STUDENT SUPERVISEE FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
*** Three students from IMPRESS LAB were awarded prestigious NASA graduate fellowships in 2018, 2021, and 2023.These highly competitive fellowships are granted to less than 15% of applicants across various STEM disciplines. ***
Students from IMPRESS LAB (A. Ghosh, E. Hoque, J. Halder, B. Baray, K. Al Mahmud, T. Anjum) distinguished themselves by securing a position among the top six teams in the IEEE GRSS Student Grand Challenge 2025, out of 32 international submissions. At the Fifth GRSS Student Grand Challenge (SGC), student teams develop an end-to-end remote sensing application based on unmanned vehicles (e.g. drones, remote controlled planes or helicopters, underwater vehicles, rovers, stratospheric balloons…).
Kaies Al Mahmud has been accepted for the 2025 CyberPowder Fellows Program. CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research mentoring program for US-based graduate students. (NSF CyberTraining award number: 2417934)
M. Ehsanul Hoque’s paper, submitted to the 2025 URSI NRSM Student Paper Competition, has been selected as an HONORABLE MENTION. 2025.
Abesh Ghosh is selected as a finalist for IEEE IGARSS 3MT competition with his work on forest vegetation optical depth mapping using GNSS signals in 2024. Three Minute Thesis
Md Mehedi Farhad was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2023. Selections.
Md Mehedi Farhad was a 2023-2024 Outstanding Hall of Fame Student by the College of Engineering award winner as well as 2023-2024 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner.MSU honors top graduate students, faculty mentors
Dylan Boyd was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2021.Selections. ECE Graduate Student Wins NASA FINESST Grant
Dylan Boyd was a 2020-2021 Bagley College of Engineering and Office of Research and Development (ORED) Graduate Student award winner as well as 2020-2021 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner. ECE Graduate Student Receives BCoE Graduate Research Award
Preston Peranich was awarded Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Graduate Fellowship, 2019 and 2020. Graduate Student Spotlight – Preston Peranich
Orhan Eroglu was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in 2018.Selections. Mississippi State graduate student wins grant from NASA
Abdelmoula Elyazizi was awarded a Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) Undergraduate Research grant with $2,000 in 2018.
Cassie Myers and Grant Parker were awarded a CSpire and Nokia Bell Labs fellowship in 2017.