Student Awards Banquet 2024

Welcome to the 2024 Student Awards & Recognition Banquet for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Provided below is an outline of the evening's program, along with a complete list of the scholarships, undergraduate awards, graduate fellowships, and graduate awards recognized at this event.

Thank you to the donors and friends attending the banquet; without your support and generosity, this would not have been possible. Finally, congratulations to the students who are being honored for their hard work and inspiring accomplishments.

Buffet Dinner Menu

• Mixed Greens Salad with Seasonal Vinaigrette and Buttermilk Ranch Dressings
• Assorted Breads & Rolls with Butter
• Halal Herb Roasted Chicken
• Beef Flank Steak with Peppercorn Demi-Glace
• Toasted Quinoa with Roasted Vegetables
• Broccoli with Lemon Zest
• Roasted Garlic Yukon Gold Potatoes
• Blueberry Cobbler Cheesecake
• Iced Water and Tea, Coffee and Hot Teas

Scholarship Recipients

Please visit the Scholarships and Awards page for more detailed information.

3M-ECE Scholarship

• Hanna Chen
• Victoria Lee

A.R. "Buck" Knight Scholarship

• Elijah Gaohan Ye
• Geitanksha Tandon
• Hongkun Zeng
• Jiajun Cheng
• Jingyi Xiang
• Nan Kang
• Siying Wang
• Tabish Shaik
• Tong Li
• Yixiao Fang

Ackmann Family Scholarship

• Kai-Chieh Liang
• Yifei Zhao

Alwan Engineering Scholarship

• Anna Sako
• Claire Zhu
• Dominic Andrejek [Dom-in-ic An-Dre-ic]
• Edward Dziez
• Hugo Ribeiro
• Mingxiao Wang
• Robert Zhu
• Ryan Horstman
• Sophia Wilhelm

Barbara H. and Brian L. Renwick Electrical Engineering Scholarship

• Adam Snedden
• Alexander Chmiel [Kuh-me-ul]
• Nicole Viz
• Rawnie Singh
• Suleiman Alkhateeb

Bradley A. Simmons Memorial Scholarship

• Arhan Goyal
• Chengyuan Peng
• Nuoyan Wang
• Jerry Wu
• Yehya Sleiman Tellawi

Bradley J. Griffis Endowed Scholarship

• Leo Schopick

Brian and Sophie Leung Scholarship

• Hongyu Chen
• Peizhe Liu

Bruce C. Mather Memorial ECE Scholarship

• Kevin Zhang
• Milosh Sasic
• Shane Olson

Daniel W. and Carol A. Dobberpuhl Electrical & Computer Engineering Scholarship

• Allen Steinberg
• Ethan White
• Jason Flanagan
• Charles Plonski

Donald R. and Arline D. Jeschke Scholarship

• James Pfeiffer
• Caroline Chang

Dr. Kenneth P. and Claire V. Gibbs Scholarship

• Lily Sheng
• Zachary George

Dr. Milton Feng Scholarship in ECE

• Phuvit Thirasuntrakul
• Sean Liang

ECE Alumni Scholarship

• Abel Garcia
• Alexander Romo
• Alyssa Yakey
• Jace Haas
• Lewis Conn
• Pekweke Awudu

ECE Visionary Scholarships

• Duc Nguyen
• Emmanuella Valavanis
• Justin Yu
• Leo Lin
• Rohit Iyer
• Sooraj Vydyanathan
• Vaayun Hurria
• Yash Warke

Eleftherios Polychronopoulos Scholarship

• Nicholas Costello

Emma L. Marshall Scholarship

• Divyam Arora

Ernest A. Tolli Memorial Scholarship

• Jerry Chang
• Naixiang Gao
• Yiming Zhao

Floyd E. Lundgren Scholarship

• Jack Tipping
• Jessica Sun

Frank C. Mock Scholarship

• Adam Quiballo
• David Song
• Dongming Liu
• John Truong
• Mohammad El-Jawhari
• Soham Manjrekar
• Zongrui Cai

