Congratulations to all of BWRC 2024-2025 EECS Student Award Recipients!

April 23, 2025

Award Name

Recipient(s)

Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award 

Neerja Agarwal, Aviral Pandey, Rebekah Zhao, Bob Zhou

Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award 

Nagesh Patle

Leon O. Chua Award 

Jingqi Li

Department Citation 

Jianzhi Wang

CS Major Citation

Tanush Talati

EECS Major Citation

Joshua You

Warren Dere Design Award 

Elam Day-Friedland, Anish Dhanashekar, Max Wilcoxson 

James H. Eaton Memorial Scholarship 

Margarita Geleta

EECS Outstanding TA Award

Sebastian Arevalo, Anish Dhanashekar, Aryan Jain, James Smith, Jedidiah Tsang, Mingyang Wang, Oliver Yu

Art & Mary Fong Undergraduate Scholarship

Hieu Trung Duong, Patrick Mendoza

Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship for Bright Minds and Big Hearts 

Yash Satish Dave

Jim and Donna Gray Award

Alexander Woodward Smith, Alexander Vetter, Peter Wang, Phoenix Eros Wilson, Rachel Xiao, Brandon Xu, Katrina Zhu

Arthur M. Hopkin Award 

Sanjay Chintapalli, Alexander Di, Alishba Imran, Nikhil Jain, Leon Kornfeld, James Ni, Sasvath Ramachandran, Varun Srivastave, Kenny Wang

Eli Jury Award

Cheol Jun Cho

Eugene L. Lawler Prize 

Joel Cisneros, Garv Goswami, Wael Hijazi, Riley Peterlinz

Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize

Eli Bronstein (CS), Yen-Hsiang Chang (CS), Aniruddhar Joshi (EE)

C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award

Adwait Godbole

Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation

Seah Kim

David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize 

Danielius Kramnik

Samuel Silver Memorial Scholarship Award 

Clara Hung

James Tullock Memorial Scholarship Award 

Derrick Yong, Maggie Quackenbush

Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship

Tanush Talati

Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize

Sam Gunn, Atsunobo Kotani, Chinmay Maheshwari, Haozhi Qi, Ilija Radasvovic

Chair’s Graduate Award

Vivek Bharadwaj, Eli Bronstein, Cassidy Laidlaw, Sara Michelle Pohland, Rahul Shah

More information about the awards is available here

*In addition, 50 of our EECS undergraduate and graduate student GSIs were honored by the campus with the Campus Outstanding GSI Award. The list of the 2024-2025 recipients’ names can be found at the end of this email.

The EECS Departmental Student Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 9th, 11am-12pm in 438 Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge. A reception to honor all of the award recipients and donors will follow. 

Please RSVP by the end of day Wednesday, April 30th.

Congratulations to the award recipients!

-Lydia & Gina, on behalf of the Student Awards Faculty Committee

*2024-25 Campus Outstanding GSI Award Recipients:

Noah Adhikari

Timothy Aveni

Yatong Bai

Christopher Bannon

Rod Bayliss

Abigail Brooks-Ramirez

Wen Cao

Ashley Chiu

Ashwin Chugh

Ryan Cottone

Arjun Damerla

Alexander DeRouen

Alexander Di

Collin Finnan

Wilson Fung

Irene Geng

Lydia Ignatova

Anto Kam

Averal Kandala

Anniyat Karymsak

Junha Kim

Erik Kizior

Rohan Kumar

Rahul Lall

Jacob Leigh

Andrew Liu

Carolyn Liu

Andrea Lou

Sarah McClure

Sophie Nazarian

Dima Nikiforov

Suzanne Petryk

Diana Poplacenel

Nima Rahmanian

Bhaskar Roberts

Jordan Schwartz

Saathvik Selvan

Shomini Sen

Myrah Shah

Ayati Sharma

Efsane Soyer

Victoria Stukalova

Ethan Tam

Daniel Teal

Vanessa Teo

Owen Thompson

Priya Venugopal

David Yang

Henry Zeng

Jennifer Zhao