Student Awards Banquet 2025

Welcome to the 2025 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 (GF, vegan without ranch)

• Herbed Salmon with Mustard Cream Sauce

• Chicken Marsala

• Cauliflower Puttanesca (vegetarian entree)

• Herb-Crusted Yukon Gold Potatoes (GF, Vegan)

• Sauteed Seasonal Vegetables in Herbed Olive Oil (GF, Vegan)

• Assorted Breads & Rolls (Vegan, DF options available)

• Blueberry Cobbler Cheesecake (Vegan, DF options available)

• Iced Water, Iced Tea, and Coffee

 

Scholarship Recipients

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

Ackmann Family Scholarship

• Junyan Bai
• Harsh Gupta
• Taowei Huang

Barbara H. and Brian L. Renwick Electrical Engineering Scholarship

• Jessica Gruber
• Elinor Simmons

Bradley A. Simmons Memorial Scholarship

• Steven Y M Chang
• Meredith Naylor
• Qiran (Wesley) Pang
• Chengyuan Peng
• Ribhav Sahu
• Yehya Sleiman Tellawi
• Lyuwei Su
• HaoChen (Simon) Xia

Bradley J. Griffis Endowed Scholarship

• Pradyun Narkadamilli

Brian and Sophie Leung Scholarship

• Yuxi Chen
• Jitao Li
• Yulun (Ben) Wu

Bruce C. Mather Memorial ECE Scholarship

• Anirudh Kumar
• Varun Singhal

Compall Family Scholarship (NEW)
Established by John and Caroline Compall

• Nicholas Kubiak
• Rina Manshuka

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

• Zachary Greening
• Kevin Kolesiak
• Marissa Lanz
• Christian Reynolds
• Kadin Shaheen

Donald R. and Arline D. Jeschke Scholarship

• James Pfeiffer
• Caroline Chang

Dr. Kenneth P. and Claire V. Gibbs Scholarship

• Samuel Ayodiran
• Alexandra Kerans
• Alfredo Velasquez Bustamante

Dr. Milton Feng Scholarship in ECE

• Suleymaan Ahmad
• Jizhen Chen

ECE Alumni Scholarship

• John Del (J. D.) Armedilla
• Sebastian Chamorro
• Alexander (Xander) Kick
• Nicholas Kubiak
• Alayna Li
• Clark Taylor
• Nikita Vasilyev
• Marcia Yu

ECE Visionary Scholarships

• Sumedha Chaudhari
• Vanessa Cortez
• Hannah Dinner
• Molly Hayden
• Vaayun Hurria
• Rohit Iyer
• Leo Lin
• Shanshan Lin
• Lucas Newman
• Duc Nguyen
• Ronit Rahman
• Rumaisa Rehman
• Rohil Saxena
• Isha Shah
• Emmanuella Valavanis
• Sooraj Vydyanathan
• Yash Warke
• Justin Yu

Eleftherios Polychronopoulos Scholarship

• Marco Frigo

Emma L. Marshall Scholarship

• Yehya Sleiman Tellawi

Ernest A. Tolli Memorial Scholarship

• Alfredo Angel
• Abel Garcia

Floyd E. Lundgren Scholarship

• Qinglin Ge

Frank C. Mock Scholarship

• Suleymaan Ahmad
• John Del (J.D.) Armedilla
• Sandra Georgy
• Hulya Goodwin
• Alayna Li
• Clark Taylor
• Marcia Yu
• Bryan Zhang

George A. and Ina M. Zehr Scholarship

• Ribhav Sahu

George and Cynthia Anner Scholarship (renewals from 2024)

• Aastha Grover
• Marco Frigo

Harriet and Robert Perry Scholarship

• Hengjia Yu
• Siying Yu

Henneman Scholarship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Ryan Liem

Henry O. Koehler Merit Scholarship

• Not awarded

Herbert Y. and Stella S. Chang Scholarship

• Jessica Sun
• Yibai Wang

Indira Gunda Saladi Engineering Research Prize

• Harsh Gupta
• Vishesh Prasad

Ingram Family Scholarship

• Mason Hudspath
• Arka Kolay
• Finnegan Meek
• Leo Page

Jeewan Singh and Simranjeet Kaur Ghuman Scholarship

• Hanna Chen
• Xinran (Kate) Hu

John and Sheila Woythal Scholarship

• Dhruv Dilbahgi
• Ian Hopkins
• Ritvik Kumar
• Andrew Min
• Abrar Murtaza
• Pradyun Narkadamilli
• Binh-Minh Nguyen
• Vinay Patel
• Jacob Poeschel
• Pranav Rajpal
• Bryan Zhang

