Awards - Nano-Optics Group

2024: Nishtha Tikalal, an undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF RAMP
Scholarship.
2024: Tianyi Guo, PhD student from Dr. Chanda’s group, received Springer Nature PhD Thesis Award.
2024: Dr. Chanda received Cleantech Faculty Innovation Award.
2023: Dr. Chanda received Sony Research Award.
2023: Dr. Chanda received Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award.
2022: Austin Eason, an undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF Order of Pegasus Award – Order of Pegasus is UCF’s most prestigious student honor.
2021: Antonio Martinez Margolles, PhD student from Dr. Chanda’s group received College of Sciences Dean’s Fellowship.
2021: Sean McCormack undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF EXCEL/COMPASS Scholarship
2020: Dr. Chanda received UCF Luminary Award – Highest Award for Research Excellence.
2020: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF Outstanding Dissertation Award
2020: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF College of Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award
2019: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda’s group received Physics “Student of the Year” Award for research excellence
2018: Dr. Chanda is awarded Reach for the Stars Award for research excellence
2018: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF Order of Pegasus Award 2018.
2018: Harshil Lalwani, High School Student in Dr. Chanda’s group won 2nd place in Seminole County Science Fair, Oviedo High School.
2017: Abraham Vazquez-Guardado, PhD student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF Dean’s Fellowship
2017: Dr. Chanda and Nano-Optics Group is awarded 2017 EIPBN MicroGraph 3-Beamers Choice Award , June 1, 2017
2017: Dr. Chanda is awarded UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) for research excellence
2017: Beatriz Jimenez from Dr. Chanda’s group received SURF Research Scholarship from University of Florida (UF) (which covers $5000 stipend, on-campus housing and meal plan, airfare, priority consideration for PhD admission)
2016: ‘Skin-like Plasmonic Full-Color Displays’ Awarded Winner of Displaying Futures Award 2016 by MERCK, Germany
2016: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda’s group received College of Sciences General Scholarship
2016: Russell Frank from Dr. Chanda’s group received First Prize in Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence
2016: Samuel Nunez, Jared Cozart and Beatriz Jimenez from Dr. Chanda’s group received Duke Energy Scholarship
2015: Dr. Chanda received the Northrop Grumman National Innovation Award ($100,000) 2014-15
2015: Samuel Nunez undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship
2015: Jared Cozart undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship
2015: Beatriz Jimenez undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship
2015: Wade Wilson, undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received the prestigious AFRL / DoD Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program Scholarship ($38k / year for 5 years)
2015: Daniel Franklin and Javaneh Borouman, PhD students in Dr. Chanda’s group received UCF Graduate Research Forum Poster Awards
2015: Harshil Lalwani, Middle School Student in Dr. Chanda’s group won the Crooms Technology Award, Indian Trail Middle School.
2014: Alireza Safaei, PhD student in Dr. Chanda’s group received Northrop Grumman Scholarship ($10k)
2014: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda’s group received Northrop Grumman Scholarship ($3k)
2014: Alysia Waugh, Jones High school student in Dr. Chanda’s group received Florida Alliance Health FAHPD-HERI Scholarship
2014: Harry Ahlheim undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda’s group received Duke Energy EXCEL Scholarship
2013: Wade Wilson and Dr. Chanda received Burnett Research Scholars Grant for the work on Plasmonic Bio-Sensors
2013: Dr. Chanda received NSF Summer Institute Fellowship, May 2013
2012: Abraham Vazquez-Guardado received National Council of Science and Technology CONACyT scholarship from Government of Mexico ($12k + tuition for 4 years)
2012: Dr. Chanda received DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Solar Energy Future Direction Innovation Proposal Award
2011: Dr. Chanda received Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC) of Canada post-doctoral Award (80k)
2008-09: Dr. Chanda received Government of Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2007: Dr. Chanda received Conference on Laser Ablation Award
2007: Dr. Chanda received Ontario Science and Technology Award
2007: Dr. Chanda received Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) Award
2004-06: Dr. Chanda received Edward S. Rogers Sr. Scholarship
2002-04: Dr. Chanda received Alberta Graduate Scholarship