2025 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Catharine June • March 14, 2025
The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Four faculty have received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  The award recognizes individual faculty for special contributions made in teaching, research, and/or service.

The recipients of the 2025 EECS Outstanding Achievement Award are:

Headshot photo of Parag Deotare

Parag Deotare

For pioneering research in excitonic photonics, for significant contributions bringing quantum technology into the ECE curriculum, and for extensive service to the Optics and Photonics Lab in ECE.

Headshot photo of Sindhu Kutty

Sindhu Kutty

For impactful contributions to undergraduate research as a mentor, for innovative course design, and for leadership in service.

Headshot photo of Oymak Samet

Samet Oymak

For leading his field with a scientific vision for the mathematics of deep learning and data science, and for bringing these cutting-edge topics directly into the machine learning classroom.

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Alanson Sample

For leadership in growing and promoting the Human-Centered Computing Lab and for contributions to ubiquitous computing research and teaching.

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Alanson Sample; Honors and Awards; Parag Deotare; Samet Oymak; Sindhu Kutty; e-HAIL