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.

Awardees

  • 2014-2015 Wenchao Li

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Catherine Chen, Gabriel Colon-Reyes, Ken Ho, Vighnesh Iyer, Harrison Liew, Federico Mora, Jerry Zhao
  • 2022-2023 James Smith, Daniel Teal
  • 2021-2022 Sara Fridovich-Keil, Jason Hsu, Katherine Stasaski
  • 2020-2021 Alon Amid, Sidney Buchbinder, Nathan Lambert, Kristina Monakhova, Nate Weinman
  • 2019-2020 David Fridovich-Keil, Craig Schindler, Justin Yim
  • 2018-2019 Kevin Cook, Regina Eckert, Caroline Lemieux
  • 2017-2018 Roel Dobbe, Sylvia Herbert
  • 2016-2017 Aurojit Panda, Shivaram Venkataraman
  • 2015-2016 Mo Chen, Katherine Driggs-Campbell
  • 2014-2015 Brian Matthew Zimmer
  • 2013-2014 Gireeja Ranade
  • 2012-2013 Matthew Spencer
  • 2011-2012 Rikky Muller, Isabelle Stanton
  • 2010-2011 Joshua Hug
  • 2009-2010 Zachery Aaron Jacobson
  • 2008-2009 Bharathwaj Muthuswamy, Bala Pesala
  • 2007-2008 Joanna Lai, Anand Sarwate
  • 2006-2007 Vinod Prabhakaran
  • 2005-2006 Donovan Tan Lee
  • 2004-2005 Andrew Begel, Axel Berny
  • 2003-2004 Lukas Chrostowski
  • 2002-2003 Greg McIntyre
  • 2001-2002 Luca Carloni
  • 2000-2001 Julius Kusuma, Kevin Yang
  • 1999-2000 Jakub Kedzierski, Maryann Simmons
  • 1998-1999 Jacques Christophe Rudell
  • 1997-1998 Richard Edell
  • 1996-1997 Brian Kingsbury
  • 1995-1996 Su-Lin Wu
  • 1994-1995 Mor Harchol-Balter
  • 1993-1994 Samuel Sheng
  • 1992-1993 Gregory Uehara
  • 1991-1992 Kristofer Pister, Dawn Tilbury
  • 1990-1991 Josephn Konstan
  • 1989-1990 Kevin Heppell, Ken Nishimura
  • 1988-1989 Ginetto Addiego, Vijay Madisetti
  • 1987-1988 Ricki Blau, Fabio Romeo
  • 1986-1987 Peter Danzig, Keshab Parhi
  • 1985-1986 Myra Boenke, Albert Wu
  • 1984-1985 Nazli Gundes, Max Hauser
  • 1983-1984 Roger Howe, Peter Kessler
  • 1982-1983 Tom Quarles
  • 1981-1982 John Foderaro
  • 1980-1981 Karen Irwin
  • 1979-1980 Ping Ko

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Ritwik Gupta, Lucy Revina
  • 2022-2023 Justin Kerr
  • 2021-2022 Amil Khanzada
  • 2020-2021 Ashwin Balakrishna, Jennifer Grannen, Priya Sundaresan, Brijen Thananjeyan
  • 2019-2020 Varda Shrivastava
  • 2018-2019 Andrew Head
  • 2017-2018 Geun Ho Ahn
  • 2016-2017 Tomas Vega Galvez
  • 2015-2016 Joanne Lo

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Anastasios Angelopoulos, Hao Liu, Sherry Yang, Yaodong Yu
  • 2022-2023 Marius Wiggert
  • 2021-2022 Alex Devonport
  • 2020-2021 MARGARET PFEIFFER CHAPMAN
  • 2019-2020 Mindy Perkins
  • 2018-2019 Jaime Fernandez Fisac
  • 2017-2018 Xi Chen
  • 2016-2017 Tianshi Wang
  • 2015-2016 Dorsa Sadigh
  • 2014-2015 Walid Krichene
  • 2013-2014 Samuel Donald Coogan
  • 2012-2013 Wenchao Li
  • 2011-2012 Anil Aswani
  • 2010-2011 Susmit Kumar Jha
  • 2009-2010 Christian Claudel
  • 2008-2009 Forrest Sedgwick
  • 2007-2008 Xiaoxue Zhao
  • 2006-2007 XuanLong Nguyen
  • 2005-2006 Alessandro Abate
  • 2004-2005 Aaron Ames
  • 2003-2004 Arnab Nilim
  • 2002-2003 Jianghi Hu
  • 2001-2002 Rupak Majumdar
  • 2000-2001 Jie Liu

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Meiqi Sun
  • 2022-2023 Paris Zhang
  • 2021-2022 Long Lian
  • 2020-2021 Stephen Tian
  • 2019-2020 Yingxin Kang
  • 2018-2019 Kavi Gupta
  • 2017-2018 William Wang
  • 2016-2017 Sam Kumar
  • 2015-2016 Thaibao Phan
  • 2014-2015 Jingyan Wang
  • 2013-2014 Rohin Shah
  • 2012-2013 David Aaron Eliahu
  • 2011-2012 Warren He
  • 2010-2011 Nicholas Boyd
  • 2009-2010 Daniel Christopher Ritchie
  • 2008-2009 Chayut Thanapirom
  • 2007-2008 Matthew J. Johnson
  • 2006-2007 Jui-Yen Jason Lin
  • 2005-2006 Philip A. Godoy
  • 2004-2005 David Sontag
  • 2003-2004 Kevin Simler
  • 2002-2003 Jeng-Wen Peter Chen
  • 2001-2002 Alexander Fabrikant
  • 2000-2001 Byron Yu
  • 1999-2000 Yozo Hida
  • 1998-1999 Raymond Wang
  • 1997-1998 Taher Haveliwala
  • 1996-1997 Chee-Whye Chin
  • 1995-1996 Hong Tat Chee
  • 1994-1995 Avrom Pfeffer
  • 1993-1994 Scott Davies, Anant Sahai
  • 1992-1993 Eric Braun
  • 1991-1992 Boris Troyanovsky
  • 1990-1991 Erin C. Jones, Tak Woon Yan
  • 1989-1990 Wee-Liang Heng, Warren Lam
  • 1988-1989 Samuel Sheng
  • 1987-1988 Paul Haskell, Nels Olson
  • 1986-1987 David James Beymer, Edward Wai Yeung Liu
  • 1985-1986 Gary Wayne Ng, Thu Duc Nguyen
  • 1984-1985 Frandics Chan, Derek Wong
  • 1983-1984 Gregory Heinzinger
  • 1982-1983 Pantas Sutardja
  • 1981-1982 Robert Bordow, Peter Ruetz, Eryk Vershen
  • 1980-1981 Suk Young Kang
  • 1979-1980 Thomas S. Parker
  • 1978-1979 Max W. Hauser
  • 1977-1978 John W. Fattaruso
  • 1976-1977 Steven G. Azevedo
  • 1975-1976 Stephen E. Hung
  • 1974-1975 Jeffrey A. Gibbons
  • 1973-1974 James Jatczynski
  • 1972-1973 Harold G. Sampson
  • 1971-1972 Robert G. Mathews
  • 1970-1971 Gary Mikelson
  • 1969-1970 Clinton P. Ma

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.

Awardees

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Sohom Paul
  • 2022-2023 Dasheng Bi
  • 2021-2022 Haoyuan Liu
  • 2020-2021 Reid Johnson
  • 2019-2020 Keyhan Vakil
  • 2018-2019 Dibya Ghosh
  • 2017-2018 Wan Fung Chui

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Rohan Kumar, Viansa Schmulbach
  • 2022-2023 Kamyar Salahi
  • 2021-2022 Gautam Mittal
  • 2020-2021 Adi Ganapathi, Harry Zhang
  • 2019-2020 Ahad Rauf
  • 2018-2019 Philipp Wu, Brent Yi
  • 2017-2018 Rohan Phadte
  • 2016-2017 Xinyang (Young) Geng, David Marn, Ashvin Nair, Mihir Patil
  • 2015-2016 Peter James Ahrens, Dibyo Debasish Majumdar, Thaibao Quoc Phan, Marvin Zhang
  • 2014-2015 Edward Groshev, Wisam Reid, Eldon Schoop, Rishi Sharma, Sahaana Suri
  • 2013-2014 Siddhartho Bhattacharya, Ankush Gupta, Rohin Shah, Claire Margaret Tuna
  • 2012-2013 Kathy Sun, Ziang Xie
  • 2011-2012 Yewen Pu, Wei Wu
  • 2010-2011 James Ide
  • 2009-2010 Hartej Dhami, Farzad Fatollahi-Fard, Amanullah Mohiudin
  • 2008-2009 Minh Van Pham Ly, Ashik Manandhar, Trung Tran
  • 2007-2008 Wai Son (Wilson) Ko
  • 2006-2007 John Breneman, Robert Gregg, Roderick Mann
  • 2005-2006 Rosen Nikolaev Diankov
  • 2004-2005 Arlo Faria
  • 2003-2004 Michael Toomin
  • 2002-2003 Daniel Horn
  • 2001-2002 Aman Bhargava
  • 2000-2001 Jeffrey Heer
  • 1999-2000 Paul Huang
  • 1998-1999 Chris Olston
  • 1997-1998 Dmitry Derevyanko, Allan Liu, Yuriy Regelman
  • 1996-1997 Edmond Lau
  • 1995-1996 David Hsu
  • 1994-1995 Ravi Narasimhan
  • 1993-1994 Michael Horton
  • 1992-1993 "Leo" Ki-Chun Fu, Trevor Pering, Benedict Tse
  • 1991-1992 Michael Chen
  • 1990-1991 Richard Edell, Chris Ruemmler
  • 1989-1990 Bart Bombay
  • 1988-1989 Robert Currie
  • 1987-1988 Ken Nishimura

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Rohan Kumar, Viansa Schmulbach
  • 2022-2023 Hridhay Suresh
  • 2021-2022 Ryan Mei
  • 2020-2021 Sid Kaushik
  • 2019-2020 Priya Sundaresan
  • 2018-2019 Giscard Biamby
  • 2017-2018 James Smith
  • 2016-2017 Geun Ho Ahn
  • 2015-2016 Dibyo Debasish Majumdar, David Marn, Sean Zhu
  • 2014-2015 Gautam Gunjala, Jeong Seuk Kang, Nikita Kitaev, Erik Krogen, Niranjan Kumar, Nitish Padmanaban, Vaishaal Shankar, Nopphon Siranart, Sahaana Suri, Jingyan Wang
  • 2013-2014 Jodi Loo
  • 2012-2013 Michael Eggleston, Yue Lu
  • 2011-2012 Lingkai Kong
  • 2010-2011 Ji-Hoon Park
  • 2009-2010 Seng Oon Toh
  • 2008-2009 Renaldi Winoto
  • 2007-2008 Christopher Jones
  • 2006-2007 Subramaniam Venkatraman
  • 2005-2006 Wojciech Jacob Poppe

