LabAutomation2010 Academic Travel Award Winners

Several of the Academic Travel Award recipients are also winners of the ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program. New this year, the Young Scientist Poster Award Program welcomes poster submissions from students affiliated with organizations participating in the Friends of ALA.

Awarded in conjunction with the Academic Travel Awards, the Young Scientist Awards Program, highlights a few elite students already presenting their work at other conferences and through other scientific forums.

Each Young Scientist Award winner who is an Academic Travel Award recipient was chosen via a detailed judging process by the Friend of ALA organization with which that winner is affiliated. ALA Young Scientist Poster Award winners are identified accordingly below:

Congratulations Academic Travel Award Winners:

• Srivatsa Aithal — Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Massimo Alberti — Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

• Sam Au — University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

• Muhammad Awais — University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — European LRIG)

• Dennis Backhaus — National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

• Geoffrey Baird — University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States

• Treva Brown — Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — Analytical Systems Digital Library)

• David Cappelleri — Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)

• Gaurav Chatterjee — Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Daniel Chen — University of California, Irvine, San Marino, California, United States

• Marc Chevalier — INSERM U885 — University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

• Kwanghun Chung — Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Marco Donolato — LNESS — Politecnico di Milano, Como, Italy

• Christopher Easley — Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States

• Heidi Fleischer — Center for Life Science Automation-Celisca, Rostock, Germany

• Courtney Fox — North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — American Institute of Chemical Engineers)

• Hernan Fuentes — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Santaneel Ghosh — Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States

• Vijay Gorkan — Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Laboratory, Mumbai, India
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — Chemtech Foundation)

• Siegfried F. Graf — Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA, Alpnach, Switzerland

• Stephen Halpin — Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States

• Daniel Hecht — Wiesbaden Computer Integrated Laboratory, Wiesbaden, Germany

• Soojung Claire Hur — University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States

• Elzbieta Jedrych — Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

• Govind Kaigala — Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

• Rajaram Krishnan — University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

• Roy Lefkowitz — University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

• Sasa Miladinovic — University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

• Ahsan Munir — Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

• Xuewei Peng — Peking University, Beijing, China
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — Peking University)

• Arnaud Rival — MINATEC, Grenoble, France

• Abhishek Sahay — Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

• Rahul Sanghavi — Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Lee Schroeder — University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

• Kanwar Vikas Singh — Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States

• Nickolaj Starodub — National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

• Hossein Tavana — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Paul Vogel — Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States

• John Waldeisen — University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

• Meng Wang — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Jianlong Wang — Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

• Susan Warren — ITT Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

• Adam Washburn — University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States

• Yadong Yin — University of California, Riverside, California, United States

• Ming Zhong — University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States

• Ying Zhou — Peking University, Beijing, China
  (ALA Young Scientist Poster Award Program Winner — Peking University)