James Fairbanks named an ASEMFL Rising Star

The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida named James Fairbanks a Rising Star at its 2025 Annual Meeting in November.

The Academy draws its membership from across the state’s universities — the banner behind the award lists FAMU, FIU, FSU, Palm Beach Atlantic, UCF, UF, Miami and USF — and the Rising Star award recognises early-career researchers among them.

The citation is for the lab’s work on applied category theory as engineering practice: taking the compositional structure that mathematicians write down and turning it into software that scientists and engineers can actually run, across multiphysics simulation, optimization and control, and coordination.