AWE Best Student Paper Award Recipient Announced at ICCWE 2026

Advances in Wind Engineering (AWE) presented the AWE Best Student Paper Award at the inaugural International Colloquium on Wind Engineering & Climate Change (ICCWE 2026), held on October 28–29, 2026, in Cairo, Egypt—the first International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) conference held in Africa. The conference was organized by the IAWE Climate Change Working Group, led by Prof. Teng Wu, Co-Editor-in-Chief of AWE from University at Buffalo, and hosted by the National Research Centre, Egypt.

The award competition, part of AWE’s efforts to encourage and support young researchers in climate change and wind engineering, concluded successfully at ICCWE 2026. The award recognizes outstanding student research at the intersection of climate change and wind engineering.

Selection Process

The award is open to young researchers worldwide working in climate change and wind engineering. A five-member selection committee assessed the submissions through a rigorous expert review and selected the final winner based on a comprehensive evaluation, ensuring a fair, rigorous, and academically excellent selection process.

Award Recipient

AWE Best Student Paper Award – Winner

• Wesam Mohamed (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Congratulations to Wesam Mohamed!

AWE Best Student Paper Award Selection Committee

We sincerely thank all committee members for their time and expertise, which were instrumental in ensuring a fair, rigorous, and academically excellent selection process. The committee members are listed in alphabetical order:

• Claudio Borri (University of Florence, Italy)
• Frank Kemper (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Hassan Hemida (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Teng Wu (University at Buffalo, USA)
• Yaojun Ge (Tongji University, China)