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Graduate Student Departmental Awards
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
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Undergraduate Department Awards
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
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UVA and School of Engineering Awards
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
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Fellowships & Scholarships
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
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National Awards
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