Engineering's Rishabh Kundu honored with research award at PINO 2026

Rishabh Kundu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been honored with a research award in the Application of Machine Learning and Modeling category at the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PINO) 2026 conference. The award, sponsored by Bridgestone, recognizes his outstanding poster presentation titled: “A Data-Driven Epidemiological Framework for Degradation-Focused Reliability Assessment of Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors.”

Kundu received a certificate and a $200 prize in recognition of his contribution. The award was presented during the conference on Feb. 23.