The EECS Student Awards are presented to undergraduate and graduate students annually in the spring at the Student Awards Ceremony. Recipients of these awards are selected from the pools of nominees by the department's Student Awards Committee. Many nominations are solicited from the EECS community at large, but some awards have special requirements that call for more specialized nominations. Descriptions of the awards are below.

ACM SIGDA Doctoral Dissertation Award

Design automation has gained widespread acceptance by the VLSI circuits and systems design community. Advancement in computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies, algorithms, and tools has become increasingly important to cope with the rapidly growing design complexity, higher performance and low-power requirements, and shorter time-to-market demands. To encourage innovative, ground-breaking research in the area of electronic design automation, the ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) has established an ACM award to be given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.

The award consists of a certificate and a check for $1,000 and is presented at the Design Automation Conference, which is held in June/July of each year. The award is selected by a committee of experts from academia and industry in the field and appointed by ACM in consultation with the SIGDA Chair.

Each department of any university may nominate at most two Ph.D. dissertations whose final submission date is between July 1st of the previous year and June 30th of the current year. Each nomination package must be emailed by November 30 and should consists of:

The PDF file of the Ph.D. dissertation.

A statement (up to two pages) from the nominee explaining the significance and major contributions of the work.

A nomination letter from nominee's department chair or dean of the school endorsing the application.

Optionally, up to three letters of recommendation from experts in the field. These letters may be included in the nomination package or sent separately to the address below.

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Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award

Presented annually to an Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences graduate student who is beyond the preliminary examination and is proceeding to a doctoral degree. The purpose of the award is to recognize students who, in addition to conducting research, unselfishly take the time to help colleagues beyond the normal cooperation existing between fellow students. The award was established in 1979 in memory of Demetri Angelakos, a UC Berkeley student working toward his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the time of his death.

The altruistic attitude of the recipient may be evidenced in the following ways: volunteering to conduct laboratory procedure sessions attended by colleagues, explaining intricate equipment usage, promoting greater research cooperation, etc. Because of the primary interests of the EECS graduate student in whose name the award was established, the general areas of solid state, optical electronics, electromagnetics and semiconductor electronics will be given first consideration.

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Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award

This award is presented to a Computer Science or Electrical Engineering undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and creativity through their research and personal life. This award honors the memory of Tim Campbell, a CS PhD Student who was widely known for his innovative spirit, creativity, and cross-functional collaboration.

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Leon O. Chua Award

The Leon O. Chua award is presented annually to an undergraduate or graduate student, or to a recent alumnus, for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science from any discipline, including biological, engineering, mathematical, physical and social sciences. It was made possible by a donation in 1999 from Professor Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, a student of Professor Chua and former Chancellor of U.C. Merced.

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Department Citation

The Department Citation is presented annually in recognition of outstanding undergraduate achievement within the department. The Student Awards committee makes its selection among the students with the highest average grades while also considering other qualities and accomplishments. No nominations are solicited for the award.

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CRA Undergraduate Research Award

This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

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CS Major Citation

The Computer Science Department Citation is presented annually in recognition of the most outstanding undergraduate achievement within the department. The Major Citations are awarded for outstanding contributions in the EECS and the L&S Computer Science majors. The Student Awards committee makes its selection among the students with the highest average grades while also considering other qualities and accomplishments.

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Warren Y. Dere Design Award

This award is presented to graduating seniors whose accomplishments in engineering design are judged to be most outstanding. Evidence might include accomplishments during a co-op or internship assignment or on a summer job, or achievements on a project for an upper division design course. This memorial award honors Professor Dere who also worked at IBM and was known to be outstanding in engineering systems design.

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James H. Eaton Memorial Scholarship

The James Eaton Memorial Scholarship is awarded to EECS undergraduate students who have demonstrated a keen sense of creativity and inventiveness. The award is named in honor of James Eaton, a 1962 EE PhD, who spent a short period of time on the UC Berkeley EE faculty. He then spent 40 years directing research and pioneering technologies at IBM, making special accomplishments in the magnetic tape data storage areas. Late in his career, suffering from MS, he left the East Coast and returned to California where he pursued his interest in designing new products. He received an IBM Corporate Award in 2001 and the title of Master Inventor (with 24-25 patents) shortly before his death. James H. Eaton was known by all as an original thinker, coming up with practical, unique and patentable ideas.

