2026 Teaching Excellence and Top 5% Awards

Quality and innovative instruction are top priorities of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. We recognize excellence in instruction by awarding an annual Teaching Excellence Award and through selection to our Top 5% Teachers List. Student nominations and feedback are reviewed by a faculty committee in determining these honors.

This year’s recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award is Chaitali Chakrabarti, a professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.

Below are the top 5% of teaching faculty members listed by school. 

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Aman Arora, assistant professor
Heni Ben Amor, associate professor
Chris Bryan, assistant professor
Hasan Davulcu, professor
Joshua Daymude, assistant professor
Hokeun Kim, assistant professor
Muslum Ozmen, assistant professor
Lindsay Sanneman, assistant professor
Hua Wei, assistant professor
Xuanyu Zhou, assistant professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Christian Arenz, assistant professor
Bertan Bakkaloglu, professor
Chaitali Chakrabarti, professor
Vidya Chhabria, assistant professor
Michael Goryll, associate professor
Keith Holbert, associate professor
Suren Jayasuriya, associate professor
Taejoon Kim, associate professor
Jennifer Kitchen, associate professor
Oliver Kosut, associate professor
Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai
Mike Ranjram, assistant professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Ivy Chang, assistant teaching professor
Ryan Milcarek, associate professor
Zhe Xu, assistant professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

President’s Professor Thomas Sugar

The Polytechnic School

Eric Bishop, assistant teaching professor
Kassidy Breaux, assistant teaching professor
Derex Griffin, assistant teaching professor
Darshan Karwat, associate professor
Ayan Mallik, assistant professor

Academic and Student Affairs

Alicia Baumann, associate teaching professor