Awards
Graduate Fellowship & Award Winners
CS graduate student award and fellowship winners for the past few years.
2011-2012 Awards
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship |
Mariyam Khalid, Muhammad Naveed, Rashid Tahir |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science |
Charles Blatti, Ryan Cunningham, Casey Hanson |
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Feng Chen Memorial Award |
Byn Choi, Yodsawalai Chodpathumwan, Nima Honarmand, Chi-Yao Hong, Pritish Jetley, Chia-Chi Lin, Rakesh Komuravelli, Robert Smolinski, Hyojin Sung, Arash Termehcy |
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Richard T. Cheng Endowed Fellowship |
Minje Kim, Yu Lin |
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Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship |
Jialu Liu |
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Chirag Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science |
Md Tanvir Amin |
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Computer Science Excellence Fellowship |
Manuel Lagang, Xiaolong Wang |
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Computer Science Graduate Symposium |
Cuong Pham (Outstanding Poster Presentation); Mark Richards (Outstanding Demo Presentation); Xun Gong, Amir Houmansadr, Giang Nguyen, Qiyan Wang (Outstanding Team Presentation) |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Hormozd Gahvari |
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C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award |
Yuanhua Lv |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Robert L. Bocchino Jr. (Ph.D.), Pooja Agarwal (M.S.) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Brittney Bullis, Mingcheng Chen, Nikhil Jain, Ryan Musa, Benjamin Raichel, Penelope Tsatsoulis, Haichuan Wang |
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C.L. and Jane W.S. Liu Award |
Milos Gligoric |
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Kenichi Miura Award |
Albert Sidelnik |
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Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship |
Hassan Eslami, Ana Gainaru, Kurtis Nusbaum, Matthew Sinclair |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Fall 2011 |
Ryan Cunningham, Charles Mooney, Raoul Rivas Toledano, James Tonyan, Vinod Vydiswaran |
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Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship |
Samuel Mussmann, Brandon Norick |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
Siva Kumar Hari |
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Siebel Scholars |
Swapnil Ghike, Harshitha Menon Gopalakrishnan Menon, Katrina Gossman, Akhil Langer, Nipun Sehrawat |
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International, National, and Corporate Awards |
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A*STAR Graduate Scholarship |
Mun Thye Mak |
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Facebook Fellowship, Honorable Mention |
Xin Jin, Yuanhua Lv |
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Intel Ph.D. Fellowship |
Abdullah Muzahid |
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Jump Trading Scholar |
Aleksandar Kravchenko |
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Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship |
Chi Wang |
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NSF Fellowship |
Marina Danilevsky |
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NSF Fellowship, Honorable Mention |
Anshu Arya, Yonatan Bisk, Jason Croft, Steven Dalton |
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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship |
Albert Sidelnik |
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Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship |
Brett Jones, Rajinder Sodhi |
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Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award |
Kai-Wei Chang, Arash Termehchy |
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Yahoo! Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Lucas Cook |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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Roy J. Carver Fellowship |
Frederick Douglas |
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CSE Fellowship |
Hossien Mobahi |
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Diffenbaugh Fellowship |
Casey Hanson |
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
Joshua Hailpern |
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Graduate College Fellowship |
Robert Deloatch |
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Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize |
Kevin Karsch |
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Mavis Future Faculty Fellow |
Abdullah Muzahid |
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SURGE Fellowship |
Robert Deloatch |
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Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship |
Shu Shi |
2010-2011 Awards
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sobaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship |
Rajesh Kumar Karmani, Mehwish Riaz |
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Richard T. Cheng Fellowship |
Matthew Michelotti |
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Chirag Foundation Fellowship |
Jason Croft |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship |
Ryan Cunningham |
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Computer Science Fellowship |
Quanquan Gu, Yun Young Lee, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Robert Smolinski |
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Feng Chen Memorial Award |
Sungjin Im, Benjamin Moseley |
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C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award |
Ali Farhadi |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Timothy Weninger |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Abhinav Bhatele (Ph.D.), Zhijun Yin (M.S.) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Charles Mooney |
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C.L. and Jane W.S. Liu Award |
Ian Endres |
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Saburo Muroga Fellowship |
Cordruta Girlea, Abhishek Gupta, Qingxi Li, Mingjie Qian, Timothy Wentz |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010 |
Wade Fagen, Simon Krueger, Chia-Chi Lin, Lance Pittman |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Spring 2011 |
Elena Caraba, Lawrence Erickson, Charles Meyer, Matthew Trower, Kai Zhao |
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Ray Ozzie Fellowship |
Peter Dinges |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
Pradeep Ramachandran |
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Siebel Scholars |
Kurchi Subhra Hazra, Tanmay Khirwadkar, Alexander Loeb, Joana M.F. da Trindade, Shivaram Venkataraman |
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Thomas Siebel Fellowship |
John Hall |
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Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship |
Matthew Trower |
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National and Corporate Awards |
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Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities: Student Design Gold Award |
Joshua Hailpern |
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DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship |
Kyle Fox |
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Facebook Fellowship, Honorable Mention |
