2025 Commencement Awards

Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Faris Gomaa

General Engineering Inclusive Excellence Award
Candi Perez

GLASS Scholars
Shreya Manjrekar (The Glass Excellence Award)
Nabiha Siddique (The Luminary Leader Award)
Paige Charette (The Spirited Samaritan Award)
Ashley Flores (The Globetrekker Award)
Zack Nguyen (The Professional Pursuits Award)
Tim Guo (The Scholastic Titan Award)

Helen Warren Leadership Award
Violet Abwooli Nabbanja

Kinsella Humanitarian Award
Jen Martinez

Myron M. Rosenthal Student Council Award
Henry Wang

Polytechnic Tutoring Center John J. Dropkin Tutor-of-the-Year
Jason Li
Jiyuan Ren

Raytheon TRIO Scholars Award
Tina Chibane

Tandon Community Excellence Award
Anuj Patel (Graduate)
Shreya Manjrekar (Undergraduate)

TRIO Scholars Award of Excellence
Arianny Abreu

TRIO Scholars Golden Apple Award
Kristin Tong

Undergraduate

The Applied Physics Academic Excellence Award
Yufei Zhen

Erich Kunhardt Prize for Innovative Senior Project
Juan Gaitan

Graduate

Community Building and Leadership Award
Akanksha Patil
Ismail Rashad
Junyi Li
Koyel Das
Sneha Kripa Tirchy Shekar
Ziwei Zhang
Tanisha Dighe
Swati Sharma

Professional Student Award
Iman Cumberbatch
Akshay Verma

Commitment to Social Good
Madison Buchholz
Zhexuan Franklin Tang
Hongying Wu
Ziwei Zhang
Vinayak Saxena
Sonali Mhatre
Anne Mercado
Iman Cumberbatch

Promising Researcher Award
Sneha Kripa Tirchy Shekar
Weilai Xu
Feiyang Ren
Xueliang Yang
Linuode Ye
Ole Siever
Swati Sharma
Junyi Li
Godfried Junio Matahelemual
Qingyuan Feng
Tanisha Dighe
Zoey Zhou Yuan
Koyel Das
Iman Cumberbatch
Akanksha Patil
Malik Salman
Anne Mercado
Xiaoyue Zhang
Jiayi Weng

Scholastic Award
Soohyun Bae
Madison Buchholz
Ismail Rashad
Ole Siever
Weilai Xu

Graduate

Inclusive Excellence Award
Jonathan Sun
Kiana Bahrami
Alexia Kaloudis

Irving Skeist Award
Andrew Wang

Professor Turner Alfrey Prize
Ricardo Mathison

Undergraduate

American Institute of Chemists Award
Amulya Hota
Khalid El-Halabi (Biochemistry)

Albert E. Sobel Award
Frances Lee

CBE Achievement Award
Thomas Kywe

Herman F. Mark Memorial Award
Faris Gomaa

Inclusive Excellence Award
Joy Sure

Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize
Yuwei Chen
Maya Metri

NY ACS Excellence in Chemical Sciences
Kacie Carrier (Chemistry-Related Major)
Naomi Crook (Biochemistry-Related Major)

Omega Chi Epsilon Award
Sue Li

Othmer Memorial Award
Sharon Lin

Raymond E. Kirk Award
Jane Grimm

Roland Ward Award
Faris Gomaa
William Wei
Deniz Aydin

Sidney A. Savitt Award
Junru Liao

Simeon Gang Award
Jason Leu

Undergraduate

Bertha Pagenstecher Memorial Award
Eli Balidemaj

Robert Ridgway Student Chapter Prize
Ivan Tong

Society of American Military Engineers
Alexiz Aguilar (Col. B. Edward Lavender Scholarship)
Christina Jiang (Edward J. Quirin Scholarship)
Ridwan Islam (Eugene Fasullo and Maxine Hyrkas Scholarship)
Matthew Fiore (Eugene Fasullo and Maxine Hyrkas Scholarship II)
Ivan Bao (Fletcher H. "Bud" Griffis Memorial Scholarship)
Grace Pluemacher (Joe Markle Adinner Memorial Scholarship)
Francisco Jimenez (Joe Markle Adinner Memorial Scholarship II)
Ivan Tong (John J. Kassner Scholarship)
Marcin Wilkos (Morris and Sadie Weisstuch Memorial Scholarship)
Meg Fernandez (New York Building Congress Scholarship)
Aysha Naveed (New York Building Foundation Scholarship)
Eli Balidemaj (Parsons Brinckerhoff Memorial Scholarship)
Kevin Wang (R.M. Monti Scholarship)
Neil Patel (Rear Admiral Alexander C. Husband Scholarship)
Zoe Heinicke (Seymour S. Greenfield, Pe Memorial Scholarship)
Claire Yu (Susan Miszkowicz Memorial Scholarship)
Ryan Teng (Sverdrup Corporation Scholarship)
Kimberly Burgos (Turner Construction Scholarship)

