Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 

The Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award is designed to recognize and reward graduate teaching assistants for outstanding performance during the academic year in teaching and instruction in the department. 

2024: Steven Lamp, Aman Shrivastava  

2023: Ethan Blaser, Marshall Clyburn, Alex Kim, Nabeel Nasir, Adil Rahman  

2022: Liem Budzien, Hanjie Chen, Carl Hildebrandt, Will Leeson, Jingyun Ning, Farzana Ahmed Siddique 

2021: Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Jibang Wu, Fan Yao 

2020: Anastasia Lalamentik, Ishika Paul, Robert (Trey) West 

2019: Trent Weiss 

2018: Tanya Frank; Honorable Mention: Denny Anderson, Varundev Sukhil Suresh Babu, Chong Tang 

2017: Kevin Angstadt, Jack Lanchantin; Honorable Mention: Christopher (Jordan) Mincey, Anindya Prodhan 

2016: Chunkun Bo, Jinlong Feng 

2015: Erin Griffiths 

2014: Tung Dao 

2013: Liliya Besaleva, Andrew Frye, and Christopher Greenwood 

2012: Adam Brady, Nathan Brunelle, and Joel Coffman 

2011: Ryan Layer 

2010: Kinga Dobolyi and Krasimira Kapitanova 

2009: Chih-hao Shen 

2008: Claire Le Goues 

Outstanding Graduate Service Award 

The Outstanding Graduate Service Award goes to a graduate student that has devoted a significant amount of their time to service for the department, school, University, community, or any combination of these.  

2024: Matthew Clark, Tonmoy Hossain 

2023: Rachel McNamara, Nusrat Mozumder, Fateme Nikseresht 

2022: Soneya Binta Hossain 

2021: Yasunari Kato, Xida Ren 

2020: Jack Lanchantin, Josephine Lamp 

2019: Weilin Xu, Jack Lanchantin 

2018: Weilin Xu 

2017: Kevin Angstadt, Elahe Soltanaghaei 

2016: William Hawkins  

2015: Samyukta Jadhwani 

2013: Karolina Sarnowska-Upton 

2012: Adam Brady, Nathan Brunelle, and Joel Coffman 

2011: Joel Coffman and Luther Tychonievich 

2010: Marisabel Guevara, Krasimira Kapitanova and Ray Buse 

Outstanding Graduate Research Awards 

The Outstanding Graduate Research Award on behalf of the Computer Science Department goes to one or more graduate students in the department in recognition of their excellence in the quality of research carried out by that student. 

The John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award (established in 2019): 

Jack Stankovic’s students and academic family have committed a gift to establish in honor of Professor Jack Stankovic’s great mentoring and support of graduate student research. The John A. Stankovic Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award goes to a Computer Science Ph.D. student or students who have demonstrated excellence in research during the academic year. The students are nominated by their advisors and voted on by all faculty based on a description of the students' research highlights and achievements. Students receiving the John A. Stankovic Graduate Research award are indicated with an asterisk (*).  

2024: Sudipta Saha Shubha, Trey Woodlief, Zhepei Wei* 

2023: Hanjie Chen*, Soneya binta Hossain*, Jing Ma*, Anshuman Suri* 

2022: Yiling Jia*, Lu Lin*, David Shriver* 

2021: Megdi Huai*, Marzieh Lenjani*, Tianlu Wang* 

2020: Huazheng Wang*, Qingyun Wu*, Saeed Mahloujifar* 

2019: Elaheh Sadredini* 

Outstanding Graduate Research Award (2018 and earlier) 

2018: Zhuozhao Li, Saeed Mahlouji Far, Elaheh Sadredini, Asif Salekin, Suya, Tianlu Wang, Huazheng Wang, Beilun Wang, Qingyun Wu, Li Yan 

2017: Jack Wadden, Rita Singh; Honorable Mention: Qingyun Wu, Ankur Sarker, Zhuozhao Li, Lin Yan 

2016: Juhi Ranjan 

2015: Samee Zahur 

2014: Tanima Dey, Jack Wadden and Wei Wang 

2013: Robert Dickerson and Claire Le Goues 

2012: Joel Coffman, Jason Mars, and Shahriar Nirjon 

2011: Duane Merrill 

2010: Michael Holroyd and Yafeng Wu 

2009: Raymond Buse 

2008: Anthony Wood 

The Computer Science Department recognizes and gives awards to students at the end of each academic year for their exceptional achievements in teaching, service, and research. 

Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Chairperson Awards: These awards go to undergraduate students based on: (1) academic ability, (2) ability to get along with people, and (3) demonstrated ability to work hard. Students can be nominated for their research, or other achievements and contributions including teaching and service to the CS department. Recipients of the Louis T. Rader awards are indicated with an asterisk.  

