Awards and Honors

Awards

  • Athena Award (2021, USA) - Women in Tech Initiative at UC.

  • International Symposium in Wearable Computing (ISWC 21, Virtual) - First place at the ISWC Design Exhibition (Fiber Arts).

  • Augmented Humans Conference (AHs 21, Virtual). Best Demo Paper.

  • ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 20, Netherlands). Best demo paper.

  • International Symposium in Wearable Computing (ISWC 19, London) - First place at the ISWC Design Exhibition (Fiber Arts).

  • SXSW (2018, USA) - INTERACTIVE AWARDS. SciFi No Longer.

  • CNET (2017, USA) - Top 20 Latinos in Tech of 2017.

  • International Symposium in Wearable Computing (ISWC 2017, Hawaii): Honourable Mention for The Dermal Abyss paper.

  • Fast Company (USA, 2017) - Honorable Mention - Innovation by Award for The Dermal Abyss.

  • Ars Electronica Prix 2015 (2015, Vienna) - Honorable Mention Award for Beauty Technology. [the next idea] voestalpine Art & Technology Grant.

  • MIT Tech Review (2016, Peru) - Innovators under 35 .

  • Augmented Human (AH 2016, Geneva) - Second Prize. Best paper: "Wearability for Skin Interfaces.”.

  • Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015, Atlanta) - Best demo paper.

  • Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2015. [the next idea] voestalpine Art & Technology Grant

  • Best Demo Award at the he 20th ACM Conference in Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015). March, 2015.

  • 1st Place at the 8th annual international ubimedia competition, NUMA2014 (Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2014). November, 2014.

  • Best paper award at the Human Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII 2014). June, 2014, Greece. “FX e-Makeup for Muscle Based Interaction”

  • First place award at the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013). Design Challenge. Project: Superhero. February 2013. Barcelona, Spain.

  • Third place award in the PhD Projects Category at the Latin-American School on Software Engineering (ELA-ES 2013). Project: Beauty Technology as an Interactive Platform 09-12 July 2013, Brazil.

  • First place award in the PhD Projects Category at Mostra PUC 2013. August 2013, Brazil.

  • Second best paper award in Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems. October 2013, Brazil. “Uma Abordagem Sistemática de Prototipação Colaborativa para a Criação de Tangíveis”.

 

Grants 

  • NSF CAREER 2022 (2022 - 2027). "Body Modification Technologies". PI: Katia Vega. Funding rate (IIS): 17%. Total: $589,377.
  • VentureWell’s Faculty Grants program (2021 - 2024). "Social and Ecological Entrepreneurship through Digital Fabrication”. PI: Beth Ferguson, CoPIs: Katia Vega, Jiayi Young. Total: $27 000.
  • Johnson & Johnson (2019 - 2022) Fellowship: "Women in in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (WiSTEM2D) ”. PI: Katia Vega. Total: $150,000.
  • The Fab Lab Foundation (2019, 2020). Two gifts. PI: Katia Vega. Total: $1,451.
  • The Green Initiative Fund Grant (TGIF 2021): "Fungtopia: Research on Fungi for a Sustainable Society”. PI: Valeria La Saponara, Co-Pi: Katia Vega. Total: $20,000.
  • CREATE Course REdesign and Teaching Award (2019). Katia Vega. Total: $5,000.
  • Academic Senate: Small Grant in Aid of Research (2018 - 2021). Four awards of $2,000 each. PI: Katia Vega. Total: $8,000.
  • Academic Senate: Travel Grant (2018-2021). Four awards of $800 each. PI: Katia Vega. Total: $3,200.
  • Postdoc fellowship granted by CAPES (Brazilian Coordination Office for the Improvement of Staff with Higher Education). 2014.
  • PhD Scholarship granted by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). 2010-2014.
  • PhD Sandwich in Hong Kong Baptist University granted by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). 2012.
  • Master Scholarship granted by CAPES (Brazilian Coordination Office for the Improvement of Staff with Higher Education). 2008-2010.