- Marlee Walton earns 2025 Surveying and Geomatics Educator Society Award
The Surveying and Geomatics Educator Society (SaGES) grants an award to an exceptional educator, mentor, and leader within the surveying and geomatics profession.
- Jacob Eisbrenner has a vision to help others – through engineering and education
Jacob Eisbrenner, a PhD student in electrical engineering, hopes to make an impact through his work in prosthetics and biomimetic design. “My passion lies in bridging the gap between engineering and biology to create innovative solutions that improve people’s lives,” he says.
- Ruoyu Meng publishes on quantum info theory in IEEE Transactions
Electrical engineering grad student Ruoyu Meng and his advisor Dr. Aditya Ramamoorthy have published the following paper: “Quantum advantage in zero-error function computation with side information“, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 2025.
- Seonghun Son advancing hardware and systems security
ECpE grad student Seonghun Son (Hun) is advancing hardware and systems security with papers at top-tier conferences and industry recognition.
- CyMath ECpE tutors have had one or more papers at every NeurIPS and ICML in the last two years
The papers were featured at each of the two top machine learning conferences (the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and the International Conference on Machine Learning).
- Researchers modeling electrochemical processes to improve energy, critical technologies
Iowa State engineers are joining researchers from across the country to develop new tools to simulate electrochemical processes critical to energy, health care and manufacturing. The U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting the project.
- Shana Moothedath earns NSF funding for project on sustainable service handling in 6G
The project develops learning-based control strategies for sustainable network operations with enhanced energy efficiency and improved resource usage in future mobile networks.
- Shana Moothedath awarded Air Force Research Lab funding for decentralized reinforcement learning framework project
Nearly $100K in funding will support Safety-Aware Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Framework for Mission-Critical Applications
- Shana Moothedath earns CAREER award: A Principled Framework for Multi-Task Representation Learning for Scalable, Decentralized, and Safe Sequential Decision-Making
This CAREER project will develop a unified approach to multi-task representation learning by leveraging the shared representations to offer a viable solution to these challenges, enabling privacy-preserved joint learning in dynamic environments.
- Outstanding Cyclone Engineers honored with 2025 college alumni awards
These Cyclone Engineers are making an impact in their careers.
- Rupsa Roy awarded Graduate Student SRW Researcher Scholarship
Rupsa Roy is the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Graduate Student SRW Researcher Scholarship.
- Rupsa Roy awarded International Association of Foundation Drilling South Central Chapter Scholarship
The ADSC – International Association of Foundation Drilling awards a number of scholarships to graduate students studying in fields related to deep foundation and earth retention technologies.
- Rupsa Roy awarded DFI At-Large Scholarship – Educational Trust General Scholarship
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust provides scholarships to exceptional students preparing for a career in the civil engineering and construction fields.
- Beena Ajmera named ASCE 2025 Outstanding Associate Member of the Year
This recognition is awarded annually to a member of the Iowa Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) who has been an Associate Member for at least three years and who is judged to have attained significant professional achievement.
- 2025 Cyclone Engineering honors: Celebrating named faculty, new patents, award winners
The College of Engineering congratulates these members of the Cyclone Engineering community for much-deserved accomplishments.
- Remembering Richard C. Seagrave’s legacy in chemical engineering education, university leadership
Seagrave, who passed away in August 2025, leaves a legacy that continues to shape the success of the university — and generations of Iowa State students.
- Cameron MacKenzie and team gets NSF project funding for game to enhance emergency preparedness in the Midwest
The objective of this project is to support research on creating, implementing, and testing a novel online serious game on emergency response.
- Alice Alipour elected as ASCE Structural Engineering Fellow
The SEI Fellow grade of membership recognizes accomplished SEI members as leaders and mentors in the structural engineering profession.
- Aishwarya Pawar and team awarded $1M in NSF funding for VAScTWIN project
This project develops a novel multiscale digital twin framework to predict and control blood vessel growth by integrating molecular signaling dynamics, cellular migration behavior, sprouting patterns, and tissue-level growth and remodeling.
- Aditya Ramamoorthy earns NSF funding for practical coded matrix computation project
The overall goal of this project is to research techniques for mitigating the effect of stragglers in the specific context of distributed matrix computations.
