2021 Commencement Awards | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

2021 Commencement Awards


Academic and Student Affairs

Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Sofiia Barysheva

Helen Warren Leadership Award
Shahrin Haque

John J. Dropkin Tutor-of-the-Year
Giles Bischoff

Kinsella Humanitarian Award
Danny Alcedo

Myron M. Rosenthal Student Council Award
Fariha Mahjabin

Raytheon TRIO Scholars Award
Baasimah Sabir

Tandon Community Excellence Award
Abigail Bonilla
Anysa Fernandez

TRIO Scholars Golden Apple Award
Amber McVean

TRIO Scholars Award of Excellence
Melissa Jacob


Applied Physics

Erich Kunhardt Prize for Innovative Senior Project
Cesar Lema


Biomedical Engineering

Inclusive Excellence Award
Harry Peng


Center for Urban Science & Progress

Scholastic Award
Wanyu Cao
Mengyuan Guo
John Paul McKay
Aleka Raju
Dina Wagdy
Kendra Singh
Yutong Zhu

Promising Researcher Award
Aleka Raju

Professional Student Award
Asnat Ghebremedhin
Samantha Falk
Kendra Singh
Yanmei Guan
Nicholas Liu-Sontag
AJ Kuhn
Tyler Matteo

Community Building and Leadership Award
Aren Kabarajian
Tyler Matteo

Commitment to Social Good Award
Rachel Provost


Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

American Institute of Chemist Award
Elizabeth Wilkinson

Omega Chi Epsilon Award
Yanmeng Liu

Sidney A. Savitt Award
David Sung

Albert E. Sobel Award
Jason Chen

Irving Skeist Award
Yao Wang

Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize
Bonnie Lin

Professor Turner Alfrey Prize
Mingxin He
Daniel Frey

Raymond E. Kirk Award
Yingxin Xiao

Roland Ward Award
Angelica Moratos

Simeon Gang Award
Julia Monkovic

Inclusive Excellence Award
Ingrid Paredes


Civil and Urban Engineering

Bertha Pagenstecher Memorial Award
Purnima Prasad

Civil Engineering Faculty Outstanding Construction Management Award
Macarthy Adelman

Robert Ridgway Student Chapter Prize
Martin Buceta Bertini

Society of Military Engineers
Jacob Asher
Martin Buceta Bertini
Ethan Chong
Kristal Drakes
Denilson Granados
Meliha Hodzic
Nick Hudanich
Zelin Li
Zhixi Lin
Elliot Molina
David Morales
Niharika Narendra
Purnima Prasad
Miral Shaker
Nate Sutton
Annie Wu

Theodore Clinton Towl Award
David Morales

Young Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award
Uma Lakshman

Inclusive Excellence Award
Elliot Molina


Computer Science and Engineering

Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award
Shuaihang Yuan
Peter Xenopoulos

Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award
Jorge Piazentin Ono
Ke Yang

Pearl Brownstein Junior Award
Lisa Ye

Pearl Brownstein Senior Award
Sofiia Barysheva
Muhannad Elkattawy

Myron M. Rosenthal Computer Science Award
Qiuyue Wang
Yoon Jae Kang
Ly Cao

CSE Leadership Award
Dan Shafman
Md Abedin
John Cunniff
Andrew Liang
Benjamin Liang

CSE Sophomore Academic Achievement Award
Thinzar Lin
Shinkyum Rho

CSE Junior Academic Achievement Award
Yanjun Meng
Wangyue Zhao

CSE Senior Academic Achievement Award
Naman Chimnani
Charles Chan

Inclusive Excellence Award
Katie Rosman


Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhujun Huang

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

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

David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Education Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fabrizio Carpi
Yunfei Ge

David Goodman Research Award
Mengzhe Huang

Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award
Katelyn Rose Owings

Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best BS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mir Naveen Alam

William J. Stolze Award
Krzysztof Chciuk

Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award
Rohan Raghuraman
Jonathan Lin
Daniel Hunte
Danny Alcedo
Austen Arniello
Simon Kahn
Qixiao Zhang
Nicola Rachel Adele Ramdass
Erica Malaluan Chou

Inclusive Excellence Award
Zahra Ghodsi


Finance and Risk Engineering

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Yue Kang
Jiawei Lu
Ziqi Yuan
Boyan Han

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Superior Leadership and Service to the FRE Community Award
Jose Francisco Rubio
Titash Ghoshal
Sai Theja Vadlamani
Sumit Mahaveer Sethi
Vinay Arun Bharath
Le Zhu
Sachin Labhishetty

Inclusive Excellence Award
Le Zhu


Mathematics

George Bachman Award
Junyi Sha
Joseph Cain

William R. Allen Award
Wenxuan Tao


Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ASTM Noah A. Kahn Memorial Award
Johnny Yang

Best Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis
Guan-Lin Chen

Best Mechanical Engineering PhD Qualifying Exam Performance
Sachin Bharadwaj

Best Mechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduate Project 
Yue Wei Fu

Dr. Morris Young Outstanding Project Design Award 
Shiheng Wang
Devlin Chang
Sunghoon Jung
Cole Kromer
Oz Oren
Suqi Wu Su Qi
Alice Zhang

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Junior with Highest GPA
James Paul Marbaix

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Senior with Highest GPA
Devlin Chang

Iraj Kalkhoran Memorial Award - Best Graduating Senior in Aerospace Minor
Ryan Chan


Technology, Culture and Society

Frances David Mulcahy Award in Technology Ethics and Science and Technology Studies
Roxie Floyd

Sustainable Urban Environment Achievement Award
Sarah Suchmann

Bernard And Florence Rechtschaffen Humanities Award
Sofiia Barysheva

Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Award (Best Research Paper)
Annlie Nguyen 

Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Award (Literary Criticism)
Sophia Reck 
Sanford Lu 

The Eddie Oliver Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
Aryan Easwaran

Best Senior Project in Integrated Digital Media
Thomas Knoepffler

Best MS Thesis in Integrated Digital Media
Caitlin Gebhard

Inclusive Excellence Award
Saki Asakawa


Technology Management and Innovation

Professor George Schillinger Award
Zian Zhang

Society for Human Resource Management Award
Bhavish Venkatesh
Xuan Chen

Student Achievement Award for Business & Technology Management
Adam Chen
Matthew Reynolds
Lingfeng Cai
Isabella Jaar

Student Achievement Award for Master's, Management of Technology
Sitan Zhang
Valeriya Gorelova
Muxi Cao

Student Achievement Award for Industrial Engineering
Zhaolin Chen
Saad Tariq
Ajinkya Shinde

Inclusive Excellence Award
Kyra-Lee Harry