CSE Undergraduate Student Award Recipients
While building the foundations of promising computing careers, these undergraduates earned distinctive professional recognition and memberships in exclusive professional societies.
Awarded to one or more female CSE undergrads with strong personal character, experiencing or having overcome adversity. This award was developed on behalf of the late Beth Cheshire, who was challenged with illness while completing her CS degree.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2018 | Brittany Weimar, Lawreen Latif |
| 2017 | Shanelle Ileto, Anna Spring |
| 2016 | Lisa Lu |
| 2015 | Wendy Jansson, Gela Malek Pour |
| 2014 | Amie Vuong |
| 2013 | Xia Wu |
2024 recipient Scilla Benussi
Awarded to one or more graduating seniors 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(s) |
| 2024 | Scilla Benussi, Lorraine Gao, Arianna Escobar-Reyes |
| 2023 | Caroline Hart, Hannah Kloss |
| 2021 | Alexander Liu, Urjitha Muthiah |
| 2020 | Sanchit Batra, Shanelle Ileto |
| 2019 | Harshita Girase, Heebe Kariapper |
| 2015 | Wendy Jansson |
Awarded to one or more deserving CSE undergrads.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2018 | Chinmayee Rane, Heeba Kariapper |
| 2017 | Harshita Girase, Oluwatoyosi Adebanke Oladepo |
| 2016 | Meg Arnold, Sanjeevani Choudhery |
| 2015 | Samina Khan |
| 2014 | Wendy Jansson |
| 2013 | Natasha Sanford |
Katherine Johnson Chair in Artificial Intelligence Professor Atri Rudra (left) and 2024 CSE Undergraduate Leadership/Service Award recipient Ahana Battacharya (right).
Awarded to one or more graduating seniors who exhibit exceptional service for the department and/or UB as a whole.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2024 | Vasu Baldwa, Ahana Bhattacharya, Rebecca Ramhap |
| 2023 | Alexander Bohosian, Josh Caskie, Hannah Wilcox |
| 2022 | Radhika Jois |
| 2021 | Chinmayee Bandal, Anarghya Das, Lisa Kanbur |
| 2020 | Oluwatoyosi (Toyosi) Adebanke Oladepo, Stephen James |
| 2019 | Angus Lam, Arody Deleon |
| 2015 | Gela Malek Pour |
Associate professor Luke Ziarek (left) and CSE Undergraduate Research Award recipient Al-Kesna Foster (right).
Awarded to one or more graduating seniors who have done exceptional research in collaboration with UB CSE faculty during their undergraduate studies.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2024 | Jessica Breuhaus, Adi Dwibedi, Al-Kesna Foster |
| 2023 | Tariq Kariapper, Yash Kelkar |
| 2021 | Baicheng Chen |
| 2020 | Alexander Stone |
| 2019 | Matthew Eichhorn |
| 2015 | Paul Kowalski, Vicky Zheng |
Awarded to one or more graduating seniors who have done exceptional teaching in collaboration with UB CSE faculty during their undergraduate studies.
| Year | Name(s) |
| 2024 | Amelia Graca, Caleb Levine, Riad Mukhtarov, Linoy Zakoshansky |
| 2023 | Hope Kara, Timothy Kong, Isabelle Ondracek, Anthony Roberts, Maeve Rositzke, Andrew Schick, Ben Siegel, Katharine Stock, Eric Weinman |
| 2021 | Jeremy Kazimer, Ann Konnayil, Montana Lee, Gillian Marcus |
| 2020 | Supratik Neupane, Emily Ryer, Alexander Shapiro, Nilesh Singh |
| 2019 | Kira Ashton, Iman Abdul-Rashed, Charles Henneberger, Andrew Ketcham, Alexander Stone |