Department of Computer Science Academic Unit Commencement Ceremony

May 15, 2021 Chicago, Illinois Order of Exercises

Welcome Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Chair

Greetings from the Dean Lance Fortnow, Dean of the College of Computing

Department Chair Speech Shlomo Engelson Argamon

Introduction of Undergraduate Speaker Matthew Bauer, Senior Lecturer

Undergraduate Student Speech Arushi Rai

Introduction of Graduate Student Speaker Bogdan Korel, Associate Chair

Graduate Student Speech Hariharan Devarajan

Presentation of the Degree Candidates in Computer Science

Faculty/Staff Congratulations

Closing Remarks Shlomo Engelson Argamon

Final Remarks Lance Fortnow

2 Department of Computer Science Degree Candidates

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

Kun Feng Jiahui Hou Neil Getty Xin Liu FNU Hariharan Devarajan Zhao Wang

Master of Science in Computer Science

Sai Krishna Akula Tushar Rajkumar Nitave Florentin Louis Gerard Bekier Jingwen D. Pickens Joshua Joel Bowden Sankalp Sanand Caleb James Czaja Mohan Sha Evan Farris Naunidh Singh Elvis Gameli Fefey Shreyas Sandeep Singhvi Yifei Guo Wanglin Song Maryam Heidarimoheb Nanda Kishore Reddy Velugoti Sathyaveer Shailendra Karmarkar Eadhunath Venghatesan Seungdeok Lim Yang Wang Siqi Mai Hsuan An Weng Lin Zhenyu Meng Yikun Wu Tejas Suryakant Nanaware Yuanzhou Yang Jasmeet Narang Ying Zhu Yen Binh Nguyen

3 Master of Science in Computational Decision Science and Operations Research

Sanjeev Kumar Vishal Shriram Thejeswar Reddy Narravala

Master of Artificial Intelligence

Blake William Ehrenbeck Christopher Weicong Hong Ekrem Guzelyel Manuel Salvador Lopez Garza

Master of Computer Science

Mohit Aggarwal Sachin Devatar Aman Agrawal Kiruba Dhayalan Sohail Ahmed Maneesh Divana Bhanuja Arekatla Yuxia Fang Vishal Arockiasamy Yash Raj Fnu Rishika Attiguppe Ashok Jonathan Galliher Valentin Audrerie Manish Ganapathy Subramanian Deepa Bada Bharatwaj Gurunath Reddy Bairi Edgar B. Gangware Sumukh Deepak Ballal Maharsh Hetal Gheewala Rajesh Kumar Bandaru Souporno Ghosh Venkata Sai Naveena Bathula Hardik Hasmukhbhai Gondaliya Rachana Bhaskar Venkata Sai Goutham Gonuguntla Manoj Narayan Bisarahalli Varun Gunda Derek Connor Bostick Akash Reddy Gundlapalli Khawaja Shahzad Sadiq Butt Anitya Kumar Gupta Naga Sirisha Chalapati Darshan Kishore Halyal Siri Chandrashekar Gai Hao Scott Chaplinski Yechen Hao Chandu Chinta Jiaxin He Akhil Chowdary Dadi Gyucheon Heo Jiaxin Dai Anneke Soraya Hidayat Nihar Anant Darji Prince G. Hodonou Harsh Bharatbhai Dave Yun Hong Cintia Davila Rodriguez Wentao Hu Gregoire Larry Alexis De Faup Yan Huang Juan Carlos De Miguel Ran Huo Noah Resurreccion Dela Rosa Mohammad Jawad Hussain Aditi Sanat Desai Rishikesh Jangam