Frank D. and Irene M. Low Scholarship

• Evelyn Urquiza
• Victoria Lee

Frederick D. Secor Memorial Scholarship

• Jada-Marie Griggs

George A. and Ina M. Zehr Scholarship

• Aryan Indarapu

George and Cynthia Anner Scholarship

• Aastha Grover
• Marco Frigo

Harriet and Robert Perry Scholarship

• Xinyu Wu
• Yu Li

Henneman Scholarship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Yiming Zhao

Henry O. Koehler Merit Scholarship

• Alexander Kick
• Cameron Little
• Daniel Gonzalez
• Ethan Lin
• Hulya Goodwin
• John Prokop
• Kevin Kolesiak
• Ryan Thammakhoune
• Jaden Li
• Sneh Chandak
• Udit Pai

Herbert Y. and Stella S. Chang Scholarship

• Jeanjuella Tipan
• Xiaofei He

Indira Gunda Saladi Engineering Research Prize

• Jingyi Xiang
• Jizheng He

Ingram Family Scholarship

• Arkaprabha Kolay
• Jason Wright
• Mason Hudspath
• Quincy Lovitt-Talivaa

Jeewan Singh and Simranjeet Kaur Ghuman Scholarship

• Anusha Adira
• Alex Dicheva
• Meredith Naylor

John and Sheila Woythal Scholarship

• Alex Thompson
• Binh Minh Nguyen
• Cameron Fuller
• Jason Jung
• John Burns
• Josh Litao
• Allison Kao
• Luke Granger
• Pranav Rajpal
• Siddarth Iyer
• Stefan Sokolowksi

John B. Pettegrew Scholarship

• Jessica Gruber

John P. Desmond Electrical and Computer Engineering Scholarship

• Aidan Roberts
• David Medina
• Haoming Mei
• Kush Shah
• Naomi Popescu
• Sania Huq
• Samuel Ayodiran
• T'Andra Newby
• Victor Yu

Joseph W. Lyding Endowed Scholarship

• Nathan Chiang
• Jizheng He
• Qiran Pang

Jules D. Falzer Memorial Scholarship

• Alex Hu
• David Thomas
• Evan Schmitz
• Laurenz Nava
• Muhammad Khan
• Bex Muise
• Subhakritha Somaskandan

Kaskowitz Family Scholarship

• Vinit Gupta

Kwon Family Scholarship Fund

• Dongming Liu

Lauren Kelley Memorial Scholarship

• Emily Chen
• Holly Roach

M. A. Pai Scholarship

• Boya Hou

Mang Chi Chan Memorial Scholarship

• Richard Jia

Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Scholarship

• Jason Flanagan

O. Thomas and Martha S. Purl Scholarship

• Jiaru Zou
• Phuvit Thirasuntrakul
• Pradyun Narkadamilli

Oakley Scholarship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Aarushi Aggrwal
• Estela Medrano Gutierrez
• Megan Cubiss
• Mingxiao Wang
• Tanvika Boyineni

Omron Electrical Engineering Scholarship

• Haocheng Yang
• Omkar Kulkarni
• Yogavarshini Velavan

Peter W. Sauer Scholarship

• Annabelle Epplin
• Aidan Rodgers
• Jai Anchalia
• Samuel Fakunle

Professor G.H. Fett Memorial Scholarship

• Jay Lee
• John Thomas

Professor N. Narayana Rao Scholarship Award

• Jung Ki Lee
• Neela Kausik

Robert C. MacClinchie Scholarship

• Ananya Kommalapati

Robert M. Janowiak Scholarship

• Yiyan Zhang

Russell E. Berthold Scholarship

• Alexander Romo
• Jace Haas
• Jiho Choi

Samsung Technology Track Scholarships
ECE student-recipients:

• Akshat Mehrotra
• Allen Zhang
• Buffett Lee
• Dante Vasudevan
• George Granskog
• Heejin Ryu
• Jack Schnepel
• Jaelynn-Darshawn Abdullah
• Konark Dhingreja
• Lewei (Eric) Tang
• Mahir Koseli
• Matilde Figueroa-Carrillo
• Matthew Wang
• Nandika Vuyyuri
• Omkar Kulkarni
• Parithimaal Karmehan
• Phuvit Thirasuntrakul
• Rohan Samudrala
• Sudheep Iyer
• Victor Yu
• Yibai Wang

