2021 Commencement Awards | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

2021 Commencement Awards


Academic and Student Affairs

Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship

Sofiia Barysheva

Helen Warren Leadership Award

Shahrin Haque

John J. Dropkin Tutor-of-the-Year

Giles Bischoff

Kinsella Humanitarian Award

Danny Alcedo

Myron M. Rosenthal Student Council Award

Fariha Mahjabin

Raytheon TRIO Scholars Award

Baasimah Sabir

Tandon Community Excellence Award

Abigail Bonilla

Anysa Fernandez

TRIO Scholars Golden Apple Award

Amber McVean

TRIO Scholars Award of Excellence

Melissa Jacob


Applied Physics

Erich Kunhardt Prize for Innovative Senior Project

Cesar Lema


Biomedical Engineering

Inclusive Excellence Award

Harry Peng


Center for Urban Science & Progress

Scholastic Award

Wanyu Cao

Mengyuan Guo

John Paul McKay

Aleka Raju

Dina Wagdy

Kendra Singh

Yutong Zhu

Promising Researcher Award

Aleka Raju

Professional Student Award

Asnat Ghebremedhin

Samantha Falk

Kendra Singh

Yanmei Guan

Nicholas Liu-Sontag

AJ Kuhn

Tyler Matteo

Community Building and Leadership Award

Aren Kabarajian

Tyler Matteo

Commitment to Social Good Award

Rachel Provost


Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

American Institute of Chemist Award

Elizabeth Wilkinson

Omega Chi Epsilon Award

Yanmeng Liu

Sidney A. Savitt Award

David Sung

Albert E. Sobel Award

Jason Chen

Irving Skeist Award

Yao Wang

Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize

Bonnie Lin

Professor Turner Alfrey Prize

Mingxin He

Daniel Frey

Raymond E. Kirk Award

Yingxin Xiao

Roland Ward Award

Angelica Moratos

Simeon Gang Award

Julia Monkovic

Inclusive Excellence Award

Ingrid Paredes


Civil and Urban Engineering

Bertha Pagenstecher Memorial Award

Purnima Prasad

Civil Engineering Faculty Outstanding Construction Management Award

Macarthy Adelman

Robert Ridgway Student Chapter Prize

Martin Buceta Bertini

Society of Military Engineers

Jacob Asher

Martin Buceta Bertini

Ethan Chong

Kristal Drakes

Denilson Granados

Meliha Hodzic

Nick Hudanich

Zelin Li

Zhixi Lin

Elliot Molina

David Morales

Niharika Narendra

Purnima Prasad

Miral Shaker

Nate Sutton

Annie Wu

Theodore Clinton Towl Award

David Morales

Young Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award

Uma Lakshman

Inclusive Excellence Award

Elliot Molina


Computer Science and Engineering

Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award

Shuaihang Yuan

Peter Xenopoulos

Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award

Jorge Piazentin Ono

Ke Yang

Pearl Brownstein Junior Award

Lisa Ye

Pearl Brownstein Senior Award

Sofiia Barysheva

Muhannad Elkattawy

Myron M. Rosenthal Computer Science Award

Qiuyue Wang

Yoon Jae Kang

Ly Cao

CSE Leadership Award

Dan Shafman

Md Abedin

John Cunniff

Andrew Liang

Benjamin Liang

CSE Sophomore Academic Achievement Award

Thinzar Lin

Shinkyum Rho

CSE Junior Academic Achievement Award

Yanjun Meng

Wangyue Zhao

CSE Senior Academic Achievement Award

Naman Chimnani

Charles Chan

Inclusive Excellence Award

Katie Rosman


Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering

Juntao Chen

Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Zhujun Huang

Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best MS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dajr Alfred

Theodor Tamir Award for Best MS Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dipankar Shakya

David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Education Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fabrizio Carpi

Yunfei Ge

David Goodman Research Award

Mengzhe Huang

Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award

Katelyn Rose Owings

Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best BS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mir Naveen Alam

William J. Stolze Award

Krzysztof Chciuk

Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award

Rohan Raghuraman

Jonathan Lin

Daniel Hunte

Danny Alcedo

Austen Arniello

Simon Kahn

Qixiao Zhang

Nicola Rachel Adele Ramdass

Erica Malaluan Chou

Inclusive Excellence Award

Zahra Ghodsi


Finance and Risk Engineering

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Yue Kang

Jiawei Lu

Ziqi Yuan

Boyan Han

Finance and Risk Engineering Department Superior Leadership and Service to the FRE Community Award

Jose Francisco Rubio

Titash Ghoshal

Sai Theja Vadlamani

Sumit Mahaveer Sethi

Vinay Arun Bharath

Le Zhu

Sachin Labhishetty

Inclusive Excellence Award

Le Zhu


Mathematics

George Bachman Award

Junyi Sha

Joseph Cain

William R. Allen Award

Wenxuan Tao


Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ASTM Noah A. Kahn Memorial Award

Johnny Yang

Best Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis

Guan-Lin Chen

Best Mechanical Engineering PhD Qualifying Exam Performance

Sachin Bharadwaj

Best Mechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduate Project

Yue Wei Fu

Dr. Morris Young Outstanding Project Design Award

Shiheng Wang

Devlin Chang

Sunghoon Jung

Cole Kromer

Oz Oren

Suqi Wu Su Qi

Alice Zhang

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Junior with Highest GPA

James Paul Marbaix

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Excellence Award Senior with Highest GPA

Devlin Chang

Iraj Kalkhoran Memorial Award - Best Graduating Senior in Aerospace Minor

Ryan Chan


Technology, Culture and Society

Frances David Mulcahy Award in Technology Ethics and Science and Technology Studies

Roxie Floyd

Sustainable Urban Environment Achievement Award

Sarah Suchmann

Bernard And Florence Rechtschaffen Humanities Award

Sofiia Barysheva

Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Award (Best Research Paper)

Annlie Nguyen

Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Award (Literary Criticism)

Sophia Reck

Sanford Lu

The Eddie Oliver Entrepreneurial Spirit Award

Aryan Easwaran

Best Senior Project in Integrated Digital Media

Thomas Knoepffler

Best MS Thesis in Integrated Digital Media

Caitlin Gebhard

Inclusive Excellence Award

Saki Asakawa


Technology Management and Innovation

Professor George Schillinger Award

Zian Zhang

Society for Human Resource Management Award

Bhavish Venkatesh

Xuan Chen

Student Achievement Award for Business & Technology Management

Adam Chen

Matthew Reynolds

Lingfeng Cai

Isabella Jaar

Student Achievement Award for Master's, Management of Technology

Sitan Zhang

Valeriya Gorelova

Muxi Cao

Student Achievement Award for Industrial Engineering

Zhaolin Chen

Saad Tariq

Ajinkya Shinde

Inclusive Excellence Award

Kyra-Lee Harry