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Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering

ICME Awards

The Ben Rolfs Memorial Award

In memory of ICME student Ben Rolfs, the annual award is provided each year to a graduating MS or PhD student who embodies the qualities exhibited by Ben: an adventurous spirit, a promising researcher, a devoted friend to fellow students, and an individual who excels despite adversity.

The Gene Golub Dissertation Award

Named in honor of Professor Gene Golub, The Gene Golub Dissertation Award is the most important academic recognition in ICME and exemplifies excellence and innovation. Professor Golub passed away in 2007 after spending his entire career, more than 40 years, at Stanford University. Professor Golub was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received countless awards and honorary degrees. His seminal contributions to computational linear algebra, statistical computing and numerical analysis continue to inspire younger generations of scientists across a broad array of applications.

Learn more about Professor Gene Golub

Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards

Stanford University Award

The annual Centennial Teaching Assistant (CTA) Awards recognizes outstanding teaching assistants (TAs) for their tremendous service and dedication in providing excellent classroom instruction for Stanford students.

Award recipients are selected from a wide range of individuals throughout the Schools of Humanities and Sciences; Earth, Energy & Environment Sciences; and Engineering.

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2025 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardRui YanThesis: Deep Representation Learning for Pattern Discovery in Biomedical Data
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardTrevor Maxfield 
Student Leadership AwardChloe Shiff 
Faculty Teaching AwardEric Darve 
Course Assistant AwardMalo Sommers 
Instructor Teaching AwardCatherine Chen 
School of Engineering Awards  
Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Council (DGSAC) Exceptional Graduate Student AwardEden Luvishis 
Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Council (DGSAC) Exceptional Graduate Student AwardTasha Kim 
University Awards  
Centennial TA AwardRaphaëlle Ramanantsoa 
Centennial TA AwardJordan Rothkowitzm 
   
2024 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardAmel AwadelkarimThesis: Algorithms, statistical models, and their applications to real-world networks and choice systems
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardYizhou QianThesis: Machine learning and statistical methods for physical systems
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardFredric Lam 
Student Leadership AwardIzabel Aguiar 
Student Leadership AwardTrevor Maxfield 
Faculty Teaching AwardEric Darve 
Teaching Assistant AwardRajat Dwaraknath 
Instructor Teaching AwardCarlos Ayala Bellido 
Instructor Teaching AwardLeah Reeder 
University Awards  
Centennial TA AwardBryan Xu 
Centennial TA AwardBenson Zu 
   
2023 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardXiran LiuThesis: Computational methods and mathematical measures for population relationships
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable MentionKaleigh Mentzer 
Instructor Teaching AwardAndreas Santucci 
Instructor Teaching AwardNadim Saad 
Course Assistant AwardTomas Bosschieter 
Course Assistant AwardRajat Dwaraknath 
Faculty Teaching AwardLexing Ying 
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardJulian Cooper 
ICME Leadership AwardAdrienne Propp 
   
2022 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardArun JambulapatiThesis: New primitives for convex optimization and graph algorithms
 
Golub Dissertation Honorable mentionAbeynaya GnanasekaranThesis: Fast orthogonal factorization for sparse matrices: theory, implementation, and application
Golub Dissertation Honorable mentionAlex InfangerThesis: Truncation algorithms for Markov chains and processes
Golub Dissertation Honorable mentionJulia Olivieri 
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardNurbek Tazhimbetov 
Student Leadership AwardShaun Datta 
Faculty Teaching AwardLexing Ying 
Instructor Teaching AwardLaura Lyman 
Teaching Assistant AwardAbeynaya Gnanasekaran 
Teaching Assistant AwardTrevor Maxfield 
University Awards  
Centennial TA AwardSergio Camelo Gomez 
Centennial TA AwardAbeynaya Gnanasekaran 
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Graduation AwardKaleigh Mentzer 
   
2021 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardInes ChamiThesis: Representation learning and algorithms in hyperbolic spaces
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardAndrea ZanetteThesis: Reinforcement learning : when can we do sample efficient exploration?
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardJani Adcock 
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardKailai Xu 
Student Leadership AwardCindy Orozco Bohorquez 
Teaching Assistant AwardAlexander Infanger 
Instructor Teaching AwardAndreas Santucci 
Faculty Teaching AwardMargot Gerritsen 
   
2020 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardZhengyu HuangThesis: Modeling and simulation of the inflation of supersonic parachute for Mars landing
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardAllison Koenecke 
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardJulia Oliveri 
Student Leadership AwardBradley Nelson 
Teaching Assistant AwardPhilip Etter 
Instructor Teaching AwardAshwin Rao 
Faculty Teaching AwardJohan Ugander 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardNadim Saad 
   
