ECE students were honored at our annual awards ceremony for their academic achievement and service contributions to the department. Please join us in congratulating the following students:
Dr. William S.C. Chang Best Dissertation Award
Dr. Sai Ashish Somayajula
Trustworthy Optimization of Pre-Trained Models for Healthcare: Generalizability, Adaptability, and Security
Advisor: Pengtao Xie
Harry Wieder Electronic Materials Excellence Award
Dr. Yalun Tang
Best TA Awards
Alex Liu: ECE 266, Spring 2025
Koffi Sadzi: ECE 240A, Fall 2025
Omar Cardoso: ECE 121A, Fall 2025
Henri Schulz: ECE 16, Winter 2026
Best Tutor Awards
Korey Huynh: ECE 5, Fall 2025
Dorsa Mousavi: ECE 25, Winter 2026
Best Undergrad Research Award
Wenqian Zhang
Advisor: Xinyu Zhang
ECE Undergraduate Student Award for Excellence (IDEA Center Award)
Emma Dunmire
Undergraduate Student Service Awards
Hlwan Paing, Undergraduate Student Council (ECE USC)
Iris Chou, Undergraduate Student Council (ECE USC)
Connor Loewy, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
Erik Duarte, IEEE
Graduate Student Service Awards
Neusha Javidnia, Women in ECE
Babusha Singh, Women in ECE
Samuel Kim, Graduate Student Council (ECE GSC)
2025-2026 Henry Booker Memorial Honors Award
In the spirit of Dr. Henry Booker’s educational philosophy, the department recognized the following students for their hard work, dedication and commitment to academics. All recipients maintained a GPA of 3.7 above in all ECE courses throughout their undergraduate career.
Farhat Ahmed
Cameron Arch
Yann Gabriel Baglin-Bunod
Manu Bhat
Savva Bogdanov
David Brin
Dominick Cardella
Andre Chavez
Jiayi Chen
Joshua Choi
Iris Chou
Emma Dunmire
Riccardo Manca Rascheli Ferrari
Rafaella Gomes
Eric Gu
Jasper Ha
Virakboth Hang
Ray Heinonen
Luke Holley
Elizabeth Hsu
Stephen Huang
Shing Hung
Cassandra Hunter
Sri Jandhyala
Jim Ji
Kalkin
Pranav Kambhampati
Brett Kinsella
Kibum Kim
Calvin Kong
Nicole Li
Peter Li
Yu-Heng Lin
Zilin Liu
Ziyue Liu
Kyle Lou
Yu-Han Lou
Jacky Mei
Raj Nawal
Yong Quan Neo
Michael Ney
Anthony Nguyen
Erictuan Nong
Peter Olson
Shanlin A. Qian
Andrew Park
Henry Pritchard
Amogh Raichur
Rudy Levi Richards
Evan Robert
Max Shi
Praveen Swaminathan
Dylan Umino
Alex Vong
Alan Wang
Alexander Wang
Anya Wang
David Wang
Warren
Kainoa Woessner
Emma Wrightson
Shengqi Wu
Tianhao Wu
Allen Yan
Gordon Yang
Mark Yan
Kobe Yang
Chengkai Yao
Collin Walmsley
Athena Wu
Yimeng Yin
Ciro Zhang
Wenqian Zhang
Eric Zheng