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 It This award was originally made possible by donations to the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award fund from the participants in the 1996 C.V. Ramamoorthy Workshop on Advances in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