The Computer Science Department partnered with the Ken Kennedy Institute to annually award the Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $5,000 to a well-qualified graduate student in Computer Science.
This fellowship has been made possible by the Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence Fund in Computer Science, established in honor of the late Dr. Andrew Ladd by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Ladd, his sister Ms. Kelly Ladd, and his widow Dr. Fumiko Chino. Andrew Ladd excelled in his studies at Rice University and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 2003 and 2006, respectively.
To read more about Andrew Ladd and his work, click here.
Requirements:
- Graduate student must be a student in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.
- The candidate selected to receive the fellowship is not eligible for other Rice fellowships.
- Preference will be given to candidates who have already started their thesis research.
Past Recipients:
2024/2025
- Yu-Neng (Allen) Chuang, Computer Science
2023/2024
- Tianyang Pan, Computer Science
2022/2023
- Nicolae Sapoval, Computer Science
2021/2022
- Zhiwei Zhang, Computer Science
2020/2021
- Jiarong Xing, Computer Science
2019/2020
- Afsaneh Rahbar, Computer Science
2018/2019
- Eleni Litsa, Computer Science
2017/2018
- Keren Zhou, Computer Science
2016/2017
- Wen Dingqiao, Computer Science
2015/2016
- Suguman Bansal, Computer Science
2014/2015
- Ryan Luna, Computer Science
2013/2014
- Kuldeep Singh, Computer Science
