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Today's Ceremony

  • Processional
  • Welcoming Remarks
    Chris Myers, Department Chair and Palmer Leadership Chair in Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
  • Acknowledgement of Award Winners
  • Holland Teaching Award Faculty Keynote
    Dejan Filipovic, Hudson Moore Jr. Chair in Engineering
  • Undergraduate Student Address
    XuTao Ho
  • Graduate Student Address
    Maitreyee Ramesh Rao
  • Presentation of the PhD Candidates
  • Presentation of Master’s Candidates
  • Presentation of Bachelor's Candidates
  • Closing Remarks
    Chris Myers
  • Reception
    Please join us at the tent on the Business Lawn to continue celebrating our graduates

​Awards and Honors

Department Award Winners

  • Excellence in Graduate Research: Dakotah Simpson
  • Best Thesis: Dakotah Simpson
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher: Phaedra Curlin
  • Undergraduate Service Award: Gabe Altman

College of Engineering and Applied Science Award Winners

  • Academic Engagement Award: Padmakshi Dahal
  • Research Award: Phaedra Curlin
  • Wellness Award: William Pryor

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Doctor of Philosophy Candidates

Alexander Quentin Anderson
Advisor: Juliet Gopinath
Dissertation Title: "Light with Orbital Angular Momentum for Measurement of Rotation in Remote Sensing and Fluid Dynamics Applications"

Simeng Chen
Advisor: Carol Cogswell
Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Microscopyusing Laser Scanning and Non-Linear Optimization"

Pedro Fontanarrosa
Advisor: Chris Myers
Dissertation Title: "Automated Generation of Dynamic Models for Genetic Regulatory Networks"

Michael Brewer Grayson
Advisor: Won Park
Dissertation Title: "Chalcogenide Photonic Devices for the Near to Far Infrared"

Branko Majmunovic
Advisor: Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation Title: "Optimization of active-bridge based modular power converters"

Jeanet Victoria Mante
Advisor: Chris Myers
Dissertation Title: "The Promotion of Data Reuse in Synthetic Biology"

David B. Miller
Advisor: Bob McLeod
Dissertation Title: "Resolution Enhancement in Photolithography via STED Inspired Process and Novel Mask Development"

Charles Michael Rackson
Advisor: Bob McLeod
Dissertation Title: "Fundamental Developments in Volumetric Additive Manufacturing"

Amy Robinson
Advisor: Dylan Williams
Dissertation Title: "Microwave Measurements using Rydberg Atoms"

Dakotah Simpson
Advisor: Dimitra Psychogiou
Dissertation Title: "Reconfigurable RF Filters and Wideband Constant-HPBW Antenna Arrays for Next-Generation Radios"


Master's Candidates

Professional Master’s in Electrical Engineering

  • Dazong Chen
  • Michael Green
  • Aarohi Anil Jaiswal
  • Swati Kadivar
  • Aakash Vijayeendra Kamalapur
  • Jiabin Lin
  • James Michael IV
  • Disha Modi
  • Phillip Montoya
  • Shrinithi Palaniappan
  • Hrishikesh Pawar
  • Armando Pinales
  • Maitreyee Ramesh Rao
  • Vatsal K. Sheth
  • Pankaj Solanki
  • Chirayu Sunil Thakur
  • Kyle Ugale
  • Aditya Varshney
  • Priyankar Vivek Vidwans

MS-EE on Coursera

  • Prentyce Albright
  • Matthew Daiter
  • Ryan LaCount
  • Muhammad Nagi
  • Ram Narayanan
  • Luis Javier Plata
  • Kaylin Punotai
  • John Byron Trytko
  • Chenning (Allen) Xu

