Congratulations to the Department of Computer Science Class of 2021!
On Monday, May 24, 2021, the Computer Science department held its Class Day award ceremony online.
Those honored are listed below.
Class of 2021
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
| Diamond Acharya | Rohan Joshi | Sahan Paliskara |
| Nsomma Alilonu | Daniel Jubas | Jessica Pan |
| Scott Aravena | Zoe Kahana | Naomi Park |
| Somya Arora | Julie Kallini | Vedika Patwari |
| David Basili | Albert Kim | Kelly Petrino |
| Pablo Bickenbach | Heidi Kim | Stephen Polcyn |
| Colton Bishop* | Allan Kipkorir | Carlin Powell |
| Khatna Bold | Julian Knodt | Jeremy Pulmano |
| Avinash Boppana | Julianne Knott | Anna Qin |
| Van Brantley | Ze-Xin Koh | Ariel Rakovitsky |
| Emre Cakir | Kimora Kong | Jessica Ramirez |
| Damon Caron | Arjun Krishnan | Hari Raval |
| Bianca Catoto | Frankie Lam | Victor Riveros |
| Justin Chang | Johana Leanos | Sabarish Sainathan |
| Brandy Chen | Rachel Lee | Nicholas Schmeller |
| Grace Chen | Carina Lewandowski | Oliver Schwartz |
| Jeongmin “JM” Cho | Alex Li | David Slear |
| Zyanne Clay-Hubbard | Angela Li | Young Jun Son |
| Elise Colter | William Li | Anoopkumar Sonar |
| Gabriel Contreras | Al Liang | Sunita Srivatsan |
| Donovan Coronado | Aaron Lichtblau | Lauren Tang |
| Kimberly Ding | Drew Limpasuvan | Mason Tian |
| Kai Ji “Kevin” Feng | Nicholas Liu | Kawin Tiyawattanaroj |
| Eve Fleisig | Skyler Liu | Gilron Tsabkevich |
| Alice Gao | Stephen Liu* | Eric Tsang |
| Edward Gartner | Nathan Lovett-Genovese | Alexander Williams |
| Jamie Guo | Jonah Lytle | Richard Wolf |
| Michael Hallee | Michael Man | Ryan Yao |
| Tinashe Handina | Arjun Mani | Emily Yin |
| Wendy Ho | Alex Mathoniere | Karen Ying |
| Jennifer Hsia | Kolby McDaniel* | Noa Zarur |
| Michael Hu | Geoffrey Mon | Lily Zhang |
| Victor Hua | Bobby Morck | Olivia Zhang |
| Labib Hussain | Peter Mwesigwa | Charles Zhao |
| Mikako Inaba | Sean-Wyn Ng | Annie Zhou |
| Watson Jia | Kenneth Oku |
*January 2021 Graduates
Bachelor of Arts
| Yaw Asante | Max Nishikawa Fu |
| Joe Bartusek | Natalie O'Leary |
| Taylor Beckett | Raymond Park |
| Bevin Benson | Devin Plumb |
| Henry Birge-Lee | Eno Reyes |
| Beatrice Caruntu | Sten Sjoberg |
| Anabelle Chang | Tyler Skow |
| Arjun Devraj | Gregory Smith |
| Alex Dipasupil | Paskalino Spirollari |
| Ilene E | Ioana Teodorescu |
| Matthew Fastow | Dale Tiongson |
| Jessica Fielding | William Ughetta |
| Claire Guthrie | Isaac Velasquez |
| Nina He | Vinicius Wagner |
| Jordan Heinzel-Nelson | Amy Xu |
| Jeanna Joseph | Maxwell Xu |
| Shir Kalati | Yujin Yamahara |
| Jason Kim | Justin Yan |
| Joseph Kim | Suki Yip |
| Christy Lee | Haley Zeng |
| Daniel Lee | Dora Zhao |
| Andrew Lin | Ezra Zinberg |
| Nimra Nadeem |
Tau Beta Pi
| David Basili | William Li |
| Pablo Bickenbach | Drew Limpasuvan |
| Khatna Bold | Arjun Mani |
| Kimberly Ding | Geoffrey Mon |
| Ilene E | Bobby Morck |
| Eve Fleisig | Stephen Polcyn |
| Jamie Guo | Anna Qin |
| Michael Hu | Hari Raval |
| Mikako Inaba | Sabarish Sainathan |
| Daniel Jubas | Oliver Schwartz |
| Julie Kallini | Kawin Tiyawattanaroj |
| Ze-Xin Koh | Emily Yin |
| Frankie Lam | Charles Zhao |
Accenture Prize in Computer Science
Charles Zhao
Dora Zhao
Computing Research Association Award- Runner-Up
Henry Birge-Lee
Computing Research Association - Honorable Mention
Eve Fleisig
Arjun Mani
Dora Zhao
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Avinash Boppana
Arjun Mani
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship: Honorable Mention
Geoffrey Mon
Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative Graduate Scholars
Bevin Benson
Schwarzman Scholarship
Ilene E
Arjun Krishnan
Digital Humanities Senior Thesis Prize
William Ughetta
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
