Celebrating student leaders building an inclusive community.

The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging awards recognize graduate and undergraduate students who’ve committed to creating a more inclusive culture within Cornell Bowers and broadly in the fields of computing and information science. 

Award Recipients

Teaching Excellence: 
Lorenzo Alvisi, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department of Computer Science

 

Advising Excellence:
Robert Kleinberg, professor of computer science
Cristian Danescu‑Niculescu‑Mizil, associate professor of information science

 

Belonging & Inclusion: 
Adrian Sampson, associate professor of computer science
Marten van Schijndel, assistant professor of linguistics; field member in computer science

 

Student Awards

 

Inspiring Futures Award: 
Caroline Cheng: Computer Science ‘27
Ronald Jabouin: Computer Science ‘26

 

Academic Excellence & Innovation Award: 
Jasmine Dietiker: Computer Science ‘27

 

Social Impact & Service Award: 
Suvadip Sana: Statistics ‘28
Anshuman Mohan: Computer Science ‘28

Distinguished Leadership Award 

  • Gemmechu Hassena
  • Aspen K.B. Omapang
  • Livia Popa
  • Lucy Jiang, M.S. ‘24
  • Cornelius Boateng ‘24
  • Judith Jatto ‘25

Faculty of the Year Award  

  • Adrian Sampson
  • Allison Koenecke
  • Y. Samuel Wang  

Compassionate Leader Award 

  • Kayla Sprayberry '24
     

Most Impactful Student Award 

  • Robyn Burger '24

 

Community Advocate Award  

  • Derek Sanchez '24

 

Graduate Students

  • Gloire Rubambiza
  • Maya Mundell

​Undergraduate Students

  • Bahar Tehranipoor '23
  • Jessie Wong '23
  • Simone Green '24

Faculty of the Year Awards

  • Anke van Zuylen
  • Jon Kleinberg
  • Tom DiCiccio

Compassionate Leader Awards

  • Heysil Baez '23 (WICC)
  • Arianna Curillo '23 (URMC)
  • Arya Song '24 (ACSU)
  • Daisy Tseng '24 (ISSA)

Most Impactful Student Awards

  • Tise Alatise '23 (WICC)
  • Judith Jatto '25 (URMC)
  • Mohammed Islam '23 (ACSU)

Community Advocate Awards

  • Neha Malepati '24 (WICC)
  • Emily Romero '23 (URMC)

 

Graduate students

  • Chinasa Okolo
  • Sara Venkatraman

Undergraduate students

  • Oluwatise Alatise '23
  • Natalie Kalitsi ’22
  • Miah Sanchez ’22
  • Ziqing Wang ’22