EECS 2025 Awards
Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl The Department would like to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our incredible EECS community by sharing some of the awards given by the department this year. Congratulations to all the winners!
Louis D. Smullin Award – Negar Reiskarimian
Jerome H. Saltzer Award – Manya Ghobadi
Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award – Justin Solomon
Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award – Tamara Broderick
EECS Digital Innovation Award – Max Goldman
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching – Jelena Notaros
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching – Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
EECS Outstanding Educator Award – Jacob Andreas
Kolokotrones Education Award – Shen Shen
Department Head Special Recognition Award
Myung-Hee Vabulas
Richard J. Caloggero Award
Zhi Xuan Tan
Carlton E. Tucker Award for teaching excellence
William A. Brandon
Peter F. Satterthwaite
Josiah J. McMenamy
Julian M. Zanders
Harold L. Hazen Award for teaching excellence
Luke A. Wagner
William Liu
Thana Somsirivattana
Ashar Farooq
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Keshav Gupta
Lydia J. Patterson
Pleng Chomphoochan
Lasya A. Balachandran
Emma Y. Jung
Nathan A. Shwatal
Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching excellence
Jason Li
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award (in AI)
Andy Li (supervised by Stefanie Mueller)
Alex C. Luchianov (supervised by Stefanie Mueller)
Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) UROP Award
Nikitha Thoduguli (supervised by Manolis Kellis)
Anna Pogosyants UROP Prize
Sarah A. Zhao (supervised by Manolis Kellis)
Robert M. Fano UROP Award
Pascal J.H. Passigan (supervised by Manolis Kellis)
George C. Newton UG Lab Prize
Tori A. Hagenlocker
Cathy Y. Hu
Heba I. Hussein
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award
Noah Wiley
Luc Gaitskell
David A. Chanen Writing Award
Charles A. Harmon
Alaina Kolli
Drew S. Geoly
Rose N. Alsalman
Zach D. Marinov
Dakota Goldberg
David Adler Memorial EE MEng Thesis Award
Isabelle A. Quaye (supervised by Ronitt Rubinfeld)
Cassia B. Wang (supervised by Manolis Kellis)
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award
Anna Arpaci-Dusseau (supervised by Xuhao Chen/C. Leiserson)
Emma P. Tysinger (supervised by Manolis Kellis)
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making MEng Thesis Award
Ruowang Zhang (supervised by Stefanie Mueller)
Irene Yu-Lin Huang (supervised by Aude Oliva)
J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Practice Award
Vlada Petrusenko
Michael Lu
Jin Au Kong PhD Thesis in EE
Yiyue Luo (supervised by Wojciech Matusik, Tomas Palacios)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science
Anish R. Athalye (supervised by Nickolai Zeldovich /M. Frans Kaashoek)
Shyam Narayanan (supervised by Piotr Indyk)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award In Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Andrew Ilyas (supervised by Aleksander Mądry / Constantinos Daskalakis
Tobia Marcucci (supervised by (Russell Tedrake / Pablo Parrilo)
William A. Martin SM Thesis Award in Computer Science
Yuheng Yang (supervised by Mengjia Yan)
Seyoon Ragavan (supervised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan)
Ernst A. Guillemin SM Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
Laurentiu Lucian Anton (supervised by Marija Ilic)
Emma Wawrzynek (supervised by Jeffrey Lang)
Ernst A. Guillemin SM Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Kiril A. Bangachev (supervised by Guy Bresler)
Haike Xu (supervised by Piotr Indyk)
Behring Foundation Prize
Lucas Shoji
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