Funded Research (+++ external funding)




2023+++NSF I-Corps Award “3D Printed Earth-Fiber Building products”$50,000 2023+++NSF INTERN Supplement$20,576 2023Post Catalyst Award for Interdisciplinary Big Ideas Development, Columbia’s Office of the Executive Vice President for Research “Radicalizing Low-Carbon 3D-Printed Houses Made of Earth: Research Workshop and Hackathon”$25,000 2022Emerging Technologies Grant for Teaching and Learning “Simulating and Fabricating Healthy and Resilient Earth Buildings”$20,000 2021+++National Science Foundation Future of Manufacturing “The Process-Structure-Property Relationships of 3D Printed Earth Materials and Structures”. Lead PI with Co-PIs Shiho Kawashima and Wil V. Srubar$2,300,000 2021+++Tallinn Architecture Biennale Commission, “The [Eat Me] Brick”$15,000 2021Junior Faculty Diversity Grant, Columbia University, “The Environmental and Social Life Cycle Potential of 3D Printed Earthen Buildings”$25,000 2020Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University$50,000 2016–2020+++PJ Dick Doctoral Fellowship$250,000 2019First prize, PhD Poster Session, Carnegie Mellon Energy Week, PA, USA$1,000 2018–20193 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, Carnegie Mellon University, Finalist$2,000 2017–2019Graduate Small project Help (GuSH) award, Carnegie Mellon University$3,000 2017Fenves Grant, Carnegie Mellon University$600 2017+++Urban Land Institute National (ULI) Hines Competition, USA, Finalist $2,000 2014+++Rubinstein Award for Research Contribution to Economy $2,000 2014+++First prize, PhD Poster Session, Construction Research Congress, organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA 2013Teaching Excellence Award, the International BSc Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion IIT$500 2012Excellence Fellowship, MSc full tuition and monthly stipend, Technion IIT$120,000 2012–2015First prize, Engineering Building Competition, Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology$1,000 2008–2012U.Dori Fellowship, BSc full tuition and stipend, Technion IIT$70,000