran, was recognized as the Best Paper presented at AIAA Conferences in 2018 in the area of Aircraft Operations. NIA Research Engineers Kyle Smalling and Nick Rymer supported the research presented in the paper. |
| Scott Bednar, Rebecca Jaramillo, Seth Robinson, Matthew Schara, David Shelton, Harla Sherwood, Caleb Stern, Jessica Wilde | NIA’s team of Scott Bednar, Rebecca Jaramillo, Seth Robinson, Matthew Schara, David Shelton, Harla Sherwood, Caleb Stern and Jessica Wilde; supported by subcontractors Woodpile Studios, Bully! and Mission Media; and in collaboration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, were recognized with a 2019 Headquarters Honor Award for Team Excellence. The American Advertising Awards recognized the same team with regional and NATIONAL silver ADDY awards. |
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David Bradley |
NASA Group Achievement Award – SAFE2DITCH (crash management system) Team |
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Emily Gargulinski, Zak Johns |
NASA Group Achievement Award – Ozone Water Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS) Team |
| Mool Gupta | Professor Mool Gupta, University of Virginia Samuel P. Langley Distinguished Professor at NIA was named an IEEE Fellow, with special recognition of his contributions to laser material interactions. |
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Clay Hubbs |
NASA Group Achievement Award – NASA / Alaska Airlines / Industry Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Request (TASAR) Team |
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Jin Ho Kang |
Dr. Jin Ho Kang, NIA Associate Principal Engineer, received the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for “exceptional technology contributions to improve the space environment survivability, dimension stability, and stowage configuration of aerospace materials.” |
| Hongyu Liu, Bo Zhang | NASA Group Achievement Award – North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) Team |
| Hiroaki Nishikawa | The Hampton Roads Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics selected Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa, NIA Associate Research Fellow, to receive its 2019 Engineer of the Year award. Dr. Nishikawa was recognized for his “innovative, seminal contributions to the theory, implementation, and verification of novel computational approaches to the solution of aerodynamic equations in practical CFD codes.” |
| Hiroaki Nishikawa | A paper authored by NIA Associate Research Fellow Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa was recognized as the Best Paper presented at AIAA Conferences in 2018 in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics. |
| Pedro Paredes | 2019 Bo Walkley Best Research Publication Award – “Nonmodal Growth of Traveling Waves on Blunt Cones at Hypersonic Speeds” by Pedro Paredes, Meelan M. Choudhari and Fei Li (NASA’s Langley Research Center), Joseph Jewell (Purdue University), and Roger Kimmel (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory), AIAA Journal, Vol 57, No. 11, November 2019. |
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Jean-Paul Vernier, Hongyu Liu, Rita Aguillard |
NASA Group Achievement Award – The Balloon Measurement Campaigns of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (BATAL) Team |
| Li Wang, Boris Diskin, Olivier Bauchau | A paper authored by NIA Associate Research Fellow Dr. Li Wang, NIA Research Fellow Dr. Boris Diskin, NIA Langley Professor Dr. Olivier Bauchau, et al, was recognized as the Best Paper presented at AIAA Conferences in 2019 in the area of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. |
| George Wilkes | NIA Best Student Paper Award – “Laser Annealing of TiO2 Electron-Transporting Layer in Perovskite Solar Cells,” George C. Wilkes, Xiaoyu Deng, Joshua Choi, and Mool C. Gupta; ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10 (2018), 41312-41317; doi:10.1021/acsami8b13740 |
| NIA’s Media Communications Group |
NIA’s Media Communications Group won 2019 International Davey Awards for productions created for NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, NASA’s Centennial Challenges program, and NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The prestigious award honors the achievements of teams from smaller companies. |
| REaKTOR |
The REaKTOR Business Technology Innovation Center is one of 60 nationwide winners of the Small Business Administrations’ Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. REaKTOR is using the $50k award to develop several programs focused on women entrepreneurs and to provide proposal and technical assistance for women-owned businesses seeking research grants. |