Earlier this week, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the recipients of the 2024 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Four Price researchers are among them: Amir Arzani, Kate Isaacs, Ryan Stutsman, and Bei Wang Phillips.
Established in 1996, the award honors outstanding scientists and engineers who are at the start of their independent research careers, marking their potential to become leaders in their fields. It is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government for early-career scientists and engineers.
Awardees are first nominated by one of the federal agencies that fund the majority of the nation’s scientific research.
Arzani, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Stutsman, an associate professor in the Kahlert School of Computing, were nominated by the National Science Foundation. Arzani’s research involves machine learning approaches to modeling blood flow; Stutsman researches data center storage systems and networking.
Isaacs and Phillips, both associate professors in the Kahlert School of Computing, were nominated by the Department of Energy. Both work on ways of visualizing large-scale computer simulations; Isaacs focuses on representing the internal workings of supercomputers, while Wang Phillips visualizes interactions between atmospheric phenomena.
Isaacs is also an associate director of the Scientific Computing Institute, where Arzani and Wang Phillips have appointments.