Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
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
2016 Samim Safaei i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Fire Protection Engineering

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2020 Marissa Bennett Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2015 Michael Delph Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
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
2017 Akshata Kamat Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2018 Taylyn Hulse Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Learning Sciences & Technologies
2019 Diego Vargas Blanco Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2006 Helena C. Zec Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Winner Rotary Foundation Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2015 Fabienne Furt Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Post-Doctoral Research
2017 Weijie Pang Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2018 Naveen Pothayath Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2014 Ross Lagoy Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering

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2017 Benjamin Cooper Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Anand Ramakrishnan Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2019 Benjamin Cooper Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2020 Kaoutar Diouri Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2015 Nick DeMarinis Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Neehar Mukne, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Mitchell Muller Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2018 Nadia Mofidi Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Fire Protection Engineering
2019 Robert Orr Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2004 Christin T. Reynolds Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Winner Rotary Foundation Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Seth Adjer Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2018 Karan Somaiah Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2015 Kemal Arsava Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2013 Michael Morin Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Aaron Birt Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Mark Lawrence Strauss Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2021 Elizabeth Belden Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2019 Behnam Partopour Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2024 Alexandra Harrison Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2014 Daniel Brady Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Veronica Rojas, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Shaowei Gong Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Tyler Michael Reese Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mathematical Sciences
2019 Habibeh Ashouri Choshali Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2004 Karen C. Kosinski Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Winner Rotary Foundation Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Ahmedul Kabir Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2018 Steven Robert Vandal Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics
2017 Maksim V. Tyufekchiev Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2021 Caroline Muirhead Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2022 Alexandra Cabral Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2024 Rebecca Gilchrist Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
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2014 Abigail Charest Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2016 Satish Kumar Iyeemperumal, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2016 Carl Soderhjelm, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering