Fellowships
Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship
- 2023 Taha Toghani
- 2022 Fatima Alrashdan
National GEM Consortium GEM Fellowship
- 2022 Kevin Beckford
- 2022 Morgan Brinson
- 2022 Johaun Hatchett
- 2021 Kayla Vokt
- 2020 Camille Little
- 2019 Tarence Rice
- 2014 CJ Barberan
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- 2022 Ellie Chen
- 2022 Catherine Tuppen
- 2022 Jaanita Mehrani
- 2022 William Schmid
- 2021 Camille Little
- 2021 Joshua Woods
- 2018 Lorenzo Luzi
- 2016 Minh Tan Nguyen
- 2015 Christopher Metzle
- 2014 CJ Barberan
- 2012 Paul Haugen
Texas Instruments Distinguished Student Fellowship
- 2022-2016 Fatima Ahsan
- 2022-2017 Daniel LeJeune
- 2022-2017 Keerthi Dasala
- 2022-2017 Lorenzo Luzi
- 2016 Behnaz Ostovar
- 2015 Mahdi Forghani
- 2014 Yasaman Ghasempour
IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award for Medical Applications
- 2021 Yingying Fan
CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Fellowship
- 2021 Keerthi Dasala
- 2019 Yasaman Ghasempour
Ken Kennedy Institute Graduate Fellowship
- 2023-22 Fatima Ahsan
- 2022-21 Shabnam Daghaghi
- 2022-21 Bishal Lamichhane
- 2021-20 Boning Li
- 2021-20 Tharun Medini
- 2021-20 Thomas (Mitch) Roddenberry
- 2020-19 Thomas (Mitch) Roddenberry
IEEE ComSoc N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship
- 2020 Keerthi Dasala
- 2018 Yasaman Ghasempour
NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
- 2019 Christopher Metzler
Society of Iranian-American Women for Education Fellowship
- 2017 Yasaman Ghasempour
- 2015 Yasaman Ghasempour
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Chemical Sciences
- 2019 Hossein Robatjazi
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
- 2015 CJ Barberan
- 2014 Christopher Metzler
Intel Fellowship
- 2015 CJ Barberan
Rice Electrical and Computer Engineering Fellowship
- 2016 Behnaz Ostovar
- 2014 Yasaman Ghasempour
Paper Awards
ACM MobiCom Best Paper Award
- 2022 Fatima Alrashdan
CICC 2021 Best Paper Award
- 2021 Amanda Singer
- 2021 Benjamin Avants
- 2021 Fatima Alrashdan
- 2021 Joshua Chen
- 2021 Yan He
- 2021 Zhanghao Yu
CICC Outstanding Student Paper Award
- 2021 Xiaohan Zhang
- 2021 Yaolong Hu
IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
- 2021 Keerthi Dasala
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers Best Paper Award
- 2020 Thomas (Mitch) Roddenberry
IEEE VTC Best Paper Award
- 2020 Keerthi Dasala
Distinguished Awards
COMEXUS Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship
- 2023-21 Emi Sato Imuro
- 2019 Elsa Y. Acosta De Anda
Energy Polymer Group Rice Graduate Student Lightning Round Winner
- 2022 Kshipra Kapoor
IEEE Solid State Circuit Society Predoctoral Achievement Award
- 2022-2021 Yingying Fan
- 2022-2021 Yan He
- 2022-2021 Zhanghao Yu
SIAWE Scholarship for Distinguished International Students
- 2022-21 Mehdi Zafari
SIAWE scholarship from Society of Iranian American Women for Education
- 2022-2019 Behnaz Ostovar
Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship
- 2022 Fatima Ahsan
- 2021 Yingying Fan
- 2020 Yang Zhao
Corning Women in Optical Communications Grant for OFC from The Optical Society Committee
- 2021 Behnaz Ostovar
ECE Future Star Scholarship
- 2021 Isabella Obermeier
Fulbright Student
- 2021 Emi Sato Imuro
- 2014 Juan Gonzalez Espana
ICORPS grant by NSF
- 2021 Zhuohe (Harry) Liu
Trainee Highlight Award by the BRAIN Initiative, NIH
- 2021 Zhuohe (Harry) Liu
Women In Science Incentive Prize by The Story Exchange
- 2021 Pratiksha Dongare
ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation
- 2020 Yasaman Ghasempour
ACS National Meeting Travel Award from ACS Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee, ACS Org.
- 2020 Behnaz Ostovar
Marconi Young Scholar Award
- 2020 Yasaman Ghasempour
EECS Rising Star
- 2019 Yasaman Ghasempour
Grace Hopper Scholarship for outstanding women in technology from Anita B. Org.
- 2019 Behnaz Ostovar
ACM SIGMOBILE Travel Grant
- 2018-2016 Yasaman Ghasempour
Awarded by Rice
REA Graduate Student Travel Award
- 2021-20 Cheng Wan
- 2021-20 Delaram Pirhayatifard
- 2021-20 Kshipra S. Kapoor
- 2021-20 Mohammad Taha Toghani
- 2021-20 Sakib Hassan
Sue H. and Harold R. Galloway Award
- 2021-20 Joshua Woods
Ignite Travel Award from Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, Rice University
- 2019 Behnaz Ostovar
ECE Distinguished Student Service Award
- 2018 Fatima Ahsan
ECE Star Doctoral Student
- 2018 Yasaman Ghasempour
Grace Hopper Travel Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
- 2018 Behnaz Ostovar
If we are missing an award, please contact Xaymara Garza