Vijaykrishnan Narayanan and Douglas Werner are among the six Penn State faculty members elected to the 2023 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Credit: Penn State College of Engineering
Two engineering faculty elected to 2023 cohort of AAAS fellows
April 18, 2024
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Penn State News.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, associate dean for innovation in the College of Engineering and A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Douglas Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor, are among the six Penn State faculty members elected to the 2023 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
This year, AAAS recognized a total of 502 scientists, engineers and innovators with this lifetime honor, bestowed by their peers, for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. Fellows were elected in 2023 and will be honored in 2024. They will receive an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin via mail to commemorate their election and will be invited to an in-person gathering in Washington, D.C., in September to celebrate the honor. The new class is also featured in the AAAS “News & Notes” section of Science magazine this month.
Narayanan was selected for contributions to the field of computer architecture and design automation, particularly for power-aware systems and emerging technologies. Werner was selected for contributions to the field of theoretical and computational electromagnetics, particularly for scientific advancements in transformation optics, metamaterials, nanoantennas and new algorithms for numerical modeling and optimization.
With over $1 billion in annual research expenditures, Penn State ranks among the top 25 U.S. research universities and is one of only two institutions in the nation accorded land-grant, sea-grant, sun-grant and space-grant status. This year’s fellows represent Penn State College of Medicine, the College of Agricultural Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Eberly College of Science. The complete list of Penn State’s 2023 AAAS fellows can be found here.
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