National Awards

Computer Science students have been nationally recognized through several recent prestigious awards and accomplishments. In particular, for example:

Students Nick Maliwacki, Andrew Paroski, and Natan Zohar made an extremely impressive showing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team took second place in both the regional preliminary contest at Oswego and the Regional Finals at Rochester Institute of Technology. The Top 4 teams, in order, were: (1) MIT, (2) Binghamton, (3) Harvard, (4) Brown. Here are the full standings for the region. (Inside BU Article) Their strong showing earned them a place in the World Finals, which took place in San Antonio, Texas, in April 2006. The team earned an Honorable Mention in the Finals.

As part of a semester-long project in Professor Ziegler's CS 495 Professional Ethics and Communication class during the Spring 2006 semester, two 4-person teams of Computer Science students entered CHC60: The IEEE Computer Society 60th Anniversary History Competition. The competition requires teams to design and build a website that covers, in depth, a topic related to the history of computing. Both teams advanced to the final round of the competition, and finished in the Top 10. Nearly 70 teams from 63 universities in 27 countries participated in the competition. One team includes students Jeffrey Gibat, Matt Kornher, Peter Meyer, and Allan Rysin; the other comprises Chad Evans, Bryan Latten, Arin Lipman, and Michael Perry, with Professor Ziegler serving as faculty advisor for both teams. All the Finalists' Web sites, including those created by the two Binghamton CS teams, are featured here.

CS Graduate student Pu "Pop" Liu has won the lone first prize in the IBM North America Grid Scholars Challenge. For his efforts, Pop received a new IBM laptop, and the University received a new IBM eServer, which was delivered in Summer 2005.

Local Awards

Each year, the Computer Science Department, the Watson School of Engineering, and Binghamton University honor a number of deserving undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of different awards. This page lists and links to descriptions of these awards. The links contain the application and selection process and timeline.

Undergraduate Awards

Foundation Award for Academic Excellence
- Saugata Ghose (2007)
- Nicholas Michael (2006)

Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence
- Steve Loscalzo and Matthew Manela (2007)
- Peter Longo (2006)
- Michael Irani (2005)

Division of Student Affairs Foundation Awards

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Baccalaureate Studies, Computer Science
- Matthew H. Manela (2007)
- Peter Longo (2006)
- Matthew Berger (2005)
- Michael Wang (2004)
- Heather Kimberly Sheiman (2003)

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Baccalaurete Studies, Information Systems - Dual Diploma Program
- Gurkan Satar (2007)

CS Departmental Service Award
- Peter J. Meyer (2007)
- Jake McGraw (2006)
- Brett Bernstein & Rob Brooks (2005)
- Kenneth Weiss (2004)
- Shiu-Hang Kenny Yip (2003)

Student Graduation Marshals
- Jing Carol Chen & Matt Zayatz (2006)
- Annie Gong & Paul D. Peachthong (2005)
- Cindy S. Baumohl & Johnny Loi (2004)
- Andrew Flug & Jennifer L. Gleason (2003)

Graduation Speaker
- Kevin Briggs (Computer Science, 2007) and Ekin Erbiz (Information Systems - Dual Diploma Program, 2007)
- Keith J. Ford (2006)
- Lee Seversky (2005)
- Luis Miranda (2004)
- Jonathan D. Margulies (2003)

Graduate Awards

Graduate School Student Excellence Awards in Teaching, Research, and Service/Outreach.
- Joe Sharkey (Research, 2006)
- Oguz Ergin (Research, 2005)
- Sameer Tilak (Research, 2005)
- Dmitry Ponomarev (Teaching and Research, 2003)

Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Sameer Tilak (2006)
- Roufei Zhang (2005)
- Gurhan Kukuc (2004)
- Dmitry Ponomarev (2003)
- Milind Kamble
- Kiran Desai

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies
- Ameya R. Agnihotri (2007)
- Hai He & Sameer Tilak (2006)
- Roufei Zhang (2005)
- Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh (2004)
- Raia Thais Hadsell & Dorin Hogea (2003)

University Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Roufei Zhang (2004)

Student Graduation Marshals
- Rob LaDuca (2006)
- Vinay Kolar (2005)
- Ryan Levering (2004)
- Alisa Neeman (2003)

Awards List and Calendar