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.
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CSE Best First Year Achiever
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2021 | Yaman Kumar |
| 2020 | Jialian Wu (Junsong Yuan) |
| 2019 | Chenhan Xu (Wenyao Xu) |
| 2018 | Xiangyu Guo (Shi Li) |
CSE Best Graduate Leadership
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2022 | Yash Turkar |
| 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) |
CSE Best Graduate Research
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2022 | Darsh Nathawani, Jialian Wu |
| 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) |
CSE Best Graduate Service
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2022 | Soumyya Kanti Datta, Sougata Saha, Sean Sanders |
CSE Best Graduate Teaching
| Year | Name(s) |
| 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) |
CSE Best MS Leadership
Awarded to one or more graduating MS students.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2021 | Snigdha Gupta, Nitin Kulkarni |
| 2020 | Rajat Rajendra Thosar |
| 2019 | Swati Sridhar Nair |
CSE Best MS Research
Awarded to one or more graduating MS students.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2021 | Piyali Banerjee, Abhishek Dalvi |
| 2020 | Hariprasath Parthasarathy, Arvind Thirumurungan |
| 2019 | Luigi Di Tacchio, Tianhang Zheng |
CSE Best PhD Dissertation
| Year | Name(s) |
| 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) |
CSE Faculty Choice Graduate Award
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 |
| 2021 | Alina Vereshchaka (Wen Dong) |
| 2020 | Farshad Ghanei (Karthik Dantu) |
| 2019 | Swetank Kumar Saha (Dimitrios Koutsonikolas) |
CSE Graduate Entrepreneurship
Awarded to one or more graduating MS/PhD students.
| Year | Name |
| 2021 | Abhishek Gupta |
| 2020 | Saurabh Jain |
| 2019 | Harsha Kosa |