Departmental Graduate Student Awards
The John A. Goff Prize
This prize was established in honor of Dr. John A. Goff, former Dean of the Towne School and Asa Whitney, Professor. It is awarded annually to a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics who has been selected by the faculty on the basis of criteria of scholarship, resourcefulness, and leadership.
2021 – Kevin Galloway, Chengyang Mo
2020 – Mathew Halm
2019 – Lisa Mariani
2018 – Sarah Yifang Tang
2017 – Tarik Tosun
2016 – Alison Koser, Naomi Fitter
2014 – Nicholas Schneider
2013 – Matthew Turpin
2012 – David Arudo
2011 – Nora Ayanian
2010 – Joseph M. Grogran
2009 – Neil Zuckerman
2008 – Richard Springman
2007 – Mong-Ying Hsieh
2006 – Adam J. Engler
2005 – Joshua W. Lampe
2004 – Carl Jannetti
Solomon R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering Research (Est. 1993)
In recognition of Solomon R. Pollack’s professional and personal contributions to bioengineering research and to his graduate students, this award is given annually to the most deserving bioengineering graduate student who has successfully completed research that is original and recognized as being at the forefront of its field.
2021 – Nicolette Driscoll, Nicholas Perkons
2020 – Jonathan Beagan
2019 – Jina Ko, Preya Shah
2018 – Sydney Minna Shaffer, Sija Zhang
2017 – Benjamin R. Freedman, Christopher B. Rodell
2016 – Ankit Khambhati, Jennel Smith
2015 – Ajlan Al Zaki
2014 – Marshall Levesque
2013 – Neha P. Kamat; Sudhir Khetan
2012 – Michael Gandal; Shannon Telesco
2011 – Jamie Ifkovits; Kyle Quinn
2010 – Santhosh Palani; Jonathan Viventi
2009 – Antony K. Chen
2008 – Raymond D. Hubbard
2007 – Brittany Coats
2006 – Peter P. Ghoroghchian
2006 – Nastaran Zahir
2005 – Andrew Wheaton
2004 – Julie Ying Hui Ji
The Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award
This award is presented by the School of Engineering and Applied Science to a graduate degree candidate whose dissertation has resulted in or could lead to innovative applications of computer technology.
2021 – Georgios Pavlakos
2020 – Matthew Joseph
2019 – Sepehr Assadi
2018 – Behnaz Arzani, Yang Wu
2017 – Richard Eisenberg, Zhiewi Steven Wu
2015 – Loris D’antoni; Paramveer Dhillon
2014 – Katerina Fragkiadaki; Arun Raghavan; David Weiss
2013 – Kook Jin Ahn; Zhiyi Huang
2012 – John Kulesza
2011 – Colin Blundell; Alexander Toshev
2010 – Todd Green; Micah Sherr
2009 – John Nate Foster; Jennifer Wortman
2008 – Swarat Chaudhuri
2007 – Ameesh Makadia; Matt Huenerfauth
2006 – Marcelo Siqueira; Insik Shin
2005 – David Chiang
2004 – Franjo Ivancic; Karthikeyan Bhargavan
The Sidney J. Stein Prize (formerly The Electro-Science Laboratories Prize)
The S. J. Stein Prize is awarded to a PhD or MSE degree recipient for superior achievement in the field of new or unique materials or applications for materials in electronics. This prize acknowledges that achievement and encourages continued interest in this important field. This award is made possible by a generous donation from the S. J. Stein family.
2021 – Nathan Frey
2020 – Nadia Krook
2019 – Spencer Thomas
2018 – Yanhao Dong
2017 – Wenxiang Chen, Wenjing Liu
2016 – Yu Xia
2015 – Yu-Ming Lai; Pavan Nukala
2014 – Soong Ju Oh
2013 – Michael-Jon Ainsley Hore
2012 – David Conklin
2011 – Matteo Rinaldi
2010 – Yeonwoong Jung
2009 – Beth Guiton
2008 – Yudi Wang
2007 – Roman Groger
2006 – Hui Wu, Marc Cawkwell
2005 – Juraj Vavro
2004 – Yu Wang
2004 – Jae-Ho Chung
Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award
2020 – Heejin Jeong
2016 – Fei Miao
2010 – Jeannie Moulton
2008 – Hadas Kress Gazit
Joseph, D’16, and Rosaline Wolf Award
2020 – Mohamad Idjadi, Mohammad Rostami
2019 – Mahyar Fazlyab, Santiago Paternain
2018 – Avik De, Aryan Mokhtari
2017 – Santiago Segarra
2016 – Konstantinos Gatsis; Ahmed Mahmoud
2015 – Nikolay Atanasov
2013 – Miroslav Pajic
2012 – Mohammad Rezaei Khouzani
2011 – Kin-Wah (Eric) Kwong
2010 – alireza Tahbaz Salehi
2009 – Brian Edwards
2008 – Nader Motee
Master's Awards
Academic Awards
