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.

Recipients

2021-2022

Elfarouk Harb
Yuzheng Hu
Qinjun Jiang
Yao Yao

2020-2021

Mike Cinkoske
Carl Edwards
James Hulett
Charlotte Lambert
Kevin Ros
Chenkai Sun
Alex Vidal

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