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Rohit Agarwal
  • 2022-2023 Catherine Hwu
  • 2021-2022 Rahul Arya
  • 2020-2021 Shadaj Laddad
  • 2019-2020 Justin Lin
  • 2018-2019 Kurtland Chua
  • 2017-2018 Yuxiang Yang

Art and Mary Fong Undergraduate Scholarship

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 America Castaneda, Darren Munoz, Lucy Revina, Alexander Volkov
  • 2022-2023 Angel Prieto, Andrew Sue
  • 2021-2022 Austin Kao, David Tran
  • 2020-2021 Rebecca Chery, Taewoo Han
  • 2019-2020 Sang A Park, Hanh Vo
  • 2018-2019 Bryanna Davison, Jonathan Sun
  • 2017-2018 Harrison Hsueh, Timothy Stepro
  • 2016-2017 Tim Chan, Andrew Millman
  • 2015-2016 Sunjay George Koshy
  • 2014-2015 Lev Tauz
  • 2013-2014 Justin Junxuan Fu
  • 2012-2013 Isaac Wu
  • 2008-2009 Paul Pearce, Wei-Hua Peng
  • 2006-2007 Hong Hu, Uyen Nguyen Huynh
  • 2005-2006 Allen Lee, Michael Chung Wang
  • 2004-2005 Ilya Gurin, Yoon Sub Hwang, Cho Mon Kyaw
  • 2003-2004 Tingting Huang, Xian Jun Liu, Michael Chi-Hang Yeung
  • 2002-2003 Jeffry Carl West
  • 2001-2002 Ki Hoon Kim, Artem Tkachenko
  • 1999-2000 Kathryn Ewell, Yang Jiao
  • 1998-1999 Matthew Muh, Ilyas Nuri
  • 1997-1998 Bruce Lo, Xiaozhou Zhang
  • 1996-1997 Sarah Moussa, Anhtuyet Thi Nguyen
  • 1995-1996 Margie Lee Luong, Aravind Mani
  • 1994-1995 Phong-Son Le
  • 1992-1993 Kinshuk Govil
  • 1991-1992 Wingwai Howe
  • 1990-1991 Joanne Leung
  • 1989-1990 Alisina Pourazima
  • 1988-1989 Dung Lam
  • 1986-1987 Charles Chansik Park, Tien Gra Truong
  • 1985-1986 Edward Wai-Yeung Liu
  • 1983-1984 Robert James Knight
  • 1982-1983 Peter Kam Wah Lee
  • 1981-1982 James Yu

Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship for Bright Minds and Big Hearts

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Ace Chen, Ashmita Kumar, Isabel Li
  • 2022-2023 Carolyn Wang
  • 2021-2022 Samuel Alber
  • 2020-2021 Sean Roh, Teresa Yang
  • 2019-2020 Jason Dong
  • 2018-2019 Urvi Guglani
  • 2017-2018 Ziba Shahpar
  • 2016-2017 Ziba Shahpar
  • 2015-2016 Mihir Patil
  • 2014-2015 Jinyang Wang

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.)

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Ayla Aeress, Dee Bao, Kathleen Ge, Julia Isaac, Stephen Su, Kiran Suresh, JJ Yu
  • 2022-2023 Irene Lee, Mike Martinez, Alex Nguyen Ngoc, Roshan Parekh, Jaeden Quintana, Huy Tran, Stephanie Wong
  • 2021-2022 Ishaan Dham, Anisa Ibnat, Sean Kim, Terrance Li, Maximus Santosa, Stephanie Trinh, Ufuoma-Oghene Uvieghara
  • 2020-2021 Zhuowen Chen, Victor Ho, Nicholas Lee, Benjamin Liao, Mathilde McKeever, Shirley Nguyen, Amber White
  • 2019-2020 Jazzly Anderson, Oscar Chan, Vidur Maheshwari, Alan Pham, April Sin, Candy Xu, Tianlun Zhang
  • 2018-2019 Rayan Maher Al Atab, Ho Yin Chau, Jamie Gu, Moses Kim, Khang T Ly, Sarah Young, Junyi Zhu
  • 2017-2018 Andrew Campbell, Jacqueline Forsberg, Daniel Ho, Justin Hong, Denis Li, Young Lin, Harley Patton
  • 2016-2017 Kaylee Burns, Betty Chang, Andy Chau, Benjamin Kha, Ann Lai, Rohit Lalchandani, Nicholas Ward
  • 2015-2016 James Steven Carlson, Jimmy Yun Cheung, Kegan Kawamura, Yishuang Liang, Robert Mason Spark, Hung Thien Nguyen Vu, Amanda Lou Xia
  • 2014-2015 Olivia Chen, Manuk Hovanesian, Rishi Kapadia, Jimmy Lee, Pandu Rendradjaja, Donny Chen Reynolds, Anting Shen
  • 2013-2014 Quinn Hajime Johnson, Leo Hung Tai Kam, Saveen Sahni, Raymond Shiau, Sahanna Suri, Daniel Paden Tomasello, Shu Zhong
  • 2012-2013 Cong Chen, Richard Hwang, Jasper Lee, Hurshal Samir Patel, Jiyong Shim, Steve John Wang, Darryl Yu
  • 2011-2012 Michael Cai, Jonathan Ho, Alex Lee, Richard Lin, Seshadri Mahalingham, Justin Uang, Mengyi Wo
  • 2010-2011 Avik Das, Tony Dear, Hui Peng Hu, Thomas Magrino, Brian Maissy, Aaron Wong, Pin Xu
  • 2009-2010 Justin Chu, Albert Kim, Saung Li, Stephen Miller, Eui Shin, Zue Wu, Richard Xia
  • 2008-2009 Michael Cao, Adit Abhay Dalvi, Nathan Kallus, Steven Jongshown Lee, Ryosuke Niwa, Victor Shia, Jerry Zhihui Zhang
  • 2007-2008 Nir Abraham Ackner, Scott Emerson Crawford, Jerry Hong, Brian Kim, Priyanka Reddy, Hsiu-Fan Wang, Hisham Sami Zarka
  • 2006-2007 Matthew Finifter, David Jacobs, Christopher Jones, Kedar Kanitkar, Allen Lee, Michael Leong, Keaton Mowery
  • 2005-2006 Matthew Finifter, David Jacobs, Christopher Jones, Kedar Kanitkar, Allen Lee, Michael Leong, Keaton Mowery
  • 2004-2005 Albert Chang, Yanpei Chen, Victor Feldman, Liron Yahdav
  • 2003-2004 Lin Kuang, Sam Mardanbeig, Chung Ming Wu
  • 2002-2003 Kun Gao, Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang, Margaret Yau, Meng Yu
  • 2001-2002 Allan Gu, William Kumberger, Khoa Nguyen, Hai Hoang Phan, Yuk Shuen (Margaret) Yau, Benjamin Young, Meng Yu
  • 2000-2001 Liane Beckman, Katherine Chang, Emily Chung, Paul Huang, Tim Yee Liu, Eva Lo, Joe Ho Tam, Jan Wen Voung
  • 1999-2000 James Yun-Chin Chao, Aqeel Mahesri, Robert Nelson, Paul Hyun Park, Jimmy Zhigang Su, Laura Todd, George Warfield, Lijue Zhong
  • 1998-1999 Arthur Cantu, Ada Chan, James Chow, Alexander Fabrikant, Yozo Hida, Victor Ho, Erik Reeber, Lorentz Shyu, Kar Ming Tang, Stanley Yue
  • 1997-1998 Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Godfrey Tan

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Rohit Agarwal, Akshit Dewan, Christine Fang, Rosalie Fang, Alec Li, Vedansh Malhotra, Ayush Pancholy, Shreyas Swaminathan, Victoria Tuck, Junyang Wang
  • 2022-2023 Yousef Helal, Federico Mora, Druv Pai, Fuzail Shakir, Tarang Srivastava, Alvin Tan, Parker Ziegler
  • 2021-2022 Murtaza Ali, Maxwell Chen, Divija Hasteer, Victor Huang, Sohum Hulyalkar, Alexander Kassil, Rachel Lawrence, Kaitlyn Lee, Alicia Matsumoto, Connor McMahon, Richard Roggenkemper, Naomi Sagan, Moses Won, Albert Xu
  • 2020-2021 Rahul Arya, Catherine Cang, Raghav Gupta, Amanda Jackson, Peyrin Kao, Jack Kolb, Connor Lafferty, Caroline Liu, Sarika Madhvapathy, BEN MILDENHALL, Zephyr Omaly, Anmol Parande, Andrew Phuong, Vron Vance, Kellyann Ye, Cecilia Zhang
  • 2019-2020 Dominic Carrano, Karina Chang, Kavi Gupta, Michelle Hwang, Lakshya Jain, Stephan Kaminsky, Suraj Rampure, Mansi Shah, Itai Smith, Alex Stennet, Annie Tang, Derek Wan, Titan Yuan
  • 2018-2019 Kevin Lin, Kieran Peleaux
  • 2017-2018 Daniel Aranki, Samuel Lau, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy
  • 2016-2017 Kabir Chandrasekher, Sinho Chewi, Sherdil Niyaz, Jon Tamir
  • 2015-2016 Filip Maksimovic, Rohin Shah, Patrick Virtue
  • 2014-2015 Michael Ball, Kate Harrison, Nathan Narevsky
  • 2013-2014 Maximilian Balandat, Walid Krichene, Paul Pearce
  • 2012-2013 Arjun Singh, Insoon Yang
  • 2011-2012 David Burkett, Albert Lucas Segars, Neel Shah
  • 2010-2011 David Hall, Matthew Spencer
  • 2009-2010 Colleen M. Lewis, Tsung-Te Liu
  • 2008-2009 Jonathan Kotker, Anna Rafferty
  • 2007-2008 Ramesh Sridharan
  • 2006-2007 John S. Denero, Jerry Ding
  • 2005-2006 Alyosha Molnar, Rajesh Nishtala
  • 2004-2005 Meghdad Hajimorad, Chung Ming Wu
  • 2003-2004 Greg Krimer, Bobak Nazer
  • 2002-2003 Ranjit Jhala, Ryan White
  • 2001-2002 Todd Segal, John Slavinsky
  • 2000-2001 Eric Chi, Brenda Liu
  • 1999-2000 Sanjoy Dasgupta, Nils Wemhoener
  • 1998-1999 Barry Chen, Jeff Gilbert, Han-Shen Yuan
  • 1997-1998 Dan Garcia, Joseph Yan
  • 1996-1997 Nathan Slingerland, Fred Wong
  • 1995-1996 Brandy Schweiss, Kirt Williams
  • 1994-1995 Kenneth Chiang, Lisa Guerra
  • 1993-1994 Mor Harchol Balter, Samuel Sheng
  • 1992-1993 Gregory Walsh, Matthew Wright
  • 1991-1992 John Georges, Timothy Huang
  • 1990-1991 Orla Feely, James Mott-Smith
  • 1989-1990 William Evans, Phil Lapsley
  • 1988-1989 David Feld, Anthony Ng
  • 1987-1988 Randy Cieslak, Mark Kwong
  • 1986-1987 Robert Boothe, Kartikeya Mayaram
  • 1985-1986 Timothy Hu, Douglas Kidder, Ellen Sentovich
  • 1984-1985 Chwen-Cher Chang, Herve DeCosta
  • 1983-1984 Joseph Pasquale, Prabhakar Raghavan
  • 1982-1983 Dennis Polla, Brendon Voge
  • 1981-1982 Farid Bidabad, Allan Brockenbrough
  • 1980-1981 Edmond D. Lock, Lee-Chung Yiu
  • 1979-1980 Joel Huang, William Zuravleff
  • 1978-1979 Sanjay Mehrotra, Geoff Peck
  • 1977-1978 Wayne Harvey, John Lee
  • 1976-1977 Pete Sandon, John Uyemura
  • 1975-1976 Ata Khan, Zoaib Rangwala
  • 1974-1975 Bob Epstein, Jaff Lin, John Tsividis
  • 1973-1974 Bob Upshaw
  • 1972-1973 Vince Dauciunus, Pershing Lum
  • 1971-1972 John Tsividis

