Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

The Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award is designed to recognize and reward graduate teaching assistants for outstanding performance during the academic year in teaching and instruction in the department.

 

2022: Liem Budzien, Hanjie Chen, Carl Hildebrandt, Will Leeson, Jingyun Ning, Farzana Ahmed Siddique

2021: Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Jibang Wu, Fan Yao

2020: Anastasia Lalamentik, Ishika Paul, Robert (Trey) West

2019: Trent Weiss

2018: Tanya Frank; Honorable Mention: Denny Anderson, Varundev Sukhil Suresh Babu, Chong Tang

2017: Kevin Angstadt, Jack Lanchantin; Honorable Mention: Christopher (Jordan) Mincey, Anindya Prodhan

2016: Chunkun Bo, Jinlong Feng

2015: Erin Griffiths

2014: Tung Dao

2013: Liliya Besaleva, Andrew Frye, and Christopher Greenwood

2012: Adam Brady, Nathan Brunelle, and Joel Coffman

2011: Ryan Layer

2010: Kinga Dobolyi and Krasimira Kapitanova

2009: Chih-hao Shen

2008: Claire Le Goues

 

 

John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award (established in 2019)

Jack Stankovic’s students and academic family have committed a gift to establish in honor of Professor Jack Stankovic’s great mentoring and support of graduate student research. The John A. Stankovic Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award goes to a Computer Science Ph.D. student or students who have demonstrated excellence in research during the academic year. The students are nominated by their advisors and voted on by all faculty based on a description of the students' research highlights and achievements.

 

2022: Yiling Jia, Lu Lin, David Shriver

2021: Megdi Huai, Marzieh Lenjani, Tianlu Wang

2020: Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu, Saeed Mahloujifar

2019: Elaheh Sadredini

 

Outstanding Graduate Research Award (2018 and earlier)

The Outstanding Graduate Research Award goes to one or more graduate students in the department in recognition of their excellence in the quality of research carried out by that student.

 

2018: Zhuozhao Li, Saeed Mahlouji Far, Elaheh Sadredini, Asif Salekin, Suya, Tianlu Wang, Huazheng Wang, Beilun Wang, Qingyun Wu, Li Yan

2017: Jack Wadden, Rita Singh; Honorable Mention: Qingyun Wu, Ankur Sarker, Zhuozhao Li, Lin Yan

2016: Juhi Ranjan

2015: Samee Zahur

2014: Tanima Dey, Jack Wadden and Wei Wang

2013: Robert Dickerson and Claire Le Goues

2012: Joel Coffman, Jason Mars, and Shahriar Nirjon

2011: Duane Merrill

2010: Michael Holroyd and Yafeng Wu

2009: Raymond Buse

2008: Anthony Wood

 

 

Outstanding Graduate Service Award

The Outstanding Graduate Service Award goes to a graduate student that has devoted a significant amount of their time to service for the department, school, University, community, or any combination of these. 

 

2022: Soneya Binta Hossain

2021: Yasunari Kato, Xida Ren

2020: Jack Lanchantin, Josephine Lamp

2019: Weilin Xu, Jack Lanchantin

2018: Weilin Xu

2017: Kevin Angstadt, Elahe Soltanaghaei

2016: William Hawkins 

2015: Samyukta Jadhwani

2013: Karolina Sarnowska-Upton

2012: Adam Brady, Nathan Brunelle, and Joel Coffman

2011: Joel Coffman and Luther Tychonievich

2010: Marisabel Guevara, Krasimira Kapitanova and Ray Buse

Department of Computer Science Undergraduate Research Award

These awards go to undergraduate students based on their exceptional contributions and excellence to computer science research. 

2022: Nicholas Parlmer

 

Department of Computer Science Outstanding Service Award

These awards go to undergraduate students based on their hard work and service to the department.

2022: Leonardo Acosta, Victoria Clotet, Param Damle, Joshua Devine, Devin Gardner, Jim Liang

 

Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Chairperson Awards: These awards go to undergraduate students based on: (1) academic ability, (2) ability to get along with people, and (3) demonstrated ability to work hard. Students can be nominated for their research, or other achievements and contributions including teaching and service to the CS department.

Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Research Award

2021: Ethan Blaser, Henry Carscadden, Sonali Luthar, Jack Prescott, Lindsey Shavers, Zachary Yahn

2020: Alexander Hicks, Joshua Santana, Kevin Naddoni, Maxwell Patek, Michael Benos, Nathanael Strawser, Jack Morris, V Layne Berry, Soukarya Ghosh, James Yun

2019: Katherine Vinson

2018: Derrick Blakely, Eamon Collins, Sohan Kabiraj, Anant Kharkar, Ethan Lowman, Eric McCord-Snook, Jibang Wu, Alan Zhang

2017: Salah Assana, Sanil Rao, Jean Salac, Chandan Singh

2016: Martin Kellogg, Joseph Barrow, Harang Ju, Tara Raj

2015: Zeming Lin and Andi Yang

2013: Jonathan Burket and Miles Gordenker

2012: Virginia "Ginger" Smith and Rebecca Stewart

2011: Ethan Fast

2010: Ethan Fast

2009: Wolfgang Richter and David Noble

2008: Jen Dolson

 

Louis T. Rader Outstanding Teaching Award

2022: Caroline Britt, Kalman Buterbaugh, Nicki Choquette, Jack Goodman, Juliette Laburthe, Rachel McNamara, Sindhura Mente, Jimmy Njuguna, Maria Parnell, Faisal Refai, Jane Weng, Natalie Zhang

2021: Sky Chen, Michael Ferguson, Madison Flynn, Ibrahim Hamdy, Ann Hoang, Prithvi Kinariwala, Grant Matteo, Joey Rudek, Helen Shi, Karim Shoorbajee, Jonah Weissman, Alanna Zoscak

2020: Alex Lehmann, Cameron Lloyd, Jason Ashley, Michael Ferguson, Nadia Hassan, Sarah Meng, Sean Gatewood, Simranjit Bhatia, V Layne Berry, Winston Liu

2019: Sean Rastatter

2018: Sarah Bland, Zach Danz, Echo Li, Monique Mezher, Felix Park, Dominic Ritchey, Marina Sanusi, Elli Veer, Rachel Wicks, Virginia Wordsworth

2017: Sarah Bland, Kamille Foster, Sam Havron, Edward Kao, John Melloy, Bret Quigley, Lily Zamanali 

2016: Iordan Trenkov, Stefanie Van Rafelghem, Nathaniel Rathjen, Jeremy Gabalski, Jacqueline Tran, David Amin

2015: Jim Roberts and Wil Thomason

2014: Kevin McVey and Man Wang

2013: Rebecca Boswell and Daniel Miller

2012: Allison Light

2011: Daniel Epstein and Kaitlin “Kate” McDowell

2010: John Will

2009: Lesley Elisabeth Hogan and Wolfgang Richter

2008: George Wanant

 

Louis T. Rader Outstanding Service Award

2021: Zachary Goldstein, William Mayes, Kelvin Peng, Daniel Prohaska, Autumn Routt, Neil Singh

2020: Jake Smith, Madison Flynn, Sanjana Hajela

2019: Jake Smith

2017: Collin Berman, Cyrus Malekpour, Andrew Norton

2016: Martin Kellogg, Marina Sanusi

2015: Bethany Connor

2014: Adam Campbell

2013: Matt Henderson and Chris Jones

2012: Dan Epstein

2011: Briana Satchell

2010: Chris Dodge

2009: Wolfgang Richter and Elizabeth Soechting

2008: Adrienne Felt  

2017

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, 2nd Place: Elahe Soltanaghari

2012

Member of team that won the 2011 SEAS Entrepreneurship Concept Competition ($3,000 prize): Kirti Chawla

SEAS GTA Teaching Award: Chris Gregg

All-University Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Chris Gregg

2011

U.Va. Graduate Teaching Award: Ryan Layer
 

2010

Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium Finalists: Erin Carson and Peter Bakkum
 

