Student Awards
The Department of Computer Science awards several student honors each year. All recipients below听are graduate students unless otherwise indicated.听
This award听was established in 2010 through a gift made by one of Dr. Slutz鈥 former students, Xiaodong Zhang (MSCompSci鈥85, PhD鈥89) to annually recognize students in computer science who have established a record of academic excellence and/or technical research and innovation. In 2011, Dean Robert H. Davis presented him with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, which honors outstanding graduates and friends of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
- 2024
- Michael Ginn (graduate)
- Charles Wade (graduate)
- 2023
- Caleb Escobedo (graduate)
- Michael Schneider (graduate)
- Lilly Nguyen听(undergraduate)
- Sneha Yendluri听(undergraduate)
- 2022
- Charlie Carlson听(graduate)
- Dhamma Kimpara (graduate)
- Blain Judkins (undergraduate)
- Peter Lecavalier (undergraduate)
- 2021
- Abteen Ebrahimi (graduate)
- Benno Stein (graduate)
- Denzil Bilson听(undergraduate)
- Huilin Han (undergraduate) 听 听
- 2020
- Travis Torline (undergraduate)
- Sky Martin (undergraduate)
- Matthew Whitlock (graduate)
- Hooman Hedayati (graduate)
- 2019
- Nam Bui (graduate)
- Hoang Truong (graduate)
- 2018
- Taisa Kushner (gradaute)
- Daniel Milroy (graduate)
- 2017
- Dana Hughes (graduate)
- Richared听Parker (graduate)
- 2016
- Fernando Nobre (graduate)
- Nicholas Farrow (graduate)
- 2015
- Joshua Garland (graduate)
- Dana Hughes (graduate)
- 2014
- Sam Blackshear (graduate)
- Md Arafat Sultan (graduate)
- 2013
- Aleksandar Chakarov (graduate)
- Robert Lindsey (graduate)
- Emily Bertelson (undergraduate)
- Sarah Feller (undergraduate)
- Paul Givens (undergraduate)
The Department of Computer Science has received fellowship funds from Lloyd Botway Family Foundation to award an outstanding CS master鈥檚 student for their academic excellence and service to the department. Presented to an outstanding master's student for excellence in teaching, research and service to the department.听
- 2024
- Bhoomika Singla
- Rohit Taware听听听听
- Spencer Wilson
- 2023
- Aishwarya Satwani
- Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
- Rohan Das
- 2022
- Nikhith Sannidhi
- Sagar Pathare
- Sourav Chakraborty
- 2021
- Arjun Rao
- Dheeraj Ravindranath
- Dylan Fox
- 2020
- Yash Gandhi
- Yash Sapra
- Zijao Yang,
- 2019
- Josiah Buxton
- Prashil V. Bhimani
- Shayon Gupta
- 2018
- Gerard Casas Saez
- 2017
- Trevor DiMartino
This award is presented to PhD students each spring.听The goal is to recognize PhD students for their research accomplishments in the current calendar year.
- 2024
- Golnar Gharooni Fard听听听
- Katie Spoon
- Lateefah Al-Naimi听听听听听听听听听听听
- Mateo Perez听听听听听
- Malinda Malwala Arachchige听听听听听
- Sagi Shaier
- Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed听听听听听听听听听听听
- Shawn Meier听听听听
- Shivendra Agrawal听听听听听听听听听
- Sourav Chakraborty
- 2023
- Abteen Ebrahimi
- Adam Wiemerslage
- Kenneth Hunter Wapman
- Michael Hoefer
- Nicholas LaBerge
- Vishnu Murali
- Yu-Yun (Everley) Tseng
- 2022
- Alec Bell
- Vishnu Murali
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- Casey Middleton
- 2021
- Allison Morgan
- Rhett Hanscom
- Varad Deshmukh
- Chelsea Chandler
- Abhinav Gupta
- Benno Stein
- Hooman Hedayati
- 2020
- Matt Whitlock
- Shuo (Jason) Zhang
- Nam Bui
- Ryo Suzuki
- 2019
- Shudong Hao
- Carl Mueller
- Robert Soden
- Shuo (Jason) Zhang
- 2018
- Hooman Hedayati
- Townsend Jennings Anderson
- 2017
- Townsend Jennings Anderson
- Jedidiah McClurg
- Radhen Patel
- Yang Li
- 2016
- Sam Way
- Md. Arafat Sultan
- Marina Kogan
- Halley Profita
- Dana Hughes
- Brett Roads
- 2015
- Joshua Garland
- Mohammad Khajah
- Michael Andy McEvoy
- Townsend Jennings Anderson
- Homa Hosseinmardi
- 2014
- Erik Komendera
- Robert Soden
- Sam Blackshear
- Mohammad Khajah
- 2013
- Danish Khan
- Yifei Jiang
- Daniel McDonald
- Dola Saha
- 2012
- Holger Dick
- Yifei Jiang
- Keith Maull
- Caleb Phillips
- 2020 -听Shivendra Agrawal
- 2018 -听Austin Holler
- 2017- Samantha Molnar
The department recognizes how important our graduate student Teaching Assistants are for the success of our education mission. Selected students will receive $500 each.
