student awards – Aijun Song

Joyce recognized

Publication date June 27, 2025
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Joyce Ma won the Fred Maxwell Jr. Award at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, for her academic performance, research involvement, and services during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Dr. Aijun Song is an experienced researcher in subsea communications, intelligent signal processing, and marine robotics. He has published more than thirty journal papers on underwater technologies. Active in the professional societies, Dr. Song served as the General Co-Chair of the 2018 NSF Workshops on Underwater Wireless Communications and Networking. He was the General Co-Chair of the 14th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems. Dr. Song is a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2021).

Dr. Song is also a passionate advocate for STEM education in K-12. He has been leading the local MATHCOUNTS competitions since 2018. His MATHCOUNTS initiative was recognized as the Outstanding Faculty/Staff-Initiated Engagement Effort by the University of Alabama in 2019. He recently launched an underwater robotics initiative at the local high school.