2020 Waterman Award

Dabiri博士是加州理工学院（Caltech）航空与机械工程百年教授。他的研究主要集中在非定常流体力学和流动物理，特别强调与生物、能源和环境相关的主题。这项研究已经发现了从水母到人类心脏的生物系统所使用的最佳漩涡形成原理，以便在自然界中有效地发挥作用。Dabiri博士利用这些受生物启发的工程概念设计了新一代风力涡轮机阵列，该阵列具有同时降低风力发电场成本、尺寸和环境影响的潜力。同时，他还开发了新的实验技术来探索海洋中的生物流体动力学。这包括最近的一个仿生水母的演示——自由游动的生物嵌入微电子，比非机器人同行游得更快更有效，这使它们有望成为低成本海洋探索的工具。Dabiri是麦克阿瑟研究员和美国物理学会会员。其他荣誉包括总统科学家和工程师早期职业奖（PECASE），海军研究办公室青年研究员计划奖，麻省理工学院技术评论杂志的“35名35岁以下创新者”，大众科学杂志的“杰出10人”，以及众多的命名讲师。Dabiri博士拥有海洋仪器、风能技术和组织工程等专利。他在美国国家科学院科学、技术和法律委员会任职。他也是《流体力学杂志》和《皇家学会界面杂志》的编委会成员。他曾在美国国家理论与应用力学委员会（USNCTAM）、国防科学研究小组任职，并在Alphabet（前身为GoogleX）担任X的顾问。他的作品曾出现在《自然》、《美国国家科学院院刊》、《科学进展》等主要科学期刊以及大众媒体的封面上。Dabiri博士对教学的承诺获得了2018年斯坦福大学尤金·l·格兰特卓越教学奖的认可。他还致力于为科学和工程领域的未来领导者提供多样化的指导，迄今为止他的15名博士校友就是例证。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Dr. Dabiri is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research focuses on unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics relevant to biology, energy, and the environment.This research has led to the discovery of principles of optimal vortex formation used by biological systems from jellyfish to the human heart, in order to function efficiently in nature. Dr. Dabiri has used these bioinspired engineering concepts to design a new generation of wind turbine arrays with the potential to concurrently reduce the cost, size, and environmental impacts of wind farms. Concurrently, he has developed new experimental techniques to explore biological fluid dynamics in the ocean. This includes a recent demonstration of bionic jellyfish---freely swimming organisms with embedded microelectronics that swim both faster and more efficiently than their non-robotic counterparts, giving them promise as a tool for low-cost ocean exploration.Dr. Dabiri is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Other honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, MIT Technology Review Magazine’s “35 Innovators Under 35”, Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10”, and numerous named lectureships. Dr. Dabiri holds patents including ocean instrumentation, wind energy technology, and tissue engineering. He serves on the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. He has previously served on the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM), the Defense Science Study Group, and as an Advisor to X at Alphabet (formerly GoogleX). His work has appeared on the covers of Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, and other major scientific journals, as well as in the popular press. Dr. Dabiri’s commitment to teaching was recognized by the 2018 Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford University. He is also committed to mentoring a diverse cadre of future leaders in science and engineering, as exemplified by his 15 Ph.D. alumni to date.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.