John B. Pettegrew Scholarship

• Marissa Lanz
• Elinor Simmons

John P. Desmond Electrical and Computer Engineering Scholarship

• Rani Alhayek
• Alfredo Angel
• Randolph Miguel Ayala
• Colby Steber
• Saipranav (Sai) Venkatakrishnan
• Allen Wu

Joseph W. Lyding Endowed Scholarship

• Richard Bi
• Jizheng He

Jules D. Falzer Memorial Scholarship

• Dominic Andrejek
• Stephanie Leigh
• Ethan Lin
• Evan Schmitz
• David Thomas
• Adam Tsouchlos
• Evan Zhao

Kaskowitz Family Scholarship

• HaoChen (Simon) Xia

Kwon Family Scholarship Fund

• Hanna Chen

Lauren Kelley Memorial Scholarship

• Aarushi Aggrwal
• Grace Huang

M. A. Pai Scholarship

• Anubhav Bose

Mang Chi Chan Memorial Scholarship

• Jessica Gruber

Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Rising Senior Scholarship (NEW)
Established by a former student of Nick Holonyak, Jr.

• Dhruv Dilbaghi
• Sizhe (Jaden) Li

Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Scholarship

• Alexander Kick

O. Thomas and Martha S. Purl Scholarship

• Aarushi Aggrwal
• Dhruv Dilbaghi

Oakley Scholarship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Jintong Hou
• Avneet Kaur
• Kathleen Lum
• Rina Manxhuka
• Sigrior Vauhkonen
• Samridhi Verma
• Brooke Zhang

Omron Electrical Engineering Scholarship

• Phillip Chen
• Phuvit Thirasuntrakul
• Zhuoer Zhang

Peter W. Sauer Scholarship

• Sandra Georgy
• Cameron Little
• Evan Schmitz
• Jonathan Sengstock

Professor G.H. Fett Memorial Scholarship

• Lucas Brower
• Jay Lee
• Michael Misura

Professor N. Narayana Rao Scholarship Award

• Parithimaal Karmehan
• Tianyang (Jerry) Wu

Robert C. MacClinchie Scholarship

• Alec Thompson (graduated in December)

Robert M. Janowiak Scholarship

• Arrhan Bhatia

Russell E. Berthold Scholarship

• Jonathan Sengstock
• Gabriel Valles

Sparking Curiosity Scholarship

• Andrew Tobin

The Robert E. Lepic Electrical Engineering Scholarship  

• Samuel Ayodiran
• Abel Garcia
• Hulya Goodwin
• Alexandra Kerans
• Nikita Vasilyev

TIA - Robert William Pullen Foundation Scholarship

• Jialin (Alan) Lu

Varshney Family Scholarship

• Tong Li

Vincent A. and Janet O'Brien Scholarships

• David Biruduganti
• Theodore Braun
• Nikita Rudrapati
• Ediz Canigur
• Gianna Gong
• Louise Heaton
• Miles Kubik
• Nicole Liang
• Katherine Li

William J. Mayer Engineering Scholarship (renewals)

• Annabelle Epplin
• Hyrum Dickinson
• Jay Lee
• Joseph Caya
• Joseph Hanger

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Undergraduate Award Winners

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

A.R. "Buck" Knight Award

• Arhan Goyal
• Evan Schmitz
• Rawnie Singh

Daniel W. and Carol A. Dobberpuhl Student Award

• Jizheng He
• Jacob Poeschel
• Ethan Ran
• Kevin Kolesiak

Donald L. Bitzer and H. Gene Slottow Creativity Award

• Ayush Garg

Edward and Margaret Ernst Award

• Ayush Garg

Edward C. Jordan Award

• Milosh Sasic
• Cameron Little
• Vishesh Prasad
• David Mengel
• Benjamin Kim
• Richard Bi

Ellery B. Paine Outstanding Junior Award

• Dhruv Dilbaghi
• Ryan Liem
• Tony Liu

John Bardeen Undergraduate Award

• Evan Schmitz

Justin David Cunningham Memorial Award

• Ryan Ilgen

Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Graduate Award

• John Goeken

M. Stanley Helm Award

• Alec Loessy
• Sandra Georgy

Marcia Peterman Memorial Award

• Richard Bi
• Arhan Goyal

Michael E. Napier Memorial Award

• Ahmed Shafiuddin

Paul R. Egbert Memorial Award

• Cameron Little

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

• Hulya Goodwin

Carolyn Shimabukuro Memorial Award (NEW)
Established by the parents of Carolyn Shimabukuro, former ECE student, in her memory, to support undergraduate graders, just like Carolyn

