{"id":62,"date":"2023-03-21T22:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gritcms.smca.ucf.edu\/chanda\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:28:46","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nanoscience.ucf.edu\/chanda\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025: Dr. Chanda is awarded\u00a0<strong>UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA)<\/strong>\u00a0for research excellence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: Mahdi Saudi, a PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received <strong>SPIE Young Investigator Award<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Nishtha Tikalal, an undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received <strong>UCF RAMP<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scholarship<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Tianyi Guo, a PhD student from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group, received <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-physics-doctoral-student-earns-international-award-for-innovations-in-photon-detection-techniques\/\">Springer Nature PhD Thesis Award<\/a>. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Dr. Chanda received&nbsp;<strong>Cleantech Faculty Innovation Award<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Dr. Chanda received&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-receives-sony-innovation-award\/\">Sony Research Award.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Dr. Chanda received&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-receives-samsung-international-global-research-outreach-award\/\">Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: Austin Eason, an undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received UCF Order of Pegasus Award &#8211; Order of Pegasus is UCF\u2019s most prestigious student honor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: Antonio Martinez Margolles, PhD student from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>College of Sciences Dean&#8217;s Fellowship.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: Sean McCormack undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received UCF EXCEL\/COMPASS Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Dr. Chanda received&nbsp;<strong>UCF Luminary Award &#8211; Highest Award for Research Excellence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>UCF Outstanding Dissertation Award<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>UCF College of Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Alireza Safaei, PhD student from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>Physics &#8220;Student of the Year&#8221; Award<\/strong>&nbsp;for research excellence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Dr. Chanda is awarded&nbsp;<strong>Reach for the Stars Award<\/strong>&nbsp;for research excellence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>UCF Order of Pegasus Award 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Harshil Lalwani, High School Student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group won 2nd place in&nbsp;<strong>Seminole County Science Fair<\/strong>, Oviedo High School.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Abraham Vazquez-Guardado, PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>UCF Dean&#8217;s Fellowship<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Dr. Chanda and Nano-Optics Group is awarded&nbsp;<strong>2017 EIPBN MicroGraph 3-Beamers Choice Award&nbsp;<\/strong>, June 1, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Dr. Chanda is awarded&nbsp;<strong>UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA)<\/strong>&nbsp;for research excellence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Beatriz Jimenez from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>SURF Research Scholarship from University of Florida (UF)<\/strong>&nbsp;(which covers $5000 stipend, on-campus housing and meal plan, airfare, priority consideration for PhD admission)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: &#8216;Skin-like Plasmonic Full-Color Displays&#8217; Awarded&nbsp;<strong>Winner of Displaying Futures Award 2016 by MERCK, Germany<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>College of Sciences General Scholarship<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Russell Frank from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>First Prize in Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Samuel Nunez, Jared Cozart and Beatriz Jimenez from Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>Duke Energy Scholarship<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Dr. Chanda received the&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Grumman National Innovation Award ($100,000)&nbsp;<\/strong>2014-15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Samuel Nunez undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Jared Cozart undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Beatriz Jimenez undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received UCF EXCEL Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Wade Wilson, undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received the prestigious&nbsp;<strong>AFRL \/ DoD Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program<\/strong>&nbsp;Scholarship ($38k \/ year for 5 years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Daniel Franklin and Javaneh Borouman, PhD students in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>UCF Graduate Research Forum Poster Awards<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Harshil Lalwani, Middle School Student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group won the&nbsp;<strong>Crooms Technology Award<\/strong>, Indian Trail Middle School.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Alireza Safaei, PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>&nbsp;Scholarship ($10k)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Daniel Franklin, PhD student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>&nbsp;Scholarship ($3k)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Alysia Waugh, Jones High school student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received Florida Alliance Health FAHPD-HERI Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Harry Ahlheim undergraduate student in Dr. Chanda&#8217;s group received Duke Energy EXCEL Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: Wade Wilson and Dr. Chanda received Burnett Research Scholars Grant for the work on Plasmonic Bio-Sensors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: Dr. Chanda received NSF Summer Institute Fellowship, May 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Abraham Vazquez-Guardado received National Council of Science and Technology CONACyT scholarship from Government of Mexico ($12k + tuition for 4 years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Dr. Chanda received DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Solar Energy Future Direction Innovation Proposal Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Dr. Chanda received Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC) of Canada post-doctoral Award (80k)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-09: Dr. Chanda received Government of Ontario Graduate Scholarship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: Dr. Chanda received Conference on Laser Ablation Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: Dr. Chanda received Ontario Science and Technology Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: Dr. Chanda received Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004-06: Dr. Chanda received Edward S. 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