Prof. Ferguson is the recipient of the 2016 Young Investigator Award for Modeling and Simulation, from the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award recognizes outstanding research in computational molecular science and engineering by researchers within seven years of completion of their highest degree, and was awarded to Prof. Ferguson for his development and application of statistical thermodynamics and machine learning to computational immunology and vaccine design. Prof. Ferguson will receive the award and deliver an invited talk at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco in November. The UIUC CoE press release is available here.