2020 Commencement Awards | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

2020 Commencement Awards


Class of 2020. Your Vision. Your Future.


Academic and Student Affairs

John J. Dropkin Tutor-of-the-Year
Rosaura Ocampo

Raytheon TRIO Scholars Award
Laureanna Muok

TRIO Scholars Golden Apple Award
Victor Adegbite

TRIO Scholars Award of Excellence
Brianna Migliaccio

Undergraduate Academics – Global Engineering and Technology Certificate
Janae Isaacs

Student Affairs:

Harold Hertzberg Award
Nayab Butt
Brittney Atkinson-McFarlane

Helen Warren Leadership Award
Kathy Ching

Kinsella Humanitarian Award
Ellie Ly

The Myron M. Rosenthal Student Council Award
Florence Tong

Richard W. Block Award
Maxwell Rosen


Applied Physics

Erich Kunhardt Prize for Innovative Senior Project
Maxwell Rosen


Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

American Institute of Chemist Award
Ali Hasan

Omega Chi Epsilon Award
Hyunjoo Kim

Sidney A. Savitt Award
Rhea-Donna Reyes

Albert E. Sobel Award
Kelly Huang

Irving Skeist Award
Andrew Olsen

Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize
Yanxi Yang

Professor Turner Alfrey Prize
Daniela Blanco

Raymond E. Kirk Award
Abhi Deverakonda
Akash Nagapurkar

Roland Ward Award
Andrew Lee

Simeon Gang Award
Jay Kang


Civil and Urban Engineering

Donald J. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Maria Dominique Miguel Ong

Civil Engineering Faculty Outstanding Construction Management Award
Betty Shenglan Peng

Robert Ridgway Student Chapter Prize
Brian S. Kuhlman

Society of Military Engineers 
Kristal Jessica Drakes
Anton Miguel Santos Cano
Muhtasim Maheen
Ethan Chong
Denilson Benitez Granados
Nathan Sutton
Jacob Robert Asher
Miral Shaker
Elliot John Molina
Martin Federico Buceta Bertini
David Morales
Purnima Aishwarya Prasad

The Moles Scholarship Award
Victor Alvarez
Erik Kazazi

The Arline F. Gallagher Memorial Scholarship
Tarah Nicole Ngoc Driver
Andrew Li
Caroline Shlyakhova

Theodore Clinton Towl Award
Samuel W Redway

Young Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award
Caroline Shlyakhova


Computer Science and Engineering

Pearl Brownstein Junior Award
Sofia Barysheva
David Zheng
Duc Pham

The Myron M. Rosenthal Computer Science Award
Yikai Wang

CSE Leadership Award
Richard Shu
Kyle Martin
Duc Pham
Cindy Lee

CSE Sophomore Academic Achievement Award
Lisa Yeb
Marija Trifkovic

CSE Junior Academic Achievement Award
Muhannad Elkattawy
Naman Chimnani

CSE Senior Academic Achievement Award
Cindy Lee
Sally Bao


Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Junaid Farooq

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

David Goodman Research Award
Tao Zhang

Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award
Mayank Vanjani

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

William J. Stolze Award
Mir Naveen Alam

The Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award
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


Finance and Risk Engineering

FRE Department Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Jieqi Xue
John Patrick Sapit Delavin
Ruichen Wang
Yuxing Liang
Zixuan Huang
Chon Ip Sio
Jiada Lu
Wenyun Qin
Jingzhe Yu
Liqin Guan
Siqi Cao
Rupal Jain

FRE Department Superior Leadership and Service to the FRE Community Award
Chon Ip Sio
Jiewen Li
Jia Ju
Laukik Tated
Shreya Gossain


Mathematics

George Bachman Award
Amber McVean

William R. Allen Award
Teng Shao


Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ASTM Noah A. Kahn Memorial Award 
Michael Linares

Best Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis
Alexander Zwiren

Best Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Performance 
Wael Othman

Best Mechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduate Project 
Vrishin Rajiv Soman
Songyu Du

Dr. Morris Young Outstanding Project Design Award 
Chetan Arora
Nam Giang Phu Dang-Luong
Fiona Maureen Kelly
Sang Won Kim
Shawn Kshatriya
Justin Mun
Charles Chanho Yom

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Junior with Highest GPA
Devlin Chang

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Senior with Highest GPA
Yasha Nath Ormut Durbin

Iraj Kalkhoran Memorial Award  
Ongkona A. Biswas


Technology, Culture and Society

Science and Technology Studies Achievement Award
Alex Heywood

Sustainable Urban Environment Achievement Award
Nolan Quinn

The Eddie Oliver Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
Lucas White

Best Senior Project in Integrated Digital Media
Joel Jose Ureña

Best MS Thesis in Integrated Digital Media
Payton Meyer


Technology Management and Innovation

Professor George Schillinger Award
James Ting

Society for Human Resource Management Award
Sreenidhi Rabindranath

Student Achievement Award for Business & Technology Management
Randy Elliott
Begum Emirsoy
Lingfeng Cai
Halah Rahimi

Student Achievement Award for Master's, Management of Technology
Saily Jog
Man Yau Lam

Student Achievement Award for Industrial Engineering
Qinnan Cai
Yifan Zhang