IACS Young Writer's Award

The IACS Young Writer’s Award is granted to a graduate* or undergraduate student working with a faculty member or affiliate of the institute. The award consists of a one-time prize of $500 to celebrate the student’s first paper that is accepted in a peer-reviewed publication or conference proceedings. You do not have to be the first author. Only full-time, fully supported students are eligible to receive this award. Both international and domestic students are eligible.

Students cannot name themselves for selection. Faculty supervisors must propose students for the award based on the faculty member’s assessment of the student’s first significant publication. Faculty must submit the student's name, department, title of paper, name and date of publication to iacs@stonybrook.edu. Award winners may be required to present their papers at an annual IACS event in honor of their achievements.  

*Note  - In order to be eligible for any IACS financial award, all graduate students who joined their research group as of fall 19 or later must have completed the Professional Development Program (PDP) or be currently enrolled.

Past Winners

• 2025
   

  Name	Title
  NameXiangyan Yang	Title Unraveling drivers and patterns of species richness in coastal marine ecosystem under global warming: Insights from ecosystem connectivity
  NameStephanie Arsenault	Title Evaluating effects of data quality and variable weighting on habitat suitability modelling

• 2024
   

  Name	Title
  NameKenneth Hanson	Title A TSL analysis of Japanese case
  NameScott Nelson	TitleThe blueprint model of production (link TBA)
  NameAnthony Mannino	Title Anti-Coulomb ion-ion interactions: A theoretical and computational study
  NameDanial Vahabli	Title From the global South to the human rights stage: A study of global frame resonance using a comparative case of Women, Life, Freedom and Bloody November in Iran
  NameHongji Gao	Title Efficient and Scalable Wave Function Compression Using Corner Hierarchical Matrices
  NameIoannis Nikforakis	Title Understanding Pre-Chamber Combustion Performance in a Closed-Cycle Model of a Novel Rotary Engine
  NameRodrigo Ristow Hadlich	Title A Deep Learning Approach to Predict In-Cylinder Pressure of a Compression Ignition Engine

• 2023
   

  Name	Title
  NameDarya Stepanenko	TitleSpikeScape: A Tool for Analyzing Structural Diversity in Experimental Structures of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
  NameClare Flynn	Title Adélie penguins north and east of the ‘Adélie gap’ continue to thrive in the face of dramatic declines elsewhere in the Antarctic Peninsula region
  NameSarah Payne	Title Re-evaluating the evaluation of neural morphological inflection models
  NameBaodi Shan	Title MPI-based Remote OpenMP Offloading: A More Efficient and Easy-to-use Implementation
  NameCatherine Feldman	Title Experiences with Porting the FLASH Code to Ookami, an HPE Apollo 80 A64FX Platform
  NameJason Loprete	Title Enabling Residential Heating Decarbonization through Hydronic Low-Temperature Thermal Distribution using Forced-Air Assistive Devices" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
  NameJacob Jones	Title Preserving superconvergence of spectral elements for curved domains via h- and p-geometric refinement
  NameJuan Alcantara	Title Rapid Rescoring and Refinement of Ligand–Receptor Complexes Using Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics with a Monte Carlo Pose Reservoir

• 2022
   

  Name	Title
  NameGaofeng Deng	Title Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Chest CT
  NameHaotian Yang	Title Enhancing CO Oxidation Activity via Tuning a Charge Transfer Between Gold Nanoparticles and Supports
  NameGaurav Guleria	Title A comparative study of gasoline skeletal mechanisms under partial fuel stratification conditions using large eddy simulations
  NameFangchun Liang	Title Linear and Nonlinear Optical Processes Controlling S2 and S1 Dual Fluorescence in Cyanine Dyes
  NameRam Mohan Telikicherla	Title Treatment of near-incompressibility and volumetric locking in higher order material point methods
  NameMohammad Naqib Rahimi	Title A smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach for phase field modeling of brittle fracture
  NameCaitlin Hetherington	Title Vibronic Excitons and Conical Intersections in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  NameJohn Murzaku	Title Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality

• 2021
   

  Name	Title
  NameXiaoning Wu	Title Coupled Aqua and Ridge Planets in the Community Earth System Model
  NameAlec Wills	Title Role of water model on ion dissociation at ambient conditions
  NameYimin Zhu	Title Fast Stencil Computations using Fast Fourier Transforms
  NameChangnian Han	Title Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Time Integrations in Multiscale Modeling

• 2020
   

  Name	Title
  NamePiotr Sokol	TitleInformation Geometry of Orthogonal Initializations and Training
  NameYousef El-Laham	TitleStochastic Gradient Population Monte Carlo
  NameMohammad Javanmard	Title Toward Efficient Architecture-Independent Algorithms for Dynamic Programs
  NameDarius Coelho	Title PeckVis: A Visual Analytics Tool To Analyze Dominance Hierarchies in Small Groups
  NameHossep Dolatian	TitleCyclicity and Prosodic Misalignment in Armenian Stems
  NameJonathan Rawski	TitleNo Free Lunch in Linguistics or Machine Learning
  NameKiran Eiden	TitleDynamics of Laterally Propagating Flames
  NameVidushi Sharma	Title Water-induced formation of an alkali-ion dimer in cryptomelane nanorods
  NameQiao Chen	Title WLS-ENO Remap: Superconvergent and Non-Oscillatory Weighted Least Squares Data Transfer on Surfaces
  NameXuebin Wang	TitleWLS-ENO Remap: Superconvergent and Non-Oscillatory Weighted Least Squares Data Transfer on Surfaces
  NameJonathan Gentile	TitleShear Localization and its Dependence on Microstructural Length Scales in Metallic Glass Composites
  Name Marija Iloska	Title A Particle Gibbs Sampling Approach to Topology Inference in Gene Regulatory Network
  NameWenbin Lu	TitleEnabling Low-Overhead Communication in Multi-threaded OpenSHMEM Applications using Contexts
  NameYulun Wang	TitleProspect of using Grover's search in the noisy-intermediate-scale quantum-computer era
  NameBhavya Ghai	TitleExplainable Active Learning (XAL): Toward AI Explanations as Interfaces for Machine Teachers
  NameNoah Strycker	TitlePresence of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Elephant Island provides further evidence of range expansion
  NameMichael Wethington	TitlePresence of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Elephant Island provides further evidence of range expansion
  NameGaurav Verma	TitleEnhancing DataRaceBench for Evaluating Data Race Detection Tools

• 2019
  Name	Title
  NameSergei Kotelnikov	TitleMonte Carlo on the manifold and MD refinement
  NameCharuta Pethe	TitleThe Trumpiest Trump?
  Name Anjul Kumar Tyagi	TitleICE: An Interactive Configuration Explorer for High Dimensional Categorical Parameter Spaces
  NameBento Goncalves	TitleWeakly Labeling the Antarctic
  NameAyush Kumar	Title Visual Multi-Metric Grouping of Eye-Tracking Data
  NameDakotah Lambert	Title Extracting Subregular constraints from Regular stringsets
  NameSebastian Dick	Title Learning from the Density to Correct Total Energy and Forces in First Principle Simulations
  NameYipeng Li	Title Compact feature-aware Hermite-style high-order surface reconstruction
  NameChuan Tian	Titleff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  NameKoushik Kasavajhala	Title ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  NameKellon A. A. Belfon	Title ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  NameLauren Raguette	Title ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution

