Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2017 Lindsay Lozeau Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2021 Edward Jarvis Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics
2016 Sarah Hernandez Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Christina Aiello Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
Johanna Santos Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2018 Lucia Carichino Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2022 Munevver Elif Asar Sarikaya Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Office of Sustainability

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Energy_intensive Industrial Drying by Novel Drying Methods
2019 Avery Brown Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2017 Abhishek Easwaran Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2020 Douglas Reilly Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Doctoral Dissertation
2018 Milad Farzad Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Dekun Geng Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2016 Lindsay Lozeau i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering

Advisor: Terri A. Camesano;  "AMProtection: Tomorrow’s Antimicrobials Fighting Today’s Infections"

Best Overall
2017 Daniel Lawer Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2021 Jakub Tomasz Kaminski Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Christina Aiello Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2021 Kyle Gerlach Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

- https://www.wpi.edu/news/announcements/kyle-gerlach-recognized-teaching-assistant-year-2021
2016 Amirmahdi Ghasemi Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Johanna Santos Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2018 Jun Dao Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2021 Elizabeth van Zyl Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2019 Jacob Crislip Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2017 Zhiyuan Liu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2020 Matt Desrosiers Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Doctoral Dissertation
2018 Berk Gulmezoglu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2019 Nathan Hsu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2016 Lindsay Lozeau i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering

Advisor: Terri A. Camesano;  "AMProtection: Tomorrow’s Antimicrobials Fighting Today’s Infections"

People's Choice Award
2017 Diego Vargas Blanco Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2021 Lyric Liu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Mashael Alghmadi, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics
2020 Noah McQueen Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering

Read the citation: 2020 Teaching Assistant of the Year
2016 Jake Hughes Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
Habibeh Ashouri Choshali Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2018 Toni Delorey Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Binod Giri Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Alexia D. Bililies Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Winner Rotary Foundation Graduate Humanities & Arts, International & Global Studies
2017 Naveen Pothayath Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2020 Danielle Snider Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

MS Thesis
2018 Michael Moukarzel Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Brittany Neumann Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2019 Umesh U. Nair Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2015 Siamak Ghorbani Faal Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

2015 Honors Convocation
2019 Lucia Carichino Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Samim Safaei i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Fire Protection Engineering

Advisor: Ali Rangwala; "The Enabling Radiant Heat Flux Gauge"
2017 Xiaokong Yu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2021 Zahra Noori Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Ross Lagoy Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Ozge Yasar, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Ermal Toto, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2020 Marissa Bennett Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science