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 was made possible by donations from the participants in the 1996 C.V. Ramamoorthy Workshop on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering. [Previously called the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award]
Awardees
- 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