   
• 2018
   

  Name	Title
  NameMichael Schrimpf	Titlepopulation_status_of_the_antarctic_shag_phalacrocorax_atrice
  NameAlexander Borowicz	Titlemulti-modal-survey-of-adeliie-penguin-mega-colonies.pdf
  NameMikhail Ignatov	Titlecluspro-fmft-saxs.pdf
  Name Meghan Henderson	Title Effects of Spring onset
  Name Wenbo Wang	TitleNanocrystalline Al-Mg
  Name W. Streit Cunningham	TitleSoftening due to Grain Boundary
  Name Aditi Ghai	TitleA Comparison of Preconditioned Krylov Subspace
  Name Mohammad Ruhul Amin	TitleRe-annotation of 12,495 Prokaryotic
  Name Saeed Boor Boor	Title Visualization of Neuronal Structures
  Name Cecilia O'Leary	TitleUnderstanding Historical Summer Flounder

• 2017
  Name	Title
  NamePhillip McDowall	TitleUltra-Fine Scale Spatially-Integrated Mapping of Habitat and Occupancy Using Structure-From-Motion
  NameMaureen Lynch	TitleImproving the Use of Biological Data in Antarctic Management
  NameLongtao Han	TitleA path for Synthesis of Boron-nitride Nanostructures in Volume of Arc Plasma
  NameCasey Youngflesh	TitleCircumpolar analysis of the Adelie Penguin reveals the importance of environmental variability in phenological mismatch
  NameYang Zhang	TitleStress-assisted_grain_growth_in_nanocrystalline_metals.pdf
  Name Mozhgan Rahimi Boldaji	Title cfd_simulations_of_the_effect_of_water_injection_characteristics_on_tsci.pdf

• 2016
  Name	Title
  NameMaximilian Katz	TitleWhite Dwarf Mergers on Adaptive Meshes I. Methodology and  Code Verification
  NameNicole Bender	TitlePatterns of Tourism in the Antarctic Peninsula Region:a 20-year analysis
  NameJunting Ye	TitleDiscovering Opinion Spammer Groups by Network Footprints
  NameHongxu Liu	TitleWLS-ENO: Weighted-least-squares based essentially non-oscillatory schemes for finite volume methods on unstructured meshes
  NameLukasz Orlowski	TitleCreating Interconnect Topologies by Algorithmic Edge Removal: MOD and SMOD graphs
  NameEmaad Ahmed Manzoor	TitleFast Memory-Efficient Anomaly Detection in Streaming Heterogenous Graphs
  NameAdrian Soto-Cambres	TitleDirect Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Semiconductor Targets
  NameBin Cheng	TitleMechanistic Coupling of Dislocation and Shear Transformation Zone Plasticity in Crystalline-Amorphous Nanolaminates
  NameSimon Divilov	TitleCoupling of Bias-induced Crystallographic Shear Planes with Charged Domain Walls in Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Films
  NameDzmitry Padhorny	TitleProtein-protein Docking by Fast Generalized Fourier Transforms on 5D Rotational Manifolds
  NameDonald Willcox	TitleType Ia Supernova Explosions from Hybrid Carbon–Oxygen–Neon White Dwarf Progenitors

• 2015
  Name	Title
  NameVivek Kulkarni	TitleStatistically Significant Detection of Linguistic Change
  NameCao Lu	TitleHybrid geometric + algebraic multigrid method with semi-iterative smoothers
  NameShebuti Rayana	TitleLess is More: Building Selective Anomaly Ensembles with Application to Event Detection in Temporal Graphs
  NameHuafeng Dong	TitleThe phase diagram and hardness of carbon nitrides
  NameXinglin Zhao	TitleConformal and Non-conformal Adaptive Mesh Refinement with Hierarchical Array-based Half-Facet Data Structures
  NameAimilios Sofianopolous	TitleEffects of Hydrogen Addition on Automotive Lean-Burn 1 Natural Gas Engines – A Critical Review

• 2014
  Name	Title
  NameDan Elton	TitlePolar nanoregions in water: A study of the dielectric properties of TIP4P/2005, TIP4P/2005f and TTM3F
  NamePramod Ganapathi	TitleThe Range 1 Query (R1Q) Problem