Awards and Scholarships in the Department of Computer Science

05-06-2024

 

Every spring, the Department of Computer Science honors students, faculty, and staff who have been chosen to receive fellowships, awards, and scholarships.

 

We offer our congratulations to this year's winners. We are proud of your accomplishments and look forward to your future contributions.

 

Photos of the event are available here.

 

 

Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award

Professor Maurice H. Halstead joined the computer science faculty in 1967. He was a pioneer in software engineering, and wrote some of the first books on compiling and decompiling of software. He is generally considered as the "father" of code decompilation. Professor Halstead is perhaps best known as the founder of the approach to defining and measuring software products and processes known as Software Science. Many people believe that his work, and that of former Professor Samuel Conte, was the true foundation for software metrics and software engineering. Following Professor Halstead's death, a memorial fund was established in 1979 by his students, family, and colleagues to recognize a Purdue student who has made exemplary contributions to software engineering research. The winner is selected by the CS Awards Committee based on nominations submitted by the faculty and presented with an engraved plaque. The recipient receives a $5,000 monetary award and their name inscribed on a permanent plaque in the display case by Room 3102 in Lawson Computer Science Building.

This year, Nan Jiang is the recipient of the 2024 Halstead Award. Jiang was nominated by Professor Lin Tan for his contributions to software engineering. Professor Lin stated, “Nan is the strongest PhD student with whom I've collaborated in the past 20 years. He has 11 papers, three of which are first-authored papers in ICSE, which has a very low acceptance rate of 15-20%.  Nan is self-motivated and hardworking, has creativity and strong software engineering skills. Overall, I rate Nan as and, “exceptional" graduate student.

Nan Jiang is the recipient of the Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award

 

 

Raymond Boyce Graduate Teaching Award

The Raymond Boyce Graduate Teaching Award was established in 1975 by Sandy Boyce and friends in memory of Raymond Boyce who received his PhD in computer science in 1972 with high honors. Raymond passed away unexpectedly on June 18, 1974. This year the Boyce Graduate Teacher Award was awarded to Hanwen Ren for the fall of 2023 and Ji Hun (Jimmy) Hwang for the spring of 2024. Their names will be inscribed on a permanent plaque in the display case by Room 3102 in Lawson Computer Science Building.

Hanwen Ren, winner of the Boyce Graduate Teacher Award, Jin Hun (Jimmy) Hwang not pictured.

 

 

Emil Stefanov Memorial Partial Fellowship

Raymond Muller won the Emil Stefanov Memorial Partial Fellowship. The fellowship was created in memory of Emil Stefanov, who earned his BS from Purdue in 2009 and passed away in 2014. This award is given to a domestic graduate student specializing in security who shows originality and creative thinking in research. Assistant Professor Berkay Celik nominated Muller for the fellowship.

Raymond Muller won the Emil Stefanov Fellowship

 

 

John R. Rice Partial Fellowship in Scientific Computing 

John R. Rice, the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Purdue, was one of the earliest faculty members of Purdue’s first-in-the-nation computer science program. This year, the John R. Rice Partial Fellowship in Scientific Computing was awarded to Dinglan Peng. Peng was nominated by Assistant Professor Pedro Fonseca.

Dinglan Peng won the John R. Rice Partial Fellowship in Scientific Computing

 

 

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award 

The Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award honors an undergraduate student for their work as a teaching assistant. This award is given to an undergraduate student who serves as a teaching assistant, faculty members nominate students they believe are deserving of special recognition. This year’s recipient, Colten Glover, was nominated by Professors George Adams, Tony Bergstrom, and H.M. Dunsmore.  Glover has been working with CS 18000 every semester since he took the class as a freshman. In addition to being a TA and Supplemental Instructor for this course, Colten is serving as Head TA this year, a position generally reserved for graduate students.  His teaching and leadership abilities have made a tremendous difference in the success of CS 18000.

Colten Glover won the Faculty Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award

 

 

Outstanding Service to the Department by a Student

The Outstanding Service to the Department by a Student Award is determined by votes of computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence students. This year, Ethan Dickey won the award.

Ethan Dickey won the Outstanding Service to the Department by a Student Award

 

Outstanding Research Effort by an Undergraduate Student

The Outstanding Research Effort by an Undergraduate Student went to Javad Baghirov, who was nominated by Professor Daisuke Kihara. Javad has been actively engaged in the development of software and web servers tailored for protein structure modeling using cryo-electron microscopy data. This research required a blend of comprehensive background understanding, technical coding proficiency and effective communication skills. Javad proved to be a team player, and his leadership led to the authorship of two book chapters with another article (as first author) to be submitted to a high-impact journal. Kihara promoted him to a paid undergraduate researcher in his lab, a privilege he has extended to fewer than five individuals out of 130 he has supervised in his career at Purdue. 