2021 – Kelly Babitz (MEAM), Haren Bhavnani (DATS), Tiantian Cao (SE), Emma Wenxuan Chen (BIOT), Sommer Farber (IPD), Yilin Geng (EE), Yucong Hua (MSE), Hangxing Liu (EE), Krunal Shah (CIS), Xinyue Wei (MEAM), Kunyang Zhang (CIT), Xuanyi Zhou (CGGT), Mauricio Sifontes (EMBS)
2020 – Jonah Arnheim (IPD), Akhilesh Prashant Bhat (MEAM), Joel Chacko (MSE), Abhishek Dhand (CBE), Sarah McCarron (BIOT), Rohan Sanghvi (MEAM), Yijun Tong (Dual degree: MSE/SCMP), Bowen Wang (DATS), Zheyuan Xie (ROBO), Yinghao Zhang (EE)
2019 –William Corse (CGGT), Noah Geller (MSE), Yuqi Zha (BIOT), Zihang Zhang (Dual-degree: MEAM/CIS)
2018 – Natalie Giovino (BE), Danielle Lashley (IPD), Xiaozhou Pu (MCIT), Simeon Ristic (MSE)
Teaching Awards
2021 – Szeyu Chan (CGGT), Pooja Consul (CIS), Ye Dong (CIS), Angel Fan (CIS), Vera G. Lee (ROBO), Yunha Park (CIS), Harshmeet Singh (CIS), Xiaohan Zhang (EE), Marko Zotovic (DATS)
2020 – Mate Ablonczy (CIT), Sam Akhavan (CIS), Andrew Chan (ROBO), Michelle Chien (Dual degree: CIT/CIS), Eileen Choe (CIS), Yuanzhe Dai (MEAM), Akhilesh Gupta (EMBS), Garvit Khandelwal (EMBS), Julia Lin (IPD), Nicholas McKnight (IPD), Leonardo Murri (CIS), Kayla Prezelski (BE), Ritvik Sadana (EMBS), Sadat Shaik (CIS), Amrita Singh (BIOT), Kartik Srivastava (EMBS), Yue Yang (ROBO)
2019 – Jenna Borges (MIPD), Garvit Gupta (CIS), Brandon Tineo (CIT), Deepika Vasudevan (CIS), Emily Vo (CGGT)
2018 – Karyll Davis (BIOT), Jacob Kahn (CIS), Kavya Lakshminarayanan (CIS), Arvind Ramesh (CIS), Nitesh Singh (ESE)
Service Awards
2021 – Dayo Adetu (Dual degree: BE/MEAM), Jeremie Allard (CIT), Perpetual Baffour (CIT), Jayanth Bhargav (EE), Jieying Chen (BIOT), Simona Dwass (IPD), Yixue Feng (CIS), Kanika Prasad Nadkarni (CIS), Shivani Rai (DATS)
2020 – David Allyn (BIOT), Jayeeta Datta (CIS), Sanjna Kashyap (CIS), Zixuan Lan (ROBO), Karen Shen (DATS), Varun Singhal (EE), Matthew Wolfman (ROBO)
2019 – Shilpi Bose (CIS), Bhakti Chavda (BIOT), Yudan Chen (MIPD), Shalmali Joshi (EMBS), Alfredo Tovar (BIOT)
2018 – Mitch Fogelson (ROBO), Sahana Vijaya Prasad (CIS), Sahaana Sekhar (BIOT), Hari Ramakrishnan (CIS)
Research Awards
2021 – Bhaskar Abhiraman (EE), Junhong Du (BIOT), Jianshu Hu (ROBO), Hannah Kronenberg (DATS), Jason Lynch (NANO), Arnesh Mishra (MEAM), Tushar Purang (CGGT), Chenzhe Wang (MSE), Haoyu Wang (CIS), Jun Xu (MSE), Bradley MacDonald (EMBS)
2020 – Madeline Griffith (MEAM), Alex Grun (MSE), Kang He (MSE), Haimin Hu (EE), Tianfan Jin (MSE), Anmol Kathail (EE), Yian Khai Lau (BIOT), Shuo Li (ROBO), Nuoying Ma (BIOT), Linghan Mei (BE), Ayush Aditya Pal (BE), Robert Pierson (BE), Yucheng Ruan (DATS), Haihuan Wang (Dual degree: MSE/SCMP), Wenbo Zhang (ROBO), Yuwei Zhang (MSE), Henry Zhu (CIS), Tianjia Zhu (BE)
2019 – Ethan Douglas (BE), Brian Heath (CIT), Jingqi Li (EE), Xu Liu (ROBO), Xingdu Qiao (MSE), Simeng Sun (CIS)
2018 – Arbaaz Khan (MEAM), Jintau Fu (MSE), Yiwei Qiang (CBE)
Master’s in Engineering Leadership Award
2017 – Sneha Rajana, Harshal Tushar Lehri
Other Awards
Graduate Research Symposium Best Graduate Student Presentation
The “Best Graduate Student Presentation” awards at the Penn Engineering Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) are selected by a panel of experts from industry. The best graduate students selected by the GRS program committee are given the opportunity to present at the GRS. One award is presented for each of the three technology tracks: Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Biologically based Science and Engineering, and Physically based Science and Engineering. The best presentation is selected based on the quality of the presentation and the creativity of the research.
2007 – Kandice Johnson; Jonathan Clark (Postdoc); Nicholas Taylor; Chen Xu
2006 – Sebastian Burckhard; Brian Edwards; Adam J. Engler
2005 – Fariyal Ahmed; Michelle H. Chen; Evangelos Vergetis
2004 – Matthew P. Huenerfauth; Ken Lo; Rahul Rao
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
2010 – Benjamin Gojman; Joseph Kider
Sidney Shore
2017 – John Brooke Waldt (EE)