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Indian American endows teaching award at Stony Brook
The award's impact is tripled by matching funds from New York State endowment match program and the Simons Infinity Investment match Challenge.
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Avani Acharya - Tue, 31, Mar 2026
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George Verghese and his wife, Ann. / Stonybrook.edu
Indian American professor George Verghese has established a teaching award at his alma mater, Stony Brook University, the university announced.
The Professor Chi-Tsong Chen Excellence in Education Award honors the legacy of Chi-Tsong Chen, whose teaching played a formative role in Verghese's academic and professional journey.
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Backed by a tripled endowment, the award will be presented annually to up to two faculty members within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It aims to recognize educators who demonstrate outstanding classroom teaching and show potential to influence engineering education beyond the university.
According to the university, recipients will be selected not only for their teaching effectiveness but also for their commitment to pedagogical innovation and creative curriculum design.
The Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering (post-tenure) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Verghese earned his master’s degree from Stony Brook in 1975. He has often credited Chen with shaping his interest in system theory through clear, rigorous instruction.
Describing naming the award after his professor as "essential," Verghese said in a statement, "He had an international reputation for the textbooks he wrote, including the pioneering one I studied from, but was otherwise somewhat unheralded.”
The award's impact is tripled by matching funds from the New York State endowment match program and the Simons Infinity Investment match Challenge.
Over the course of his four-decade career, Verghese is known for shaping the fields of power systems and power electronics through his research. He co-authored the influential 1991 textbook Principles of Power Electronics and decades later published its second edition in 2023.
The IIT Madras graduate is an IEEE fellow and has received numerous awards, including the IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award and the MIT Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising.
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