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 and 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, CSO & Co-founder, Perplexity AI
More detail: https://aaeoy.org/2026/05/02/awardees/