Javad Baghirov won the Outstanding Research Effort by an Undergraduate Student

 

 

Outstanding Student Awards

The department chooses students from each year in the computer science and data science majors to honor the exceptional work they have contributed. The students are awarded Outstanding Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior awards.

 

Outstanding Students in the Computer Science Major

Nihal Gunukula (Outstanding Freshman)
Muyang Yan (Outstanding Sophomore)
Harmya Bhatt (Outstanding Junior)
Oliver Bonilla (Outstanding Senior)

 

Outstanding Students in the Data Science Major

Alan Kang (Outstanding Freshman)
Shatakshi Shelar (Outstanding Sophomore)
Rosemary Ajish (Outstanding Junior)
Shreyansh Agrawal (Outstanding Senior)

 

Outstanding Student in the Artificial Intelligence Major (new in fall 2023)

Kyung (Andy) Ko (Outstanding Student) 

 

Nihal Gunukula, Outstanding Freshman in the Computer Science Major

 

 

Harmya Bhatt, Outstanding Junior in the Computer Science major

 

Oliver Bonilla, Outstanding Senior in the Computer Science Major 

 

 

Alan Kang, Outstanding Freshman in the Data Science Major

 

Shatakshi Shelar, Outstanding Sophomore in the Data Science Major

 

Shreyansh Agrawal, Outstanding Senior in the Data Science Major

 

 

Outstanding Staff Member

The award for Outstanding Staff Member is selected from staff nominations. This year's winners are Stephanie Draper (not pictured), David Leonard, and Pat Morgan.

Pat Morgan and David Leonard, Outstanding Staff Members (Stephanie Draper, not pictured)

  

Purdue's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Chapter Awards

The Purdue CS Student Chapter of the ACM provides awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching assistant plus a faculty award. This years winners are; Jinglei Cheng for the ACM Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Associate Professor of Practice Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera for the ACM Faculty Award, and Christina Zhang for the ACM Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Associate Professor of Practice Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera won the ACM Faculty Award

 

 

Christina Zhang won the ACM Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award

 

 

Graduate Student Association's Awards

Dithi Saxena,vice president of the Graduate Student Association present awards that were selected by graduate students. For the Most Influential Professor Award, Professors Elisa Bertino and Berkay Celik were selected.

Professors Elisa Bertino and Berkay Celik won the Most Influential Professor Award by the Graduate Student Association.

 

 

Undergraduate Scholarships

Scholarship Name	Recipient(s)
Boeing Student Organization Scholarship	Shelby Joyner Lilian Zhao Selina Lin Olivia Liu
Boeing Corporate Scholarship	Kushagr Khanna Alexiy Buynitsky Aryan Jain
Computer Science Scholarship	Saadullah Sharief Visv Shah Peter Kurto
Corporate Partner Scholarship	Samuel DeLucia-Green Sarthak Mangla Michael Bezick Nicholas Detwiler Zheng Hua Tan Xueyuan Cao Shrung Patel Alex Liu
Computer Science Endowed Scholarship	Segyul Park Aaditya Doiphode Andrew Tan Anish Kambhampathi Ryan Kwong Noah Trupin Sriharshita Varanasi
David & Darla Dodson Endowment Scholarship	Daniel Xie
Ford Corporate Scholarship	Kathryn Moran Genna Yavaraski Akshitha Kartigueyan Diya Singh Yi Lin Yang
Kunze Scholarship  Sponsored by: Aaron and Morgan Kunze	Austin Lovell Aaron Boes
L3Harris	Sukrith Raman Vamsi Deeduvanu Nathaniel Cherian Monish Muralicharan Jeremy Lu
Mary-Ann Neel Computer Science Scholarship	Dayoon Suh Emily Hao Albert Wu Alimzhan Sultanov Pranay Nandkeolyar Vincent Palmerio
Matrix	Philip Liu
Michael E & Jerralie M Petersen Endowment Scholarship	Lyle Crothers  Zachary Kirkeby
William C. Nylin Jr Endowment Scholarship	Kartavya Vashishtha
Jason Yu Memorial Scholarship	Arman Kumar Vidit Patel

  

The Department of Computer Science congratulates all winners and thanks our corporate and scholarship sponsors.

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