The De Novo Fellowship encourages underrepresented STEM students to participate in a research project.
This prestigious fellowship is awarded to outstanding students from underrepresented groups in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering to work on well-crafted research projects with faculty mentors who are committed to increasing diversity in STEM. These fellowships provide student stipends for up to 10 weeks of full-time research plus conference expenses to present posters on their research in the following academic year.
Meet the 2023 SoE Fellows
Congratulations to the following engineering students who have been awarded this year's De Novo Fellowships, encouraging underrepresented STEM students to participate in a faculty-advised research project:
Graduation Year: 2023
Major: Bioengineering
Project: A unified platform for the production of extracellular vesicle-based viral and cancer nanovaccines.
Advisor: Bill Lu
Graduation Year: 2025
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Using intel Software Guard eXtensions vulnerabilities to create NVIDIA CUDA exploits for NVIDIA confidential computing.
Advisor: Hoeseok Yang
Graduation Year: 2024
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project: A Deep Generative Modeling Enabled Inverse Design Framework for Analyzable Cellular Metamaterial Systems.
Advisor: Jun Wang
Graduation Year: 2024
Major: Computer Science and Engineering
Project: Wireless latency
Advisor: Behnam Dezfouli
Requirements for the application:
(1) A description of the research project and the student’s role in it
(2) A student statement on how diversity benefits an engineering research environment
(3) A faculty letter of support that includes a statement on inclusivity in STEM.
Before applying for this fellowship, a student should discuss and develop a potential research project with her/his SoE faculty mentor. Selection will be based on the student’s application, the research project, and the faculty mentor’s statement on inclusivity in STEM.
Students must have good academic standing in their engineering major.
First-generation students, women, non-gender conforming students, students who identify as African-American, LatinX, Asian Pacific Islander, Native American, and/or Native Alaskan are especially encouraged to apply.