Michael S. Hughes Award in Software Engineering

Michael Hughes earned his BS in 1989 in computer science at the University of Illinois. An expert in network security, he is a software development manager for McAfee, the anti-virus unit of Network Associates. He established the Hughes Award for Software Engineering to encourage and reward achievement in software engineering. Until 2018, the award was given to CS undergraduate members of the best project completed in the software engineering sequence, CS 428.

Past Winners

2018 Chartr
Alexander Chang
Christian Cygnus
Pawel Galusza
Gabriel Hayat
Brian Kurek
Michael Rush
Shin Tangiuchi
Gian-Marco Valentino
2017 ExpOCR
Lanxiao Bai
Eric Barron
Daniel Cummins
Mihika Dave
Anthony Huang
Brianna Ifft
Vimal Patel
2016 Canvas Graph Creator:
Nicholas Kelly
Austin Kramer
Nicholas Lu
David Shechtman
Miles Teh
Matthew Yang
Allen Yao
2015 FreeJournal:
Brian Dahmen
Philip Daian
Andrew Kowalski
Walker Henderson
Daniel Zebroski
Wenxue Zhang
2014 FitMaster:
Mengqi Gu
Pengyu Ren
James Spotanski
Ke Yang
2013 SnapMeds:
Joel Dodge
Robert Heidkamp
Caleb Johnson
Onur Karaman
Matthew Omori
Zachary Wand
Thomas Zhang
Terence Zhao
2012 Infinite City:
Alexander Avang
Alex Decker
Daniel Rasmussen
Rohit Garg
Matthew Berry
Edie Liao
Paulo Llanes
George Morrison
2011 Musical Notepad:
Yanhang Guo
Justin Baird
Douglas Ferdinand
Basel Qumsiyeh
Marcin Zarycki
Ryan Benton
2010 Conferenceware:
Eric Dyoniziak
Daniel Freedman
Stoyan Gaydarov
Simo Leone
David Paola
Brian Sawicki
Nicholas Tenczar
James Wordelman
2009 Sphere:
Alexei Andreev
Kevin Berg
Joseph DiGiovanna
Marc Holden
Robert Lach
Michael So
Paul Taraszka