Student Awards

This award was established in 2010 through a gift made by one of Dr. Slutz’ former students, Xiaodong Zhang (MSCompSci’85, PhD’89) to annually recognize students in computer science who have established a record of academic excellence and/or technical research and innovation. Zhang is currently the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University. In 2011, Dean Robert H. Davis presented him with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, which honors outstanding graduates and friends of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Learn more about the life and career of Dr. Slutz

• 2020
  • Hooman Hedayati (graduate)
  • Matthew Whitlock (graduate)
  • Sky Martin (undergraduate)
  • Travis Torline (undergraduate)
• 2019
  • Nam Bui (graduate)
  • Hoang Truong (graduate)
• 2018
  • Taisa Kushner (gradaute)
  • Daniel Milroy (graduate)
• 2017
  • Dana Hughes (graduate)
  • Richared Parker (graduate)
• 2016
  • Fernando Nobre (graduate)
  • Nicholas Farrow (graduate)
• 2015
  • Joshua Garland (graduate)
  • Dana Hughes (graduate)
• 2014
  • Sam Blackshear (graduate)
  • Md Arafat Sultan (graduate)
• 2013
  • Aleksandar Chakarov (graduate)
  • Robert Lindsey (graduate)
  • Emily Bertelson (undergraduate)
  • Sarah Feller (undergraduate)
  • Paul Givens (undergraduate)

Presented to an outstanding master's student for excellence in teaching, research and service to the Department. 

• 2021
  • Arjun Rao
  • Dheeraj Ravindranath
  • Dylan Fox
• 2020
  • Yash Gandhi
  • Yash Sapra
  • Zijao Yang,
• 2019
  • Josiah Buxton
  • Prashil V. Bhimani
  • Shayon Gupta
• 2018
  • Gerard Casas Saez
• 2017
  • Trevor DiMartino

This award is presented to PhD students each spring. The goal is to recognize PhD students for their research accomplishments in the current calendar year.

• 2021
  • Allison Morgan
  • Rhett Hanscom
  • Varad Deshmukh
  • Chelsea Chandler
  • Abhinav Gupta
  • Benno Stein
  • Hooman Hedayati
• 2020
  • Matt Whitlock
  • Shuo (Jason) Zhang
  • Nam Bui
  • Ryo Suzuki
• 2019
  • Shudong Hao
  • Carl Mueller
  • Robert Soden
  • Shuo (Jason) Zhang
• 2018
  • Hooman Hedayati
  • Townsend Jennings Anderson
• 2017
  • Townsend Jennings Anderson
  • Jedidiah McClurg
  • Radhen Patel
  • Yang Li
• 2016
  • Sam Way
  • Md. Arafat Sultan
  • Marina Kogan
  • Halley Profita
  • Dana Hughes
  • Brett Roads
• 2015
  • Joshua Garland
  • Mohammad Khajah
  • Michael Andy McEvoy
  • Townsend Jennings Anderson
  • Homa Hosseinmardi
• 2014
  • Erik Komendera
  • Robert Soden
  • Sam Blackshear
  • Mohammad Khajah
• 2013
  • Danish Khan
  • Yifei Jiang
  • Daniel McDonald
  • Dola Saha
• 2012
  • Holger Dick
  • Yifei Jiang
  • Keith Maull
  • Caleb Phillips

• 2020 - Shivendra Agrawal
• 2018 - Austin Holler
• 2017- Samantha Molnar

• 2020
  • Gabriel Andrade (PhD)
  • Shawn Meier (PhD)
  • Michael Bradshaw (PhD)
  • Anuj Pasricha (PhD)
  • Thannika Reddy (MS)
  • Keval Shah (MS)
  • Saurabh Mishra (MS)
  • Abhinav Gupta (MS)
  • Rahul Adeula (MS)
  • Archana Anand (MS)
  • Aaron Aaeng (MS)
  • Sanskar Katiyar (MS)
• 2019
  • Austin Pahl (PhD)
  • Michael Schneider (PhD)
  • John Martin (PhD)
  • David Moon (PhD)
  • Sandesh Dhawaskar (PhD)
  • Saumya Sinha (PhD)
  • Shivendra Agrawal (PhD)
  • Alex Curtiss (MS)
  • Andrew Altomare (MS)
  • Prashil V. Bhimani (MS)
  • Josiah Buxton (MS)
  • Anupama (MS)
  • Rohit Mehra (MS)
  • Tetshumichi Umada (MS)
  • Sharan Srivatsa (MS)
  • Albert Dayn (MS)
• 2018
  • Abhidip Bhattacharya (PhD)
  • Murad Chowdhury (MS)
  • Nikhil Sulegaon (MS)
  • Sandesh Dhawaskar (MS)
  • Shayon Gupta (MS)
  • Shivendra Agrawal (MS)
  • Albert Dayn (MS)
• 2017
  • Shirly Montero Quesada (PhD)
  • Amber Womack (MS)
  • Vipra Gupta (MS)
  • Yogitha Mahadasu(MS)
  • Saish Redkar (MS)
  • Pratima Sherkane (MS)
  • Nehal Kamat (MS)
  • Ranga Chidambaranathan (MS)

• 2020
  • Shivendra Agrawal
• 2019
  • Shayon Gupta
  • Sreesha Nath
• 2018
  • Rick Parker
  • Vipra Gupta

• 2021
  • Christine Chang
  • Michael Bradshaw
  • Hamza Motiwalla
  • Aditi Prakash
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
  • Emily Jensen
  • Dylan Fox
• 2020
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
  • Emily Jensen
  • Dylan Fox
  • Abhidip Bhattacharya
  • Keval Shah
  • Yash Sapra
  • Archana Anand
• 2019
  • Stephen Hutt
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
• 2018
  • Benno Stein
  • Cecilia Mauceri
  • Theodore Ian Martiny
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
  • John Stechschulte
  • Prasanth Pralahdan
  • Srinjita Bhaduri
  • Stephen Hutt
• 2017
  • Samantha Molnar
  • Theodore Ian Martiny
  • Shirly Montero Quesada

• 2021
  • PhD Published Work
    1. Yawen Zhang
    2. Yichen Wang
    3. Hansol Yoon
    4. Joewie Koh
    5. Saumya Sinha
    6. Sarah Aguasvivas
    7. Hoang Truong
  • MS Published Work
    • Upasana Dutta
  • Work in Progress - PhD
    1. Connor Brook
    2.  Xu Han
• 2020 - No Research Expo due to COVID global pandemic
• 2019
  • Outstanding Research Demonstration - PhD
    • Stephen McGuire 
    • Radhen Patel 
  • Published Work - PhD
    • Vivian Lai
    • Cecilia Mauceri
    • Yi Chou
  • Outstanding Poster - In Progerss
    • Emily Jensen
    • Gabriel Andrade
    • Lucca Eloy
    • Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed
• Spring 2018
  • Akshit Arora – Best poster in MS group
  • Layne Hubbard – Best poster in PhD group
  • Izzy Aguiar – Student’s choice award

• 2021
  • Camden Ellitott Williams
  • Saumya Sinha
  • Varsha Koushik
• 2020
  • Zhiyuan Liu
  • Tao Ruan
  • Anh Nguyen
  • Vinitha Gadiraju
  • Zaid Al Ali
• 2019
  • Chelsea Chandler
  • Abhidip Bhattacharya
  • Christopher Godley
• 2018
  • Martin Ethan Hanner
• 2017
  • Richard Parker
  • Shirly Montero Quesada
  • Yang Li
  • Sebastian Laudenschlager

• 2021 - Hooman Hedayati