“The Old Bailey, U.S. Reports, and OCR: Benchmarking AWS, Azure, and GCP on 360,000 Page Images”
Outstanding Student Teaching Award
Diamond Acharya
Justin Chang
Connor Hainje
Julie Kallini
Ze-Xin Koh
William Li
Aaron Lichtblau
Haley Zeng
Lily Zhang
Student Teaching Award - Honorable Mention
Somya Arora
Avi Bendory
Nathan Bergman
Donovan Coronado
Kimberly Ding
Jessica Fielding
Yoni Goldberg
Michael Hu
Jeanna Joseph
Joseph Kim
Jonathan Kutasov
Drew Limpasuvan
Charles Smith
Connie Miao
Natalie O'Leary
Sahan Paliskara
Anna Qin
Tiffany Sun
Eileen Wang
Maxwell Xu
Chris Yang
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
Ameet Deshpande
Joshua Gardner
Sadhika Malladi
Matthew Myers
Chris Sciavolino
Tara Shankar
Susan Tan
Computer Science Service Award
Matthew Fastow
Allan Kipkorir
Noa Zarur
Haley Zeng
Honors and Awards
Honors
| Somya Arora | Jonah Lytle |
| Joe Bartusek | Sahan Paliskara |
| Pablo Bickenbach | Kelly Petrino |
| Bianca Catoto | Gregory Smith |
| Brandy Chen | Mason Tian |
| Wendy Ho | Isaac Velasquez |
| Labib Hussain | Yujin Yamahara |
| Rohan Joshi | Suki Yip |
| Julianne Knott | Olivia Zhang |
| Ze-Xin Koh |
High Honors
| David Basili | William Li |
| Colton Bishop* | Drew Limpasuvan |
| Khatna Bold | Andrew Lin |
| Emre Cakir | Michael Man |
| Jeongmin “JM” Cho | Bobby Morck |
| Ilene E | Nimra Nadeem |
| Matthew Fastow | Stephen Polcyn |
| Kai Ji “Kevin” Feng | Ariel Rakovitsky |
| Alice Gao | Tyler Skow |
| Tinashe Handina | Amy Xu |
| Jennifer Hsia | Maxwell Xu |
| Victor Hua | Emily Yin |
| Allan Kipkorir | Lily Zhang |
| Christy Lee | Annie Zhou |
| Carina Lewandowski |
Highest Honors
| Henry Birge-Lee | Geoffrey Mon |
| Avinash Boppana | Sean-Wyn Ng |
| Arjun Devraj | Jeremy Pulmano |
| Kimberly Ding | Anna Qin |
| Eve Fleisig | Hari Raval |
| Michael Hu | Sabarish Sainathan |
| Mikako Inaba | Oliver Schwartz |
| Watson Jia | Paskalino Spirollari |
| Daniel Jubas | Kawin Tiyawattanaroj |
| Julie Kallini | William Ughetta |
| Jason Kim | Justin Yan |
| Julian Knodt | Haley Zeng |
| Frankie Lam | Charles Zhao |
| Stephen Liu* | Dora Zhao |
| Arjun Mani |
Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
Henry Birge-Lee
Anabelle Chang
Arjun Devraj
Kimberly Ding
Eve Fleisig
Tinashe Handina
Nina He
Jeanna Joseph
Daniel Jubas
Jason Kim
Arjun Mani
Geoffrey Mon
William Ughetta
Amy Xu
Dora Zhao
Outstanding Computer Science Independent Work Prize
Avinash Boppana
Hari Raval
Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize
Henry Birge-Lee
“Experiences Deploying Multi-Vantage-Point Domain Validation at Let’s Encrypt”
Adviser, Prof. Jennifer Rexford
Kimberly Ding
“Spatial-NetMix: Less Biased and More Flexible Anomaly Detection”
Adviser, Prof. Ben Raphael
Eve Fleisig
“Adversarial Learning for Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation”
Adviser, Prof. Christiane Fellbaum
Michael Hu
“Case Studies on the Interaction between Machine Learning and Language”
Advisers, Prof. Tom Griffiths, Prof. Karthik Narasimhan
Mikako Inaba
“Using Ordered Learning to Mitigate Privacy Risks of Neural Networks”
Adviser, Prof. Prateek Mittal
Julie Kallini
“A Corpus-based Analysis of Two-termed Coordination”
Adviser, Prof. Christiane Fellbaum
Jason Kim
“Meta4: Analyzing Internet Traffic by Domain Name in the Data Plane”
Adviser, Prof. Jennifer Rexford
Julian Knodt
“Neural Ray-Tracing: Learning Surfaces and Reflectance for Relighting and View Synthesis”
Adviser, Prof. Felix Heide
Arjun Mani
“Point and Ask: Incorporating Pointing Into Visual Question Answering”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky
Geoffrey Mon
“Query Complexity of Graph Problems in a Directed Cut Oracle Model”
Adviser, Prof. Matthew Weinberg
William Ughetta
“The Old Bailey, U.S. Reports, and OCR: Benchmarking AWS, Azure, and GCP on 360,000 Page Images”
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
Dora Zhao
