SPLICE

Dr. Kevin Kornegay, SPLICE PI at Morgan State University, is one of 502 scientists and engineers elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow “for seminal contributions to the field of electrical engineering, and most notably integrated circuits, wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, and IoT device security.“

“AAAS first launched this lifetime recognition in 1874, about 25 years after the association was founded. In its 150^th year, the AAAS Fellows program is proud to celebrate this new class, which joins the ranks of noted Fellows such as Alondra Nelson, the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go to space; Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics who served as the 12^th U.S. Secretary of Energy; W. E. B. Dubois, considered the founding father of American sociology; Ellen Ochoa, veteran astronaut and the Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic and second female director in its history; Grace Hopper, pioneer in computer software development and programming language; and Vint Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet and received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.”

To learn more, check out AAAS’s recent news and the list of 2023 AAAS Fellows! Congratulations to PI Kornegay!