• Xiaohu Mu
• Lily Hyatt

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

• Michael Talapin
• Nithin Durgam

Steve T. and Nancy M. Highbarger Award

• Ayush Garg

Timothy N. Trick Leadership Award

• Harsh Gupta

Graduate Fellowship Recipients

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

A.R. "Buck" Knight Fellowship

• Scott Smith
• Yu-Han Huang
• Haneul Kim
• Yongxin Li (graduated fall 2024)
• Gonzalo Núñez Muñoz
• Andre Schreiber
• Michael Stoens
• Yijin Wang
• Jianqiao Xiao (graduated fall 2024)
• Zhongweiyang Xu

Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship

• Yuqi Xue

Dilip and Sandhya Sarwate Graduate Fellowship

• Dwip Dalal

Dr. Ok Kyun Kim Fellowship

• Jindou Shi
• Hanchen Ye

E. A. Reid Fellowship

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

ECE Distinguished Research Fellowship

• Mohamed Aly
• Archishman Saha
• Chloe Armstrong
• Sebastian Armstrong
• Arjit Bali
• Ryan Billings
• John Bullock
• Xizheng (Jimmy) Fang
• Zhuoran Han
• Imane Hankour
• Chun Ying Hou
• Yu-Han Huang
• Samuel Jung
• Shubham Kumar
• Adarsh Muthuveeru Subramaniam
• Erin Raftery
• Milind Vaddiraju

Harriett and Robert Perry Fellowship

• Listowell Appiah
• Ram Krishna

Hong, McCully, and Allen Fellowship

• Xingang Guo

Hoveida Family Foundation Fellowship

• Ryan Horvath
• Sebastian Armstrong

James M. Henderson Fellowship

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

Joan & Lalit Bahl Fellowship

• Akhil Bhimaraju
• Moulik Choraria
• Anuj Maheshwari
• Yashaswini Murthy
• Ram Padmanabhan
• Samyak Rawlekar
• Swetapadma Sahoo
• Sourya Sengupta
• Raj Kiriti Velicheti

Linda Su-Nan Chang Sah Doctoral Fellowship

• Huyen Nguyen

Promise of Excellence Fellowship

• Sebastian Armstrong
• Zoya Arshad
• Robert Bao
• Emily Becher
• Douglas Belgorod
• Ryan Billings
• Ze-Wei Chen
• Amr Elgamal
• Hubert Elly
• Yixiao Fang
• Ryan Horvath
• Nathaniel Irwin
• Samuel Jung
• Shubham Kumar
• Debojyoti Mazumdar
• Edward Wolski
• Alex Yuan
• Ege Yuceel
• Nan Zhang
• Zhiquan Zhang

Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship

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

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

• Nikita Duggar and Professor Lynford Goddard
• Yaokun Shi and Professor Kiruba Haran

Dr. Eric K. Walton Graduate Award

• Gabriel Muniz-Negron

Elsa and Floyd Dunn Award

• Wen Jin

Gregory Stillman Semiconductor Graduate Research Award

• Rajat Chakraborty
• Swetapadma Sahoo

Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award

• Vishal Rana
• Bill Yang

John Bardeen Memorial Graduate Research Award

• Stasiu Chyczewski
• Swetapadma Sahoo
• Haonan Wu

Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award

• Yulin He
• Weinan Liu
• Hanwool Lee
• Zetai Liu

Paul D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award

• Priyash Barya
• Kewei Song
• Siyuan Wang

Qualcomm Graduate Award

• Chaitanya Amballa
• Shuangliang Chen
• Aria Delmar
• Hieu Hoang
• Yuqi Xue
• Xiaodong Ye

Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award

• Yi Zhou

Robert T. Chien Memorial Award in Electrical Engineering

• Ameya Anjarlekar
• Alex Zhao
• Shensheng Zhao

Shun Lien Chuang Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Education

• Mick Gardner
• Andre Schreiber
• Xiaodong Ye

Wen-mei W. Hwu Graduate Award

• Gerasimos Gerogiannis
• Jiaxin Wan

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

• Yuqi Xue

Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Graduate Research Award

• Sangrui Luo

Knights of St. Patrick - Grainger College of Engineering 

• Eric Nieto Gonzalez
• Jaelynn Abdullah