Hemanta Maji |
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Fulbright Fellowship |
Anupam Das |
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Google Ph.D. Fellowship |
Maryam Karimzadehgan |
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IBM Ph.D. Fellowship |
Jing Gao, Eric Rozier |
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ACM/IEEE Computer George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship, Honorable Mention |
Sara Baghsorkhi |
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NDSEG Fellowship |
Kevin Karsch |
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NSF Fellowship |
Kevin Karsch, David Morrison, Jason Sauppe |
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NSF Fellowship, Honorable Mention |
Anshu Arya, Giang Nguyen |
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Samsung Electronic Human-Tech Thesis |
Keun Soo Yim (Gold Prize) |
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Yahoo! Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship |
Samira Tasharofi |
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Yahoo! Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Reza Zamani Nasab |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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CSE Fellowship |
Jehanzeb Hameed Chaudhry, Hossein Mobahi |
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Mavis Future Faculty Fellow |
Sara Baghsorkhi |
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Qualcomm Q Award Scholarship |
Sara Baghsorkhi |
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Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship |
Wanmin Wu |
2009-2010 Awards
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Fellowship |
Nima Honarmand, Maryam Karimzadehgan, Mehwish Riaz |
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Feng Chen Memorial Award |
Abhinav Bhatele, Hossein Mobahi, Praveen Jayachandran |
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Richard T. Cheng Fellowship |
Dae Hoon Park |
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Chirag Foundation Fellowship |
Chi Wang |
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Computer Science Department Fellowship |
Dennis Griffith |
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Computer Science Graduate Expo |
Brett Jones, Rajinder Sodhi: Outstanding Research Team Presentation; Juan Mancilla-Caceres: Outstanding Demo Presentation; Abdullah Akce: Outstanding Poster Presentation |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship |
Charles Blatti |
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C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award |
I-Hong Hou |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Nicholas Chen |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Deng Cai (PhD), Rajhans Samdani (MS) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Rishi Agarwal, Nathan Dautenhahn |
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C.L. and Jane Liu Award |
Dan Goldwasser |
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Saburo Muroga Fellowship |
Milos Gligoric, Jason Sauppe |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009 |
Lucas Cook, Charles Ellison, Alina Ene, Jacob Schroder, Shivaram Venkataraman |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010 |
Damion Mitchell, Onur Pekcan, Maurice Rabb, Erik Volkman |
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Ray Ozzie Fellowship |
Meghana Kshirsagar |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
Rodolfo Pellizzoni |
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Siebel Scholars |
Anthony Bergstrom, Raghu Ganti, Brett Jones, Yun Young Lee, Rajinder Sodhi |
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National and Corporate Awards |
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Google Ph.D. Fellowship |
Ali Farhadi, Eric Gilbert |
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IBM Ph.D. Scholarship |
Pradeep Ramachandran |
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Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship |
Pradeep Ramachandran |
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George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship |
Abhinav Bhatele |
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Microsoft Graduate Women's Scholarship |
Xide Lin |
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Dennis Weatherstone Pre-Doctoral Fellowship |
Joshua Hailpern |
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Yahoo! Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Brittany Smith |
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Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge |
Yuanhua Lv |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
Nitish Korula |
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Illinois Distinguished Fellow |
Andrei Stefanescu |
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Graduate College Fellowship for Underrepresented Students |
Steven Dalton |
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Mavis Memorial Scholarship Award |
Joshua Hailpern |
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SURGE Fellowship |
Steven Dalton, Alexander Mont |
2008-2009 Awards
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Fellowship |
Kavita Ganesan, Gourab Kundu, Samira Tasharofi |
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Richard T. Cheng Fellowship |
Ian Endres |
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Chirag Foundation Fellowship |
Elena Caraba |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship |
Stanley Bak, Brian Cho |
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C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award |
Eric Gilbert |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Nathan Wesling |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Abhinav Bhatele (MS), Daniel Dig (PhD) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Lawrence Erickson, Kyle Fox |
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C.L. and Jane Liu Award |
Yue Lu |
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Saburo Muroga Fellowship |
Stephen Heumann, Daniel Schreiber |
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Ray Ozzie Fellowship |
Patrick Simmons |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Spring 2009 |
Alina Ene, Brett Jones, Chia-Chi Lin |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
Pablo Montesinos |
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Siebel Scholars |
Albert Lucius, Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Daniel Rebolledo Samper, Rajhans Samdani, Nathan Wesling |
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National and Corporate Awards |
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IBM Ph.D. Fellowship |
Lin Tan |
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Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship |
Naveen Neelakantam |
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Qualcomm Q Award Scholarship |
Ying Huang |
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Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship |
Huong Luu |
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Yahoo! Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Wade Fagen |
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Yahoo! Ph.D. Fellowship |
Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanhui Wang |
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Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Competition |
