ASU engineers earn NSF CAREER Awards

Two faculty members in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have earned the highly competitive and prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Heni Ben Amor and Yezhou Yang, both assistant professors of computer science and engineering studying robotics in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, represent two of ASU's three winners (the third is Nicholas Stephanopoulos, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences). These researchers continue the long history of junior faculty receiving this honor in the Fulton Schools. Over the past five years, 30 Fulton Schools faculty have earned NSF CAREER Awards. "I'm proud we're continuing to attract faculty whose powerful ideas lead to discoveries of foundational value to their fields with potentially transformational breakthrough applications," said Kyle Squires, dean of the Fulton Schools.