Annual Awards and Honors - Past Recipients

The William A. “gus” Baird Faculty Teaching Award	2020 - John Stasko 2019 - Prasad Tetali 2018 – Eric Vigoda 2017 – Ashok Goel 2016 – Alex Orso 2015 – Dana Randall 2014 – Mark Guzdial 2013 – Eric Vigoda 2012 – Tom Conte 2011 – Chris Peikert 2010 – Colin Potts 2009 – Milena Mihail 2008 – H. Venkateswaran 2007 – Amy Bruckman 2006 – Charles Isbell 2005 – John Stasko 2004 – Kishore Ramachandran 2003 – Olin Shivers 2002 – Irfan Essa 2001 – Mark Guzdial 2000 – Dana Randall 1999 – Gregory Turk 1998 – Ashwin Ram 1997 – Gregory Abowd 1996 – Ken Calvert 1995 – Larry Hodges 1994 – Ashok Goel 1993 – Richard Fujimoto 1992 – Gil Nieger
Outstanding Senior Faculty Research	2020 - Le Song 2019 - Ling Liu 2018 – Milos Prvulovic 2017 – Gregory Abowd 2016 – Srinivas Aluru 2015 – Keith Edwards 2014 – David Bader 2013 – Greg Turk/Ashok Goel 2012 – Prasad Tetali 2011 – James Rehg 2010 – Haesun Park 2009 – Wenke Lee 2008 – Santosh Vempala 2007 – Eric Vigoda 2006 – Dana Randall & Gregory Abowd 2005 – Irfan Essa 2004 – Karsten Schwan 2003 – Mustaque Ahamad 2002 – Jarek Rossignac 2001 – Ron Arkin 2000 – Janet Kolodner 1999 – Vijay Vazirani 1998 – Karsten Schwan 1997 – Mustaque Ahamad 1996 – Kishore Ramachandran 1995 – Richard Fujimoto 1994 – Amihood Amir 1993 – Mostafa Ammar 1992 – Mustaque Ahamad
Outstanding Junior Faculty Research	2020 - Alexander Endert 2019 - Byron Boots 2018 – Dhruv Batra & Richard Peng 2017 – Hadi Esmaeilzadeh 2016 – Mayur Naik 2015 – Polo Chau 2014 – Le Song 2013 – Chris Peikert 2012 – Mark Riedl 2011 – Alexander Gray, Hyesoon Kim & Andrea Thomaz 2010 – Karen Liu & Rich Vuduc 2009 – Gabriel Loh 2008 – Nick Feamster 2007 – Charles Isbell 2006 – Jun (Jim) Xu 2005 – Subhash Khot 2004 – Yannis Smaragdakis 2003 – Sven Koenig 2002 – Amy Bruckman 2001 – Irfan Essa, Beth Mynatt, Greg Turk 1999 – Gregory Abowd & Leonard Schulman 1998 – Mark Guzdial 1997 – Ellen Zegura 1996 – Jessica Hodgins 1995 – John Stasko 1994 – Ashwin Ram
William D. "Bill" Leahy Jr. Outstanding Instructor Award	2020 - Mark Moss 2019 - Mary Hudachek-Buswell 2018 – Melinda McDaniel 2017 – David Joyner 2016 – Monica Sweat 2015 – Jay Summet 2014 – Monica Sweat 2013 – Rosa Arriaga 2012 – Kristin Marsicano 2011 – Jay Summet 2010 – William Leahy 2009 – Russell Clark 2008 – Ada Gavrilovska 2007 – Robert Waters 2005 – Monica Sweat 2003 – Bill Leahy 2002 – Christopher Jermaine 2001 – David Smith 2000 – Jim Greenlee
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award	2020 - John Stasko 2019 - Sham Navathe 2018 – Gregory Abowd 2017 – Dana Randall 2016 – Amy Bruckman 2015 – Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura 2014 – Kishore Ramachandran 2013 – Richard Fujimoto 2012 – Nancy Nersessian 2011 – Irfan Essa
Outstanding Research Scientist	2020 - Harish Ravichander 2019 - Stefan Lee 2018 – Jeff Young 2017 – Barbara Ericson & Jason Riedy 2016 – Carrie Bruce 2015 – Jaegul Choo 2014 – Russ Clark 2013 – Agata Rozga 2012 – Rosa Arriaga
Outstanding Post-Doctoral Research	2020 - No Award Given 2019 - Harish Ravichandar 2018 – John Wilmes 2017 – Anup Rao 2016 – Changwoo Min 2015 – James Clawson 2014 – Ruta Mehta 2013 – Stephen Lee-Urban 2012 – Lev Reyzin
Outstanding Staff & Service Award	2020 - Francella Tonge & Anna Stroup-Holladay 2019 - Josh Preston 2018 – Carlos Batist & Della Phinisee 2017 – Kenya Payton 2016 – Wes Kirkbride 2015 – Dawn Rutherford 2014 – Carolyn Young, Arlene Washington 2013 – Chrissy Hendricks 2012 – Elizabeth Ndongi 2011 – Kathy Cheek & Dani Denton 2010 – Holly Rush 2009 – Alan Glass & Don Schoner 2008 – Julie Williams & Arlene Washington 2007 – Francine Lyken & John David Sturgill 2006 – LerVerne Davis, Ylonda Moore & Becky Wilson 2005 – Jennifer Chisholm & Barbara Binder 2004 – Carla Bennett & Chelcea Warren 2003 – Jennifer Chisholm & Cathy Dunnahoo 2002 – Cathy Beam & Jack Ramsey 2001 – Dan Forsythe & Chrissy Hendricks 2000 – Christine McMahan, Uwanna Smith & Susan Jackson 1999 – Barbara Durham & Linda Williams 1998 – Eric Trevena & Rashmi Patel 1997 – Cathy Dunahoo & Gwen Baker 1996 – Sheronda Minton & Pam Craig 1995 – Peter Wan & De Angela Duff 1994 – Susan Haglund & Jalisa Norton 1993 – Joan Morton
Outstanding Supervisory Staff & Service Award	2020 - LaDonna Cherry 2019 - Marcus Johnson 2018 – Arlene Washington-Capers 2017 – Ashtria Jordan 2016 – Ben Powell 2015 – Jennifer Chisholm 2014 – Michael Terrazas 2013 – Brian Crowell 2012 – Brendan Streich 2011 – Charmion Richards 2010 – Randy Carpenter
Outstanding Staff for Community Leadership	2020 - Jan Morian 2019 - Alyshia Jackson 2018 – Pam Ruffin 2017 – Kyla Reese 2016 – Marcus Johnson
Outstanding Staff for Team Spirit Award	2020 - Kristen Perez
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant	2020 - Jacob Meyers & Elie Diaz 2019 - Tanner Muldoon 2018 – Lucas Christian 2017 – Saurabh Kumar 2016 – Justin "Eric" Cook 2015 – Kate Harlan 2014 – Alexander Clegg 2013 – William Bruce Barr III 2011 – Vu Ha 2010 – Dilan Manatunga 2009 – Kathryn Long 2008 – Tammy Clegg (Honorable Mention - Antonio Salazar) 2007 – David Schachter 2006 – Blake Patrick O’Hare 2005 – Mary Ellen Harmon 2004 – Jason Whitehurst & James Malcolm 2003 – Bryan Kennedy 2002 – Anthony Gelsomini 2001 – Dan Lerner 2000 – John Molnar 1999 – Choo Yei Chong 1998 – Paul Griswold 1997 – Mark Canup
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant	2020 - Joshua Fox & Caleb Voss 2019 - Tohid Shekari 2018 – Pranit Shah 2017 – Will Johnson 2016 – Bobbie Eicher, Stefano Fenu 2015 – David Joyner & John Turner 2014 – Muhammad Shahbaz 2013 – Eric Crockett & Marat Dukhan 2012 – Ralph Dunlap 2011 – Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram 2010 – Chinmay Karande 2009 – Christina Gardner 2008 – Dave Lillethun & Valerie Henderson-Summet 2007 – Jessica Paradise-Elliott 2006 – Ryan Riegel 2005 – Jason Elliott 2003 – Elaine Huang 2002 – Martin Geier 2001 – Gabriel Brostow & Ion Mandoiu 2000 – Ion Mandoiu & David Dagon 1999 – Scott McCrickard 1998 – Kamal Jain 1997 – Idris His 1996 – Francisco Torres-Rojas 1995 – Ivan Yanasak 1994 – Kiran Panesar 1993 – Terry Kane 1992 – Greg Eisenhauer
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant	2016 – Taekyu Kim 2009 – Matthew McCawley & Brian Stebar 2008 – David Rutter (Honorable Mention - James Robinson) 2007 – Steven French 2006 – Andrew Russell Guillory 2005 – Matthew Bowman 2004 – Ilya Bagrak
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant	2020 - Sanidhya Kashyap & Brianna Tomlinson 2019 - Abhishek Das, Aradhya Biswas, Harshit Gupta 2018 – Arjun Srinivasan & Cheng Zhang 2017 – Xin Zhang 2016 – Yichen Wang 2015 – Nan Du 2014 – Alex Zook, Anand Louis, Jae Woong Sim 2013 – Eric Crockett, Marat Dukhan & Cong Shi 2012 – Swaroop Vattam 2011 – Marshini Chetty & Pushkar Tripathi 2010 – Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Atish Das Sarma, Erika Poole, Chris Wojtan 2009 – Christopher LeDantec 2008 – Kamesh Madduri, Grant Schindler, Samantika Subramaniam (Honorable Mention - Spencer Brubaker) 2007 – Shwetak Patel & Qi Zhao 2006 – Xiaotong Zhuang 2005 – Vivek Kwatra 2004 – Yoichiro Endo 2003 – Amin Saberi 2002 – Arno Schoedl & Yaxin Liu 2001 – Jen Mankoff & William Murdock 2000 – Anind Dey 1999 – David Brogan & Kamal Jain 1998 – James O’Brien 1997 – Ian Smith 1996 – Tucker Balch 1995 – Anand Sivasubramaniam 1994 – George Rouskas 1993 – Samir Das 1992 – Anurag Gupta
Outstanding Undergraduate Research	2020 - Siwei (Bob) Li 2019 - Shyamal Patel 2018 – Dezhi Fang & Jason Wu 2017 – Angela Vujic 2016 – Taekyu Kim 2015 – Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin 2013 – Matthew Guzdial 2012 – Daniel Castro 2011 – Mebaa Kidane 2010 – Stewart Butler 2009 – Megan Elmore 2007 – Steven Dalton 2003 – James H. Hays
Outstanding Freshman	2020 - Omar Shaikh 2019 - Gabrielle (Gabby) Germanson 2018 – Angelik Laboy 2017 – Clifford Panos 2016 – Rhea Chatterjee 2015 – Chez Browne 2014 – Kartikay Kini 2013 – Stephanie Wen Su 2012 – Sanat Moningi 2011 – Alissa Hartenbaum 2010 – William Barr 2009 – Linda Huynh 2008 – Ajai Mudaliar Karthikeyan 2007 – Christopher Sladky 2006 – Jeffrey David Starker II
Outstanding Sophomore	2020 - Prerna Ravi 2019 - Riya Agrawal 2018 – Adam Hayward 2017 – Marc Marone 2016 – Clayton Lawrence 2015 – Joshua Morton 2014 – Kartikay Kini 2013 – Galen Hughes 2012 – Naomi Robert 2011 – Taylor Wrobel 2010 – Joy Buolamwini 2009 – Ajai Karthikeyan 2008 – Daniel Grim 2007 – Michael Hale 2006 – Joshua Issac Silver 2005 – Shaun Duncan 2004 – Kyle Mahan 2003 – Kyle Mahan 2002 – Jason Harmening 2001 – David Zurow 2000 – Seth Markle 1999 – Andrew Smith 1998 – Michael Anyiwo 1997 – Adam Tegen 1996 – Devon Ziegler 1995 – John Federovitch 1994 – Matthew Kressel 1993 – Daniel Bassett
Electronic Data Systems Rising Senior Award / Outstanding Junior	2020 - Mahima Chander 2019 - Sherry Sarkar 2018 – Madeline Ben-Yoseph 2017 – Aditya Vishwanath & Sean Flanagan 2016 – Kartikay Kini 2015 – Evangelia Spiliopoulou 2014 – Rachel Clark 2013 – Elise Leigh Livingston 2012 – Kelly Snyder 2011 – Cristina Gonzalez 2010 – Terris Johnson 2009 – Michael Slaughter 2008 – Bennett Wilson 2007 – Megan Leigh Elmore 2006 – Kathy Pham 2005 – Kelsey Martin Francis 2004 – Ahnil Chalwa 2003 – James Gruen 2002 – David Zurow 2001 – Ryan Dawe 2000 – Arief Sugianto 1999 – Jennifer Dempsey 1998 – Kevin Zykora 1997 – Robert Sumner 1996 – Zellyn Hunter 1995 – Brandon Craig Rhodes 1994 – Stephen Thorne 1993 – David Cardoze
