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Rising Innovator Award

The Rising Innovator Award recognizes efforts by faculty in innovation and entrepreneurship at UH. The nominee must be a tenured associate professor with a track record of mentoring students and postdocs in innovation and entrepreneurship. The nominee must demonstrate innovation and efforts in transferring technology to practice. This award carries an honorarium of $3000.

Dr. Zheng Chen received the 2026 Rising Innovator Award

2026

Dr. Zheng Chen
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Yingchun Zhang

2022

Dr. Yingchun Zhang
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Hadi Ghasemi

2021

Dr. Hadi Ghasemi
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Wei-Chuan Shih

2019

Dr. Wei-Chuan Shih
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering