Spring 2025 Recognition Ceremony Program
Congratulations to the electrical and computer engineering Class of 2025!
And a special thank you to all of the friends and family who have supported our graduates during their time at CU Boulder.
Table of Contents
Today's Ceremony
Awards and Honors
PhD Candidates
Master's Candidates
Today's Ceremony
Processional
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Chris Myers, Department Chair and Palmer Leadership Chair in Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
Acknowledgement of Award Winners
Undergraduate Student Address
TBD
Master's Student Address
TBD
PhD Student Address
TBD
Honorary Speaker and Former Department Chair
Dr. David Chang
Presentation of the PhD Candidates
Associate Professor Eric Keller, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education
Presentation of Master’s Candidates
Associate Professor Eric Keller, Associate Chair for Professional and Online Masters Programs
Presentation of BS Candidates
Associate Professor Marco Nicotra, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
Closing Remarks
Professor Chris Myers
Reception
Please join us to continue celebrating our graduates. Light refreshments will be provided.
Awards and Honors
White Ribbon: Engineering Honors Program, with honors
Purple Ribbon: Summa cum laude, 3.9-4.0 GPA
Red Ribbon: Magna cum laude, 3.8-3.899 GPA
Green Ribbon: cum laude 3.7-3.799 GPA
Best Thesis: Jooeun Lee
Excellence in Graduate Research: Aravind Venkitasubramony
Excellence in Graduate Teaching: Fiona Majeau
Undergraduate Academic Engagement: Gustavo Sanchez and Mathias Labuszewski
Undergraduate Community Impact Award: Travis Wood, Andrew Huynh, Ayla Tabi
Doctor of Philosophy Candidates
Jan A. Bartos
Advised by Professor Shu-Wei Huang
Dissertation: "Leveraging Nanomaterials for Quantum Limited Sensing"
Samuel David Gilinsky
Advised by Professor Juliet Gopinath
Dissertation: "Novel Electrowetting Devices and Their Applications"
Aoife Henry
Advised by Professor Lucy Pao
Dissertation: "Machine-Learning-Augmented Control of Wind Farms"
Christopher George Hodgkins
Advised by Professor Joe Izraelevitz
Dissertation: "Direct Resumption of Execution After Asynchronous Failures"
Nick Johnathon Krull
Advised by Professor Emeritus Ed Kuester
Dissertation: "Modal and Network Analysis of Perforated Wave Guiding Structures Using the GSTC Approach"
Jooeun Lee
Advised by Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation: "Miniaturization of Microwave Radiometers for Internal Body Thermometry"
Michelle Pirrone
Advised by Dr. Adam Wunderlich and Professor Sean Shaheen
Dissertation: "Practical Test Waveform Classes and Methodologies for Interference Testing in Communication Systems"
Ameya Suresh Ramadurgakar
Advised by Professor Melinda Piket-May
Dissertation: "An Electromagnetic, Robust, Over-the-Air Radio Frequency Fingerprinting of Wireless Devices Using Digital Modulation Techniques"
Skye Reese
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "An Approach to Switching Converter Design using Machine Learning and Device Physics-based Component Models"
Jake Raymond Sahli
Advised by Professor Al Gasiewski
Dissertation: "Europan Cryospheric Communications"
Gabriel Seymour
Advised by Professor Bob McLeod
Dissertation: "Automation and Computational Techniques for High-Fidelity Volumetric Additive Manufacturing"
