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Department Awards

Each year the Department of Computer Science nominates students, faculty, and staff who have gone above and beyond to make our community better. We honor and recognize the following people who have worked tirelessly towards excellence in computer science mentoring, teaching, and service.

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2024 - 2025 Awards

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

  • Bob Guo (Fall quarter)
  • Karl Hallsby (Fall quarter)
  • Phawin Prongpaophan (Fall quarter)
  • Blaine Rothhrock (Spring quarter)

Career Peer Mentors

  • Anya Bardach (Winter quarter)
  • Emily Wei (Fall quarter)

Outstanding Peer Mentors

  • Evan Bertis-Sample (Spring quarter)
  • Eugenia Cao (Winter quarter)
  • Sarah Carley (Winter quarter)
  • Aryaman Chawla (Winter quarter)
  • Kevin Fan (Fall quarter)
  • Isabel Gonzalez (Spring quarter)
  • Kevin Hayes (Fall quarter)
  • Hannah Orozco (Spring quarter)
  • Sophia Pi (Fall quarter)
  • Sean Rhee (Fall quarter)
  • Joanna Soltys (Winter quarter)
  • Lucas Takayasu (Spring quarter)
  • Elliott Yoon (Spring quarter)

Outstanding CS Seniors

  • Andrew Curran
  • Natalie Hill
  • Mercy Kerubo Omwoyo
  • Bennett Lindberg
  • Nikola Maruszewski
  • Arianna Montas
  • Ethan Pineda
  • Nathan Pruyne
  • Sean Rhee
  • Claire Schwartz
  • Marko Veljanovski
  • Grace Wang
  • Anna Xiao

Student Heroes

  • Emran Majidy
  • Safiya Menk
  • Phawin Prongpaophan
  • Kris Yun

PhD Student Research Awards

  • Dionysios Arvanitakis
  • Manuel Ballester Matito
  • Bob Guo
  • Rashna Kumar
  • Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu

Computer Science PhD Advisory Council (CSPAC) Ambassador Awards

  • Maryam Azmandian
  • Mandi Cai
  • Connie Chau
  • Melissa Chen
  • Charles Cui
  • Nathaniel Hejduk

Computer Science Social Initiative (CSSI) Ambassador Awards

  • Maryam Azmandian
  • Peter Chan
  • Lily Ge
  • Ziyang Guo
  • Jessica Jeng
  • Tommy McMichen
  • YY Teng
  • Mara Ulloa

Graduate Women in Computing (GWiC) Ambassador Awards

  • Lily Ge
  • Mara Ulloa

Excellence in Curriculum Innovation Award

Sruti Bhagavatula

Excellence in Teaching Award

Connor Bain

Faculty Mentorship Award

Chris Riesbeck

Faculty Service Award

  • Andrew Crotty
  • Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Research Mentorship Award

Peter Dinda

Staff Heroes

  • Linda Pastorello
  • Jensen Smith
  • Ethan Walles


2023-2024 Awards

Staff Hero

Madeleine Agaton

Faculty Service Award

Vincent St-Amour

PHD Student Research Award

Hyeok Kim

Instructor of the Year

  • Zach Wood-Dought
  • Michael Horn

Best Research Mentor 

  • Matthew Kay
  • Fumeng Yang

Student Hero

  • Melissa Chen
  • Nathan Grenier
  • Maryam Hedayati 


2022 – 2023 Awards

Faculty Service Award

Fabián Bustamante

Instructor of the Year

Joseph Hummel

Outstanding Peer Mentors

  • Theerut Amornkasemwong (Fall quarter)
  • Moises Attie (Spring quarter)
  • Jack Burkhardt (Fall quarter)
  • Nadharm Dhiantravan (Winter quarter)
  • Amy Guo (Winter quarter)
  • Anoushka Kapur (Winter quarter)
  • Jada King (Fall quarter)
  • Jackie Lin (Fall quarter)
  • Carol Liu (Winter quarter)
  • Maria Fernandez Davila Pastor (Spring quarter)
  • Ethan Pineda (Fall quarter)
  • Antonio Rocha (Spring quarter)
  • John Sanchez (Spring quarter)
  • Akash Shroff (Winter quarter)
  • Marko Veljanovski (Spring quarter)

