AAEOY Announces First Phase of 2025-2026 Awardees

Zhi Zhai May 15, 2026

The Asian American Engineer of the Year Award (AAEOY) Executive Committee announces the AAEOY 2025-2026 first phase 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. **Sam Heidari**
**CEO**
**Lumotive**

**Dr. Jungwon Lee**
**Corporate Executive Vice President**
**Samsung Electronics**

**Dr. Liu Ren**
**Vice President & Chief Scientist**
**Bosch Research**

**Mr. Brandon Wang**
**Vice President**
**Synopsys**

Engineer of the Year Award

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

Most Promising Engineer of the Year Award

**Mr. Max Fang**
**Director of Architecture**
**Ambarella**

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

AMD
AMS
Army Corps of Engineers
AT&T
Austin Ventures
Battelle
Boeing
BP
Broadcom
CISCO
DuPont
Freescale Semiconductor
Futurewei Technologies
Fluor Corporation
Genesis Campus
Genetech
General Motors
Haynes and Boones, LLP
Hewlett Packard
IBM
Idaho National Laboratory
Intel
ITRI
Johnson & Johnson
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lightel
Lockheed Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Microsoft
NASA
NAVFAC Pacific
NIST
Northrop Grumman
NVIDIA
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Raytheon Company
Samsung Telecommunications America
Sandia National Laboratories
Siemens
Southern Methodist University
SpaceX
Spatial Wireless
Spirit Aerosystems
Stevens Institute of Technology
Texas Instruments
TSMC
TXU Corporation
T.Y.Lin International Group
The University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Dallas
U.S. Army
U.S. Navy
Verizon
Westlake Chemical