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.

Awardees

  • 2019-2020 Gabriel Colon-Reyes, Yonghuan David Ren

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Yash Aggarwal, Cassie Areff, William Fei, Patrick Jin, Vint Lee, Jonathan Lu, Lucy Revina, Tanush Talati, Oliver Yu, Jonathan Yue
  • 2022-2023 Chase Norman, Dhruv Vaish
  • 2021-2022 Simon Guo, Chase Norman, Naomi Sagan, Neeraj Shenoy, Lizhi Yang
  • 2020-2021 Leyla Kabuli, Simon Li, Anand Kumar Siththaranjan, Ashwin Vangipuram, Andy Wu, David Yi
  • 2019-2020 Sampada Deglurkar, Matt Yeh
  • 2018-2019 Shreyas Agarwal, Olivia Hsu, Aviral Pandey, Yunzhi Zhang
  • 2017-2018 Minghan Chao, Kanaad Parvate
  • 2016-2017 Minghan Chao, Nicholas Landolfi, Viraj Mahesh, Titan Yuan
  • 2015-2016 Joseph Hui
  • 2014-2015 Sahar Mesri, Nitish Padmanaban, Sahaana Suri, Paroma Varma
  • 2013-2014 Jingyan Wang
  • 2012-2013 Anuran Makur, Zhengyuan Zhou
  • 2011-2012 Sameet Ramakrishnan
  • 2010-2011 Dorsa Sadigh
  • 2009-2010 Judy Hoffman
  • 2008-2009 Irving Lin, Victor Shia, Curtis Wang
  • 2007-2008 Pamela Lee, Liang Jie Wong
  • 2006-2007 John Torous
  • 2005-2006 Robert D. Gregg IV
  • 2004-2005 Kasra Khatibi
  • 2003-2004 Katherine Yiu
  • 2002-2003 Shervin Shekarchian
  • 2001-2002 Shong Yin
  • 2000-2001 Ming Tang

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Fangyu Wu
  • 2022-2023 Utkarsha Agwan
  • 2021-2022 Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte
  • 2020-2021 Horia Mania
  • 2019-2020 Somil Bansal
  • 2018-2019 Ahmed El Alaoui
  • 2017-2018 Reza Abbasi-Asl
  • 2016-2017 Mo Chen
  • 2015-2016 Samuel Coogan, Rashmi Vinayak
  • 2014-2015 Varun Jog, Insoon Yang
  • 2013-2014 Se Yong Park
  • 2012-2013 Sudeep Kamath
  • 2011-2012 Lester Mackey
  • 2010-2011 Pulkit Grover
  • 2009-2010 Amin Gohari
  • 2008-2009 Bobak Nazer
  • 2007-2008 Alex Dimakis
  • 2006-2007 Minghua Chen
  • 2005-2006 Luca Schenato, Bruno Sinopoli
  • 2004-2005 Francis Bach
  • 2003-2004 Rohit Puri
  • 2002-2003 Rene Vidal
  • 2001-2002 Lizhong Zheng
  • 2000-2001 S. Sandeep Pradhan
  • 1999-2000 Pramod Viswanath
  • 1998-1999 George Pappas
  • 1997-1998 Vivek Goyal
  • 1996-1997 Dattaprabodh Godbole, John Lygeros
  • 1995-1996 Anuj Puri
  • 1994-1995 Ruth Rosenholtz
  • 1993-1994 Dawn Tilbury
  • 1992-1993 John R. Barry
  • 1991-1992 Soren Hein
  • 1990-1991 Thorsten von Eicken
  • 1989-1990 Richard Murray
  • 1988-1989 Li Zexiang
  • 1987-1988 Teresa Meng
  • 1986-1987 Keshab Parhi