- 2024
- Akshit Johry听听听听听听
- Kirby Linvill听听听听听听听听
- Pawin Taechoyotin
- Rameez Wajid
- Rohit Taware 听听听
- Sriranga Ramaswamy听听听
- Shamal Shaikh听
- Tuan Tran听听听听听听听听听听听
- Tyler Gorman
- Varsha Natarajan
- 2023
- Abhishek Purushothama
- Aishwarya Satwani
- Angel Dong
- Charles Wade
- Chi-Hui Lin
- Hyoyoung Lim
- Lucas Hayne
- Mohsena Ashraf
- Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
- Nisha Murarka
- Samreen Anjum
- 2022
- Insoo Lee
- Wyatt Rees
- Samreen Anjum
- Ayoub Ghriss
- Tzu Chi Yen
- Owen Martin
- Robin Bowers
- Alexander Ray
- Aravindakumar Vijayasri Mohan Kumar
- Tiffany Phan
- Sagar Pathare
- Hunar Jain
- 2020
- Gabriel Andrade (PhD)
- Shawn Meier听(PhD)
- Michael Bradshaw听(PhD)
- Anuj Pasricha (PhD)
- Thannika Reddy (MS)
- Keval Shah (MS)
- Saurabh Mishra (MS)
- Abhinav Gupta (MS)
- Rahul Adeula (MS)
- Archana Anand (MS)
- Aaron Aaeng (MS)
- Sanskar Katiyar (MS)
- 2019
- Austin Pahl (PhD)
- Michael Schneider (PhD)
- John Martin (PhD)
- David Moon (PhD)
- Sandesh Dhawaskar (PhD)
- Saumya Sinha (PhD)
- Shivendra Agrawal (PhD)
- Alex Curtiss (MS)
- Andrew Altomare (MS)
- Prashil V. Bhimani (MS)
- Josiah Buxton (MS)
- Anupama (MS)
- Rohit Mehra (MS)
- Tetshumichi Umada (MS)
- Sharan Srivatsa (MS)
- Albert Dayn (MS)
- 2018
- Abhidip Bhattacharya (PhD)
- Murad Chowdhury (MS)
- Nikhil Sulegaon (MS)
- Sandesh Dhawaskar (MS)
- Shayon Gupta (MS)
- Shivendra Agrawal (MS)
- Albert Dayn (MS)
- 2017
- Shirly Montero Quesada (PhD)
- Amber Womack (MS)
- Vipra Gupta (MS)
- Yogitha Mahadasu(MS)
- Saish Redkar (MS)
- Pratima Sherkane (MS)
- Nehal Kamat (MS)
- Ranga Chidambaranathan (MS)
- 2024
- Chandra Kanth Nagesh听
- Spencer Wilson
- 2023
- Chandra Kanth Nagesh
- Michael Hoefer
- 2020
- Shivendra Agrawal
- 2019
- Shayon Gupta
- Sreesha Nath
- 2018
- Rick Parker
- Vipra Gupta
The department recognizes the importance of service and how it contributes to the overall growth of our students. Selected students will receive $500 per each.