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EECS Major Citation

The EECS Department Citation is presented annually in recognition of the most outstanding undergraduate achievement within the department. The Major Citations are awarded for outstanding contributions in the EECS and the L&S Computer Science majors. The Student Awards committee makes its selection among the students with the highest average grades while also considering other qualities and accomplishments.

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Art and Mary Fong Scholarship Award

The Fong Award is given to a student completing their junior year who has demonstrated both high scholastic achievement and financial need. This academic year award was endowed by a generous donation from Mr. Arthur Fong, an EECS alumnus and former Vice President of Hewlett Packard. Mr. Fong received financial assistance during his own senior year and made great achievements that were recognized with a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. Selection is made in the *Fall* and presented formally at the Spring EECS Student Awards Ceremony. No nominations are solicited for this award.

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Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship

The Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship for Bright Minds and Big Hearts provides student support to Computer Science or EECS students (rising sophomores - seniors) who are passionate about using technology to better the world. This scholarship was established in 2015.

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Jim and Donna Gray Endowment Award

The Jim and Donna Gray scholarship is awarded to computer science students completing their junior year who have demonstrated both high scholastic achievement and financial need. Those eligible are juniors and seniors with a GPA of 3.3 or above. This academic year award honors Professor Emeritus Michael A. Harrison. The Department makes the nominations and the winners are selected in the *fall*. No nominations are solicited for this award. (Formerly called IT Award, name changed in 2008.)

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EECS Outstanding TA Awards

We invite the faculty to nominate approximately the top nine percent of our GSIs and TAs from Spring, Summer and Fall semesters of the previous calendar year. From these, our Student Awards committee selects a subset for our departmental Outstanding TA awards. The remainder will be considered for nomination for the campus award. We have a large department with hundreds of GSIs/TAs per semester. These students serve roles of administration; support design content; support diversity, equity and inclusion; support struggling students; author and support projects; create course innovation; go above-and-beyond in answering questions online, and more. Faculty are encouraged to surface the roles TAs play on their staff website, so that if an experience is truly wonderful, students know whom to thank. Recommenders are encouraged to look beyond the traditional roles when recommending their TAs, and to be explicit in their nomination letter to highlight the things the TA did that were noteworthy.

Students selected for the campus award are recognized by the campus in their Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards. Those selected for the EECS Outstanding TA Award are recognized at the EECS Student Award Ceremony.

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Global Young Scientists Summit

The GYSS@one-north is a gathering of young scientists and researchers (PhD students and post-docs) from all over the world, with eminent international science and technology leaders ('speakers') in Singapore. It is a multi-disciplinary summit, covering topics ranging from chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Speakers invited to the GYSS@one-north are globally recognized scientific leaders, who are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Millennium Technology Prize, and Turing Award.

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Arthur M. Hopkin Award

The Hopkin award honors an outstanding Electrical Engineering undergraduate who demonstrates seriousness of purpose and high academic achievement. This award honors Professor Arthur M. ("Mac") Hopkin, an expert in the field of nonlinear control, who joined the EECS faculty in 1954 and served on our department's faculty for 46 years. The award is to be used by the student for furthering their education.

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Eli Jury Award

This award is presented to graduate students or recent alumni for outstanding achievement in the area of systems, communications, control, or signal processing. Professor Eliahu Jury is internationally known for his important research contributions and impact on the systems field. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and has received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the ASME, the First Education Award of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Millennium Medal.

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Eugene L. Lawler Prize

The Lawler Prize honors computer science undergraduates and graduates who have surmounted unusual difficulties in pursuing a degree with demonstrated academic effort. This prize was established by the Computer Science Division to honor the memory of our colleague, Professor Eugene L. Lawler, who was an internationally recognized expert in mathematical theories of scheduling and resource allocation.

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Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize

Since 1988, this prize has been presented annually to graduates in EECS who achieve the highest distinction in the pre-doctoral examination. It was established in memory of Tong Leong Lim, who ranked as the top student in his pre-doctoral examination. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1976, under Professor George Turin. Top scoring student information is provided to the Awards Committee by the EECS Center for Student Affairs. No nominations are solicited for this award.