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Dee Bao, Shaan Gill, Nathaniel Iskandar, Rickey McGregor, Haroon Muwonge, Tsadiku Obolu, Mialy Rasetarinera-Rabarison
  • 2022-2023 Alexia Camacho, Grace Jung, Alp Ozdarendeli
  • 2021-2022 Amir Abdou, Hailey Garcia, Cyrus Vachha
  • 2020-2021 Matthew Anderson, Tsegereda Esatu, Marsalis Gibson, Devin Guillory, Danny Halawi, Mariela Hernandez, Jevon Jackson, Liya Mulugeta, Gloria Tumushabe, Jesus Villalobos
  • 2019-2020 Sayna Ebrahimi, Urvi Guglani, Gloria Tumushabe
  • 2018-2019 Divinee Chidume, Daniel Seita
  • 2017-2018 Marsalis Gibson, Camille Harris, Divyashish Kumar, Quinn Tran, Yirong Zhen
  • 2016-2017 Gustavo De Leon, Karely Lozano Gutierrez, Marco Marrufo, Kiva Uhuru
  • 2015-2016 Itzel Martinez, Akhila Raju
  • 2014-2015 Emmanuel Aguirre-Nunez, Michael Ball, Tsion Behailu, Aparna Dhinakaran
  • 2013-2014 Joanna Abot, Timothy Bruce Campbell, Dmitry Dimov
  • 2012-2013 Moshe Leon
  • 2011-2012 Daniel Roth
  • 2010-2011 Nikola Radnovic
  • 2009-2010 Paul Pearce
  • 2008-2009 Philip Weiss
  • 2007-2008 John Nguyen
  • 2006-2007 Daniel Davis
  • 2005-2006 Alan A. Jensen
  • 2004-2005 Alyson Fletcher
  • 2003-2004 Cecilia Aragon
  • 2002-2003 Hesham Kamel, Syed Ali Rizvi
  • 2001-2002 Morgan Ames
  • 2000-2001 Eli Bingham, Jessica Britt, Karen Rayment, Johnathan Reason
  • 1999-2000 Justin Kwak
  • 1998-1999 Nikki Mirghafori
  • 1997-1998 Tucker Callaway
  • 1996-1997 Huma Dar
  • 1995-1996 Isamu Shigemori
  • 1994-1995 Troy Shahoumian

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Jen-Hao Chen, Manish Shetty, Md Ishfak Tahmid
  • 2022-2023 Hannah Doyle, Shadaj Laddad
  • 2021-2022 Sampada Deglurkar, Vivek Nair
  • 2020-2021 Daniel Fritchman, Forest Yang, Lianmin Zheng
  • 2019-2020 Ben Korpan, Aviral Pandey, Vivian Wang
  • 2018-2019 Sam Toyer, Cem Yalcin
  • 2017-2018 Sarah Dean, Johann Schleier-Smith
  • 2016-2017 Rafael Dutra, BEN MILDENHALL, Max Simchowitz
  • 2015-2016 Chelsea Finn, Hsiou-Yuan (Herbert) Liu, Rohin Shah
  • 2014-2015 Marc Khoury, Antonio Puglielli
  • 2013-2014 David Fifield, Garvit Juniwal, Virginia Smith
  • 2012-2013 Christopher Lalau Keraly, Nitesh Mor
  • 2011-2012 Siva Viswanathan Thyagarajan, Noah Johnson Walls
  • 2010-2011 Mohit Bansal, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha
  • 2009-2010 Alex Hegyi, Andrew Waterman
  • 2008-2009 Se Yong Park, Matei Zaharia
  • 2007-2008 Shoaib Kamil, Cheuk Chi Lo
  • 2006-2007 Ilya Bagrak, Chris H. Clifford
  • 2005-2006 Peter Bodik, Simone Gambini
  • 2004-2005 Jen-Wen Peter Chen, Russell Sears
  • 2003-2004 Abhijit Davare, Hoe Teck Wee
  • 2002-2003 John Kodumal, Vinod Prabhakaran
  • 2001-2002 Hao Chen, Hyuck Choo
  • 2000-2001 Pablo Anigstein, Westley Weimer
  • 1999-2000 Ziv Bar-Yossef, Payam Pakzad
  • 1998-1999 Aaron Brown
  • 1997-1998 Lizhong Zheng
  • 1996-1997 David Gay
  • 1995-1996 Shaz Qadeer
  • 1994-1995 Sundeep Rangan
  • 1993-1994 Yuji Kukimoto
  • 1992-1993 Steven Lumetta
  • 1991-1992 Seth Goldstein, Thomas Shiple
  • 1990-1991 Klaus Schauser, Tiziano Villa
  • 1989-1990 Paul Haskell, Sven Koenig
  • 1988-1989 Peter Gemmell, George Kesidis
  • 1987-1988 Umakanta Choudhury, Kenneth Shirriff

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Kaylo Littlejohn
  • 2022-2023 Sheng Shen
  • 2021-2022 Hari Prasanna Das
  • 2020-2021 Xiangyu Yue
  • 2019-2020 Baihong Jin, Yang You

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.