2019 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardRon EstrinThesis: The merits of keeping it smooth : iterative linear solvers and a smooth exact penalty function for constrained nonlinear optimization
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardLan Huong NguyenThesis: Robust dimensionality reduction for data visualization and latent structure recovery
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardNolan Andrew Skochdopole 
Student Leadership AwardRemmelt Ammerlaan 
Short Course Instructor AwardSherrie Wang 
Faculty Teaching AwardAaron Sidford 
Faculty Teaching AwardAndras Vasy 
Instructor Teaching AwardAndreas Santucci 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardLéopold Cambier 
   
2018 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardEileen MartinThesis: Passive imaging and characterization of the subsurface with distributed acoustic sensing
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardEd Schmerling 
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardSven Schmit 
Student Leadership AwardKarianne Bergen 
Student Leadership AwardDanielle Maddix 
Short Course Instructor AwardBrad Nelson 
Teaching Assistant AwardMatan Leibovich 
Instructor Teaching AwardReza Zadeh 
Faculty Teaching AwardEric Darve 
University Awards 
Centennial TA Award
Ron Estrin
 
Centennial TA Award
Ramtin Keramati
 
Centennial TA Award
Ed Schmerling
 
Centennial TA Award
Brett Harvey
 
Centennial TA Award
Laura Lyman
 
   
2017 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardAustin BensonThesis: Tools for higher-order network analysis
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardMatthew ZahrThesis: Adaptive model reduction to accelerate optimization problems governed by partial differential equations
Ben Rolfs Memorial AwardVictor Minden 
Student Leadership AwardCarson Kent 
Student Leadership AwardVictor Minden 
Teaching Assistant AwardRon Estrin 
Teaching Assistant AwardAndreas Santucci 
Instructor Teaching AwardHung Le 
Faculty Teaching AwardPeter Glynn 
   
2016 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardAnil DamleThesis: Sparse representations and fast algorithms for Kohn-Sham orbitals [electronic resource]
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardErnest Kang Ryu 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardCarlos Sing Long Collao 
Student Leadership AwardCarlos Alberto Sing Long Collao 
Short Course Instructor AwardCarlos Alberto Sing Long Collao 
Short Course Instructor AwardJoongyeub Yeo 
Teaching Assistant AwardLoek Janssen 
   
2015 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardSantiago Akle SerranoThesis: Algorithms for unsymmetric cone optimization and an implementation for problems with the exponential cone
Student Leadership AwardVictor Minden 
Short Course Instructor AwardAlex Ioannidis 
Teaching Assistant AwardNolan Skochdopole 
   
2014 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardReza Bosagh ZadehThesis: Large scale graph completion
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardGeoffrey Alex Main 
Student Leadership AwardFayadhoi Ibrahima 
Student Leadership AwardEileen Rose Martin 
Teaching Assistant AwardAnil Damle 
Teaching Assistant AwardDaniel Adam Rehn 
   
2013 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardMikhail KapralovThesis: Algorithms for bipartite matching problems with connections to sparsification and streaming
Student Leadership AwardReza Bosagh Zadeh 
Student Leadership AwardAnil Damle 
Teaching Assistant AwardPawin Vongmasa 
Teaching Assistant AwardMilinda Lakkam 
University Award 
Centennial TA AwardFayadhoi Ibrahima 
   
2012 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardMichael LesnickThesis: Multidimensional interleavings and applications to topological inference
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardGuanyuan WangThesis: A computational framework based on an embedded boundary method for nonlinear multi-phase fluid-structure interactions
Student Leadership AwardXiangrui Meng 
Teaching Assistant AwardDai Shi 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardSudarsan Navalpakkam Srinivasan Acharya 
   
2011 AwardsRecipient 
Gene Golub Doctoral Dissertation AwardMaksims OvsjanikovsThesis: Spectral methods for isometric shape matching and symmetry detection
Student Leadership AwardNicholas Wayne Henderson 
Student Leadership AwardNicholas Jordan West 
Teaching Assistant AwardAndrew Robert Pariser 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardMary Alice Cameron 
   
2010 AwardsRecipient 
Centennial TA AwardTania Bakhos 
   
2009 AwardsRecipient 
Student Leadership AwardAndrew Paul Spann 
Teaching Assistant AwardSudarsan Navalpakkam Srinivasan Acharya 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardSivaram Ambikasaran 
   
2008 AwardsRecipient 
Centennial TA AwardKathy Lora Jensen 
Teaching Assistant AwardNicholas Wayne Henderson 
University Awards 
Centennial TA AwardKathy Lora Jensen 
   
2007 AwardsRecipient 
Student Leadership AwardSara Jane Macumber 
Teaching Assistant AwardWael Ibrahim Salloum 
   
2006 AwardsRecipient 
Student Leadership AwardJohn Martin Bodley 
Teaching Assistant AwardYifan Liu