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2015-16 Undergraduate Student Awards
Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.
EnlargeStudents, parents, and faculty gathered on Friday, March 11, 2016 to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities. Khalil Najafi, Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Marios Papaefthymiou, Chair for Computer Science and Engineering, presented the awards. Photos from the event are available here.
College of Engineering Awards
Distinguished Academic Achievement Award
Presented to an outstanding student from each program offered within the College of Engineering. Students are selected by each department on the basis of academic and personal excellence.
Lauren Bilbo, Electrical Engineering
Genevieve Flaspohler, Computer Engineering
Matthew Grossman, Computer Science
Distinguished Leadership Award
Presented to undergraduate and graduate students of the College of Engineering who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and service to the College, University, and community.
Olena Huang, Electrical Engineering
Breoshshala Martin, Computer Engineering
Neal Parikh, Computer Science
Arlen R. Hellwarth Award
Presented to an undergraduate student leader who has made valuable contributions to the College, University and/or community.
Alexandria Strother, Electrical Engineering
Cooley Writing Prize
Awarded to an undergraduate engineering student to explore non-technical fields to develop, broaden, and enrich his or her education.
Andong Luis Li Zhao, Computer Science
Epeians Emerging Leadership Prize
Aawarded to a second year undergraduate student who has made valuable contributions to the College of Engineering community.
Aiden Connolly, Electrical Engineering
Henry Ford II Prize
Presented to an outstanding junior who has demonstrated academic excellence.
Maxwell Li, Electrical Engineering
Hugh G. Rumler Prize
Presented to an outstanding senior on the basis of sincerity, integrity, and goodwill.
Alexandria Strother, Electrical Engineering
EECS Awards
Outstanding Achievement Award
Presented to an outstanding senior student from each of the three programs of study (EE, CE, and CS) in EECS. Students are selected on the basis of outstanding overall academic and personal excellence.
Jiannan Huang, Electrical Engineering
Benjamin Katz, Computer Science
Clark Zhang, Computer Engineering
William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence
Presented to a top student from each of the three programs of study (EE, CE, and CS). These students are in the top 10% of their class and have an interest in communications and computers, as well as professional interests and activities.
Leah Bar-On Simmons, Computer Science
Genevieve Flaspohler, Computer Engineering
Andrew Wagenmaker, Electrical Engineering
Stephen Zhu,Computer Science
Outstanding Research Award
Given to students who completed an outstanding research project with a faculty member or graduate student over and above the requirements of a course or an independent project.
Neal Jackson, Computer Engineering
Austin Rovinski, Electrical Engineering
Max Smith, Computer Science
Outstanding Service Award
Presented to students who have shown exceptional leadership in their student organizations, service to the University, College, or Department, or service to the community.
Kyle Harman, Electrical Engineering
Maia Hoberman, Computer Science
Breoshshala Martin, Computer Engineering
William Harvey Seeley Prize
Presented to an electrical engineering student who stands first in his/her class at the completion of the freshman year.
Deondre Davis, Electrical Engineering
Michael Toennies, Electrical Engineering
Richard K. Brown Memorial Scholarship
Presented to an electrical engineering student with an interest in acoustics or amateur (ham) radio.
James Chapman, Electrical Engineering
Commercialization/Entrepreneurship
Presented to a top student from each of the three programs of study (EE, CE, and CS) who exemplifies a partnership between engineering and business through involvement in or startup of a private business, patents, or partnerships with corporations, furthering their field of knowledge or interest.
Maxwell Li, Electrical Engineering
Colin Szechy, Computer Engineering
Eric Yu, Computer Science
EECS Scholars
Given to EECS Seniors (85 credits and above) who have been at U-M at least two full semesters and have a cumulative 3.9 GPA or greater as of Fall 2015.