Chandan Suthar
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "High Performance Digital Control, and Synthesis of DC-DC Converters for Wide Bandwidth and High Efficiency"
Aravind Venkitasubramony
Advised by Professor Al Gasiewski
Dissertation: "Development of a V-Band 2-Path (2SQCC) Continuous Calibrating Spectrometer based on the Multi Path Cross Correlation Radiometry (MXCR) Technique"
Yijun Xie
Advised by Professor Shu-Wei Huang
Dissertation: "Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Photonic Devices on Lithium-Niobate-on-Insulator Platform"
Master's Candidates
Jasleen Batra
Advised by Professor Peter Pilewskie
Dissertation: "Unfiltering of Broadband Earth Radiance from Space"
Master of Science
- Tristan Abrams
- Anagha Adithya
- Kendall Ahern
- Razan Alghamdi
- Abdulelah Habeeb S Alhabeeb
- Aadithya Srinivasan Anand
- Shreya Anand
- Julian I Andrade
- Siddharth Anand Ashtekar
- Faizul Bacchus
- Saurabh Bagkar
- Sergii Baidachnyi
- Trapti Damodar Balgi
- McKenzie Rae Ballif
- Joshua Thomas Bay
- Suraj Vijaykumar Bharate
- Aarranon Bharathan
- Mohit Bhat
- Saket Suresh Bhosle
- Katelynn Biggs
- Bipin Lalji Bopaliya
- Zachary Lewis Brown
- Praneeth Brungi
- Colin M Burgin
- Kevin Caldwell
- Robert Canas
- Raphael Victor Luna Canseco
- Matthew Robert Cerza
- Saish Prakash Chalke
- Ashwin Chandrasekaran
- Manuel Vasquez Chavez
- Audrey Margaret Maravilla Cheshire
- Ajay Joy Chittilappilly Joseph
- Richard Chuang
- Randy Alan Colio
- Justice Cordova
- Michael Courteaux
- Marshall David Cox
- John Jared Creech
- Kshitij Rajesh Dachewar
- Quang Nhat Dang
- Michael Deetz
- Yongpeng Deng
- Caleb Alexander Dennis
- Sameer Shrikant Deshpande
- Rachel Dols
- Charles Carlton Donalds
- Kailer Hawk Driscoll
- Lauren Elena Egaas
- Trystan Elliot
- Kirk Fabbri
- Donavon Walter Facey III
- Spencer William Garcia-Schiefelbein
- Sriya Uday Garde
- Aliasgar Ghadyali
- Anoushka Giri
- Mauryadeepsinh Gohil
- Nathan Thomas Golding
- Allen Gonzalez
- Maxwell A Gottlieb
- Forrest James Green
- Aaron Gupta
- Alexander Tyler Hall
- Nicholas Barratt Hayes
- Troy Houchin
- Shoudong Hu
- Kelan Rikio Ige
- Logan Ingram
- Vasan Iyer
- Aldo Alejandro Jefferson
- Trey Jennings
- Rob Johnson
- Satya Mohit Rao Kamkanampati
- Deepak Eknath Kapure
- Akash Karoshi
- Jason Wayne Keller
- Annas Mohd Arif Khan
- Parth Vivekanand Kharade
- Toshihisa Kiyonaga
- Denis Kramarenko
- Rishabh Kumar
- Supreeth Laderpet Yadubala
- Oluwaseun Olanrewaju Ladipo
- Frank Latos
- Aniketh Reddy Leburu
- David Leeds
- Timothy Lee Linenbrink
- Timothy MacDonald
- Lawrence "Dale" MacDonald
- Vignesh Roshan Mahendran
- Fiona Marie Majeau
- Reagan Michael Mann
- Spencer Hamilton Manning
- Richard Andrew Mannion
- Ariel Martin
- Jorge Esteban Martinez
- Andrea Masi-Phelps
- Ryan Terence McCallan
- Mitchell McDonald
- Vishal Meyyappan
- Karl Mickelson
- Jerson Venturozo Millora
- Brogan Miner
- Hardik Minocha
- Farhang Mohseni
- Sneha Mudagal
- Tarique Anwar Zameer Ahmed Mulla
- Roger Murillo
- Shreeyash Nadella
- Ram Nadler
- Ramy Nekkab
- Khoa Nguyen
- Alexander Nikitin
- Patrick Nock
- Clayton Oehrlein
- Oluwatimileyin Michael Olagunju
- Ethan Peter Opheim
- Excellent Olanrewaju Osunkoya
- Shotaro Oyama
- Andrea Pabst
- Joseph Padgett
- Robert W Palmer-Nishimura
- Tirth Miteshbhai Patel
