CS Honors and 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

Outstanding Teaching Graduate Student

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.

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

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.

2020: Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu, Saeed Mahloujifar

2019: Elaheh Sadredini

 

Outstanding Research Graduate Student

This 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 Service Graduate Student

This 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. 

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

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

Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Chairperson Awards: These awards goe to an 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.

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Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Research Award

• 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 Education Undergraduate Student

• 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 Undergraduate Student

• 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