Kausik Mukhopadhyay
  • 2024 UCF GAP AWARD
  • 2024 NASA-KSC Florida Space Research Program Award
  • Journal Cover (Aug. 2024), Biomaterials Science
  • Profiled in UCF Today, The Microbiologist, Medical Xpress, etc.
  • Joined as an affiliated faculty in the Biomedical Engineering (2025)
PhD students:
 
*Pritha Sarkar (2021 – current)
  • 2025-26 American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2025 UCF Impact of Research Award, 2nd Prize (only awardee from CECS)
 
*Md. Roxy Islam (2023 – current)
  • Best Presentation Award at the 2025 UCF Showcase of Graduate Research Excellence
  • Engineering Conferences International Fellowship ($1500) at the US-Africa Conference, Casablanca, Morocco
 
*Micah Richardson (2024 – current)
  • 2024 Graduate Dean’s Fellowship ($5000)
 
*Amanda Bernard (Fall 2025)
  • 2025 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, 2025-2030 (stipend, tuition, insurance for 5 years)
  • 2025 Graduate Dean’s Fellowship ($5000)
  • 2025 Graduate Summer Fellowship ($4500)
BS students:
 
*Disha Iyengar
  • 2025 UCF Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award (DURA)
  • 2024 American Chemical Society Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
  • 2024 CECS Honors Undergraduate Thesis (HUT) Award
  • 2024 ICAE Academic and Research Scholarship
 
*Denee Lichtenberg
  • 2025 NSF REU Fellowship ($6000)