Spring 2024 Recognition Ceremony Program
Congratulations to the electrical and computer engineering Class of 2024!
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
Holland Teaching Award Faculty Keynote
Assistant Professor Joshua Combes
Undergraduate Student Address
Jasleen Batra
Master's Student Address
Gabriel Altman
PhD Student Address
Neeraj Prakash
Presentation of the PhD Candidates
Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education
Presentation of Master’s Candidates
Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education
Presentation of BS Candidates
Associate Teaching Professor Mona ElHelbawy, 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
- Best Thesis: Jieqiu Shao
- Excellence in Graduate Research: Lukas Buecherel
- Excellence in Graduate Teaching: Aravind Venkitasubramony
- Undergraduate Academic Engagement: Kahlid Shahba and Zane McMorris
- Undergraduate Community Impact Award: Jasleen Batra
- Undergraduate Perseverance Award: Bruno Armas and Insar Magadeev
- Outstanding ECEE Undergraduate: Olivia Egbert and Suhana Zeitzius
Doctor of Philosophy Candidates
Conrad Corbella Bagot
Advised by Professor Won Park
Dissertation to be defended in Summer 2024
Lukas Buecherl
Advised by Professor Chris Myers
Dissertation: "Decoding Genetic Circuit Failures: Analyzing Static and Dynamic Failures in Genetic Circuitry"
Paige Danielson
Advised by Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation to be defended in Summer 2024
James William Hurtt
Advised by Professor Kyri Baker
Dissertation: "On the Techno-Economic Merits and Challenges of Clean Hybrid Energy Systems in Contemporary Power Systems"
Connor Nogales
Advised by Professor Gregor Lasser
Dissertation: "Broadband Supply Modulated PAs for Efficient and Linear Transmit Arrays"
Neeraj Prakash
Advised by Professor Shu-Wei Huang
Dissertation: "High-Energy Single-Cavity Fiber Dual-Comb Source"
Anthony Romano
Advised by Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation: "Monolithic Integration of Millimeter Wave Circuits in Advanced GaN Processes"
Jieqiu Shao
Advised by Professor Marco Nicotra
Dissertation: "Quantum Optimal Control and its Applications to Shaken Lattice Interferometry and Superconducting Qubits"
Terrence Skibik
Advised by Professor Marco Nicotra
Dissertation: "Advancements in Model Predictive Control for Real-Time Applications"
Dong-Chan Son
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic
Dissertation to be defended in Summer 2024
Timothy Sonnenberg
Advised by Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation: "GaN MMICs for Millimeter-Wave Front Ends"
Jack Wampler
Advised by Professor Eric Wustrow
Dissertation: "Opt Out at Your Own Expense - Designing Systems for Adversarial Contexts"
Songyi Yen
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic
Dissertation: "Unconventional Arrays for HF and Other Applications"
Master's Candidates
Master of Science with Thesis
Gabriel Altman
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic
Dissertation to be defended in Summer 2024
Sai Abhishek Aravind
Advised by Professor Marco Nicotra
Dissertation: "Influence of Discretization on Hypersampled Model Predictive Control"
Master of Science
- Prateek Agrawal
- Suraj Ajjampur
- Swapnil Alkesh
- Chris Thomas Alexander
- Tasneem Alnajdi
- Akshith Aluguri
- Jacob Anderson
- Nileshkartik Ashokkumar
- Ayah Ayad
- Timothy Bailey
- Donggeun Bak
- Lauren Teresa Baker
- Khalid Mohamed Abdelgalil Bakhit
- Rylee Beach
- Harsh Beriwal
- Dhruv Chetan Bhanushali
- Vishwanath Bhavikatti
- Devang Boradhara
- Alexander Bork
- Ian Bormett
- Naman Buch
- Isha Burange
- Aamir Suhail Burhan
- Chandana Challa
- Ruthvik Rangaiah Chanda
- Chandinee Chandrasekaran
- Shashank Chandrasekaran
- Rajat Chaple
- Rajesh Chittiappa
- Hyoun J. Cho
- Padmakshi Dahal
- Sauranil Debarshi
- Aneesh Sadanand Deshpande
- Varsha Dewangan
- Paras Dhameliya
- Kshitija Ramesh Dhondage
