Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award
The Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award recognizes sustained and consistent research excellence by a full-time full professor within the college. The award was established in 2016 to recognize significant achievements over a person’s research career, and awardees receive a $3,000 cash prize. The selection committee uses the following criteria for this award:
Sustained and consistent research activities including most of the following:
- External funding support and expenditures
- Refereed publications and citations
- Intellectual products including patents and disclosures
- National and international research awards
- Research mentoring and team building including collaborative funding
- Graduate program accomplishments including Ph.D. student mentoring
- Outstanding impact of work on his/her profession and K-State
Current recipient
Pascal Hitzler
This year’s recipient is Pascal Hitzler, university distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Hitzler has been part of more than 50 funded research projects totaling more than $30 million. He has more than 400 publications with nearly 18,000 citations.
One notable accomplishment was deploying KnowWhereGraph, the world’s largest public special knowledge graph consisting of more than 27 billion facts relating to disasters, the environment and agriculture.