Engineering Physics student-recipients:

• Liam Crandall

MatSE student-recipients:

• Andrew Lum
• Anthony Hyatt
• Cesar Gaona
• Christian Papachristodoulou
• Chun-Chia Tsai
• Cristian Herard
• Hayden Gantt
• Jay Kwon
• Jessica Sun
• Mark Cheng
• Muhammad Saleem- Awan
• Pinak Tripathi
• Punn Chotiprasidhi
• Ryan Bushell
• Yunhang Tao

Sparking Curiosity Scholarship

• Ethan Ran
• Jacob Poeschel

The Robert E. Lepic Electrical Engineering Scholarship

• Thomas Boston
• Sai Venkatakrishnan
• Terence Zeng

TIA - Robert William Pullen Foundation Scholarship

• Joel Jothiprakasam

Varshney Family Scholarship

• Yiming Gong

Vincent A. and Janet O'Brien Scholarships

• Ediz Canigur
• Daniel Duffy
• Juan Pablo Jimenez
• Nikita Rudrapati
• Theodore Braun

William J. Mayer Engineering Scholarship

• Annabelle Epplin
• Bryson Maedge
• Hyrum Dickinson
• Jay Lee
• Joseph Caya
• Joseph Hanger
• Mason Hudspath

 

Undergraduate Award Winners

Please visit the Scholarships and Awards page for more detailed information.

A.R. "Buck" Knight Award

• Savanna Pagan

Daniel W. and Carol A. Dobberpuhl Student Award

• Jizheng He

Donald L. Bitzer and H. Gene Slottow Creativity Award

• Griffin Rzonca
• David Mengel
• Benjamin Kim

Edward and Margaret Ernst Award

• Christopher Xu

Edward C. Jordan Award

• Charlie Plonski
• Binh Minh Nguyen
• Bill Yang
• Tim Zhao
• Aiden Rodgers
• Ethan Thieme
• Ian Dailis

Ellery B. Paine Outstanding Junior Award

• Qiran Pang
• Ethan Ran
• Cain Gonzalez

John Bardeen Undergraduate Award

• Luke Granger

Justin David Cunningham Memorial Award

• Ryan Horstman

M. Stanley Helm Award

• Yogavarshini Velavan

Marcia Peterman Memorial Award

• Charles Plonski
• Ethan White
• Jingyi Xiang

Michael E. Napier Memorial Award

• Cameron Little

Paul R. Egbert Memorial Award

• Jai Anchalia

Robert H. Jung and Lisa J. Chan Award in Electrical Engineering

• Mohammad El-Jawhari

Siddharth "Sid" Muthal ECE Undergraduate Student Memorial Entrepreneur of the Year Award

• Shane Olson

Timothy N. Trick Leadership Award

• Jiaru Zou

William C. Kerchner Award

• Joseph Caya

 

Graduate Fellowship Recipients

Please visit the Graduate Student Fellowships page for more detailed information.

A.R. "Buck" Knight Fellowship

• Andre Schreiber 
• Gonzalo Núñez Muñoz 
• Haneul Kim
• Jianqiao Peter Xiao
• Michael Stoens
• Scott Smith
• Yijin Wang 
• Yongxin Li 
• Yu-Han Huang
• Zongweiyang Xu

Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship

• Muhammad Husnain Mubarik
• Yuqi Xue

Dilip and Sandhya Sarwate Graduate Fellowship

• Austin Lu

Dr. Ok Kyun Kim Fellowship

• Hanchen Ye
• Jindou Shi

E. A. Reid Fellowship

• Ankan Ghosh Dastider
• Austin Ellis-Mohr
• Kel Levick

ECE Distinguished Research Fellowship

• Adarsh Muthuveeru Subramaniam
• Arjit Bali
• Chun Ying Hou [Jun Ying Ho]
• Erin Raftery [AIR-in RAFT-Er-ee]
• Jaehoon Choi
• John Bullock [bull-luck]
• Judith Hutson
• Milind Kumar
• Mohamed Aly [mu-ham-mad al-ee]
• Rebecca Golm
• Shubham Kumar [Shoe-bum Kumar]
• Xizheng Fang
• Yu-Han Huang
• Zhuoran Han