- Izlen Peksenar
- Eric Tyler Percin
- Yehonatan Peretz
- Allana Persaud
- Robert Sam Petty
- Tyler Piedimonte
- Lucas Pitonak
- James Griffith Poindexter
- Vaughn Pourchot
- Robert Brady Powell
- Edgar Quintero
- Amithananda Rao
- Erick Reyes
- Eduardo Rojas
- Jose (Tony) Rosario
- Xianghui Ruan
- Abhav Sahdev
- Shivan Anil Saith
- Benjamin Tyler Scheck
- Adam N Schneider
- Brian Albert Schreiber
- Krish Sowmil Shah
- Khalid Mohamed Shahba
- Steven David Sharp
- Labib Sharrar
- Andrew Nathan Sias
- Januzzi Andre Silvestre
- Sanjay Kumar Siva Ravichandran
- Vyron Skouloudis
- Antonio Carlos Souza
- Paul Coates Spencer
- Suhas Reddy Srinivasa Reddy
- Arjun Sukumaran
- Rajavardhan Talashila
- Jiaqi Tao
- Thomas Tate
- Parth Rajeshkumar Thakkar
- Danh Thanh Trinh
- Joseph Vitug
- Kevin Wagner
- Samuel Randolph Walker
- Patrick Walsh
- Emma Westerhoff
- William Richard White
- Cameron Wood
- Shane Zahradnik
- Marwan Almudarres
- Nicholas Scott Buckley
- Aritra Chakrabarty
- Mohit Milind Chaudhari
- Jithendra H S
- Amber Patrice Harrington
- Daniel Matthew Plaza
- Natalia Quintero
- Naxi Shah
- Samiha Tasmin Abonty
- Kendall Ahern
- Yousef Alenezi
- Farah AlSaleem
- Dante Andrew Ausonio
- Joshua Bongar
- Allison Butte
- Oliver James Boyd
- Matthew Robert Cerza
- Julia Rose DiTomas
- Donavon Walter Facey III
- Samuel David Feller
- Andrew Floyd
- Nathan Thomas Golding
- Prakash Gurung
- David William Hamaker
- Andrew Elie Hamamji
- Andrew Huynh
- Owen Davis Hushka
- Daniel Johnson
- Sriram Dutt Kalluri
- Jeeraki Kanokthipphayakun
- Maxwell James Kilcoyne
- Seif Adam Ksouri
- Mathias A Labuszewski
- Madison Lin
- Nathan Fsahaye Mahary
- Riley McMillan
- Mateo Andres Munoz
- Jaden Psencik
- Joshua Daniel Ramirez
- Carlos Aldair Rodriguez Amaro
- Gustavo Sanchez Sanchez Jr
- Dylan Marc Schafer
- Aaron Chaim Schurman
- Jacob Seman
- Vedant Mayur Shah
- Kayli Elaine Angelina Silvers
- Nattapast Sirawattanachai
- Noble Johnson Skariah
- Christopher Frank Sponza
- Alec Tristan Steiner DeGraaf
- Taylor Patricia Stevenson
- Ayla E Tabi
- Felipe Tamayo-Tapia
- Matthew John Teta
- Matusala Dawit Tewelde
- Gavin Michael Unrue
- Anton Manuel Vandenberge
- Brandon Lee Vigil
- Samuel Randolph Walker
- Eli William Wall
- Senayt Yacob Wolde
- Viktor T Woldruff
- Joseph Henry Wrape
- Parker Ackerknecht
- Mohammed Abdulla Alahmed
- Ahmed Salim Ali Musabah Al Alawi
- Mahdi Taher Al-Marhoon
- Kaili Marie Allen
- Mohammed Jasim ALNouri
- McKenzie Rae Ballif
- Peter Joseph Braza
- Alison E Brzostowicz
- Fernando Contreras Acosta
- Garrett William Cook
- Quinton Francis Corry
- Andrew James Crawley
- Claire E Darley
- Charles Carlton Donalds
- Lauren Elena Egaas
- Jose Manuel Estrada Jr
- Garrett Lawrence Hurd
- Anna Doris Ikelheimer
- Ahmed Kashif Khan
- Sean Lockhart
- Tyler Robert Martin
- Anika Mathur
- Glen Shane McCammon
- Alexander Nicolas McDowell
- Geoffrey Chase McIntyre
- Pedro Mejido
- Agustin Jim Munoz
- Christian James Lopez
- Aron Alexander Sanchez Macanip
- Claire Catharine Markus
- Rowan Michael McConvey
- Sydney Thao Medina
- Jacob T Peters
- Troy A Quintana
- Noah K Schakel
- Benjamin Tyler Scheck
- Zachary Edward Shelton
- Graham Emerson Bahr Snyder
- Jacob Stewart
- Amelia May Tomasulo
- Owen A Villas
- Peter Wadowsky
- Ishaan Crippen Wenger
- Travis Matthew Wood
- Ahmed Zainaddin