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
| 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 | Ana Gainaru Matthew Sinclair Hassan Eslami Kurtis Nussbaum |
| 2010-2011 | Abhishek Gupta Codruta Girlea Mingjie Qian Qingxi Li Timothy Wentz |
| 2009-2010 | Milos Gligoric Jason Sauppe |
| 2008-2009 | Daniel Schreiber Stephen Heumann |
| 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 |