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

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

 

NEW: John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award

2019: Elaheh Sadredini

 

Outstanding Research Graduate 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

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 Research Award

• 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

• 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, Melloy, Bret Quigley, John 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

• 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