The Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

ECE Distinguished Alumni

2023 Awardees

Dr. Grace Chiu (Ph.D. '92)
Professor and Chair,  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Dr. Ming-Yu Liu (MS '11 / Ph.D. '12)
Vice President of Research, NVIDIA
Dr. Abhishek Motayed (Ph.D. '07)
Founder and CEO, N5 Sensors
Dr. Sangchul Song (Ph.D. '10)
Corporate Vice President, Samsung Electronics
Dr. Chao Wu (Ph.D. '09)
Member, Maryland House of Delegates

2022 Awardees

Dr. Zhu Han (Ph.D. ’03)
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
University of Houston, Texas

Dr. Paul C. Hershey (M.S. ’84, Ph.D. ’94)
Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon IIS

Dr. Tarun Pruthi (Ph.D. '07)
Engineering Manager, Reality Labs, Meta

Dr. Jennifer M. Roberts (’04)
Assistant Director for Health Technologies,
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Yan Lindsay Sun (Ph.D. ’04)
Professor, University of Rhode Island

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2019 Awardees

Dr. Yimin Jiang
Chief Executive Officer, ColorV, Inc.

Mr. Sherif Marakby
Chief Executive Officer, Ford Autonomous Vehicles

Dr. Namrata Vaswani
Professor, Iowa State University

Dr. An-Yeu (Andy) Wu
Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University

2018 Awardees

Dr. Reza Ghanadan
Senior Manager, Google

Dr. Xiaobo Tan
Professor, Michigan State University

Dr. Yannis Viniotis
Professor, North Carolina State University

2015 Awardees

Dr. Nital Patel
Principal Engineer, Intel

Dr. Balaji Sampath
Founder, AID India

Dr. Mark Smith
Director, Kelyniam Global, Inc.

Dr. Leandros Tassiulas
Professor, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science

2014 Awardees

Dr. Carole Teolis
CTO and Co-Founder, TRX Systems

Dr. Wade Trappe
Professor, Rutgers University

2013 Awardees

Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti
Professor, Arizona State University

Dr. Lawrence Carin
Department Chair, ECE, Duke University

Dr. Rajiv Laroia
Co-Founder & CTO, The Light Company

Dr. Nikos Sidiropoulos
Professor, University of Minnesota

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External Relations Coordinator

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