Card with words: Graduate Student Award for Excellence.

Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has given its annual Award for Excellence to 16 advanced graduate students who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers.

The six engineering departments nominated the recipients based on their achievements in courses, research and teaching.

“Vice Dean Antoine Kahn and I are delighted to honor these graduate students who have excelled in every dimension — classes, research, teaching and leadership — during their time at Princeton,” said Dean Andrea Goldsmith. “These scholars have greatly advanced knowledge in their fields and are poised to have an even greater positive impact as they move to the next stage of their careers. Their future success knows no bounds. I also congratulate their faculty advisers who have been dedicated mentors and advocates for their students, and hence have been instrumental in their success.”

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Dina Kussainova
Hansen Tjo

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Christine Blackshaw
Moriah Hughes

Computer Science

Jihoon Chung
Sayash Kapoor
Mona Wang
Mengzhou Xia

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kaixuan Huang
Emir Karahan
Chengyu Wang
Wenhao Zhan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Zhiyu Shi
Kit Sum (Katie) Wu

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Jiawei Ge
Claire Zeng

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Chemical and Biological Engineering

Advancing human health, energy, materials science, and industrial processes

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Improving human health, energy systems, computing and communications, and security

Computer Science

Computer Science

Leading the field through foundational theory, applications, and societal impact

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Solving problems in energy, combustion, fluids, lasers, materials science, robotics and control systems, and nuclear security

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Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Developing mathematical and computational tools for making decisions under uncertainty