- 2024
- Aishwarya Satwani
- Bhoomika Singla
- Breanne Crockett听听听听听听听听听听听听
- Chiranthan Sridhar听听听听听听听听听
- Corey Murphey
- Erika Hunhoff听听听
- Josh Myers Dean
- Jubair Mohammad听听听听听听听听
- Kevin Lane听听听听听听听听听
- Nour Rahal-Arabi
- Rohit Taware听听听听
- Robin Bowers听听
- Sagi Shaier听听听听听听听听听
- Shipra Singh听听听听听
- Spencer Wilson
- Sriranga Ramaswamy
- 2023
- Abhishek Purushothama
- Aishwarya Satwani
- Corey Murphey
- Dreycey Albin
- Erika Hunhoff
- Josh Myers-Dean
- Kirby Linvill
- Maggie Perkoff
- Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
- Rohan Das
- Rohit Taware
- Sachin Sharma
- Spencer Wilson
- 2022
- Vinitha Gadiraju
- Eric Illick
- Jessie Finocchiaro
- Sagar Pathare
- Sachin Sharma
- Nikita Menon
- Nikhith Sannidhi
- Erik Hunhoff
- Samreen Anjum
- 2021
- Christine Chang
- Michael Bradshaw
- Hamza Motiwalla
- Aditi Prakash
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- Emily Jensen
- Dylan Fox
- 2020
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- Emily Jensen
- Dylan Fox
- Abhidip Bhattacharya
- Keval Shah
- Yash Sapra
- Archana Anand
- 2019
- Stephen Hutt
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- 2018
- Benno Stein
- Cecilia Mauceri
- Theodore Ian Martiny
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- John Stechschulte
- Prasanth Pralahdan
- Srinjita Bhaduri
- Stephen Hutt
- 2017
- Samantha Molnar
- Theodore Ian Martiny
- Shirly Montero Quesada
2025
- Published Work
- Mohammed Adib Oumer
- Michael Ginn
- Sagi Shaier
- Shadi Tasdighi Kalat
- Work in Progress
- Charles Wade
- Peter Ly
- Advait Deshmukh/Ashwin Umadi
- Clare Lohrmann
- Kirby Linvill/Chandra Kanth Nagesh
- Yi-Shiuan Tung
2024
- Published Work
- Maneesha Pappireddygari
- Harel Biggie
- Aaquib Tabrez
- Katie Spoon
- Work in Progress
- Zachary Atkins
- Alexandria Leto
- Maggie Perkoff
- Mohammed Oumer/Sourav Chakraborty
2023
- Published Work
- Hunar Jain
- Harel Biggie
- Monal Narasimhamurthy
- Shivendra Agrawal
- Work in Progress
- Aaquib Tabrez
- Chandra Kanth Nagesh
- Charles Wade
- Josh Myers-Dean
2022
- Published Work
- Anish Thilagar
- Monal Narasimhamurthy
- Jessie Finocchiaro
- Aaquib Tabrez/Matthew B. Luebbers
- Nikhith Sannidhi/Malinda Dilhara Malawa听Arachchige
- Work in Progress
- Nicholas Conlon
- Shivendra Agrawal
- Sourav Chakraborty
- Upasana Dutta
- Xu Han
- Robin Bowers
2021
- PhD Published Work
- Yawen Zhang
- Yichen Wang
- Hansol Yoon
- Joewie Koh
- Saumya Sinha
- Sarah Aguasvivas
- Hoang Truong
- MS Published Work
- Upasana Dutta
- Work in Progress - PhD
- Connor Brook
- Xu Han
2020
No Research Expo due to COVID global pandemic
2019
- Outstanding Research Demonstration - PhD
- Stephen McGuire
- Radhen Patel
- Published Work - PhD
- Vivian Lai
- Cecilia Mauceri
- Yi Chou
- Outstanding Poster - In Progerss
- Emily Jensen
- Gabriel Andrade
- Lucca Eloy
- Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed
Spring 2018
- Akshit Arora 鈥 Best poster in MS group
- Layne Hubbard 鈥 Best poster in PhD group
- Izzy Aguiar 鈥 Student鈥檚 choice award
The Department of Computer Science has instituted a "Departmental Summer Research Fellowship" to help students who have been a Teaching Assistant for 2-4 CONTINUOUS semesters, hindering their research progress. This is awarded so that the student can focus on research during the summer months and make some progress. Preference will be given to those students without any other University appointments. Selected student will be receiving approximately $6K each for summer. 听
- 2024
- Michelle Ramsahoye
- Nicholas Hunkins听听听听听听听听听听听听
- Tuan Tran
- 2023
- Michael Hoefer
- Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana
- 2022
- Michael Levet
- Anuj Pasricha
- Shivendra Agrawal
- 2021
- Camden Ellitott Williams
- Saumya Sinha
- Varsha Koushik
- 2020
- Zhiyuan Liu
- Tao Ruan
- Anh Nguyen
- Vinitha Gadiraju
- Zaid Al Ali
- 2019
- Chelsea Chandler
- Abhidip Bhattacharya
- Christopher Godley
- 2018
- Martin Ethan Hanner
- 2017
- Richard Parker
- Shirly Montero Quesada
- Yang Li
- Sebastian Laudenschlager
This fellowship is intended to provide CSEN PhD candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertation. The fellowship consists one time funding of approximately $3K processed as scholarship for summer 2023.
