Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award

This Award recognizes and rewards an outstanding junior and senior College of Engineering researcher for accomplishments in advancing the frontiers of knowledge. These research awards are established to confer honor upon individuals, who, by their contributions to their research discipline, have brought recognition to themselves, the College and Northeastern University. The awardees illustrate the important role that research plays in a comprehensive program of engineering education.

Eligibility

  • All full-time faculty and research staff in the College of Engineering are eligible.
  • Past recipients are not eligible for a period of five years after receiving the award.

Qualifications

All candidates must have:

  • Demonstrated an ability to conduct original research at Northeastern;
  • Developed innovative theories and/or laboratory techniques and instrumentation;
  • Received acceptance of research results by colleagues and/or industry through citations or applications;
  • Demonstrated evidence of scholarly contributions to the literature; and
  • Demonstrated research effectiveness in a manner that substantially exceeds the normal expectation for a faculty member.

Selection

A committee will be appointed by the Dean of Engineering to select award recipients.

Nomination Process

Nominations may be initiated by College of Engineering faculty, research staff, department chairs. Each nominator, however, may nominate only one junior and/or one senior employee for this award each year. Once the nomination process has concluded, the respective department chair for each faculty nominee or manager for each staff nominee will be contacted to complete a Recommendation Form before all materials are sent to the appropriate Awards Committee for evaluation.

The nomination packet should consist of ONE pdf file submitted through the Nomination Form below (multiple submissions for the same nomination will not be accepted) containing the following:

  • one letter of nomination including the names of the nominator(s) and the nominee which should include the rationale for the nomination and pertinent accomplishments and a summary of the nominee’s research conducted at Northeastern; the letter will be preferably one page and a maximum of two pages in length;
  • an updated CV of the nominee.

Nomination Form


If you have any questions, please email fac-staff-awards@coe.neu.edu.

Past Recipients

2025 Matthew Eckelman CEE
2025 Stratis Ioannidis ECE
2025 Francesco Restuccia ECE
2025 Sara Rouhanifard BioE
2024 Cristian Cassella ECE
2024 Yongmin Liu MIE/ECE
2024 Benjamin Woolston ChE
2023 Joshua Gallaway ChE
2023 Josep Jornet ECE
2022 Ambika Bajpayee BioE
2022 Qin Jim Chen CEE
2022 Hongli Zhu MIE
2021 Carol Livermore MIE
2020 Dionisio Bernal CEE
2020 Hanumant Singh ECE
2019 Milica Stojanovic ECE
2018 Tommaso Melodia ECE
2017 Rebecca Carrier ChE
2017 Marilyn Minus MIE
2016 Jennifer Dy ECE
2016 Yun Raymond Fu ECE
2015 Mark Niedre ECE
2014 Deniz Erdogmus ECE
2014 Ming Wang CEE
2013 Sinan Muftu MIE
2012 Nian Sun ECE
2012 Ashkan Vaziri MIE
2011 James Benneyan MIE
2011 April Gu CEE
2009 David Kaeli ECE
2009 Shashi Murthy ChE
2008 Jeffrey Ruberti MIE
2008 Carmine Vittoria ECE
2007 Vincent Harris ECE
2007 Constantinos Mavroidis MIE
2006 Dana Brooks ECE
2006 Ahmed Busnaina MIE
2005 Teiichi Ando MIE
2005 Nicol McGruer ECE
2004 Akram Alshawabkeh CEE
2004 Fabrizio Lombardi ECE
2003 No Awardees This Year
2002 George Adams MIE
2002 Eric Miller ECE
2001 Yiannis Levendis MIE
2001 Albert Sacco, Jr. ChE
2001 Aleksandar Stankovic ECE
2000 Surendra Gupta MIE
2000 Carey Rappaport ECE
1999 Joseph Blucher MIE
1999 Søren Buus ECE
1998 Chung Chan ECE
1998 Alexander Gorlov MIE