4 Master of Computer Science (continued)

Mohammed Jawhar Deep Patel Jinchen Jiang Disha Hitesh Patel Yin Jiang Kripa Rajeshkumar Patel Yikun Jiao Shyam Patel Jingeun Jung Vatsal Ketan Patel Lavanya Juvvala Yash Manharbhai Patel Barani Kumar Kalangal Ramasamy Nishant Niketan Pathare Soundararajan Padmajeet Vashistha Pawar Udit Kalyanasundaram Vasudevan Mayank Makarand Phadke Venkata Manikanta Monic Kamisetty Ranadeep Poddar Kanyakumari Kashyap Jesleen Sonia Pradeep Kamalesh Chirag Sanjay Khandhar Kalpana Pratapaneni Nikita Narendra Khedekar Siddharaj Nandkumar Pujari Gandhali Rajendra Khedlekar Akshay Rajeev Mert Kocagil Ramya Rajendra Darshan Kodipalli Prajakta Kishore Rajhans Akshay Damodar Kulkarni Nithin Hoskere Rama Rao Manjari Kulkarni Guruprasad Ramamurthy Shivam Shreeram Kulkarni Puneeth Rangaswamy Akash Kumar Shetty Sriram Rani Rohit Madhukar Lakde Rishabh Rastogi Chen En Lee Kavya Ravella Zhi Li Laura Ellyn Robb Elan Chui-Hsien Lin Ankur Saikia Sha Liu Arunabh Saikia Shiqi Liu Soham Suresh Satam Pradeep Kumar Lokesh Quick Tushar Savajiyani Sainath Macharla Yogasree Segar Sobish Mahajan Lipi Maheshbhai Shah Vaishnavi Manjunath Mehar Govind Shahani Shirish Mecheri Vogga Varun Gajanan Shanbhag Navya Medarametla Hariharan Shankar Siddharth Mishra Disha Sharma Nikhil Purshottam Miskin Nishka Sharma Vidhi Mittal Sahana Shreedhar Kulkarni Sudarshan Nagaraju Baltej Singh Chaitanya Nagaram Sandeep Singh Lan Hoang Nguyen Talwinder Singh Saket Pallav Gaurav Singhania Ketan Ravindra Pansare Shantanoo Sinha Ninad Parikh Nirav Pradipkumar Soni Chandni M. Patel Jaikeerthi Srinivasa

5 Master of Computer Science (continued)

Swathi Sudha Suresha Jiangsong Wang Suriya Prakaash Sundaram Kasi Song Wang Thirunavukkarasu Christopher Scott Wszolek Aishwarya Kasheenath Sureban Yifan Wu Sumit Baburao Tamgale Zhengcong Xiao Akash Tanwani Bin Xie Prajwal Tarikere Prakash Luping Xue Kevin Tchouate Mouofo Zhichen Xue Sruthii Reddi Thukkani Deepak Kumar Yadav Hanlin Tian Sourav Yadav Tuan Quoc Anh Tran Jiedong Yang Yubei Tu Sihan Yang Sushravya Rajgopal Udapikar Yashas Yenga Reddy Nandana Veerabhadraswamy Jason Alano Yeoh Ange Veillon Minhao Yu Hitha Venkatesh Prasanna Faris Zahrah Suraj Vijay Siyu Zhang Harsh Yogesh Vora Baobin Zhao Ashutosh Mahesh Wadhvekar Xuejian Zhou Nikita Bharatbhushan Wali Yawei Zhu Jiabin Wang

Master of Data Science

Olugbenga Hakeem Abdulai Adika Jain Arjuna Anilkumar Arinjay Jain Haripriya Aravapalli Cheng Jiang Divyani Audichya Kinjal Bipin Kachi Radhika Chandrakant Barbole Kapil Chandrashekhar Khond Diane Marie Bernardoni Karthik Anil Kini Chirag Bhansali Vaibhav Ramesh Kunkerkar Travis Boltz Saptarshi Maiti Ayush Dadhich Shivi Malhotra Manasdeep Deb Rahul R. Maramreddy Emma Lee Foley Marcin Matuk Alexis Gaziello Rafika Momin Karthik Gunasekaran Priyanka Dharmendra Mutha Anurag Chandra Gunti Keerthana Nagula Parth Gupta Rahul Nair Ka Yin Ho Harshit Paliwal

