Award-winning EECS Graduate Student Instructors & Instructional Aides honored at luncheon

May 2, 2012

Congratulations to out outstanding students for their much-appreciated work!

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On May 1, 2012, the EECS Department held its annual Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) / Instructional Aide (IA) Awards Luncheon to honor top student instructors and aides for their remarkable service. ECE Associate Chair David Neuhoff and CSE Associate Chair Karem Sakallah hosted the event and introduced the awardees.

During the event, Profs. Neuhoff and Sakallah shared their thoughts and read excerpts from student evaluations of the honorees. The 2012 awardees, and the courses and faculty they worked with were:

  • Travis Martin: GSI Award for F11 EECS 203 with Prof. Pettie and Prof. Lee and W12 EECS 376 with Prof. Strauss
  • Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan: GSI Award for F11 EECS 314 with Prof. Ganago and W12 EECS 314 with Prof. Ganago
  • Praveen Yenduri: GSI Award for F11 EECS 216 with Prof. Yagle and Prof. Lafortune and W11 EECS 216 with Prof. Winick
  • Andrew DeOrio: Yahoo! Teaching Award for W12 EECS 281 with Prof. Syed
  • Joshua Lim: Yahoo! Teaching Award for F11 EECS 370 with Prof. Narayanasamy and Prof. Bertacco
  • Tom Frost: IA Award for F11 EECS 215 with Prof. Ulaby and W11 EECS 215 with Prof. Guo and Prof. Terry
  • Patrick Pannuto: IA Award for F11 EECS 482 with Prof. Chen and W12 EECS 482 and 470 with Prof. Flinn and Prof. Brehob

Honorable mentions were:

  • Robert Perricone: GSI for F11 EECS 183 with Prof. Dorf and W12 EECS 183 with Prof. Dorf and Prof. Boyapati
  • Seyit Sis: GSI for F11 EECS 411 with Prof. Grbic and W12 EECS 430 with Prof. Mortazawi
  • Yefei Wang: GSI for F11 EECS 461 with Prof. Freudenberg and W12 EECS 461 with Prof. Freudenberg and Prof. Cook
  • Varun Annadi: IA for F11 EECS 215 with Prof. Ulaby and W12 EECS 215 with Prof. Terry and Prof. Guo
  • Jonathan Plotzke: IA for F11 EECS 183 – Prof. Dorf and W12 EECS 183 with Prof. Dorf and Prof. Boyapati
  • Irene Zhu: IA for F11 EECS 216 with Prof. Yagle and Prof. Lafortune and W11 EECS 216 with Prof. Winick

Below are photos from the awards recognition luncheon.