Student Awards

Graduate Awards

NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award

For University-wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards For The Academic Year

2021
Junaid Farooq
"Cyber-Physical Dynamic Decision Mechanisms for Large Scale Internet of Things Systems & Networks"
Advisor: Quanyan Zhu
2020
Roozbeh Soleymani
"Multi-Talker Babble Noise Reduction in Cochlear Implant Devices"
Advisor: Ivan Selesnick

Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Alexander Hessel to a graduate student for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in electrical engineering. The award carries a cash prize of $1500. All Ph.D. students who completed a doctoral dissertation (or a complete draft) between April of the previous year and March of the current year are eligible.

2024
Guanrui Li (Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Loianno)
2023
Linan Huang (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2022
Bo Pang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
2021
Juntao Chen (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2020
Parisa Hassanzadeh (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip)
2019
Roozbeh Soleymani (Advisor: Prof. Ivan Selesnick)
2018
Tao Bian (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
2017
Sanjay Goyal
2016
Jeyavijayan Rajendran

David Goodman Leadership and Academic Excellence Award

This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus David Goodman to one or more Ph.D. students who have demonstrated excellence in leadership and service while maintaining outstanding research and academic performance. This award recognizes both internal and external leadership and service to the profession. Students graduating in the past year (between June of the previous year and May of the current year) are eligible. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022) This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus David Goodman to ECE students with excellent research performance. This award is open to all ECE undergraduate and graduate students who have received a paper award as the lead author from a peer-reviewed journal or conference, or a prestigious recognition of their research work, in the past year.

2024
Dipankar Shakya (Advisor: Prof. Ted Rappaport)
2023
Qin Hu (Advisor: Prof. Farokh Atashzar)
2021
Mengzhe Huang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
2020
Tao Zhang (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2019
Parisa Hassanzadeh (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip)
Weinan Gao (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)

The Dante Youla Award For Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Emeritus Dante Youla for timely recognition of important research contributions made by Ph.D. students. The award recognizes one impactful paper in which the awardee is the principal author or a significant external award. The paper needs to be published/accepted or the external award received in the past year (between April of the previous year and March of the current year). The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022) This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus Dante Youla to a graduate student who has made the most significant research contributions among all ECE graduate students (Ph.D. and MS) in the past year.

2024
Xingyuan Zhou (Advisors: Prof. Farokh Atashzar)
Tao Li (Advisors: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
Jianqiao Mo (Advisors: Prof. Brandon Reagan)
Xupeng Chen (Advisors: Prof. Yao Wang)
Ufuk Usubutun (Advisors: Prof. Shivendra Panwar)
2023
Jeffrey Mao (Advisors: Prof. Giuseppe Loianno)
Rory O’Keeffe (Advisor: Prof. Farokh Atashzar)
Mustafa Ozkoc (Advisor: Prof. Shivendra Panwar)
Yunian Pan (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
Minghao Ye (Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Chao)
2022
Fabrizio Carpi (Advisors: Prof. Elza Erkip, Prof. Siddharth Garg)
Leilei Cui (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
Linan Huang (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
Guanrui Li (Advisor: Prof. Guiseppe Loianno)
Bo Pang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
2021
Zhujun Huang (Advisor: Prof. Davood Shahrjerdi)
2020
Junaid Farooq (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2019
Arun Parthasarathy (Advisor: Prof. Shaloo Rakheja)
Juntao CHEN (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2018
Shu Sun
2017
George Robert MacCartney
2016
Erdem Asa
Tao Bian (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)

David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Education Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established and funded by the former President of Polytechnic University David C. Chang and his wife Cecilia M. Chang, this award is given to one or more ECE graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in assisting undergraduate or graduate classes in the past year (Spring and Fall semesters of the previous year). The award carries a cash prize of $500.

2024
Pratyaksh Rao (Nominator: Prof. Guiseppe Loianno)
2023
Shashank Chaturvedi (Nominator: Prof. Mike Knox)
2022
Kevin Joon Tai Kim (Nominator: Prof. Guiseppe Loianno)
2021
Fabrizio Carpi (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip and Prof. Siddharth Garg)

The Theodor Tamir Award for the Best MS Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established by the late ECE Professor Emeritus Theodor Tamir, this award is given to a student in the MS program for the most outstanding MS Thesis or research project (with detailed report or published/accepted papers) in electrical or computer engineering. All MS students who completed a MS Thesis (or a complete draft) or a research project the past year (between April of the previous year and March of the current year) are eligible. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022)

Theodor Tamir Award for the Best MS Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established and funded by ECE Professor Emeritus Theodor Tamir, this award will be given to a MS student for the most outstanding MS Thesis in electrical or computer engineering.

