I2CNER established the “I2CNER Top 1% Paper Award” in 2024 to enhance I2CNER ‘s global visibility and to encourage further research.
The first award ceremony was held at the I2CNER Hall on January 15, 2025.
2025 Award Recipients
Yuan Gao (Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Study) *I2CNER full-time faculty until December 2025
Title：A revolutionary neural network architecture with interpretability and flexibility based on Kolmogorov–Arnold for solar radiation and temperature forecasting（Gao, Y., Hu, Z., Chen, W.-A., Liu, M., Ruan, Y.）
Tam Thanh Nguyen (Post-doctoral Research Associate, MCI-CNRC)
Title：Phase and sulfur vacancy engineering in cadmium sulfide for boosting hydrogen production from catalytic plastic waste photoconversion（Nguyen, T.T., Hidalgo-Jiménez, J., Sauvage, X., Saito, K., Guo, Q., Edalati, K.）
Shivam Dangwal (Graduate Student, Kaveh Lab)
Title：Developing a single-phase and nanograined refractory high-entropy alloy ZrHfNbTaW with ultrahigh hardness by phase transformation via high-pressure torsion（Dangwal, S., Edalati, K.）
Ho Truong Nam Hai (Graduate Student, Kaveh Lab)
Title：Photoreforming of plastic waste into valuable products and hydrogen using a high-entropy oxynitride with distorted atomic-scale structure（Hai, H.T.N., Nguyen, T.T., Nishibori, M., Ishihara, T., Edalati, K）