Outstanding Teaching Award 

2024: Param Damle, Christopher Goodhart, Vagul Mahadevan*, Herin Seo (honorable mention) 

2023*: Nicki Choquette, Jade Heilemann, Paul Karhnak, Jack Liu, Jimmy Njugana, Evan Rose, Grant Sweeney, Alex White 

2022*: Caroline Britt, Kalman Buterbaugh, Nicki Choquette, Jack Goodman, Juliette Laburthe, Rachel McNamara, Sindhura Mente, Jimmy Njuguna, Maria Parnell, Faisal Refai, Jane Weng, Natalie Zhang 

2021*: Sky Chen, Michael Ferguson, Madison Flynn, Ibrahim Hamdy, Ann Hoang, Prithvi Kinariwala, Grant Matteo, Joey Rudek, Helen Shi, Karim Shoorbajee, Jonah Weissman, Alanna Zoscak 

2020*: Alex Lehmann, Cameron Lloyd, Jason Ashley, Michael Ferguson, Nadia Hassan, Sarah Meng, Sean Gatewood, Simranjit Bhatia, V Layne Berry, Winston Liu 

2019*: Sean Rastatter 

2018*: Sarah Bland, Zach Danz, Echo Li, Monique Mezher, Felix Park, Dominic Ritchey, Marina Sanusi, Elli Veer, Rachel Wicks, Virginia Wordsworth 

2017*: Sarah Bland, Kamille Foster, Sam Havron, Edward Kao, John Melloy, Bret Quigley, Lily Zamanali  

2016*: Iordan Trenkov, Stefanie Van Rafelghem, Nathaniel Rathjen, Jeremy Gabalski, Jacqueline Tran, David Amin 

2015*: Jim Roberts and Wil Thomason 

2014: Kevin McVey and Man Wang 

2013: Rebecca Boswell and Daniel Miller 

2012: Allison Light 

2011: Daniel Epstein and Kaitlin “Kate” McDowell 

2010: John Will 

2009: Lesley Elisabeth Hogan and Wolfgang Richter 

2008: George Wanant 

Outstanding Service Award 

These awards go to undergraduate students based on their hard work and service to the department. 

2024: Param Damle, Sammy Kee*, Jialin Tso, Christopher Marotta (honorable mention) 

2023: Emily Buerk, Victoria Clotet, Chris Marotta, Jialin Tso 

2022: Leonardo Acosta, Victoria Clotet, Param Damle, Joshua Devine, Devin Gardner, Jim Liang 

2021*: Zachary Goldstein, William Mayes, Kelvin Peng, Daniel Prohaska, Autumn Routt, Neil Singh 

2020*: Jake Smith, Madison Flynn, Sanjana Hajela 

2019*: Jake Smith 

2017*: Collin Berman, Cyrus Malekpour, Andrew Norton 

2016*: Martin Kellogg, Marina Sanusi 

2015*: Bethany Connor 

2014: Adam Campbell 

2013: Matt Henderson and Chris Jones 

2012: Dan Epstein 

2011: Briana Satchell 

2010: Chris Dodge 

2009: Wolfgang Richter and Elizabeth Soechting 

2008: Adrienne Felt   

Undergraduate Research Award 

These awards go to undergraduate students based on their exceptional contributions and excellence to computer science research.  

2024: Andrew Balch (honorable mention), Alexi Gladstone*, Deniz Olgun, Teeratham "TJ" Vitchutripop 

2023: Andrew Balch, Param Damle, Ann Li, John Link, Sara Liu, Evan Rose, Nicholas Wu, Teeratham Vitchutripop 

2022*: Nicholas Palmer 

2021*: Ethan Blaser, Henry Carscadden, Sonali Luthar, Jack Prescott, Lindsey Shavers, Zachary Yahn 

2020*: Alexander Hicks, Joshua Santana, Kevin Naddoni, Maxwell Patek, Michael Benos, Nathanael Strawser, Jack Morris, V Layne Berry, Soukarya Ghosh, James Yun 

2019*: Katherine Vinson 

2018*: Derrick Blakely, Eamon Collins, Sohan Kabiraj, Anant Kharkar, Ethan Lowman, Eric McCord-Snook, Jibang Wu, Alan Zhang 

2017*: Salah Assana, Sanil Rao, Jean Salac, Chandan Singh 

2016*: Martin Kellogg, Joseph Barrow, Harang Ju, Tara Raj 

2015*: Zeming Lin and Andi Yang 

2013: Jonathan Burket and Miles Gordenker 

2012: Virginia "Ginger" Smith and Rebecca Stewart 

2011: Ethan Fast 

2010: Ethan Fast 

2009: Wolfgang Richter and David Noble 

2008: Jen Dolson