Virginia Tech researchers elected in the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows are: (top row, from left) Eric Burger, Nancy Ross, Naren Ramakrishnan, (bottom row, from left) Barbara Ryder, Liwu Li, and Brenda Winkel. Virginia Tech photo

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has named its 2023 class of fellows.

Six Virginia Tech researchers are named among the latest class of 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators. The newly elected AAAS Fellows represent the fields of biological sciences, chemistry, medical sciences, and engineering followed by neuroscience and physics.

“I congratulate our researchers who are being honored as lifetime fellows for their groundbreaking contributions to the scientific community,” said Dan Sui, senior vice president for research and innovation. “These highly regarded researchers are developing and improving technologies and innovations that inform new pathways in wireless communications, machine learning algorithms, mineral physics, plant metabolism, and diversifying the field of computing.”

Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering and director of the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics is one of the fellows, cited for his work in forecasting significant societal events. Read full story here.