Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen receives UMN-wide Best Dissertation Award

The Graduate School has announced Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen—a recent graduate of our PhD program—has been named a winner of the 2021 Best Dissertation Award. The award recognizes top dissertations from recent University of Minnesota PhD graduates across four areas, with Jules winning the physical sciences and engineering category.

His dissertation is called, "A High-Precision Bioelectric Neural Interface Toward Human-Machine Symbiosis." He was advised by Professor Zhi Yang, and they worked together on research that could benefit amputees. Currently, Jules is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

More photos of Jules' research experiences

About the award

For the Graduate School's award, a student from each of four groups—arts and humanities, biological and life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences and education—was chosen by faculty from the broad disciplinary area.

Selections were based on the originality and importance of the research, as well as the potential for the student to make an unusually significant contribution to their field.