The Ken Kennedy Institute’s annual graduate fellowship program awarded $65,000 to nine Rice graduate students in four departments within the George R. Brown School of Engineering.

Recipients use fellowship awards to further research pursuits, attend conferences, travel, and develop networking relationships in industry. Past recipients have spent summers as research interns with sponsoring companies. An important aspect of the fellowships is presenting research at Ken Kennedy Institute’s annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference, a gathering of 500 leaders and experts in high performance computing, computational science and engineering, machine learning, and data science.

With the support of industry, the Energy HPC Conference, and nominating departments (for recruiting fellowships), the Ken Kennedy Institute has awarded $1.6 million to 188 students since 2001. The 2022-23 graduate fellowships are supported by bp, ExxonMobil, SLB, Shell, the Scott Morton Memorial (provided by the Energy HPC Conference), Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science, and the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. endowment.

We congratulate the 2022-23 fellowship recipients:

• Fatima Ahsan, electrical and computer engineering: ExxonMobil, $7,500

• Paola Cascante-Bonilla, computer science: SLB, $7,500

• Chen Chen, civil and environmental engineering: Scott Morton Memorial (provided by the Energy HPC Conference), $7,500

• Aditya Desai, computer science: Shell, $7,500

• Victoria Granja, mechanical engineering: SLB, $7,500

• Yumeng Liu, computer science: bp, $7,500

• Zichang (Emma) Liu, computer science: bp, $7,500

• Nicolae Sapoval, computer science: Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science, $5,000

• Guanchu Wang, computer science: Ken Kennedy-Cray, $7,500

Author: THE KEN KENNEDY INSTITUTE