Computer Science Awards
Graduate Student Annual Awards
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.
2024: Steven Lamp, Aman Shrivastava
2023: Ethan Blaser, Marshall Clyburn, Alex Kim, Nabeel Nasir, Adil Rahman
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
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.
2024: Matthew Clark, Tonmoy Hossain
2023: Rachel McNamara, Nusrat Mozumder, Fateme Nikseresht
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
The Outstanding Graduate Research Award on behalf of the Computer Science Department 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.
The 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. Students receiving the John A. Stankovic Graduate Research award are indicated with an asterisk (*).
2024: Sudipta Saha Shubha, Trey Woodlief, Zhepei Wei*
2023: Hanjie Chen*, Soneya binta Hossain*, Jing Ma*, Anshuman Suri*
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)
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
Undergraduate Student Annual Awards
The Computer Science Department recognizes and gives awards to undergraduate students at the end of each academic year for their exceptional achievements in teaching, service, and research.
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. Recipients of the Louis T. Rader awards are indicated with an asterisk.
2024: Param Damle, Christopher Goodhart, Vagul Mahadevan*, Herin Seo (honorable mention)
2023*: Nicki Choquette, Jade Heilemann, Paul Karhnak, Jack Liu, Jimmy Njugana, Evan Rose, Grant Sweeney, Alex White
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
These awards go to undergraduate students based on their hard work and service to the department.
2024: Param Damle, Sammy Kee*, Jialin Tso, Christopher Marotta (honorable mention)
2023: Emily Buerk, Victoria Clotet, Chris Marotta, Jialin Tso
2022: Leonardo Acosta, Victoria Clotet, Param Damle, Joshua Devine, Devin Gardner, Jim Liang
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
These awards go to undergraduate students based on their exceptional contributions and excellence to computer science research.
2024: Andrew Balch (honorable mention), Alexi Gladstone*, Deniz Olgun, Teeratham "TJ" Vitchutripop
2023: Andrew Balch, Param Damle, Ann Li, John Link, Sara Liu, Evan Rose, Nicholas Wu, Teeratham Vitchutripop
2022*: Nicholas Palmer
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