Carnegie Mellon University
February 22, 2021

Armanios honored in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EPP Assistant Professor Daniel Armanios' professional and academic career was recognized in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in celebration of Black History Month.

Armanios, a first-generation American, the son of Egyptian immigrants, was raised in Georgia. His early academic prowess earned him the Donald M. Henderson Scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. Armanios would graduate summa cum laude from the Swanson School of Engineering and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 2007.

As an undergraduate student at Pitt, Mr. Armanios evolved into the highest academically honored undergraduate student in American college and university history.

Armanios earned the Goldwater Scholarship in 2004, the Truman Scholarship in 2005, and both the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships in 2007. He would go on to study at Oxford, where he earned a Master of Science degree in 2008 and one in 2009.

Armanios would follow this by obtaining his management science and engineering doctorate degree from Stanford University in 2015. The next year he won the Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Now the holder of two undergraduate degrees and three graduate diplomas, his current research turns to China, and to Egypt and Tunisia in Africa, where he studies the impact upon those nations of public policy concerning the interrelationship between entrepreneurship, high-technology innovation, infrastructure, and public organizations.

In addition to being an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Armanios is a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Leadership at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

To read the full article on Daniel Armanios, go here.