Graduate Awards
At the end of each academic year, the department gives two awards recognizing the work of two or more outstanding individuals.
The Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award is given to a recent graduate of the program who has earned the Ph.D. in the preceding year. (Prior to 2016 it was known as the Best Dissertation Award).
The Early Career Graduate Award is given to a student who has completed the second year of the program with an outstanding achievements in coursework, research and the general exam.
The recipients are listed below by award-year.
Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award
2020
Prashanth Venkataram
advised by Alejandro Rodriguez
2019
Mattias Fitzpatrick
advised by Andrew Houck
2018
Jingbo Liu
advised by Sergio Verdú
Tiffany Moy
advised by Naveen Verma
2017
Pramod Subramanyan
advised by Sharad Malik
2016
Christopher Brinton
advised by Mung Chiang
2015
Sonika Johri
advised by Ravindra Bhatt
2014
Victoria Kostina
advised by Sergio Verdú
Yang Liu
advised by Mansour Shayegan
Early Career Graduate Award
2020
*not yet awarded due to pandemic-related delays
2019
Hooman Saeidi
2018
Zihuai Zheng
2017
Fengyu Zhang
2016
Prashanth Venkataram
2015
Ross Kerner
Changchang Liu
2014
Neereja Sundaresan