PhD Candidates Aida Ebrahimi and Nate Kinsey have received the 2015 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award. It is awarded to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in their final year of doctoral degree completion. The Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship is highly competitive and recognizes the students' superior academic abilities and scholarly achievements.

The title of Aida's dissertation is "Droplet-based non-Faradaic Impedance Sensing for Combating Antibiotic Resistance". 

Aida enjoys working on multidisciplinary problems involving device fabrication, characterization, modeling, and engineering, and use these skills to address engineering problems for advancing the state of art of a specific field in a significant way.

Aida is advised by Professor Muhammad Ashraful Alam.

Nate's dissertation is entitled "A Platform for Practical Nanophotonics: Nitrides and Oxides for Integrated Optical Devices".

Nate's research has impacted many fields including nanophotonics, metamaterials, spectroscopy, and alternative materials, but is centered around the development of novel integrated optical components using materials compatible with today's semiconductor fabrication techniques.

Nate is advised by Professor Alexandra Boltasseva.