Academic Year	Name	Award
2025-2025	Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah	College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics - Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award - Spring 2025
	Thomas Carroll Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng Michael Yantosca Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng	PhD Showcase Fall 2024 - Judge's Choice Best Poster
	Meng-Chen (Martin) Lee Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng Lei Si Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen	PhD Showcase Fall 2024 - Judge's Choice Honorable Mention
	Meng-Chen (Martin) Lee Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	PhD Showcase Fall 2024 - People's Choice Best Poster   Lei Si Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen PhD Showcase Fall 2024 - People's Choice Runner Up
	Lei Si Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen	PhD Showcase Fall 2024 - People's Choice Runner Up
2023-2024	Rabimba Karanjai Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi	Outstanding PhD Student
	Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah	Outstanding Junior PhD Student
	Rabimba Karanjai Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi	HPE DSI Artificial Intelligence Summer Student Showcase - 3rd Place
	Robert Griffin Advisor: Dr. Nikos Tsekos Meng-Chen Lee Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	PhD Showcase Spring 2024 - Judge's Choice Best Poster
	Aftab Hussain Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour Dustin Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah	PhD Showcase Spring 2024 - Judge's Choice Honorable Mention
	Dustin Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah	PhD Showcase Spring 2024 - People's Choice Best Poster
	Aftab Hussain Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour Thomas Carroll Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng Meng-Chen Lee Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	PhD Showcase Spring 2024 - People's Choice Runner Up
	Soodeh Atefi Co-Advisors: Dr. Amin Alipour, Dr. Aron Laszka MD Tanim Hasan Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis	Outstanding Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2023
2022-2023	Rabimba Karanjai Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi	Outstanding PhD Student
	Qixin Deng Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	Outstanding Dissertation - Spring 2023
	Urmila Sampathkumar Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant	PhD Showcase - People's Choice Runner Up
	Qixin Deng Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng Yigeng Zhang Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio	PhD Showcase - People's Choice Runner Up
	Urmila Sampathkumar Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant	PhD Showcase - Judge's Choice Best Poster
	Qixin Deng Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng Muhammad Naeem Akram Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen	PhD Showcase - Judge's Choice Honorable Mention
	Shaila Zaman Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis	Outstanding Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2022
	Daniel Biediger Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok	Outstanding Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2022
2021-2022	Thomas Carroll Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng	The Honors College: Outstanding Honors Thesis
	Thomas Carroll	UH Student Employee of the Year
	Qixin Deng Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	Outstanding PhD Student
	Sikder Tahsin Al Amin Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez	Outstanding Dissertation - Spring 2022
2020-2021	Elena Torre Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng	The Honors College: Outstanding Honors Thesis
	Jose Daniel Velazco-Garcia Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos	Outstanding PhD Student
	Duong Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen	Outstanding Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2020
2020	Kiet Dinh Sungmin Kim Nicholas Randall	Undergraduate Excellence
	Kishansingh Rajput	Outstanding MS Student
	Shaoshuai Zhang Advisor: Dr. Panruo Wu	Outstanding Junior PhD Student
	Gustavo Aguilar Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio	Outstanding PhD Student
	Shaila Zaman Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis	Outstanding PhD Student