Maryam Karimzadehgan, Kim Pham |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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Roy J. Carver Fellowship |
Oscar Sanchez Plazas |
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
Deng Cai |
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Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award |
Hossein Mobahi |
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SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award |
Hong Cheng (Certificate of Recognition) |
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SURGE Fellowship |
Lynda Yang |
2007-2008 Winners
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Fellowship |
Hossein Ahmadi, Shameem Ahmed, Rajesh Kumar, Anwar Zahid |
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Richard T. Cheng Fellowship |
Bolin Ding |
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Chirag Foundation Fellowship |
Kyungmin Bae |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship |
Stanley Bak, Brian Cho |
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Cultural Computing Program Fellowship |
Nathan Wesling |
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C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award |
Deng Cai |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Fariba Khan |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Luis Ceze (PhD), Dajna Shahaf (MS) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Xuehai Qian, Bo Zhao |
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C.L. and Jane Liu Award |
Praveen Jayachandran |
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Saburo Muroga Fellowship |
Kamilah Taylor |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Eric Bengtson |
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Ray Ozzie Fellowship |
Riccardoi Crepaldi |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
ManLap Li, Mircea-Radu Teodorescu |
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Siebel Fellowship |
Ellick Chan, Mark Gates, Patrick Meredith |
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Siebel Scholars |
Lyndsay Kron, Luiz Mendes, Stanislav Negara, Lukasz Wesolowski, Jingjin Yu |
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National and Corporate Awards |
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Fulbright Fellowship |
MD Uddin |
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IBM PhD Fellowship |
Soumyadeb Mitra |
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Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship |
Naveen Neelakantam, Mircea-Radu Teodorescu |
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Krell Institution Department of Energy Computationsl Science Graduate Fellowship |
Isaac Dooley |
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LASPAU Fellowship |
Esteban Meneses Rojas |
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Nvidia Fellowship |
Jared Hoberock |
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Qualcomm Q Award Scholarship |
Zheng Zeng |
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Verizon Foundation Scholarship |
Chun-cheng Cheng, Eric Gilbert, Lin Tan |
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Vodaphone Fellowship |
Vartika Bhandari, Qing Cao, Chun-Cheng Chen, Wenbo He, Praveen Jayachandran, Kirill Mechitov, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Ahmed Adel Sobeih, Yong Yang |
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Yahoo! PhD Fellowship |
Qiaozhu Mei |
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Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Competition |
Tao Cheng, Wanmin Wu |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
Danny Dig |
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Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award |
Tanya Crenshaw, Mark Richards |
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SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award |
Xiaoxin Yin (Winner) |
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SURGE Fellowship |
Brittany Smith |
2006-2007 Awards
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Department and Endowed Awards |
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Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Fellowship |
Kamal Gupta, Pavithra Prabhakar, Abdullah Al Muzahd, Saman Aliari Zonouz |
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Richard T. Cheng Fellowship |
Yuntao Jia |
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Chirag Foundation Fellowship |
Wade Fagen |
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Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship |
Erik Hinterbichler |
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Cultural Computing Program Fellowship |
Joshua Hailpern |
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C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award |
Wenbo He |
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Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award |
Alejandro Gutierrez |
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David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards |
Chao Lui (MS), Thadpong Pongthawornkamol (MS), Koushik Sen (PhD) |
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Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship |
Gopal Krishna, Yue Lu |
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C.L. and Jane Liu Award |
Qiaozhu Mei |
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Saburo Muroga Fellowship |
Moushumi Sharmin, Pratik Worah, Ding Yuan |
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
Viraj Kumar |
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Ray Ozzie Fellowship |
Zuoning Yin |
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W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award |
Shan Lu |
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Siebel Scholars |
William Baker, Daniel Hoeflinger, David Killian, Kashif Manzoor, Dafna Shahaf |
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National and Corporate Awards |
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Fulbright Fellowship |
MD Uddin |
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Krell Institution Department of Energy Computationsl Science Graduate Fellowship |
Isaac Dooley |
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LASPAU Fellowship |
Esteban Meneses Rojas |
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Analog Devices Fellowship |
Matthew Hicks, Paul Sack |
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Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship |
Tanya Crenshaw |
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IBM PhD Fellowship |
Karin Strauss |
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Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship |
Anh Nguyen |
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Verizon Foundation Scholarship |
Andra Ivan, Lin Tan |
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Vodaphone Fellowship |
Vartika Bhandari, Qing Cao, Chun-Cheng Chen, Wenbo He, Ahmed Adel Sobeih |
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Campus and College of Engineering Awards |
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Ross J. Martin Award |
Luis Ceze |
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Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award |
Wenbo He, Andrei Popescu |
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SURGE Fellowship |
Maurice Raab |
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