Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship
Saburo Muroga earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in 1958 and visited Illinois that summer while doing research at MIT. He noticed that the Illinois professors were much nicer to their students and he eventually became a professor here. Muroga is known for the mentoring of his graduate students. This fellowship was established by Shigenori Matsushita, a former Toshiba executive, to honor Professor Muroga, with whom he studied in 1962-1963. It is awarded to outstanding graduate students in computer science.
Past Recipients
| 2020-2021 |
Mike Cinkoske |
| 2019-2020 | Felipe Arias Brando Miranda Yuan Shen |
| 2018-2019 | Calvin Beideman Anant Dadu Silas Hsu Wenting Li Zhepei Wang |
| 2017-2018 | Ayoosh Bansal Isuru Fernando Ian Ludden Sameer Manchanda Omri Mor |
| 2016-2017 | Motahhare Eslami Allyson Kaminsky Shelby Lockhart Tong Meng |
| 2015-2016 | Colin Graber Seyed Amirhossien Mirhosseini Niri Alexandra Nilles Peter Sentz Pranjal Vachaspati |
| 2014-2015 | Chien-Nan Chen Gabriel-Alexandru Gyori Scott High |
| 2013-2014 | Apollo Ellis Farah Hariri Jiajun Lu Yusuf Cem Subakan Yu-Chun Yen |
| 2012-2013 | Bilge Acun Frederick Douglas |
| 2011-2012 | Hassan Eslami Ana Gainaru Kurtis Nussbaum Matthew Sinclair |
| 2010-2011 | Codruta Girlea Abhishek Gupta Qingxi Li Mingjie Qian Timothy Wentz |
| 2009-2010 | Milos Gligoric Jason Sauppe |
| 2008-2009 | Stephen Heumann Daniel Schreiber |
| 2007-2008 | Kamilah Taylor |
| 2006-2007 | Moushumi Sharmin Pratik Worah Ding Yuan |
| 2005-2006 | Ming-Wei Chang |
| 2004-2005 | Andrei Popescu |
| 2003-2004 | Xiaohui Gu Xue Liu |
| 2002-2003 | Joseph M. Kelley Patrick W. Lacz |