	Luming Ma Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	Outstanding Dissertation - Spring 2020
	Houtan Faridi Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma Pallovi Romero Advisor: Dr. Nouhad Rizk	Computing Research Association (CRA): Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Honorable Mention
2019	Marko Jovanovic	Undergraduate Excellence
	Sai Prashant Chintalapudi	Best MS Student
	Guangli Dai Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng	Best Junior PhD Student
	Sudipta Kar Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio	Best PhD Student
	Luming Ma Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng	Best PhD Student
	Soumyottam Chatterjee Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan	Best Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2019
	Pavel Govyadinov Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen	Best Dissertation - Summer/Fall 2019
2018	Yilei Tian	Undergraduate Excellence
	Xingliang Zou Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng	Best PhD Dissertation
	Georgios Panagopoulos Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis	Best MS Thesis
	Yuhang Wu Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris	Best PhD Student
	Gustavo Aguilar Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio	Best Junior PhD Student
2017	Julia Hofmeister Duc Truong	Undergraduate Excellence
	Yu Li Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng	Best PhD Dissertation
	Mohammad Mainul Islam Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris	Best MS Thesis
	Wellington Cabrera Pengfei Dou	Best PhD Student
	Shahryar Baki Fan Yang Yuting Zhang	Best Junior PhD Student
	Prasha Shrestha Nikolaos Sarafianos Seyyedeh Mirsharif	PhD Showcase Winners
2016	Xifeng Gao	Best PhD Dissertation
	Yiqun Zhang	Best MS Thesis
	Yu Li Muhsin Zahid Ugur	Best PhD
	Santosh KC Mengjun Leng	Best Junior PhD
	Xifeng Gao Pengfei Dou Ashik Khatri	PhD Showcase Winners
2015	Ashik Khatri	Best MS Student
	Panagiotis Moutafis Xifeng Gao	Best PhD Student
	Dinesh Majeti Muhsin Zahid Ugur Charu Hans	PhD Showcase Winners
	Cheng Wang Yen Le	Best PhD Student
	Li Wei	Best Junior PhD Student
	Binh Le	PhD Showcase Winners, Oral Presentation
	Remi Salmon Salah Aldeen Taamneh Sujing Wang	PhD Showcase Winners, Poster Presentation
	Binh Le Huy Nguyen	Best PhD Student
	Xifeng Gao Yu Li	Best Junior PhD Student
	Chrysanthi Chaleva-Ntina	Best MS Student
	Binh Le	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Best Overall Poster
	Apurva Gala	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Best Overall Poster
	Huy Nguyen	PhD Showcase Winner, 3rd place, Best Overall Poster
	Vishwanath Venkatesa	PhD Showcase Winner, Best Poster Content
	Xu Yan	PhD Showcase Winner, Best Poster Form
	Swaroop Pophale	PhD Showcase Winner, Poster Award, Honorable Mention
	Malcolm Dcosta	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Presentation Award
	Duc Duong	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Presentation Award
	Zechun Cao	PhD Showcase Winner, Presentation Award, Honorable Mention
	Ilyas Uyanik	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Research Presentation Award
	Avinash Wesley	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Research Presentation Award
	Sujing Wang	PhD Showcase Winner, Research Presentation Award, Honorable Mention
	Estefannie Gutierrez de la Garza Sabah Akbani	Undergraduate Excellence Award – Category I
	James Bates Ha Vu	Undergraduate Excellence Award – Category II
2012	Waleed Faris	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Best Overall Poster
	Apurva Gal	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Best Overall Poster
	Francisco Ocegueda-Hernandez	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Best Poster Content
	Nikhil V. Navkar	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Best Poster Content
	Hakan Haberdar	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Best Poster Design
	Ming-Chih (Mitch) Shih	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Best Poster Design
	Xiaohan Ma	PhD Showcase Winner, Poster Award, Honorable Mention
	Malcolm Dcosta Ilyas Uyanik	PhD Showcase Winner, 1st place, Research Presentation Award
	Emil Bilgazeyev Yuanfeng Wen	PhD Showcase Winner, 2nd place, Research Presentation Award
	Ayodunni Aribuki Vishwanath Venkatesan	PhD Showcase Winner, 3rd place, Research Presentation Award
2011	Dainis Boumber	Undergraduate Excellence Award
	Longyi Qi	Outstanding MS-Thesis Student