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Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize

This award recognizes a graduating PhD student who has made outstanding contributions to soft computing and its applications. It was established in 2020 in honor of EECS Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, the creator of the concept of fuzzy logic.

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Outstanding Course Development and Teaching Award

This one-time award recognizes exemplary efforts of GSIs and UGSIs in not only teaching and development content for new and/or re-architected courses, but in establishing the technological and cultural infrastructures necessary for the course to achieve its academics and learning goals. The award especially encourages recognition of outstanding groups of GSIs/UGSIs working as an effective team.

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C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award

This award can be made to any student working in the area of Computer Science based on outstanding contributions to a new research area in computer science and engineering. It This award was originally made possible by donations to the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award fund from the participants in the 1996 C.V. Ramamoorthy Workshop on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering. Since 2020, donations to the C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Student Award Fund have made this award possible.

Tax-deductible gifts to support this fund may be made by credit card by calling UC Berkeley's Gift Services at 510/643-9789, or by mailing a check payable to the UC Berkeley Foundation to: University of California, Berkeley, Donor & Gift Services, Attn: Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, 1995 University Avenue, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704-1070.

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David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize

This prize is made annually to graduate students who have completed what is deemed by a faculty committee to be a truly outstanding piece of research. Nominations may be made by anyone. The award was established in memory of Professor David J. Sakrison, who was the UC Berkeley EECS Chair at the time of his death. Selection of the recipient of the Sakrison award shall be made by the Chairman of the Department on the advice of a faculty committee appointed by the Chairman.

Award criteria:

1. The research must be documented in full written form, e.g., a dissertation, journal article, etc.

2. The research must have been conducted within the Department, under the supervision of a faculty member.

3. The research must be truly innovative within its field.

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Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation

The Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation recognizes innovative technical achievement with potential for entrepreneurial success. This award was made possible by Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture capital firm which has consistently made early stage investments in pioneering technologies. The Sevin Rosen Award for Innovation is awarded annually to graduate students based on outstanding technical achievement in computer sciences or electrical engineering research.

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Samuel Silver Memorial Scholarship Award

Presented annually to an Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciences undergraduate or graduate student who best combines intellectual achievement in science and engineering (in the classroom or in research activities) with serious humanistic and cultural interests. Previous recipients possessed outstanding accomplishments in music, art, and other areas of the humanities.

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Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award

The Tucker Award is given to recognize superior work and scholarship in the characterization, development and/or use of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials by a graduate student or students pursuing such areas of inquiry. This award memorializes Dr. Ross N. Tucker, who contributed significantly to the advancement of the technology of materials used in semiconductor electronics. Dr. Tucker's research leadership at Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel and his personal contributions to the development of high-quality epitaxial deposition of thin layers of silicon, and to the understanding of the properties of thin films of polycrystalline silicon are of special significance.Nominations are sought from faculty and graduate students in the Fall. Since 2003, the award recipient has been selected by a College of Engineering committee, on the basis of their field of study, interest in cultural activities and the ability to guide associates in work that advances the technologies and uses of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials. The award is presented officially at the annual spring Metallurgical Society Northern California Electronics Materials Symposium and also as part of the EECS Student Awards ceremony when there is an EECS recipient. The award is given to a student currently enrolled for a graduate degree in the College or to a student who has submitted a Ph.D. thesis within six months of the award date. The selection will be made without regard to financial need, gender, ethnicity or nationality. A similar memorial award has also been set up at Stanford University.

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James Tullock Memorial Scholarship Award

The Tullock Scholarship was created in 2001 to provide support for EECS undergraduate or graduate students who are veterans of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. This scholarship honors Jim Tullock, who, after serving in submarine service with the U.S. Navy, graduated with a B.S.E.E. in 1964 and went on to work at Hughes Aircraft. This scholarship is awarded by the campus Student Financial Aid Office in early Fall.

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Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship

The Weiser Scholarship provides merit-based funding for tuition to undergraduate students pursuing degrees in Computer Science. It was established in memory of distinguished computer scientist and innovator Mark D. Weiser, who is known as the "Father of Ubiquitous Computing." Selection is made in the Fall.

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