Awardees

  • 2015-2016 Kene Akametalu, Daniel Aranki, Dan Calderone, Reia Cho, Joe Corea, Leah Dickstein, C.J. Geering, Joseph Greenspun, Edward Groshev, Jaeduk Han, Ena Hariyoshi, Vikram Iyer, Ben Keller, Claire M. Lochner, Nathaniel Anthony Mailoa, Filip Maksimovic, Vidya Muthukumar, Preetum Nakkiran, Emily Naviasky, Orhan Ocal, Saavan Patel, Adrien Pierre, Paul Rigge, Chia-Yin Shih, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Paroma Varma, Elizabeth Stella Walla, Chenyang Yuan

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 James Bartusek
  • 2022-2023 Hari Prasanna Das
  • 2021-2022 Aviral Kumar
  • 2020-2021 Dylan Hadfield-menell
  • 2019-2020 ROHAN PADHYE
  • 2018-2019 Daniel Fremont
  • 2017-2018 Lingqi Yan
  • 2016-2017 Chelsea Finn
  • 2015-2016 John Schulman
  • 2014-2015 Paul Christiano
  • 2013-2014 John Duchi
  • 2012-2013 Jonathan Barron
  • 2011-2012 Grey Ballard
  • 2010-2011 Jacob Burnim, Alexandre Stauffer
  • 2009-2010 Jonah Sherman
  • 2008-2009 Jeffrey Heer
  • 2007-2008 Armando Solar Lezama
  • 2006-2007 Manu Sridharan
  • 2005-2006 David M. Blei
  • 2004-2005 Sumit Gulwani, Lakshminarayan Subramanian
  • 2003-2004 Mark Paskin, Dror Weitz
  • 2002-2003 Sam Madden
  • 2001-2002 Scott Aaronson
  • 2000-2001 Jason Hill
  • 1999-2000 Andris Ambainis
  • 1998-1999 Richard Bukowski
  • 1997-1998 Hari Balakrishnan
  • 1996-1997 Krste Asanovic

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Sagar Karandikar
  • 2022-2023 Sam Kumar, Banghua Zhu
  • 2021-2022 Christos Adamopoulos
  • 2020-2021 BEN MILDENHALL, PRATUL SRINIVASAN, Matthew Tancik, Zichao Ye
  • 2019-2020 Ashwin Pananjady Martin
  • 2018-2019 Tianshi Wang
  • 2017-2018 Jun-Yan Zhu
  • 2016-2017 Sameet Ramakrishnan, Nihar Bhadresh Shah
  • 2015-2016 Pierluigi Nuzzo, Justine Sherry
  • 2014-2015 Peter David Bailis, Michael Eggleston
  • 2013-2014 Jonah Sherman, Edgar Solomonik
  • 2012-2013 Rehan Kapadia, Matei Zaharia
  • 2011-2012 Prateek Saxena
  • 2010-2011 Changho Suh
  • 2009-2010 Libin Jiang
  • 2008-2009 Zhengya Zhang
  • 2007-2008 Amir Salman Avestimehr, Krishnendu Chatterjee
  • 2006-2007 Lara Dolecek, Dejan Markovic
  • 2005-2006 Boon Thau Loo, Aaron B. Wagner
  • 2004-2005 Scott Aaronson, Ranjit Jhala
  • 2003-2004 Rene Vidal
  • 2002-2003 Luca Daniel
  • 2001-2002 Yang-Kyu Choi
  • 2000-2001 Kevin Bowers
  • 1999-2000 Dennis Sylvester
  • 1998-1999 Da-shan Shiu
  • 1997-1998 Vern Paxson
  • 1996-1997 Meng Hsiung Kiang, Michael Mitzenmacher
  • 1995-1996 Clement Wann
  • 1994-1995 Carlos Kirjner Neto
  • 1993-1994 William Lam
  • 1992-1993 Orla Feely, Madhu Sudan
  • 1991-1992 Srinivasan Keshav, Rafael Saavedra-Barrera
  • 1990-1991 Carlos Mastrangelo
  • 1989-1990 Richard Rudell, Albert Wang
  • 1988-1989 Constance Chang Hasnain, Yu Chong Tai
  • 1987-1988 Stephen H. Lewis
  • 1986-1987 Edward Lee
  • 1984-1985 Stephen Boyd
  • 1983-1984 Roger Howe
  • 1982-1983 Manolis Katevenis, Robert Sherburne, Jr.
  • 1981-1982 Ozalp Babaoglu, William Joy
  • 1980-1981 Ekachai Lelarasmee

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Jiachen Lian
  • 2022-2023 Yahav Avigal
  • 2021-2022 Edward Kim
  • 2020-2021 Xue Bin Peng
  • 2019-2020 Noah Klugman
  • 2018-2019 Fangyu Wu
  • 2017-2018 Ankush Desai
  • 2016-2017 Noah Johnson
  • 2015-2016 Yunsup Lee, Andrew Waterman
  • 2014-2015 Ryan Wayne Going
  • 2013-2014 Joseph Corea
  • 2012-2013 Hanh Phuc Le
  • 2011-2012 Kuang Chen
  • 2010-2011 Michael Paul Armbrust, Pallavi Joshi
  • 2009-2010 Arash Jamshidi
  • 2008-2009 Norm Aleks
  • 2007-2008 David Molnar
  • 2006-2007 Hyuck Choo, David Garmire
  • 2005-2006 Steven E. Molesa
  • 2004-2005 Andrew Carlson
  • 2002-2003 Brian Otis
  • 2001-2002 Anoop Sinha