	Araly Barrera	Most Promising PhD Student
	Xiaohan Ma Khuong Vu Nikhil Navkar	Outstanding PhD Student
2010	Sinh Josh Nguyen	Undergraduate Excellence Award
	Qing Li Xuqing Wu	Excellence in Doctoral Studies
	Hien Nguyen Liqi Yi	Excellence in Junior Graduate Studies
2009	Maria Itkin Huy Nguyen Michael Slater	Undergraduate Excellence Award – Category I
	Kaleb Fulgham Ricky Gentry	Undergraduate Excellence Award – Category II
	Wei Ding Deepak Roy Pradeep Buddharaju	Best Overall PhD Award
	Xiaohan Ma	2009 PhD Student of the Year
	Eleni Sgouritsa Dan Biediger	Best Master Student Award

 

Year	Name	Award
2025	Zhigang Deng	UH Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Program
	Gopal Pandurangan	UH Moores Professor
2024	Guoning Chen	UH NSM John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
	Gopal Pandurangan	UH DOR Exellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creativity
	Ioannis Pavlidis	IEEE Fellow
	Gopal Pandurangan	IEEE Fellow
2023	Matthew Pariyothorn	UH Graduate School - Outstanding Graduate Advisor
2022	Nouhad Rizk	Piper Professor
	Omprakash Gnawali	ACM SenSys Test of Time Award 2022
	Ioannis Kakadiaris	UH Division of Research - Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
	Panruo Wu	NSF CAREER Award
2021	Zhigang Deng	UH Moores Professor
	Nouhad Rizk	UH Teaching Excellence Award for Community Engagement
2020	Carlos Rincon Zhigang Deng Jaspal Subhlok	UHCS Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching UHCS Faculty Excellence Award in Research UHCS Faculty Excellence Award in Service
2019	Aron Laszka Arjun Mukherjee	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2018	Gopal Pandurangan	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2017	Elizabeth (Liz) Faig	UH President's Excellence Award
	Nouhad Rizk	UH Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional Faculty
	Ioannis Pavlidis Thamar Solorio	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2016	Chang Yun	UH Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional Faculty
	Guoning Chen	NSF Career Award NSM Junior Faculty Research Award
	Albert Cheng Ioannis Kakadiaris Shishir Shah	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2015	Albert Cheng	UH Lifetime Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research
	Guoning Chen Zhigang Deng Larry Shi	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2014	Omprakash Gnawali Stephen Huang	UHCS Chair's Choice Award
	Edgar Gabriel Ioannis Pavlidis	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
	Thamar Solorio	Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award from The Anita Borg Institute (ABI)
2013	Baez-Franceschi Zhigang Deng Olin Johnson Chang Yun	UH Teaching Excellence Award for Group Teaching
	Rakesh Verma	UH Lifetime Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research
2012	Olin Johnson	UHCS Chair's Choice Award
	Nouhad Rizk	UHCS Teaching Excellence Award
	Jaspal Subhlok	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2011	Shishir Shah	UH NSM John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
	Barbara Chapman	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
	Jehan-François Paris	UHCS Chair's Choice Award
	Chang Yun	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2009	Rong Zheng	UH Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship
	Zhigang Deng Edgar Gabriel Victoria Hilford Carlos Ordonez Shishir Shah Nikos Tsekos Rong Zheng	UHCS Academic Excellence Award
2007	Jaspal Subhlok	UH Innovation in Instructional Technology
	Jaspal Subhlok	UH Teaching Excellence Award
2005	Ricardo Vilalta	UHCS Research Excellence Award
2004	Ioannis Pavlidis	UHCS Research Excellence Award
2003	Ioannis Kakadiaris	UH Teaching Excellence Award
	Ioannis Kakadiaris	UHCS Research Excellence Award

 

Year	Name	Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Jakub Kurzak (PhD '05)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Karis Ng (BS '12) Michael Slater (BS '11) Michael Wright (BS '13)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award (Group)
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Eduardo Mendizabal Ruiz (PhD '12)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Troy Leblanc (MS ' 99, PhD '09)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Wei Ding (PhD '08)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Bojan Cukic (MS '93, PhD '97)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award
Celebrating 50 Years Anniversary	Pamela Szabo (BS '80)	UHCS Outstanding Alumni Award