Atlanta, GA
It was wonderful to reconnect with colleagues at SES, catch up with former students and postdocs, and celebrate at the banquet. The awards celebration was very special. Thank you to KT Ramesh and Guy Genin for nominating me for the Rice Medal and other awards. Thank you to the students and postdocs of the NguyenLab for making it possible. Thank you to Sanjay Govindjee, Huajian Gao, and Yonggang Huang, Ellen Arruda, H. Jerry Qi, and many others for your support throughout the years.
The Nguyen Lab had our largest unplanned reunion at SES 2025. Aurelie Azoug, Arina Korneva, Hai Dong, and their students: Brandon Zimmerman and Zheliang Wang. In addition, Sanjay Govindjee was there, and it was special to celebrate my award with him. We also caught up with Adyota Gupta, graduate of both Berkeley and JHU. Yuefeng Jiang presented at his first US conference, and Tingting Xu presented her amazing work on optimization of LCE structures. It was an amazing experience that I will cherish for a long time.
