Engineering alumnus Sajan Goud Lingala (PhD 2013 biomedical engineering) has received the 2015 Rex Montgomery Dissertation Award for his thesis "Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Schemes for Accelerated Myocardial Perfusion MRI."

Lingala is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

The University of Iowa's Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize is endowed by a generous gift from Dr. Rex Montgomery, and recognizes the most meritorious dissertation by a doctoral student conducting research in prevention of disease and/or the translation of research into clinical practice.