Outstanding Seniors

  • Maya Blumovitz
  • Amil Dravid
  • Amy Guo
  • Avery Keare
  • Grace Liu
  • Liam O'Carroll
  • Antonio Rocha
  • Li Kang Tan

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

  • Donna Hooshmand (Winter quarter)
  • Sen Lin (Spring quarter)
  • Vaidehi Srinivas (Fall quarter)

PhD Student Research Award

Vaidehi Srinivas

Research Mentor Awards

  • Jessica Hullman
  • Eleanor O'Rourke

Staff Hero

Wynante Charles

Student Heroes

  • Avery Keare
  • Dilan Nair


2021 – 2022 Awards

CS Undergraduate Research Award

  • Drew Kersnar
  • Caspar Popova
  • Nathan White

Faculty Service Award

Nikos Hardavellas

Instructor of the Year

Branden Ghena

Outstanding CS Senior Award

  • Ayobami Bolaji (McCormick)
  • Kevin Mendoza Tudares (McCormick)
  • Julia Odden (Weinberg)
  • Megha Ramanathan (McCormick)
  • Carina Ramos (McCormick)
  • Alexander Redding (Weinberg)
  • Kelly Su (McCormick)
  • Peter Zhong (McCormick)

Outstanding Peer Mentors

  • Rohil Bahl (Winter quarter)
  • Cooper Barth (Fall quarter)
  • Afreen Bhumgara (Spring quarter)
  • Huaxuan Chen (Spring quarter)
  • Abigail Coneeny (Fall quarter)
  • Xamantha Laos Cuevas (Spring quarter)
  • Chase Duvall (Fall quarter)
  • Olivia Escousse (Winter quarter)
  • Rohith Jayaraman (Winter quarter)
  • Dilan Nair (Winter quarter)
  • Julia Odden (Spring quarter)
  • Henry Pereira (Spring quarter)
  • Ariella Silver (Fall quarter)
  • Jipeng Sun (Winter quarter)
  • Hannah Zimmerman (Fall quarter)

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

  • Jiwon Choi (Fall quarter)
  • Aravind Reddy (Spring quarter)
  • Madhav Suresh (Winter quarter)

PhD Student Research Award

Liren Shan

Research Mentor Award

Xiao Wang

Staff Heroes

  • Pam Villalovoz
  • Katie Winters

Student Heroes

  • Aldo Aguilar
  • Ayobami Bolaji


2020 – 2021 Awards

Student Heroes

  • Olivia Gallagher
  • Kevin Mendoza Tudares

PhD Student Research Award

  • Maitraye Dasr
  • Yiding Feng
  • Lukas Lazarek
  • Chenkai Weng

Outstanding Peer Mentors

  • Spencer Colton (Fall quarter)
  • Ben Fisk (Winter quarter)
  • Olivia Gallagher (Winter quarter)
  • Aaron Nelson (Spring quarter)
  • Liam O'Carroll (Winter quarter)
  • Linus Okoth (Spring quarter)
  • Rafael Rodriguez (Winter quarter)
  • Chris Song (Spring quarter)
  • Li Kang Tan (Spring quarter)
  • Peter Zhong (Spring quarter)

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

  • Rawan Alharbi (Spring quarter)
  • Yash Patel (Winter quarter)
  • Natalie Melo (Fall quarter)

Instructors of the Year

  • Kate Compton
  • Jesse Tov

Faculty Service Award

Sara Sood

Best Research Mentors

  • Peter Dinda
  • Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Staff Heroes

  • Julia Blend
  • Iliana Vargas


2019 – 2020 Awards

Student Hero

  • Anna Deng
  • Alayna Richmond

Outstanding Peer Mentor

  • Charlotte Jones (Spring quarter)
  • Anna Deng (Winter quarter)
  • Daniel Birnbaum (Fall quarter)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant

  • Florian Schiffers (Spring quarter)
  • Kaiyu Hou (Winter quarter)
  • Lief Rasmussen (Fall quarter)

Instructor of the Year

  • Steve Tarzia
  • Sarah Van Wart

Faculty Service Award

  • Robby Findler
  • Jennie Rogers

Best Research Mentor

Marcelo Worsley

Staff Hero

Melissa Duong