3/27/2023 Grainger Engineering
Steven Ashby (CS - MS '85, PhD ‘88) and Ping Fu (CS - MS '90) named recipients of the 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from The Grainger College of Engineering.
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The Grainger College of Engineering announced seven alumni as recipients of the 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. Recipients are selected annually and recognized for professional distinction through outstanding leadership, contributions to the field of engineering, creativity and entrepreneurship; as well as service to society, the professional community, and to the department, college or university.
From 3D technology to mixed reality, energy sustainability to national security, our distinguished alumni are global leaders in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. They are mentors, inventors, and investors who have changed the world.
The following alumni from Illinois Computer Science are recipients of the 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Service:
Steven Ashby (CS - MS '85, PhD ‘88) is the Director of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A widely recognized leader in computational science and strong advocate for investing in and inspiring our next generation of talent, Dr. Ashby established The Ashby Prize in Computational Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, awarded to a multidisciplinary team of students for the innovative use of high-performance computing to address a problem of societal significance.
Ping Fu (CS - MS '90) is a venture and angel investor. She co-founded Geomagic, a leading US software company that pioneers 3D technologies that fundamentally change the way products are designed and manufactured around the world. Her 2013 memoir “Bend, Not Break: Life in two worlds”, is a New York Times best seller.
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