- Jichao Fang
- Harinarayanan Gajapathy
- Joshua Galeno
- Charles Gerten
- Viraj Gopalbhai
- Bharath Govindaraju
- Avirup Gupta
- Avirup Kumar Gupta
- Shreya Guruprasad
- Angel Manuel Hernandez Ortega
- Mark Izzo
- Ranjith Janardhana
- Rohan Jha
- Sara Kamali
- Ajaykumar Kandagal
- Ayswariya Kannan
- Shubham Karekar
- Sricharan Kidambi
- Rakshit Kulkarni
- Lalit Kumar
- Abhinav Kumar
- Ankit Kumar
- Anuhya Kuraparthy
- Jiaxin Liu
- Sylvia Llosa
- Spandana Mahendra
- Erick Mancera
- Kanin James McGuire
- Colin Bruce McRae
- Daniel Mendez
- Nicole Danisha Milligan
- Rylan Moore
- Amey Chandrakant More
- Sayali Sanjay Mule
- Aditi Vijay Nanaware
- Saurav Negi
- Vidhya Palaniappan
- Vaishnavi Sudhakar Patekar
- Divyesh Shashikant Patel
- Viraj Gopal Patel
- Akash Patil
- Mihir Jivan Patil
- Aakash Pednekar
- Caleb Provost
- Karthik Baggaon Rajendra
- Chirayu Rajpurohit
- Ritika Ramchandani
- Thomas Ramirez
- Sakshi Ranjan
- Lexie Roberts
- Xavier Rojas
- Jessica Roosz
- Satish Kumar Sankella
- Cija Sathishkumar
- Bailey Sauter
- Arun Kumar Sesha
- Saquib Yasir Shaikh
- Chinmay Venkatesh Shalawadi
- Daanish Mohammed Shariff
- Isha Sharma
- Gregory James Southards
- Malola Simman Srinivasan Kannan
- Mangala Sneha Srinivasan
- Rajesh Srirangam
- Vaibhavi Vivek Thakur
- Akanksha Tripathi
- Swapnil Alkesh Trivedi
- Vignesh Vadivel
- May An Ying van de Poll
- Robert Enright Van Trees
- Raghu Sai Phani Siraj Vemparala
- Swathi Venkatachalam
- Shrinithi Venkatesan
- Yiyan Wang
- Eli Weissler
- Richard Willison
- Kidus Workneh
- Mrunal Ankush Yadav
- Muhammad Yaqub
- Omkar Abhay Yeole
Master of Engineering
- Francis Xavier Bergh
- Chirag Chandrashekar
- Tyler Davidson
- Jesus Delgado-Rodriguez
- Sergio Elias
- Abhishek Limaye
- Ashwin Ravindra
- Viveka Salinamakki
- Mandar Sanjay
- Dane Thorn
Bachelor of Science Graduates
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Ahmed Adam
- Yusef Jamal Al-Balushi
- Saud Almuzaiel
- Farah AlSaleem
- Abdulaziz Alzamil
- Erika Antúnez
- Bruno Armas
- Abhinav Avula
- Jasleen Batra
- Brennan Belei
- Phoenix Bloomfield
- William Boenning – Cum Laude
- John Cates
- Richard Chuang
- Nicholas Alexander Cisne
- Zachary Colleran
- Kailer Hawk Driscoll
- Brett Edwards
- Keegan Erickson
- Aidan Francis Hanlon Fitton
- Sullivan Fleming
- William Stockdale Foerster
- Jigme Fritz
- Alexander Harlan
- Robert Herrington
- Chantelle Hobbs
- Timothy Houck
- Jonathan Kleppinger
- Daniel Juhwan Lee
- Eric Lei
- Insar Magadeev
- Peter William Magro
- Louis Marfone
- Frank McDermott
- Weston Carroll McEvoy – Magna Cum Laude
- Zane McMorris
- Caden McVey
- Dominic Fawzi Menassa
- Sarah Mesgina
- Aidan Mobley
- Alexandra Moran
- Madelyn Polly – Summa Cum Laude
- Trevor Porter
- Guillermo Alexander Rivas Calles
- Samuel Robertson
- Ginn Sato – Summa Cum Laude
- Diego Sena
- Connor Smith
- Jose Soto
- Aidan St. Cyr
- Taylor Stevenson
- Taylore Todd
- Ryan Townsend
- Anton Manuel Vandenberge
- Gabriel Vitti
- James Vogenthaler
- Alexander Joseph Walker – Summa Cum Laude
- William White
- Tucker Wiltse
- Suhana Zeutzius – Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
- Abdulelah Alhabeeb
- Sayed Ali Alhashemi
- Ali Karam Ali
- Nasser Taleb Allanqawi
- Meshal Alosaimi
- Michelle Amankwah
- Andrew Aramians
- Joshua Thomas Bay – Cum Laude
- Katherine Christiansen
- Jack Doyle
- Michael Takuya Driscoll – Magna Cum Laude
- Olivia Egbert – Cum Laude
- Travis Fahrney
- Luke Hanley – Cum Laude
- Nicholas Haratsaris
- Luke Jeseritz – Summa Cum Laude
- Matthew Joel
- Ryan McCallan
- Oscar Omar Medina-Salazar
- Tucker Mothersell
- Brendan Nash
- Vincent Nemeth
- Daniel Orthel
- Benjamin Pera
- Matthew Joel Pollard – Cum Laude
- Jose Ricardo Ramirez Bunsow
- Stewart Patrick Rojec – Magna Cum Laude
- Nestor Ruiz
- Khalid Shahba – Summa Cum Laude
- Nathan Sharp
- Danny Ming Sit
- Timothy Henry Tomerlin
- Robert B Traxler
- Ahmed Zainaddin