2024
Pratyaksh Rao (Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Loianno)
2023
Zhun YIN (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
2022
Tianyun Sun (Advisor: Prof. Farokh Atashzar)
2021
Dipankar Shakya (Advisor: Prof. Ted Rappaport)
2020
Alexander Dunyak (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2019
Guanze Peng (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
2018
Yunfei Teng
2017
Ruturaj Nankumar Pujari
2016
Carlos Hernan Alonso Martinez

The Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best MS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This award is given to MS students in electrical or computer engineering who have achieved excellent academic performance. All MS students who graduated or expect to graduate between June of the previous year and May of the current year are eligible. This award carries a cash prize of $200.

(Before 2022) This award is given to a MS student in electrical or computer engineering based on the course work as well as MS thesis or project.

2024
Ruibin Chen,
Pradhyumn Bhale
Chenqian Le
2023
Zichuan Fang
Zihan Lin
Naman Sharma
2022
Cheng Chen
Xiaotian Li
Zulong Ye
2021
Dajr Alfred (Advisor: Prof. Dariusz Czarkowski)
2019
Ish Kumar Jain (Advisor: Prof. Shiv Panwar)
2018
Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani
2017
Jun Li
2016
Rui Zhang

The Athanasios Papoulis Award

For Graduate Teaching Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2018
Fraida Fund
Muhammad Junaid Farooq
2017
Nikhil Rangerajan
2016
Erdem Asa

Inclusive Excellence Award

2021
Zahra Ghodsi

Dr. Li Annual ECE Publication Award

The Dr. Li Annual ECE Publication Award is awarded to PhD students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who published their PhD research in the top publication venues in their field. The publication venue can be a journal or a conference, as conferences in particular fields have recognition equal to or greater than journals.

2024
AbduLLahi Bamigbade (Advisor: Prof. Francisco de Leon)

2023
Minsu (Daniel) Cho (Advisor: Prof. Chinmay Hegde)

Undergraduate Awards

Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award

Given by the late Professor Leonard O. Goldstone, in memory of his wife, to the graduating senior receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering with the highest academic standing.

2021
Katelyn Rose Owings
2020
Mayank Vanjani
2018
Damian S Dziedzic
2017
Robert Ryszewski
2016
Wells Santo

The Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best BS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established by the late Professor Myron M. Rosenthal and awarded to electrical engineering juniors with the highest academic standing.

2021
Mir Naveen Alam
2020
Katelyn Owings
2018
Rundong Chen
2017
Damian Dziedzic
Riya Varughese
2016
Damian S. Dziedzic

William J. Stolze Award

Established by William J. Stolze ’45EE in 1985 and awarded annually to the Electrical Engineering sophomore with the highest academic standing.

2021
Krzysztof Chciuk
2020
Mir Naveen Alam
2018
Mayank Vanjani
2017
Rundong Chen
2016
Fahim Ghani

The Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award

The Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award for Best BS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering is awarded to students who achieved an outstanding grade point average, achievement in coursework, research and additional departmental activities.

2021
Rohan Raghuraman
Jonathan Lin
Daniel Hunte
Danny Alcedo
Austen Arniello
Simon Kahn
Qixiao Zhang
Nicola Rachel Adele Ramdass
Erica Malaluan Chou
2020
Carlos Alfonso Valle-Diaz
Sammy Almawaldi
Noor Md Fahim Faisal
Gabrielle Fisher
Florence Tong
Sophia Elizabeth Danielsen
Michael Alan Kochera
Yuxi Luo
Ignacio Santiago Calvera Maldonado
2018
Kamal Fuseini
Trisha Kadle
Ana Bolsoni
Maghew Karashik
Alex Uriel Concepcion Romero
Ali Hasan
2017
Hieu Sy Do
Nathan Thomas Ly
Riya A Varughese
Bilal Saleem
Anfernee Zhao
Fahim Ghani
Alex Uriel Concepcion Romero
Teddy Zeng

External Awards

2023
Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (2023) "Do Switches Still Need to Deliver Packets in Sequence?" Ufuk Usubutun, Fraida Fund, and Shivendra Panwar.

2022
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Globecom 2022. "Thermal Conduction as a Wireless Communication Channel". Ruth G. Gebremedhin; Advisor: Thomas Marzetta

2021
Best Paper Award at the Wireless Communications Symposium, Globecom 2021. "Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical MIMO Channel Model for Urban Microcells at 142 GHz". Shihao Ju; Advisor: Theodore Rappaport

Best Poster Award at 2021 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop

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