Just days before Barack Obama's term as US President came to a close, he presented a series of President Medals to honour achievements across various fields. Here we profile the Global Indian winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). [caption id="attachment_11026" align="alignnone" width="789"]

Kaushik Chowdhury, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern University[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11027" align="alignnone" width="794"]

Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine & Public Health Associate Professor, Dentistry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11029" align="alignnone" width="773"]

Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)[/caption]