- 2024
- Emily Jensen听听听听
- Ian van Buskirk
- Harel Biggie听听听听听听听
- Michael Hoefer
- Rehan Ahmed听听
- Vimal Kakaraparthi听听听
- 2023 -听Dreycey Albin
- 2022 -听Insoo Lee
- 2022 - Sepideh Goodarzy
- 2021 -听Hooman Hedayati
Computer Science Endowed Founder's fellowship is an endowed fund, whose听purpose is to provide support for outstanding students who are enrolled in the Department of Computer Science at the College Engineering and Applied Science at the UCB.听The committee selects听overall stellar graduate听students in terms of academics, research/publication, teaching and service to the Department.听听An amount of $500.00 each is听awarded to听graduate students from the PhD and Research based MS pool during Fall semester.
- Fall 2023
- Graduate award winners
- Emily Jensen
- Sagi Shaier
- Mohammad Imrul Jubair
- Mohsena Ashraf
- Undergraduate award winners
- BA: Ranjan Sigdel
- BS: Jaden Snell
- Graduate award winners
- Fall 2022
- Christine Chang
- Corey Lynn Murphey
- Rohan Das
- Chandra Kanth Nagesh
- Fall 2021
- Jessica Finocchiaro
- Himanshu Gupta
- Nikhith Sannidhi
Dave Kasik (MCompSci'72) grew up in Denver and started computer science in 1968 as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins. While at Hopkins, Dave discovered computer animation and made films; computer graphics has been his career focus ever since. In 1970, Dave applied to 欧美口爆视频 and was accepted where he became a teaching assistant in the first formal Computer Science Department master's class. 听Dave said, 鈥溑访揽诒悠 gave me the opportunities to explore and push boundaries.鈥 Kasik fellowship has been instituted by Dave Kasik and awards $2,500.00 to one CSEN graduate student (PhD, MS OR MSCPS) from geographic areas (both domestic and international) and socioeconomic backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in the Department and students who are active in supporting others.听Service to the department will also be considered by the committee.听听
Winners
- Spring 2022 听鈥 Lucia Jayne
- Spring 2023 鈥 Evariste Some
- Spring 2024 - Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu
Nelson A. Prager Family and James H. Martin Endowed Graduate Fellowship has been established to benefit the Department of Computer Science Graduate Students who have focused their research in the area of Natural Language Processing.听 Distributions from the Fund will be used to provide fellowship support for graduate students in the Department of Computer Science at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. Expenditures from the Fund may include, but are not limited to, tuition and other University-related costs, stipends, support for research and other purposes that support learning, the student educational experience, and professional development.
Winners
- Fall 2024 鈥 Jon Cai, Maggie Perkoff, and Adam Wiemerslage
- Fall 2023 鈥 Elizabeth Spaulding
- Fall 2023 鈥 Sagi Shaier
- Fall 2022 鈥 Abhidip Bhattacharyya
- Fall 2021 鈥 Ananya Ganesh
The Bell Family Endowed CS Scholarship in recognition of outstanding research.听
Academic Year 2022 鈥 2023
- Stephane Aroca-Ouellette
- Katie Spoon
- Shivendra Agrawal
- Josh Myers-Dean
- Chandra Kanth Nagesh
- Charles Wade
- Everley Tseng
- Ananya Ganesh
- Reza Akbarian Bafghi
- Mateo Perez