Amir Alavi (CS)
Jovan Attisha (CE)
Aaron Barber (CS)
Leah Bar-On Simmons (CS)
Lauren Bilbo (EE)
Gideon Billings (EE)
Ian Blaauw (CS)
Jocelyn Bohr (CS)
Dmitry Bondarenko (CE)
Jacob Botimer (EE)
Jonathan Brelje (CS)
Alexander Brusher (CS)
Nicholas Bush (CS)
Qizhe Cai (CS)
Spencer Carmichael (EE)
Lily Chen (CS)
Nicholas Cook (CS)
Anna Dai (CS)
Maureen Daum (CS)
Eric Edmond (CS)
Madeline Endres (CS)
Nicholas Fava (EE)
Curtis Fenner (CS)
Nathan Fenner (CS)
Genevieve Flaspohler (CE)
Gabrielle Gaeta (CS)
Diana Gage (CS)
Shamik Ganguly (CE)
Kevin Glancy (EE)
Todd Goodall (CS)
Rashmika Goswami (CS)
Nicholas Grifka (CS)
Derek Guo (EE)
Kyle Harman (EE)
Rahul Hingorani (EE)
Conrad Holtsclaw (CS)
Jiannan Huang (EE)
Jian Huang (CS)
Olena Huang (CS)
Eric Hwang (CS)
Ran Jia (EE)
Youssef Katamish (CS)
Benjamin Katz (CS)
Ryan Kelly (CS)
Saad Khatri (EE)
Jack Kosaian (CS)
Margo Leibold (CS)
Matthew Leibold (CS)
Maxwell Li (EE)
Cameron Lindsay (EE)
Alice Liu (EE)
Sihang Liu (CE)
Yanqi Liu (CE)
Duane London (EE)
Ren Lu (CS)
Yixin Ma (EE)
Brian Ma (CS)
Connor Mackey (EE)
Timothy Macpherson (CE)
Sahil Madeka (CS)
Alex Mang (CS)
Andrew Marino (CS)
Ian McGraw (CS)
Nicholas McLaughlin (CS)
Ryan Meredith (EE)
Jason Millen (CS)
Justin Millman (CS)
Abhimanyu Muchhal (CS)
Jay Mulani (CE)
Kevin Ni (CS)
Ning Niu (CS)
Cory Odell (CS)
Adrian Padin (CE)
Nitish Paradkar (CE)
Sharvil Patel (CE)
John Payne (CS)
Cheng Perng Phoo (CS)
Raghav Prabhu (CS)
Nitin Ram (CS)
Kishore Rao (EE)
Pearce Reickert (CE)
Joseph Richey (CS)
Alexander Roberts (CS)
Michael Roberts (CS)
Dean Robinson (CS)
Tara Safavi (CS)
Aman Sharma (CS)
Nicholas Skinsacos (CS)
Joel Sharin (CS)
Tanvir Singh (CS)
Daniel Snyder (CE)
Richmond Starbuck (CS)
Pascal Sturmfels (CS)
Haitian Sun (CS)
Chen Sun (EE)
Xun Sun (EE)
Sayyid Sofwan Syed Ahmad Helmi (CE)
Bruce Szudera Wienand (CS)
Dengwang Tang (CE)
Nicholas Terrell (CS)
Kegan Th orrez (CS)
Wenching Tsai (CE)
Siddharth Venkatesan (CE)
Davis Vorva (CS)
Andrew Wagenmaker (EE)
Henry Wang (CE)
Jiaxuan Wang (CS)
Kaiwei Wang (CS)
Kangxu Wang (CS)
Yingfei Wang (CE)
Yunqi Wang (CS)
Zach Weglarz (CS)
Jacob Winick (EE)
Karl Winsor (CS)
Daniel Woodworth (CS)
Rachel Xiang (CS)
Chuxuan Xiong (CS)
Marion Xu (CS)
Alex Ying (EE)
Zangnan Yu (CS)
Luyao Yuan (CS)
Clark Zhang (CE)
Lihu Zhang (CS)
Yuening Zhang (CE)
Yisha Zhao (CS)
Alan Zhen (CE)
Rui Zhou (EE)
Tianhao Zhou (CE)
SURE Awards
These awards provided funding for students to work with faculty members on research projects of mutual interest. Following is a list of projects and participants.
Active Learning and Crowdsourcing Interface
Student Name: Ruizhi Deng
Student Name: Xianzhi Ruan
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Barzan Mozafari
Aircraft Electric Power System Testbed for Validating Distributed Controllers
Student Name: Yixin Ma
Student Name: Stanley Smith
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Necmiye Ozay
Android App of Browser Add-on to Automatically Discover User Recommendation
Student Name: Han Zhang
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Harsha Madhyastha
Approximate Computing
Student Name: Nicola Malloy
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Valeria Bertacco
Broadband Wireless Power Scavenging Systems for Battery-Lens Sensors
Student Name: Douglas Krusell
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Amir Mortazawi
Computational Strategic Reasoning
Student Name: Varsha Tirukonda
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Michael Wellman
Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Student Name: Yixin Jin
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Jia Deng
Deep Visual Analogy-Making
Student Name: Yi Zhang
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Honglak Lee
ExCAPE and DESUMA
Name: Maxwell Morrison
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Stéphane Lafortune
Flat, Ultra-Thin Optics
Student Name: Arun Nagpal
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Anthony Grbic
General Purpose GPA Exploration
Student Name: Gabriel Dodge
Student Name: Sihang Liu
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Valeria Bertacco
Mining Big Visual Data
Student Name: Jiaxuan Wang
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Jia Deng
Modeling Aspects of Social Contagion
Student Name: Rico Angell
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Grant Schoenebeck
Robot Vision for Small-Object Manipulation
Student Name: Sajan Patel
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Jason Corso
Smart, Programmable Memory Controllers
Student Name: Byungcheon Ko
Student Name: Yuhao Li
Student Name: Tao Yang
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Todd Austin
Spectrum Market Analyzer Tool
Student Name: Dengwang Tang
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Vijay Subramanian
Statistical Investigation of Cancer Stem Cell Development Using Single Cell Microfluids
Student Name: Yi Luan
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Euisik Yoon
Test Bed Fabrication
Student Name: Shuvro Guha
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Becky Peterson
Texture Classification with Texture Similarity Metric
Student Name: Jie Song
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: David Neuhoff
Theory of Quantum Information Processing
Student Name: Ben Brady
Student Name: Quincy Davenport
Student Name: Buting Ma
Student Name: Aman Sharma
Student Name: Jie Wang
Student Name: Karl Winsor
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: Yaoyun Shi
Ultra-Low Power Circuit Design for Millimeter Sized Sensor Nodes
Student Name: Xun Sun
Faculty Advisor/Mentor: David Blaauw