McKelvey Engineering faculty recognized for patents, entrepreneurship

The Office of Technology Management honored them April 25

Lori Setton, PhD with Mark Lowe, MD. Setton accepted the National Academy of Inventors Senior Member award on behalf of Hong Chen, PhD. (Photo by Katrina Shaw)
Lori Setton, PhD with Mark Lowe, MD. Setton accepted the National Academy of Inventors Senior Member award on behalf of Hong Chen, PhD. (Photo by Katrina Shaw)

The Office of Technology Management recognized several McKelvey Engineering faculty inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs April 25 at the annual Celebration of Inventors.

The event honors and recognizes Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs who were 2023 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awardees; National Academy of Inventors Fellows and Senior Members; and the recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The McKelvey Engineering faculty were:

Biomedical Engineering

Hong Chen, associate professor

Jonathan Silva, professor

Electrical & Systems Engineering - UMSL/WUSTL Joint Program

Darko Ivanovich, adjunct professor

Electrical & Systems Engineering

Shantanu Chakrabartty, the Clifford W. Murphy Professor Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education

Lan Yang, the Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor

Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

Rajan Chakrabarty, Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor

Young-Shin Jun, professor

Vijay Ramani, vice provost for graduate education and international affairs, Roma B. & Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor

Fuzhong Zhang, professor

Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Amit Pathak, associate professor

Srikanth Singamaneni, the Lilyan & E. Lisle Hughes Professor

Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor 

Yaoheng Yang, a postdoctoral researcher in Chen’s lab who earned a doctorate in biomedical engineering in 2022, also was honored.

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