“Understanding and Evaluating Racial Biases in Image Captioning”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky
Phillip Goldman’86 Senior Prize in Computer Science
Julie Kallini
Honors presented at the SEAS Class Day Awards Ceremony
Jeffrey O. Kephart ’80 Prize in Engineering Physics
Charles Zhao
The Joseph Clifton Elgin Prize
Dora Zhao
The Calvin Dodd MacCracken Senior Thesis/Project Award
Henry Birge-Lee
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Sotirios Apostolakis - Adviser: Prof David August
Jordan Thomas Ash - Adviser: Prof Ryan Adams
Sumegha Garg - Adviser: Prof Mark Braverman
Kyle Adam Genova - Adviser: Prof Thomas Funkhouser
Nikolaos Giannarakis - Adviser: Prof David Walker
Yatin Avdhut Manerkar - Adviser: Prof Margaret Martonosi
Arunesh Mathur - Adviser: Prof Marshini Chetty
Anders Francis Miltner - Adviser: Prof David Walker
Andrew Or - Adviser: Prof Michael Freedman
Zoi Paraskevopoulou - Adviser: Prof Andrew Appel
Niranjani Prasad - Adviser: Prof Barbara Engelhardt
Laura Monica Roberts - Adviser: Prof Ed Felten
Cyril Xi Yao Zhang - Adviser: Prof Elad Hazan
Masters of Science in Engineering (MSE)
John Li - Adviser: Prof Andrew Appel
Johan Ospina - Adviser: Prof Jia Deng
Lucas Salvador - Adviser: Prof David August
Christopher Sciavolino - Adviser: Prof Danqi Chen
Daniel Changyan Wang - Adviser: Prof Yoram Singer
Program in Applications of Computing
| Zachary Abraham | Tim Feng | Ryan Lee | Hannah Smalley |
| Saisha Agrawal | Peter Fisher | Kathryn Leung | Charles Smith |
| Nathan Alam | Jasmin Gao | Irina Liu | Annie Song |
| Kevin Andrade | Daniel Gitelman | Shengyuan Lu | David Song |
| Neha Anil Kumar | Yoni Goldberg | Jean Luo | Grace Stempel |
| Oskar Arzt-Jones | Paula Gradu | Jenny Ma | Nick Sum |
| Harshvardhan Babla | Isabel Greene | Maximilian Manicone | Tiffany Sun |
| Maggie Baughman | Ekin Gurgen | Kiersten Marr | Doruntina Sylejmani |
| Avi Bendory | Cristina Hain | David McElroy | Victoria Talvola |
| Nathan Bergman | Connor Hainje | Noah McGuinness | Katie Tam |
| Jackson Blitz | Ibrahim Ali Hashmi | Isabel Medlock | Ethan Thai |
| Nattha Boonsiriphatthanajaroen | Rachel Hazan | Josh Melnyk | Kaley Ubellacker |
| Samuel Breckenridge | Grace Hong | Connie Miao | Sam van der Jagt |
| Colton Casto | Yechen Hu | Suchita Mistry | Christian Venturella |
| Colby Chang | Allison Huang | Taishi Nakase | Marti Vives Bastida |
| Alexander Chen | Ava Jiang | Minh-Thi Nguyen | Jacob Walrath |
| Koert Chen | Kyle Johnson | Tommy Nguyen | Eileen Wang |
| Roger Chen | Skylar Jung | Trang Uyen Nguyen | Wilbur Wang |
| Alex Cheng | Veome Kapil | Hristo Papazov | Angela Weng |
| Christopher Chiang | Nabhonil Kar | Michael Peng | Alan Wong |
| Byron Chin | Artem Khan | Alexander Pirola | Changxiao Xie |
| Sam Choi | Daniel Kim | Claudia Popescu | Christina Xu |
| Jens Clausen | Dylan Kim | Michael Psenka | Chris Yang |
| Matthew Collins | Jeff Kim | Livia Qoshe | Daniel Yassky |
| Holly Cunningham | Nicholas Kim | Seyoon Ragavan | Christopher Ye |
| Zak Dasaro | Riku Kurama | Emily Ryu | Nabil Yessuf |
| Sarah Dillender | Jonathan Kutasov | Kabir Sarita | Kevin You |
| Monica Dobrinoiu | Ben Laitner | Joseph Sartini | Sharon Zhang |
| Claire Dong | Max Land | Jana Sebaali | Kevin Zheng |
| Sarah Du | Alyssa Lau | Nala Sharadjaya | Jonathan Zhi |
| Raiden Evans | James Lee | Robert Shi |
Congratulations to the Computer Science Class of 2021!
Special thank you to everyone who made this virtual Class Day possible!
Audrey Cheng, Illustration
Jennifer Rexford, Department Chair
Adam Finkelstein, Associate Chair
JP Singh and Brian Kernighan, Directors of Undergraduate Studies
Jeremie Lumbroso, Lecturer
Michele Brown, Department Manager
Colleen Kenny, Undergraduate Program Manager
Mikki Hornstein, Independent Work Program Administrator
Laura Cerrito, Undergraduate Program Administrator
Joseph Crouthamel, Technical Manager
