Student Awards

The Department of Computer Science has received fellowship funds from Lloyd Botway Family Foundation to award an outstanding CS master’s student for their academic excellence and service to the department. Presented to an outstanding master's student for excellence in teaching, research and service to the department. 

• 2025
  • Advait Deshmukh
  • Kevin Lane
  • Nour Rahal Arabi
• 2024
  • Bhoomika Singla
  • Rohit Taware
  • Spencer Wilson
• 2023
  • Aishwarya Satwani
  • Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
  • Rohan Das
• 2022
  • Nikhith Sannidhi
  • Sagar Pathare
  • Sourav Chakraborty
• 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

Dave Kasik (MCompSci'72) grew up in Denver and started computer science in 1968 as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins. While at Hopkins, Dave discovered computer animation and made films; computer graphics has been his career focus ever since. In 1970, Dave applied to CU and was accepted where he became a teaching assistant in the first formal computer science master's class.  Dave said, “CU gave me the opportunities to explore and push boundaries.” Kasik fellowship has been instituted by Dave Kasik and awards $2,500 to one computer science graduate student (PhD, MS OR MSCPS) from geographic areas (both domestic and international) and socioeconomic backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in the department and students who are active in supporting others. Service to the department will also be considered by the committee.  

• Spring 2025 – Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu
• Spring 2024 – Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu
• Spring 2023 – Evariste Some
• Spring 2022  – Lucia Jayne

Nelson A. Prager Family and James H. Martin Endowed Graduate Fellowship has been established to benefit the Department of Computer Science Graduate Students who have focused their research in the area of Natural Language Processing.  Distributions from the Fund will be used to provide fellowship support for graduate students in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Expenditures from the Fund may include, but are not limited to, tuition and other University-related costs, stipends, support for research and other purposes that support learning, the student educational experience, and professional development.

Winners

• 2025 - Jon Cai, Maggie Perkoff, Adam Wiemerslage
• Fall 2024 – Jon Cai, Maggie Perkoff, and Adam Wiemerslage
• Fall 2023 – Elizabeth Spaulding
• Fall 2023 – Sagi Shaier
• Fall 2022 – Abhidip Bhattacharyya
• Fall 2021 – Ananya Ganesh

The Computer Science Endowed Founder's fellowship is an endowed fund whose purpose is to provide support for outstanding students who are enrolled in the Department of Computer Science at the College Engineering and Applied Science. The committee selects overall stellar graduate students in terms of academics, research/publication, teaching and service to the department.  An amount of $500 each is awarded to graduate students from the PhD and research-based MS pool during fall semester.

• Fall 2023
  • Graduate award winners
    • Emily Jensen
    • Sagi Shaier
    • Mohammad Imrul Jubair
    • Mohsena Ashraf
  • Undergraduate award winners
    • BA: Ranjan Sigdel
    • BS: Jaden Snell
• Fall 2022
  • Christine Chang
  • Corey Lynn Murphey
  • Rohan Das
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
• Fall 2021
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
  • Himanshu Gupta
  • Nikhith Sannidhi

The Bell Family Endowed CS Scholarship in recognition of outstanding research. 

• 2025 – 25
  • William Xie
  • Sagi Shaier
  • Nidhin Harilal
  • Shadi Tasdighi Kalat
  • Raquel Yupanqui
• 2022 – 23
  • Stephane Aroca-Ouellette
  • Katie Spoon
  • Shivendra Agrawal
  • Josh Myers-Dean
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Charles Wade
  • Everley Tseng
  • Ananya Ganesh
  • Reza Akbarian Bafghi
  • Mateo Perez

• 2025
  • Kirby Linvill
  • Prasanth Prahladan

• 2025
  • Jaeyoung Oh 

• 2025
  • Atul Anand
  • Arjun Singh 

• 2025
  • Tuan Tran

• 2025
  • Sarang Kalantre

• 2025
  • Rahul Aedula
  • Qinrun Dai

• 2025
  • Sneha Irukuvajjula 

• 2025
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
  • Nipun Gogineni

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.

• Outstanding Research Paper Award
  • Emily Doherty
  • Ayoub Ghriss
  • Enrique Nueve
  • Reza Akbarian Bafghi
  • Casey Middleton
  • Nicholas Lewchenko
  • Josh Myers-Dean
  • Everley Yu Yun Tseng
  • Anish Thilagar
  • Mary Monroe
• 2024
  • Golnar Gharooni Fard
  • Katie Spoon
  • Lateefah Al-Naimi
  • Mateo Perez
  • Malinda Malwala Arachchige
  • Sagi Shaier
  • Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed
  • Shawn Meier
  • Shivendra Agrawal
  • Sourav Chakraborty
• 2023
  • Abteen Ebrahimi
  • Adam Wiemerslage
  • Kenneth Hunter Wapman
  • Michael Hoefer
  • Nicholas LaBerge
  • Vishnu Murali
  • Yu-Yun (Everley) Tseng
• 2022
  • Alec Bell
  • Vishnu Murali
  • Jessica Finocchiaro
  • Casey Middleton
• 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

The department recognizes how important our graduate student Teaching Assistants are for the success of our education mission. Selected students will receive $500 each.