6 Master of Data Science (continued)

Rishab Panyam Sneha Ranjan Shrungarpawar Omkar Nitin Pawar Amogh Veereshappa Sondur Kausar Perveen Aleksei Gregory Sorokin Aman Prasad Manish Tandel Sohan Sanjeeva Puthran Emily Lin Tao Sujay Puvvadi Bhuvnesh Tejwani Shivani Kashmir Singh Rana Soumya Elizabeth Thomas Hardev Ranglani Mykola Tokar Kotamreddy Sukesh Reddy Ajith Kumar Vakkalaganti Sunil Kumar Mohit Roy Niti Wattanasirichaigoon Nicholas John Saveas Bingxin Xu Aravind Senthil Kumar Dharamvir Kumar Yadav Shouvik Sharma Yang Yin Avinash Shekar

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Devyani Gauri Medha Painuly

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

Kamila Chen Zhang § Anthony Liam Polizzi William Gaylord Travis Kenneth Smith Abhinand Jayasankaran Jack Thatcher Carol Ann Marin

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Adhish Acharya Paul N. Castle Matthew J. Anderson Linda Chen §§§ Arvin Bahrami Jacky Rui Cheung §§ Andriy Bench Kevin Paul Cho Sarbani Bhattacharyya § Jack Alexander Critzer Derek Connor Bostick Caleb James Czaja § Joshua Joel Bowden Uvesh H. Dahodi David Butler Hong Duong Dang

7 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (continued)

Noah Resurreccion Dela Rosa Mary Becker Leversen Zhuohui Deng Seungdeok Lim Alec J. Diraimondo Shiqi Liu Maxime Djimgou Estefania Lopez John Ewing Duff Namvua S. Madoffe Tanner Allen Dyer Annmary Binu Mathew Samuel Echevarria Michael Paul Mccartan Daniel J. Elias M. Dilum N. Meegoda § Amr A. Esiely Uros Mojsilovic Evan Farris § Mario Morales § Christian Nicholas Francis Franklin Navarro Isaac T. Galang Jason Nie § Danny Garcia Justin Jailind Orr Zihang Ge Milton Michael Diputado Par Clinton Vineeth Chelvi George Ashif A. Patel Ionatan Giurgiu §§ Chintankumar Patel Ekrem Guzelyel Shyam Patel Daniel G. Haile Jingwen D. Pickens § Matthew Higbee Emma C. Prager §§ Prince G. Hodonou Trevor Pritchett Christopher Weicong Hong §§§ Arushi Rai §§ Andrew James Hosek Hitanshu R. Rami Jay Jiawei Huang §§§ Alexander S. Riegler Jue Huang Kira Janine Robles Boyun Jang Nasna Salim HyunWoo Jee Oscar Sanchez §§§ Jackson Paul Johar John Emmanuel Cabigas Santiago Easton Ikaika Kays Nicholas John Saveas §§§ Bumcheol Kim § Justin J. Schmitz §§§ Martijn Koning Samiksha Shrivastava Klayton Kowalski Pawel Karol Siglowy §§ Kaitlyn Krupa Marcello R. Suarez Otero Kasper Krynski Irene Barbara Szkorla Calvin Kuhnen § Ka C. Tam Yik Yu Lau Mykola Tokar Quan Anh Le Andrew O. Tolentino Alex Michael Lee Tuan Quoc Anh Tran §§§ Dayoung Lee Tyler Hien Van Wagener Juseung Lee Wary Amaru Vega Cachiguango Bright Dumadi Lesi Nicholas Charles Wanninger

8 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (continued)

Michael Wojcicka Jialiang Wu Nicholas David Wurster Bingxin Xu §§ Vincent He Yu Josef Monir Zaggoti Faris Zahrah §§ Lifan Zheng

Special Honors Key:

† = Honors | § = cum laude | §§ = magna cum laude | §§§ = summa cum laude

Congratulations to all of the Department of Computer Science graduates!

This program lists the names of expected degree candidates and honor recipients, which will be officially awarded only upon verification that all relevant requirements have been met. Due to COVID-19 related constraints, verification is expected to be completed on or before Saturday, May 22, 2021.

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