Master of Science

  • Saud Mohamed Almuqaytif
  • Andy (Andrew) Bebernes
  • Ljubodrag Boskovic
    Dissertation Title: "Design of Passive Millimeter-Wave Coaxial Components for Additive Manufacturing," advised by Dejan Filipovic
  • Lukas Buecherl
  • Eric Matthew Dahl
  • Rishali Dey
  • Samuel Colt Elting
  • Alex Fritz
  • Felipe Galarza Jimenez
  • Isaac Goff
    Dissertation Title: "Angle of Arrival and Amplitude Prediction for Efficient MIMO Communications," advised by Eugene Liu
  • Tommy Ray Guess III
  • Anne Hamilton
    Dissertation Title: "Optimizing Electrified Chemical Process Scheduling with Future Wholesale Electricity Pricing," advised by Bri-Mathias Hodge
  • Jonathan Hanson
  • Christopher George Hodgkins
  • Mason Huyge
  • Ange Thierry Ishimwe
  • Lance Koenig
  • Joewie Koh
  • Aubrey Kroger
  • Shamanth Kudaligi Pranesharao
  • Reiko Matsuda-Dunn
  • Hrishikesh Sunil Mokashi
  • Channing Paul Philbrick Jr.
  • Neeraj Prakash
  • Megan Elizabeth Rose
  • Takshan Shetty
  • Paul Sibrell
  • Terrence Skibik
  • Ryan Dwayne Swanson
  • Shawn Thompson
  • Xiaotong Yu

Master of Engineering

  • Chris Choi
  • Vishnu Dodballapur
  • Jesse Tyler Mills
  • Shelly Sposato
  • Zachary Nathan Turner

Bachelor of Science

Electrical and Computer Engineering 

  • Anna Anderson
  • Timothy Edward Bauer
  • Alexander Bork, Magna Cum Laude
  • Nayef Abdullah Bourisli
  • Mickis Brown Jr.
  • Miles Bush
  • John Patrick Carberry
  • Adam Powell Chehadi
  • Case Chrisbacher, Cum Laude
  • Phaedra Curlin
  • Padmakshi Dahal
  • Martin Diaz Jr.
  • Samuel Diaz Jr.
  • Nathan Thomas Elsen
  • Alexander England
  • Samuel Jay Freed
  • Aditya Gopalan
  • Shultz Augustus Hargrove IV, Cum Laude
  • Matthew Hartnett, Magna Cum Laude
  • Alexander Theodore Ho
  • XuTao Ho
  • Connor James Humiston, Summa Cum Laude
  • Anirudh Kapoor
  • Aidan Bryant King
  • David Kopala
  • Stephen Lasko
  • Brandon Mitchell Little
  • Michael Joseph Lucky, Cum Laude
  • Nicholas James Machemer, Cum Laude
  • Dafna Margalit
  • Kaitlin McConnell
  • Kanin James McGuire , Magna Cum Laude
  • Eytan Mizrahi
  • Blake Clark Novak
  • Wade Pearce
  • Connor Peskin, Cum Laude
  • Maxwell Pettit, Summa Cum Laude
  • Christian Polanco
  • Derek Prince
  • Julio Cesar Puentes, Magna Cum Laude
  • Cousteau Reinig, Summa Cum Laude
  • Noah Ahmad Saidy
  • Hannan Shahba, Cum Laude
  • Samuel Wayne Siemer
  • Carson Thomas Syberg
  • Maurice Takeda, Magna Cum Laude
  • Abiel Tewolde
  • Calvin Ulsh
  • Trey Venners, Summa Cum Laude
  • Ella Rise Wawrzynek, Summa Cum Laude
  • Gerrold Wilkerson, Summa Cum Laude
  • Nicholas George Wroblewski
  • Wenqian Xu
  • Stanley Aaron Young, Cum Laude
  • Kyle Matthew Zhou, Cum Laude

Electrical Engineering

  • Ali Alalwan
  • Abdullah Alghafli
  • Ibrahim AlQattan
  • Gabriel Altman
  • Rylee Aspen Beach
  • Joseph Cordaro
  • Dreightyn R. Godfrey
  • Dustin Horn
  • Luis Mendez Banda
  • William Bradley Oren
  • Athena Parker
  • William Pryor
  • Ethan Radatz
  • David Schmitt, Cum Laude
  • Zach Sents
  • Katy Rose Setter
  • Michael Stewart
  • Evan George Williams, Cum Laude