ECE Student Awards and Recognition Banquet celebrates student achievements

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

Giving back to the community that allows The Grainger College of Engineering to thrive is fundamental to the mission of the University of Illinois. From programs for budding engineers to support for underrepresented groups, we make it our mission to spread the knowledge and possibilities that come from a world-class engineering institution.

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

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

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

These awards were not included in the program, because they have a separate celebration, but we wanted to acknowledge these students.

• 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