Outstanding Senior	2020 - Nicholas Worthington 2019 - Stephanie Baione 2018 – Aditya Vishwanath 2017 – Jessica Rosenfield & Chelsi Cocking 2016 – Taylor Hartman 2015 – Nick Johnson 2014 – Alissa Hartenbaum 2013 – Hamilton Reid Baker 2012 – Linda Huynh 2011 – Corey Campbell 2010 – Emily Cribb
Outstanding Undergraduate	2010 – Michael Slaughter 2009 – Jennifer Whitlow 2008 – Sweta Vajjhala 2007 – David Schachter 2006 – Robert Ian Fitzpatrick 2004 – Kristin Vadas 2003 – Andrew D Hilton & Douglas K. Powers
MS Research Award	2020 - Vishvak Murahari 2019 - Viraj Prabhu 2018 – Prithvijit Chattopadhyay 2017 – Richard Li 2016 – Lalith Polepeddi 2015 – Kaushik Patnaik 2014 – Aravind MacHiry 2013 – Rohit Banga 2012 – Hrushikesh Mehendale 2011 – Akshay Sathe
7001 Research Project Award	2020 - Prithvijit Chattopadhyay & Myeongsoo Kim 2019 - Harsh Agrawal 2017 – Si Chen & David Heath 2016 – Ceara Byrne, Tianxin Tang
College of Computing Dissertation Award	2020 - Chirag Jain, Caitlyn Seim, Aishwarya Agrawal, Divya Mahajan 2019 - Cheng Zhang, Maia Jacobs, Peng Zhang 2018 – Benjamin Cousins, Lluís-Miquel Munguía Conejero, Jian Huang, & Briana Morrison 2016 – Sarah Miracle, David Joyner, Indranil Roy 2015 – Andreas Galanis, Srikanth Sundaresan 2014 – Alireza Fathi, Matthias Grundmann 2013 – Maya Cakmak, Kathekeyan Chandrasekaran, & Swaroop Vattam 2012 – Zhicheng Liu, Anirudh Ramachandran, Chris Wojtan 2011 – Grant Schindler 2010 – Charlie Brubaker
The Donald V. Jackson Fellowship	2020 - Anirudh Sarma, Morgan Chin, Vijay Thakkar 2019 - Aditi Shah, Cody O' Donnell, Anmol Chhabria 2018 – Sakshi Gandhi, Lindsay Kelly, James Mullenbach 2017 – Akhilesh Srikanth, Laurane Saliou, Devavret Makkar 2016 – Katherine Cannella, Aditi Dhar, Apurv Verma 2015 – Keith Frazer, Aashu Singh, John Turner 2014 – Zane Cochrane, Nick Olive, Sathya Gunasekaran 2013 – Ivan Sysoyev, Xiangyu Li, Elias Khalil 2012 – Chayong Lee, Kyel Ok, Surabhi Potnis, 2011 – Prashant Gaurav, Jennifer Kim, Stefano Parmesan, Varun Prusty 2010 – Ruban Monu & Subbanarasimhiah Harish 2009 – Abhisheak Iyer 2008 – Maria Konte 2007 – Angela Navarro 2006 – Mitchell Halpin 2005 – Kristin Vadas 2003 – Poonam Hattangady 2002 – Hailemelekot Seifu 2001 – Srividhya Srinivasan 2000 – Oleg Kolesnikov
Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship	2020 - Wendi Ren, Su Fang, Abhineet Deshpande, Tyler Landle 2019 - Hua Huang, Cusuh Ham, Pawan Suresh, Abhinaya Agrawal 2018 – Christopher Cassion, Brian Edmonds, Benson Ma, & Noah Posner 2017 – Varun Agrawal, Samyukta Sherugar, Rachel LeRoy 2016 – Emmanuel Amaro, Stefan Henneking, Lalith Polepeddi, Andrew Nelson 2015 – Hannah Kim, Joseph Min, Shaun Mosley, Vivek Trivedi 2014 – Danny Lee, Mukul Sati, Elias Khali, David Munoz, Douglas Mackey 2013 – Naomi Chopra, Nathan Osborne, Sadhana Devulapalli & Zhichen Xia 2012 – W. Jacob Cobb, Daniel Connelly, Jennifer Kim, Rohit Mathews 2011 – Michael Galvin, Ken Hartsook, Justin Ratcliffe, Arunabh Verma 2010 – Subhav Mital & Ruchi Goswami 2009 – Robert L. Miller 2008 – Michelle Kwasny 2007 – Roozbeh Mottaghi 2006 – Summer Adams 2005 – Dolapo Kukoyi 2003 – David White 2002 – Matthew Might 2001 – Michael Kaess 2000 – Steve Voida 1999 – Derrick Whittle 1998 – Bill Leahy