2008

SEAS Outstanding Student Award: Adrienne Felt

2018

Tamanna Hamid (CPE) - Student Scholar, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2018

Josephine Lamp - Olive B. and Franklin C. Mac Krell Jefferson Fellow

Josephine Lamp - UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship

Jack Lanchantin - Sture G. Olsson Endowed Graduate Fellowship

Arshdeep Sekhon - DSI Presidential Fellowship

Jack Verrier - Olive B. and Franklin C. Mac Krell Jefferson Fellow

Jack Verrier - UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship

Huazheng Wang - Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship

Qingyun Wu - Virginia Engineering Foundation Graduate Fellowship

 

2017

Ankur Sarker - IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

Lin Gong - Anita Borg Grace Hopper Scholar

Minbiao Han - UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship

Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas - UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship

Lu Tian - DSI Presidential Fellowship

Jack Wadden - ARCS Fellowship

 

2016

Lin Gong - DSI Presidential Fellowship

Jack Lanchantin - Biomedical Data Sciences NIH Training Grant

Jack Wadden - ARCS Fellowship

 

2015

Lin Gong - Grace Hopper Scholar 2015

2018

VDOT Smarter Roads Hackathon- First Place: Mahmoud Elnaggar

2017

MOBISYS Women's Workshop 2017 Best Poster Award: Elahe Soltanaghaei, Avinash Kalyanaraman

TECHON 2017 Best in Session Award: Jack Wadden, Sanil Rao

Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing 2017 (CAPWiC2017) Best Graduate Research Short: Qingyun Wu

Yelp Data Challenge Winner Round 8: Lin Gong

2016

ACM Buildsys '16 Best Presentation Award: Elahe Soltanaghari

 

2012

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Runner Up: Peter Chapman

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention: Jiamin Chen and Virginia "Ginger" Smith

NSF Graduate Fellowship: Peter Chapman

Best Paper Award - GCO Conference: Jason Mars

Best CAL paper of 2011: Jason Mars

IEEE Micro Top Pick paper: Jason Mars

Google selection for one of 2011's excellent papers: Jason Mars

Best Paper Award - IEEE RTAS 2012: Shahriar Nirjon

Intel Spontaneous Recognition Award: Taniya Siddiqua
 

2011

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention: Christopher Cunningham

Google Fellowship in Compiler Technology: Jason Mars

National Defense Education Program SMART Scholarship: Tamin Sookoor
 

2010

ACM-ICPC World Finals Programming Team, Stockholm, Kristine Collins, Adelin Miloslavov and Daniel Epstein

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention: Rachel Lathbury, David Noble and Ethan Fast

NVDIA Ph.D. Fellowship: Duane Merrill

SC 2009 Best Student Paper Award: Jiayuan Meng and David Tarjan
 

2009

ACM-ICPC World Finals Programming Team, Stockholm: Briana Satchell, George Washington, Calvin Li and Elizabeth Soechting

ICSE Best Paper Award: Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues and Stephanie Forrest, Automatically finding patches using genetic programming

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Runner Up: Erin Carson

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Finalist: Rachel Miller

CSE Outstanding GTA Award: Ross Gore

NSF Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science: Sara Alspaugh, Erika Chin, Adrienne Felt, Rachel Miller and Linda Yang Liu

NVDIA Ph.D. Fellowship: Jiayuan Meng

SAIC Scholar Research Stipend Award: Ross Gore

SAIC Project Award: Shan Lin
 

2008

ACM-ICPC World Finals Programming Team: Stockholm: Briana Satchell, George Washington, Calvin Li and Elizabeth Soechting

ACM SIGSOFT Foundation of Software Engineering, Best Student Presentation Award: Wei Le

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention: Jennifer Dolson, Mahlon Graham, Nichholas Jalbert and Mark Rawls

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Finalist: J. Adrian Felt

IEEE Micro Top Pick from ISCA: Top Pick Paper: Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi and Mircea R. Stan, Intra-Disk Parallelism: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

NDSEG Graduate Fellowship: Jennifer Dolson