• 2025
  • Aaron Gluck
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
  • Shamal Shaikh
  • Cornelius Adejoro
  • Sourav Chakraborty
  • Everley Yu Yun Tseng
  • Advait Deshmukh
  • Abijith Ramachandran
  • Kaustubh Kulkarni
  • Ren Stengel
• 2024
  • Akshit Johry
  • Kirby Linvill
  • Pawin Taechoyotin
  • Rameez Wajid
  • Rohit Taware   
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
  • Shamal Shaikh
  • Tuan Tran
  • Tyler Gorman
  • Varsha Natarajan
• 2023
  • Abhishek Purushothama
  • Aishwarya Satwani
  • Angel Dong
  • Charles Wade
  • Chi-Hui Lin
  • Hyoyoung Lim
  • Lucas Hayne
  • Mohsena Ashraf
  • Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
  • Nisha Murarka
  • Samreen Anjum
• 2022
  • Insoo Lee
  • Wyatt Rees
  • Samreen Anjum
  • Ayoub Ghriss
  • Tzu Chi Yen
  • Owen Martin
  • Robin Bowers
  • Alexander Ray
  • Aravindakumar Vijayasri Mohan Kumar
  • Tiffany Phan
  • Sagar Pathare
  • Hunar Jain
• 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)

• 2024
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Spencer Wilson
• 2023
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Michael Hoefer
• 2020
  • Shivendra Agrawal
• 2019
  • Shayon Gupta
  • Sreesha Nath
• 2018
  • Rick Parker
  • Vipra Gupta

The department recognizes the importance of service and how it contributes to the overall growth of our students. Selected students will receive $500 per each.

• 2025
  • Beanne Crockett
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
  • Akshay Bakshi
  • Ananya Ganesh
  • Bashayer Alharbi
  • Anirudh Maiya
  • Ashwin Umadi
  • Nour Rahal-Arabi
  • Kevin Lane
  • Karthik Sairam
  • Josh Myers-Dean
  • Morgan Byers
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Sourav Chakraborty
  • Shamal Shaikh
• 2024
  • Aishwarya Satwani
  • Bhoomika Singla
  • Breanne Crockett
  • Chiranthan Sridhar
  • Corey Murphey
  • Erika Hunhoff
  • Josh Myers Dean
  • Jubair Mohammad
  • Kevin Lane
  • Nour Rahal-Arabi
  • Rohit Taware
  • Robin Bowers
  • Sagi Shaier
  • Shipra Singh
  • Spencer Wilson
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
• 2023
  • Abhishek Purushothama
  • Aishwarya Satwani
  • Corey Murphey
  • Dreycey Albin
  • Erika Hunhoff
  • Josh Myers-Dean
  • Kirby Linvill
  • Maggie Perkoff
  • Nikita Menon Kakkayur Palliyil
  • Rohan Das
  • Rohit Taware
  • Sachin Sharma
  • Spencer Wilson
• 2022
  • Vinitha Gadiraju
  • Eric Illick
  • Jessie Finocchiaro
  • Sagar Pathare
  • Sachin Sharma
  • Nikita Menon
  • Nikhith Sannidhi
  • Erik Hunhoff
  • Samreen Anjum
• 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

2025

• Published Work
  • Mohammed Adib Oumer
  • Michael Ginn
  • Sagi Shaier
  • Shadi Tasdighi Kalat
• Work in Progress
  • Charles Wade
  • Peter Ly
  • Advait Deshmukh/Ashwin Umadi
  • Clare Lohrmann
  • Kirby Linvill/Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Yi-Shiuan Tung

2024

• Published Work
  • Maneesha Pappireddygari
  • Harel Biggie
  • Aaquib Tabrez
  • Katie Spoon
• Work in Progress
  • Zachary Atkins
  • Alexandria Leto
  • Maggie Perkoff
  • Mohammed Oumer/Sourav Chakraborty

2023

• Published Work
  • Hunar Jain
  • Harel Biggie
  • Monal Narasimhamurthy
  • Shivendra Agrawal
• Work in Progress
  • Aaquib Tabrez
  • Chandra Kanth Nagesh
  • Charles Wade
  • Josh Myers-Dean

2022

• Published Work
  • Anish Thilagar
  • Monal Narasimhamurthy
  • Jessie Finocchiaro
  • Aaquib Tabrez/Matthew B. Luebbers
  • Nikhith Sannidhi/Malinda Dilhara Malawa Arachchige
• Work in Progress
  • Nicholas Conlon
  • Shivendra Agrawal
  • Sourav Chakraborty
  • Upasana Dutta
  • Xu Han
  • Robin Bowers

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
  • Connor Brook
  • 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

The Department of Computer Science has instituted a "Departmental Summer Research Fellowship" to help students who have been a teaching assistant for 2-4 continuous semesters, hindering their research progress. This is awarded so that the student can focus on research during the summer months and make some progress. Preference will be given to those students without any other university appointments. Selected student will be receiving approximately $6,000 each for summer.  

• 2025
  • Rohan Das
  • Abteen Ebrahimi
  • Sriranga Ramaswamy
  • Cornelius Adejoro
  • Meysam Varasteh
  • Julia Romero
  • Juan Vasquez
• 2024
  • Michelle Ramsahoye
  • Nicholas Hunkins
  • Tuan Tran
• 2023
  • Michael Hoefer
  • Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana
• 2022
  • Michael Levet
  • Anuj Pasricha
  • Shivendra Agrawal
• 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

This fellowship is intended to provide computer science PhD candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertation. The fellowship consists one time funding of approximately $3,000 processed as scholarship for summer 2023.

• 2025
  • Maneesha Papireddygari
  • Ananya Ganesh
• 2024
  • Emily Jensen
  • Ian van Buskirk
  • Harel Biggie
  • Michael Hoefer
  • Rehan Ahmed
  • Vimal Kakaraparthi
• 2023 - Dreycey Albin
• 2022 - Insoo Lee
• 2022 - Sepideh Goodarzy
• 2021 - Hooman Hedayati