The CSE Department distributes awards to our PhD students to recognize and applaud exemplary performance in research, teaching, service, and contributions to diversity.
Excellence in Research
Rachel Lim (MS), 2023
Colin Drewes (MS), 2022
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder (PhD), 2022
Ya-Chien Chang (PhD), 2022
Saransh Gupta (PhD), 2021
Dheeraj Mekala (MS), 2021
Kasra Ferdowsifard (MS), 2021
Shravan Narayan (PhD), 2020
Jiacheng Li (MS), 2020
Zexiang Xu (PhD), 2019
Mohsen Imani (PhD), 2018
Jingwen Wang (MS), 2018
Tianyin Xu (PhD), 2017
Alok Shankar (MS), 2017
David Kohlbrenner (PhD), 2016
Niki Vazou (PhD), 2015
Pingfan Meng (PhD), 2015
Excellence in Teaching
Jerry Yu (MS), 2023
Zachary Blanco (PhD), 2022
Rachel Lim (MS), 2022
Nishant Bhaskar (PhD), 2021
Max Gonzalez Corona (MS), 2021
Joseph Geumlek (PhD), 2020
Alexandra Macedo (MS), 2020
Devon Merrill (PhD), 2019
Benjamin Cosman (PhD), 2018
Balasubramaniam Srinivasan (MS), 2018
Soohyun Nam Liao (PhD), 2017
Caroline Kim (MS), 2017
Aviv Kiss (MS), 2016
Gautam Akiwate (MS), 2015
Excellence in Service & Leadership
Niha Bhaskar (MS), 2023
Hema Thota (MS), 2022
Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah (PhD), 2022
Nishant Bhaskar (PhD), 2022
Jennifer Chien (PhD), 2021
Anshuman Dewangan (MS), 2021
Vignesh Gokul (PhD), 2020
Connie Guan (MS), 2020
Ailie Fraser (PhD), 2019
Ariana Mirian (PhD), 2019
Dustin Richmond (PhD), 2018
Angelique Taylor (PhD) , 2018
Aditi Mavalankar (MS), 2018
Joe DeBlasio (PhD), 2017
Kiran Kannar (MS), 2017
Karyn Benson (PhD), 2016
Neha Chachra (PhD), 2015