Graduate Student Awards: PREF and DEA
PhD Recruitment Excellence Fellowship
PREF is awarded annually, in two $2,500 installments ($5,000 total) during the student’s first two semesters. Providing competitive stipends is an important component to recruiting top-quality PhD students. The Gallogly College of Engineering PhD Recruitment Excellence Fellowship (PREF) program is designed to assist academic programs in the College in recruiting outstanding PhD students.
Dissertation Excellence Award
DEA is awarded three times a year (Spring, Summer, Fall). The award is limited to a total of $5,000, with two options for disbursement. Rewarding and encouraging excellence in research is a core value of the Gallogly College of Engineering (GCoE). The Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award (DEA) is designed to reward PhD students that have achieved outstanding research results and encourage these students to complete their dissertation with excellence. It is designed to be awarded either during the final semester of the student’s program (Option 1) or in two equal installments during the final two semesters of the student’s program (Option 2). To be eligible for a DEA award, the recipient must be a PhD candidate in good standing in one of GCoE’s PhD programs.
Spring and Fall 2018 - 2019 | PREF
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| Name | School Affiliation | Advisor | Award Semester |
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| Omkar Chekuri | CS | Sridhar Radhakrishnan | Fall 2018 |
| Brandon Hillhouse | SBME | Lei Ding | Fall 2018 |
| Haopeng Liu | AME | Jie Cai | Fall 2018 |
| Aditya Narasimhan | CS | Sridhar Radhakrishnan | Fall 2018 |
| Yunish Shrestha | ECE | Yan Rockee Zhang | Fall 2018 |
| Leili Soltanisehat | ISE | Shima Mohebbi | Fall 2018 |
| Cilali Buket | ISE | Kash Barker | Spring 2019 |
| Boushra Ajeeb | SBME | Stefan Wilhelm | Fall 2019 |
| Abinash Borah | CS | Le Gruenwald | Fall 2019 |
| Paul Calle | CS | Chongle Pan | Fall 2019 |
| Qiuye He | CS | Song Fang | Fall 2019 |
| Devin Laurence | AME | Chung-Hao Lee | Fall 2019 |
| Egawati Panjei | CS | Le Gruenwald | Fall 2019 |
| Lujun Zhang | CEES | Tiantian Yang | Fall 2019 |
| Zhaohe Zhang | CS | Song Fang | Fall 2019 |
| Zuyuan Zhang | CS | Chongle Pan | Fall 2019 |
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Spring and Fall 2020 | DEA Option 1 and 2
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| Name | School Affiliation | Advisor | Award |
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| Frederica Aveta | ECE | Hazem Refai | DEA - Option 2 |
| Andrew Byrd | ECE | Robert Palmer and Caleb Fulton | DEA - Option 1 |
| Philip Deal | CEES | David Sabatini | DEA - Option 1 |
| Wenxiang Huang | EP | Rui Yang | DEA - Option 1 |
| Rodrigo Lebron | ECE | Jorge Salazar-Cerreno | DEA - Option 1 |
| Zhe Li | ECE | Guifu Zhang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Tong Mou | CBME | Bin Wang | DEA - Option 1 |
| Javier Ortiz | ECE | Jorge Salazar-Cerreno | DEA - Option 1 |
| Shams Shahadat | ECE | Hong Liu | DEA - Option 2 |
| Maggie Tang | CEES | Robert Nairn | DEA - Option 1 |
| Tuan Vu | CBME | Dimitrios Papavassiliou | DEA - Option 2 |
| Junke Wang | AME | Li Song | DEA - Option 2 |
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Spring and Fall 2019 | DEA Option 1 and 2
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| Name | School Affiliation | Advisor | Award |
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| Faranak Aghaei | ECE | Bin Zheng | DEA - Option 1 |
| John Lake | ECE | Mark Yeary | DEA - Option 1 |
| Hadi Saeidi Manesh | ECE | Guifu Zhang | DEA - Option 1 |
| Mohammad Hadikhan Tehrani | CEES | Phillip Scott Harvey | DEA - Option 2 |
| Pratik Samant | SBME | Liangzhong Xiang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Gnana Subramaniam | AME | Prakash Vedula | DEA - Option 2 |
| Jingyu Wang | AME | Yingtao Liu | DEA - Option 2 |
| Shang Yan | CEES | Tohren Kibbey | DEA - Option 2 |
| Shajid Islam | ECE | Caleb Fulton | DEA - Option 2 |
| Tausif Jamal | AME | Keith Walters | DEA - Option 2 |
| Saptarshi Mandal | ISE | Ziho Kang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Qi Qiao | CBME | Liangliang Paul Huang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Huiyu Wang | AME | Keith Walters | DEA - Option 2 |
| Michael Warren | CBME | Jeffrey Harwell | DEA - Option 2 |
| Guobing Zhou | CBME | Liangliang Paul Huang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Mohammed Reda Bababrick | CBME | Bin Wang | DEA - Option 1 |
| Michael Nelson | CS | Sridhar Radhakrishnan | DEA - Option 1 |
| Maryam Shahbazi | CEES | Amy Cerato | DEA - Option 1 |
Fall 2018 | DEA Option 1 and 2
| Name | School Affiliation | Advisor | Award |
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| Alireza Abdihamzehkolaei | AME | Wilson Merchan-Merchan | DEA - Option 2 |
| Mehrad Amirkhosravi | AME | Cengiz Altan | DEA - Option 2 |
| Juan Anaya Saltarin | CBME | Daniel Resasco | DEA - Option 1 |
| Tuong Bui | CBME | Daniel Resasco | DEA - Option 1 |
| Hasan Farooq | ECE | Ali Imran | DEA - Option 1 |
| Mohammadhossein Golbonhaghighi | ECE | Guifu Zhang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Nic Grounds | CS | John Antonio | DEA - Option 1 |
| Alessio Mancini | ECE | Jorge Salazar-Cerreno | DEA - Option 1 |
| Jelena Milasavljevic | AME | Farrokh Mistree and Janet Allen | DEA - Option 1 |
| Anand Balu Nellippalli | AME | Farrokh Mistree and Janet Allen | DEA - Option 1 |
| Ramesh Nepal | ECE | Yan Rockee Zhang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Ramesh Nepal | CBME | Daniel Resasco | DEA - Option 1 |
| Anisha Nijhawan | CEES | David Sabatini | DEA - Option 2 |
| Maya Pishvar | AME | Cengiz Altan | DEA - Option 2 |
| Madhumitha Ramachandran | ISE | Zahed Siddique and Randa Shehab | DEA - Option 2 |
| Dhruv Sharma | ECE | John Jiang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Yingiun Wang | CEES | Naiyu Wang | DEA - Option 2 |
| Zheng Zhao | CBME | Daniel Resasco | DEA - Option 1 |
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