Theodore Clinton Towl Award
Marchin Wilkos

Young Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award
Ryan Teng

Langan/Donald J. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Lotam Leinzon

Inclusive Excellence Award
Avdhut Mane

Moles Scholarship
Ryan Teng

Graduate

Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award
Xinhao Liu
Kenny Chen

Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award
Benjamin Feuer
Teal Witter

Undergraduate

CSE Leadership Award
Alex Ying
Qianxi Chen

CSE Senior Academic Achievement Award
Kaiwen Guo
Linfei Yuan
Kasper Yang

CSE Junior Academic Achievement Award
Xin Yu Zhang
Ben Miller

CSE Sophomore Academic Achievement Award
Ninad Moharir
Hongyi Li

Myron M. Rosenthal Computer Science Award
Elsa Mitchell
Omar Shalaby

Pearl Brownstein Junior Award
Ramon Li

Pearl Brownstein Senior Award
Victor Ding
Xingyu Mu

Graduate

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

Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abdullahi Bamigbade
Ezgi Ozyilkan
Heqing Huang
Xiaoyu Wang

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

David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Leadership Award
Raghu Vamshi
Anubha Singh
Nobodit Choudhury

David Goodman Leadership and Academic Excellence Award
Ezgi Ozyilkan

Li Publication Award
Salmane Naoumi
Serhat Bakirtas
Sayan Chakraborty
Tong Li
Yang Zhou
Mrunal Sarvaiya
Jiuhong Xiao
Amritpal Singh
Xupeng Chen
Haoyang Pei

Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best MS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Zhixiang Zhou
Zhenyuan Dong

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

Undergraduate

Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award
Antonia Ang

Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best BS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dorien Zhang
Hans Yang
Evan Dworkin

Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award
Lei Chen
Nazar Vaskiv
Ruoxuan Rosie Wang
Jacques Han
Max Ma
Kevin Guo

William J. Stolze Award
Thomas Qian
Jack Yang
Karen Habib
Ian Yum
Lakshya Jain
Emily Tong
Conner Kim
Jason Qin

Graduate

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Jacky Chen
Dongwei Li
Eeshaan Asodekar
Utkarshbhanu Ganesh Andurkar

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Superior Leadership and Service to the FRE Community Award
Haritha Ganesan Balasubramanian
Hrikshit Chauhan
Siyu Zheng
Qi Wu
Fatma Soliman
Cameron Walcott
Aaryav Sharma

Graduate

Inclusive Excellence Award
Annika Smith

William R. Allen Award
Tianyu Hwang
 

Undergraduate

George Bachman Award
Yifan Hu
Iris Liu

Inclusive Excellence Award
Elijah Wilson

Graduate

Dr. Morris Young Outstanding Project Design Award
Gabriel Bronfman

Undergraduate

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award (Senior)
Jeanna Arai

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award (Junior)
Andy Do
Jonathan Shan

Iraj Kalkhoran Memorial Award- Best graduating senior in Aerospace minor
Tina Chibane

Best Mechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduate Project
Sawyer Wizenmann
 

Graduate

Excellence in Iterative Design and Development
Shashwat Mishra

Excellence in Technical Development
Aditya Kandanda Somaiah

Inclusive Excellence Award
Samantha Rodgers

Undergraduate

Bernard And Florence Rechtschaffen Humanities Award
Capote Dimas

Eddie Oliver Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
Ryan Daly

Excellence in Iterative Design and Development
Jeffrey Guo

Francis David Mulcahy Award in Technology Ethics and Science and Technology Studies
Pranit Singh Gandhi

Sustainable Urban Environment Achievement Award
Daniela Benitez
Jasmine Guerra
Joseph Hicks
Michael Mardirossian

Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Awards
Nabira Ahmad

Graduate

Internship Achievement Award
Ritvika Sandeep Sanap
Ramit Batra

Inclusive Excellence Award
Rupa Maitreyi Akkiraju

Professor George Schillinger Award
John Bennett

Society for Human Resource Management Award
Siddharth Bharathi
Sneha Srikanth
Sahana Ravikumar
Seung Ju Lee

Student Achievement Award, Master's Industrial Engineering
Onat Keskin
Shayla Patel
Chloe Chung
Peiru Yi
Yuang Sun

Student Achievement Award, Master’s Management of Technology
Jiahui Ye
Elaine Xaio
Bolun Ding
Kuruner Irem
Yufei Liu
Alisha Punwani
Hankai Mao
Xinru Xie
Dishen Pei
Candice Jung Huang

Student Achievement Award, Master’s Management of Technology - Online
Heather Linn
Sarah Mauricio
Franco Coroso

Undergraduate

Student Achievement Award, Bachelor's Business And Technology Management
Ting Yu
Amalie Assaad Zard
Jacobo Barnuevo
Ryan Joyun You
Jessica Tang

Women In Business And Entrepreneurship Leadership Award
Kaniz Fatima
Lara Kurdi