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Vani Suresh
  • 2022-2023 Shide Dehghani, Margarita Geleta
  • 2021-2022 Lucas Spangher
  • 2020-2021 Chenyue Cai
  • 2019-2020 Leyla Kabuli
  • 2018-2019 Shiry Sara Ginosar
  • 2017-2018 Alvin Wan
  • 2016-2017 Swapnil Das, Daniel Feldman
  • 2015-2016 Mohini Bariya
  • 2014-2015 Fanny Yang
  • 2013-2014 Kristen Ann Woyach
  • 2012-2013 Rebecca Portnoff
  • 2011-2012 Anuj Tewari
  • 2010-2011 Aditi Shrikumar
  • 2009-2010 Ting-Ta Yen
  • 2008-2009 Percy Liang
  • 2007-2008 Johnathan Ritzi
  • 2006-2007 Anand Sarwate
  • 2005-2006 Lane M. Rettig
  • 2004-2005 Forrest Brennen
  • 2003-2004 Umesh Shankar
  • 2002-2003 Holly Fait
  • 2000-2001 Aaron Brown
  • 1999-2000 Michael Brudno
  • 1998-1999 Raymond Wang
  • 1997-1998 Jeff Bilmes
  • 1996-1997 Amar Chaudhary
  • 1995-1996 David Bailey
  • 1994-1995 Luat Vuong
  • 1993-1994 Roger Doering
  • 1992-1993 Matthew Wright
  • 1991-1992 Phyllis Chang, Seth Teller
  • 1990-1991 Edward Scheckler
  • 1989-1990 Charles Brooks
  • 1988-1989 Leslie Field
  • 1987-1988 Marc Sabatella
  • 1986-1987 Erling Wold
  • 1985-1986 Michael Cohen
  • 1984-1985 Myra Boenke, Edward Lee
  • 1983-1984 Lester Ludwig
  • 1982-1983 Greg Heinzinger

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Yicheng Zhu
  • 2021-2022 Panagiotis Zarkos
  • 2019-2020 Juan Llinas
  • 2017-2018 Matin Amani
  • 2015-2016 Seth Fortuna
  • 2013-2014 Michael Eggleston, Thai Tran
  • 2011-2012 Amit Lakhani
  • 2009-2010 Pratik Ashvin Patel
  • 2007-2008 David Garmire
  • 2005-2006 Josephine B. Chang
  • 2004-2005 Michael A. Scarpulla
  • 2003-2004 Pei-Cheng Ku
  • 2002-2003 Junqiao Wu
  • 2001-2002 Qiang Lu
  • 2000-2001 Yijian Chen
  • 1999-2000 Danielle R. Chamberlin
  • 1998-1999 Henry Hieslmair
  • 1997-1998 Timothy Brosnihan
  • 1996-1997 Chris Keller
  • 1995-1996 Yong Chen
  • 1994-1995 Charles R. Sullivan
  • 1993-1994 David Aaron Botkin
  • 1992-1993 Gary Fedder
  • 1991-1992 John Wolk
  • 1990-1991 Richard Ferguson
  • 1989-1990 Ken Khachaturyan
  • 1988-1989 Hing Wong
  • 1987-1988 Yu-Chong Tai
  • 1986-1987 Ramamoorthy Ramesh
  • 1985-1986 Mark Sherwin
  • 1984-1985 Dennis Polla
  • 1983-1984 Nancy Haegel
  • 1981-1982 Tzu-Yin Chiu
  • 1978-1979 Clifford Drawley
  • 1977-1978 Barry C. Chin
  • 1976-1977 Robert W. Westervelt

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Brandon Mallard
  • 2022-2023 Daniel Delgado, Brandon Mallard
  • 2021-2022 Jerome Quenum
  • 2020-2021 Cherish Truong
  • 2019-2020 Devin Petersohn
  • 2018-2019 Haitao Zhu
  • 2017-2018 Ace Hao
  • 2016-2017 Daniel Nam
  • 2015-2016 Michael McCoyd
  • 2014-2015 David Allen
  • 2013-2014 Bradley Wheeler
  • 2012-2013 Clinton Anderson
  • 2011-2012 Kevin Porter
  • 2010-2011 Barret Rhoden
  • 2009-2010 Barret Rhoden
  • 2008-2009 Numa Perez
  • 2007-2008 Numa Perez
  • 2006-2007 Joshua Eric Koche
  • 2005-2006 Tyson Condie
  • 2003-2004 Sean G. Harris
  • 2001-2002 Greg McIntyre

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.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Vedansh Malhotra
  • 2022-2023 Meiqi Sun
  • 2021-2022 Ethan Guo, Jason Wang
  • 2020-2021 Yanlai Yang
  • 2019-2020 Alexander Wu
  • 2018-2019 Alexander Li
  • 2017-2018 Michael Mcdonald, Angelina Wang
  • 2016-2017 Garrett Thomas
  • 2015-2016 Nopphon Siranart
  • 2014-2015 Rohan Chitnis
  • 2013-2014 Nikita Kitaev
  • 2012-2013 Jonathan Ho
  • 2011-2012 Ziang Xie
  • 2010-2011 Sameep Tandon
  • 2009-2010 Stephen Miller
  • 2008-2009 Akshay Krishnamurthy
  • 2007-2008 Louis Jong Wah Chan
  • 2003-2004 Chung Ming Wu
  • 2001-2002 Meng Yu