ECE Fellowship

• Soumil Chaubal

Harriett and Robert Perry Fellowship

• Listowell Appiah
• Ram Krishna

Hong, McCully, and Allen Fellowship

• Xingang Guo

Hoveida Family Foundation Fellowship

• Andrew Freeman
• William Vavrik

James M. Henderson Fellowship

• Aiden Jung
• Alex Zhang
• Ameya Sameer Anjarlekar
• John Pohovey 
• Kewei Song
• Nina Ayar 
• William Vavrik 
• Yingbing Huang

Joan & Lalit Bahl Fellowship

• Akhil Bhimaraju 
• Anuj Maheshwari
• Moulik Choraria
• Raj Kiriti Velicheti
• Ram Padmanabham 
• Samyak Rawlekar
• Sourya Sengupta
• Sweta Sahoo
• Viraj Shah
• Yashaswini Murthy

John Bardeen Fellowship in ECE

• Archishman Saha
• Chloe Armstrong
• Kewei Song

Linda Su-Nan Chang Sah Doctoral Fellowship

• Huyen Nguyen

Promise of Excellence Fellowship

• Archishman Saha 
• Chloe Armstrong
• Devon Lee 
• Ge Cao
• Imane Hankour
• Jorge Chavez
• Kamila Abdiyeva
• Kewei Song
• Mohamed Aly 
• Nina Ayar 
• Shubham Kumar 
• Teague Mitchell
• William Vavrik 
• Xiaodong Ye
• Zetai Liu

Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship

• Gerasimos Gerogiannis
• Renan Rojas Gomez
• Xiangyuan Zhang
• Yan Sun

Sundaram Seshu International Student Fellowship

• Anjana Samarakoon 

Tadao Murata Graduate Fellowship

• Muhammad Talal Khalid
• Xiaodong Ye

 

Graduate Award Winners

Please visit the Graduate Student Awards page for more detailed information.

Andrew T. Yang Research and Entrepreneurship Award

• Arjun Gupta
• Zhuoran Han

Dr. Eric K. Walton Graduate Award

• David Mitchell

Elsa and Floyd Dunn Award

• Yibo Zhao
• Shensheng Zhao
• Refik Mert Cam
• YiRang Shin

Gregory Stillman Semiconductor Graduate Research Award

• Haonan Wu
• Hanwool Lee

Harold L. Olesen Award

• Jason Paximadas
• Sumedh Vemuganti
• Sung Woo Jeon
• Pranay Sen
• Anjana Samarakoon 

John Bardeen Memorial Graduate Research Award

• Shudong Huang

Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Graduate Award

• Anna Winnicki

Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award

• Yu-Chieh Chiu
• Junzhe Kang
• Swetapadma Sahoo
• Bora Kim
• Jaekwon Lee
• Yanyu Xiong
• Siyuan Wang

Paul D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award

• Amr Ghoname
• Hanwei Wang
• Christopher Ryu
• Stasiu Chyczewski

Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award

• Qi Jian Lim

Robert T. Chien Memorial Award in Electrical Engineering

• Taha Ameen ur Rahman

Shun Lien Chuang Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Education

• Aditya Narayan Ravi

Wen-mei W. Hwu Graduate Award

• Jiaqi Lou

Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung Graduate Research Award

• Yongzhou Chen

Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Graduate Research Award

• Emerson Sie

Knights of St. Patrick - Grainger College of Engineering 

• Cornell Horne, Jr. 
• Daniel Cain Gonzalez

Grainger Power Engineering Awards

• Nick Bergerhouse
• Alex Buchheit
• Nicholas Hartmann
• Abigail Kokal
• Qingyuan Liu
• Alex Lymberopoulos
• Soham Manjrekar
• Grant McKenchie
• Jason Paximadas
• Aidan Rodgers
• Griffin Rzonca 
• Nicole Stowoski
• Jack Viebrock
• Yijin Wang 
• Ethan Williams
• Macrae Wilson
• Brian Wolhaupter
• Jason Wuerffel
• Connie Yun