Zee Zhai May 15, 2026

The Asian American Engineer of the Year Award (AAEOY) Executive Committee announces the AAEOY 2025-2026 awardees as follows:

Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award


Mr. Lip-Bu Tan
CEO
Intel Corporation

Distinguished Leadership in Science & Technology Award


Dr. Arun Majumdar
Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford University


Executive of the Year Award


Dr. Xiaodong Che
Chief Technology Officer
Western Digital


Dr. Indradeep Ghosh
CEO
Fujitsu Research of America

Dr. Sam Heidari
CEO
Lumotive


Dr. Jungwon Lee
Corporate Executive Vice President
Samsung Electronics


Dr. Stacey Ma
Executive Vice President
Gilead

Dr. Liu Ren
Senior Vice President &
Fellow of AI
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sokwoo Rhee
Executive Vice President
LG Electronics

Mr. Brandon Wang
Vice President
Synopsys


Engineer of the Year Award


Dr. John Hu
Senior Director
Advanced Technology Group
Nvidia



Dr. Ganping Ju
Chief Technologist
Seagate

Ms. Vivian Ye
Principal Member of Technical Staff
AT&T


Most Promising Engineer of the Year Award


Dr. Sakun Duwal
Manager
R&D Science and Engineering
Sandia National Laboratories




Mr. Max Fang
Director of Architecture
Ambarella

Mr. Johnny Ho
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Perplexity AI