The Freeman Award	2013 – Umakishore Ramachandran 2012 – Merrick Furst 2011 – Ashwin Ram 2010 – Cedric Stallworth & Barbara Ericson 2009 – Kishore Ramachandran 2008 – Henrik Christensen 2007 – Leo Mark 2006 – Richard Fujimoto 2005 – Merrick Furst
The Dean’s Award	2020 - Tonya Peoples 2019 - David Joyner, David White 2018 – Gregory Abowd, Mostafa Ammar, Haesun Park 2017 – Tom Conte, Irfan Essa 2016 – Dana Randall 2015 – Srinivas Aluru 2014 – Nick Feamster, Alex Orso, Kishore Ramachandran, Michael Terrazas, Charles Isbell, David White 2013 – Cedric Stallworth 2012 – Henrik Christensen, Marcus Johnson, Dana Randall 2011 – Ellen Zegura & Aaron Bobick 2010 – Haesun Park 2009 – Janet Kolodner 2008 – Jim Foley 2007 – David Bader 2006 – Mark Guzdial, Charles Isbell & Tom Pilsch 2005 – Pamela Ruffin 2004 – Carla Bennett 2003 – Faculty: Beth Mynatt, Rich LeBlanc, Kishore Ramachandran, John Stasko, Ellen Zegura, Peter Freeman Staff: Faith Diehl 2002 – Students: Charles Hardnett, Daron Vroon, Jay Summet Staff: Linda Williams, Mary Alice Isle Faculty: Ellen Zegura, Mustaque Ahamad 2001 – Alton P. Jensen & Rich LeBlanc 2000 – Mary Alice Isele & Richard Fujimoto 1999 – Amy Bruckman & Irfan Essa 1998 – Al Badre & Phil Enslow 1997 – John Stasko 1996 – Vicky Jackson 1995 – Russ Shackelford 1994 – Janet Kolodner 1993 – David Leonard & Molly Croft 1992 – Jim Foley
James C. Edenfield Faculty Fellowship	2019 - Eric Vigoda 2018 – Rahul Basole 2017 – Bistra Dilkina 2016 – Mark Riedl
James D. Lester III Family Award	2020 - Vladimir Kolesnikov 2019 - Munmun De Chourdry 2018 – Duen Horng "Polo" Chau 2017 – Taesoo Kim 2016 – Jacob Eisenstein
The Raytheon Faculty Fellowship	2011 – Michael Best & Ellen Zegura 2010 – Irfan Essa & Guy Lebanon 2009 – Hyesoon Kim & Rich Vuduc 2008 – Keith Edwards 2007 – Santosh Vempala 2006 – Subhash Khot 2005 – Jim Rehg & Wenke Lee 2001 – Andre dos Santos & Jun Xu 2000 – Blair MacIntyre & Yannis Smaragdakis 1999 – Sven Koenig 1998 – Amy Bruckman & Jessica Hodgins 1997 – Gregory Abowd 1996 – Ken Calvert 1995 – Colin Potts
Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence	2019 - Neha Kumar 2018 – Amy Bruckman 2017 – Taesoo Kim 2016 – David Joyner 2015 – Mayur Naik 2010 – Alexander Gray 2012 – Mike Stillman 2012 – Rich Vuduc
Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award	2019 - Devi Parikh 2018 – Taesoo Kim 2017 – Neha Kumar 2016 – Hadi Esmaeilzadeh 2015 – Bistra Dilkina
Community Academic Service Entrepreneur Grant (CASE)	2010 – Ruban Monu
The InVenture Prize	2009 – Roger Pincombe
The Dave & Carrie Armento Scholarship	2012 – Ryan Jones 2010 – Jabari S. Worthy 2008 – Darryl Prince 2007 – Gary Mann 2006 – Joseph Chester Hardy 2005 – Darryl Prince 2004 – 2003 – Dennis Delgado 2002 – Chukwuemeka Okonkon 2001 – Belinda Nambooze 2000 – Tiffany Ross
The Bierne M. Prager Scholarship	2012 – Joonho Na 2011 – Jeffrey Bernard 2007 – Jason Power 2006 – James Richard Bailey 2005 – Daniel Uhrman 2003 – Brian S Whited

Outstanding Research Faculty Award

2020 - Ken Honea

2019 - Timothy Trent

2018 - Will Powell

Outstanding Staff for Team Spirit Award

2019 - Jennifer Chisholm, Charmion Richards

Outstanding Staff as a Rising Star Award

2019 - Panchita Smith

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