CSE Graduate Student Award Recipients
CSE graduate students develop exciting technological innovations, pioneer new academic research directions, and exemplify instructional excellence in the classroom.
The award winner's major advisor's name is given in parentheses after the PhD student's name.
Awarded to one or more graduate students exemplifying extraordinary leadership
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2025 | Rebecca Abraham |
| 2024 | Mason Larry (Oliver Kennedy) |
| 2024 | Manasi Jadhav (Alina Vereshchaka) |
| 2023 | Bhavin Jawade (Venu Govindaraju) |
| 2022 | Yash Turkar (Karthik Dantu) |
| 2021 | Lavone Rodolph (Tevfik Kosar), Sougata Saha (Rohini Srihari) |
| 2020 | Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh (Mingchen Gao, Sargur Srihari) |
| 2019 | Darshana Balakrishnan (Oliver Kennedy) |
| 2018 | Subhadeep Karan (Jaroslaw (Jaric) Zola) |
| 2017 | Farshad Ghanei (Karthik Dantu) |
| 2016 | Michael Wehar (Ken Regan) |
| 2015 | Yunfei Hou (Chunming Qiao) |
Awarded to one or more graduate students who demonstrate significant participation in hands-on research under a faculty member.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2025 | Lu Dong (Ifeoma Nwogu) |
| 2024 | Wei Bo (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2023 | Yan Ju (Siwei Lyu), Isys Johnson (Atri Rudra) |
| 2022 | Darsh Nathawani, Jialian Wu (Junsong Yuan) |
| 2021 | Alan Romano (Weihang Wang), Liangchen Song (Junsong Yuan), Yi Zhu (Chunming Qiao) |
| 2020 | Shivang Aggarwal (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas), Aditya Rathore (Wenyao Xu), Hongfei Xue (Lu Su) |
| 2019 | Hanbin Zhang (Wenyao Xu), Wenjun Jiang (Lu Su) |
| 2018 | Di Wang (Jinhui Xu), Zhengxiong Li (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2017 | Taeyeon Ki (Steve Ko), Chen Song (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2016 | Zhan Qin (Kui Ren), Aosen Wang (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2015 | Ziyun Huang (Jinhui Xu), Qi Li (Jing Gao) |
Awarded to one or more graduate students who have been outstanding in their role as teaching assistants.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2025 | Naresh Kumar Devulapally |
| 2024 | Xiaoyu Zhang (Kelin Luo) |
| 2023 | Chen Xu, Sudhir Yaram |
| 2022 | Keyan Guo |
| 2021 | Darshana Balakrishnan (Oliver Kennedy and Lukasz Ziarek), Naveena Elango (Ramalingam Sridhar), Nitin Vishal Kulkarni (Sargur Srihari and Alina Vereshchaka) |
| 2020 | Shivang Aggarwal (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Minhua Wang (Jinhui Xu), Deen Daval Mohan (Venu Govindaraju) |
| 2019 | Mihir Hemant Chauhan (Sargur Srihari), Farshad Ghanei (Karthik Dantu), Alina Vereshchaka (Wen Dong) |
| 2018 | William Spoth (Oliver Kennedy), Archita Pathak (Rohini Srihari) |
| 2017 | Radhakrishna Dasari (Chang Wen Chen), Niyazi Sorkunlu (Varun Chandola) |
| 2016 | Luigi DiTacchio (Tevfik Kosar) |
| 2015 | Andrew Hughes (Alan Selman) |
Awarded to one or more PhD students who have had exceptional dissertations
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2023 | Hongfei Xu (Lu Su), Xuan Gong (David Doermann) |
| 2022 | Shu Hu (Siwei Lyu) |
| 2021 | Yang Gao (Zhanpeng Jin) |
| 2020 | Di Wang (Jinhui Xu), Aleksey Charapko (Murat Demirbas), Chenglin Miao (Lu Su) |
| 2019 | Fenglong Ma (Jing Gao), Swetank Kumar Saha (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas) |
| 2018 | Houping Xiao (Jing Gao), Aosen Wang (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2017 | Qi Li (Jing Gao), Li Sun (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas), Zhisheng Yan (Chang Wen Chen) |
| 2016 | Mahmoud Abo Khamis (Hung Ngo), Devansh Arpit (Venu Govindaraju) |
| 2015 | Hu Ding (Jinhui Xu), Yingbo Zhou (Venu Govindaraju) |
Awarded to one or more graduating MS/PhD students who have been a most vital presence in the department and whose departure will be sorely missed, not only by the faculty, at whose discretion the prize is awarded, but by the department as a whole.
| Year | Name |
| 2025 | Christo Aluckal |
| 2024 | Arjun Ramesh Kaushik |
| 2023 | Ankith Bala |
| 2021 | Alina Vereshchaka (Wen Dong) |
| 2020 | Farshad Ghanei (Karthik Dantu) |
| 2019 | Swetank Kumar Saha (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas) |
MS/PhD student chosen by their peers for recognition.
| Year | Name |
| 2023 | Shraddha Shekhar |
Awarded in honor of Patricia Eberlein to students working on their master's thesis in CSE who display academic excellence, with preference given to female students.
| Year | Name |
| 2025 | Yaman Kumar (Changyou Chen) |
| 2024 | Fatima Umar |
| 2023 | Yeshi Paljor |