We celebrated all CS Department awards in person on Monday, May 5, 2025. Congratulations to all recipients!
CS Department Undergraduate Scholarships
The David Dewitt Undergraduate Scholarship
This scholarship was established to recognize academic excellence in computer science and is the top undergraduate honor offered by our department. Scholarships were presented to the following students:
Thomas Liang
Wenxuan Tan
Yibo Wu
Emily Yao
The Hina and Faisal Mushtaq Scholarship
This scholarship was created by the family of Faisal Mushtaq, who received an undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences from UW in 1988. Faisal has had a long career at the intersection of technology and health care and was founder of Veridigm, which provides IT solutions to a wide variety of health care solutions. The recipient will receive a $1000 scholarship. This year’s winner:
Aarya Deshpande
The Paul D. Salmon Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship was established in memory of Paul Salmon. Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica and came to UW-Madison to get a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science. After graduating, he worked at Epic Health Care for 20 years and passed away in 2021. Paul had a passion for mentoring younger developers and sharing his wealth of knowledge of programming, so to honor that part of his life, his family established the Paul D. Salmon Memorial Scholarship Fund. This perpetual fund through the UW Foundation will periodically award a scholarship to an undergraduate in Computer Sciences from an underrepresented group. The recipient will receive a $1000 scholarship. This year’s
Mallory Malvitz
Nicholas D. Yankaitis Memorial Scholarship
Harry Huang
Wai Ying Yick and Dr Chui Wai Yuen Endowment
Ryder Zvorak
Computer Sciences Graduate Fellowships
Klug NCR Graduate Fellowship in Database Systems
Yifei Yang
Cisco Systems Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Christine Lee
Brahma Pavse
Amanda Xu
Benjamin Young
Matthew Zurek
Landweber NCR Graduate Fellowship in Distributed Systems
Konstantinos Kanellis
Ivanisevic Award for Computer Sciences Dissertators
Sean Xuefeng Du
CS Department Faculty, Staff & Grad Student Awards
2024 Summer Computer Sciences RAships
Dev Ahluwalia
Seunghyun An
Guyang Cao
Sungjun Cho
Aryan Garg
Fariha Islam
Abigale Kim
Yujin Kim
Junxuan Liao
Hongyi Liu
Yuhao Liu
Gabriel Orlanski
Deep Patel
Noah Scott
Zhuxiao Tang
Sarah Tanveer
Avi Trost
Akhil Vanukuri
June Woodward
Xincheng Xie
Ruifeng Xu
Boyuan Zou
UW CS Graduate Instructor Award
Ranganath (Bujji) Selagamsetty
Yiyin Shen
Carolyn Rosner Award for Excellence in Teaching
Meena Syamkumar
Graduate Student Research Award
Nikos Zarifis
Hangdong Zhao
UW CS Departmental Service Award
Hilary Heffley
SACM COW Award
Each year SACM has the honor of awarding the Choice of Wisconsin Award, or, as it is more affectionately known, the COW Award.
It is given to a professor who has done an exceptional job in the classroom teaching environment, as opposed to research or extracurricular activities. The winner is chosen directly by the graduate students of this department. This year’s winner is Fred Sala. Congratulations, Professor Sala!
See previous year’s awards and thank yous here.