Awards

Undergraduate Student Awards

Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize, AWM

This award, established in 1990, is given for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman in mathematics, by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

2023 Anqi Li (runner-up), Ilani Axelrod-Freed (honorable mention)
2022 Letong "Carina" Hong (winner), Alexandra Hoey (honorable mention)
2021 Korina Digalaki and Vanshika Jain (honorable mentions)
2020 Marisa Gaetz (honorable mention)
2019 Danielle Wang (runner-up) and Lisa Yang (honorable mention)
2015 Sheela Devadas (winner)
2014 Jessie Zhang (honorable mention)
2013 Yangzhou Hu (honorable mention)
2012 Fan Wei (winner)
2011 Yinghui Wang and Fan Wei (honorable mentions)
2010 Charmaine Sia (co-winner)
2009 Maria Monks (winner) and Doris Dobi (honorable mention)
2008 Galyna Dobrovolska (co-winner)
2007 Yaim Cooper (runner-up)
2004 Karola Mészáros (runner-up)
1995 Ruth Britto-Pacumio (winner)

AMITA Senior Academic Award, MIT

This award is presented annually by the Association of MIT Alumnai (AMITA to one or more senior woman students who demonstrate the highest level of academic excellence and professional promise through course work and academic endeavors at MIT.

2011 Melissa Gymrek
2010 Charmaine Sia
2007 Yaim Cooper
2005 Karola Meszaros

Anna Pogosyants Award, MIT CSAIL

This prize was established in 1996 in memory of Anna Pogosyants, a Ph.D. student in computer science. It is given to an undergraduate student who is currently carrying out a UROP project in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

2011 Paul Christiano

Astronaut Scholarship

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation was created to ensure that the United States would maintain its leadership in science and technology by supporting some of the very best science and engineering college students.

2013 Praveen Venkataramana

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.

2024 Ben Lou & Kenta Suzuki
2023 Rupert Li & Audrey Xie
2019 Ashwin Sah
2015 Felipe Hernandez
2014 Carl Lian and Daniel Kang
2011 Shaunak Kishore
2009 Maria Monks
2006 Daniel Kane
2005 Jacob Fox
2002 Jason Rolfe, Jr.

Charles and Holly Housman Award for Excellence in Teaching

2024 Yiming Chen and Katie Miner

Churchill Scholarship

Scholarship for American students of exceptional ability and outstanding achievement to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge

2022 David Darrow
2020 Mehtaab Sawhney
2015 Daniel Kang
2010 Maria Monks
1978 Robert M. Zimmer
1973 M. Michael Ansour
1971 Joseph N. Fields III

COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling

The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) administers an international Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), in which teams of undergraduates use mathematical modeling to present their solutions to real world problems. From 2004-07, the MIT team of Daniel Gulotta, Daniel Kane and Andrew Spann, under the faculty advising of Professor Martin Bazant, has received the following honors:

2007 Outstanding Winning Team & SIAM Prize
2006 Outstanding Winning Team & INFORMS Prize
2005 Outstanding Winning Team
2004 Outstanding Winning Team and Ben Fusaro Award

Computing Research Association (CRA)

CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

2014 Pratiksha Thaker, Outstanding Female Undergraduate
2009 Raluca Ada Popa, Outstanding Female Undergraduate
2005 Mihai Patrascu, Outstanding Male Undergraduate

Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, MAA

Established in 1992 by the MAA, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prizes is awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious.

2023 Isabella Zhu
2022 Binwei Yan
2021 Dain Kim
2019 Qi Qi
2018 Danielle Wang
2015 Danielle Wang
2010 Yinghui Wang
1995 Ruth Britto-Pacumio

Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, AMS/MAA/SIAM

The Frank and Brennie Morgan prize, established jointly in 1995 by the AMS, MAA & SIAM, is awarded to an undergraduate student (or students having submitted joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics.

2025 Kenta Suzuki (winner)
2024 Rupert Li (honorable mention)
2023 Letong "Carina" Hong (winner)
2022 Travis Dillon (winner) and 2022 Alex Cohen (honorable mention)
2021 Ashwin Sah (winner) and Mehtaab Sawhney (winner)
2020 Murilo Corato Zanarella (honorable mention)
2017 David H. Yang (winner)
2015 Amol Aggarwal (winner)
2013 Fan Wei (winner)
2011 Maria Monks (winner) and Yufei Zhao (honorable mention)
2010 Maria Monks (honorable mention)
2007 Daniel Kane
2006 Jacob Fox
2005 Reid Barton

Gates Cambridge Scholarship

This Scholarship is awarded to outstanding students from outside the UK to study at the University of Cambridge.

2011 Raghu Mahajan
2010 Yufei Zhao

Hertz Fellowship

This Fellowship provides financial support to outstanding students allowing them the freedom to innovate as part of their graduate studies.

2024 Rupert Liu
2021 Allen Liu
2020 Marisa Gaetz and Maya Sankar
2017 Ofer Grossman and Linus Hamilton
2016 Felipe Hernandez
2015 Jordan Cotler, Cole Graham, and Alex Siegenfeld
2012 Jacob Steinhardt
2010 Maria Monks

Institute Convocation Awards

2019 Harold J. Pettegrove Award - Ahaan Rungta '19
2019 Frederick Gardiner Fassett, Jr. Award - Luke Sciarappa '19

Jon A. Bucsela Prize, MIT

The Jon A. Bucsela Prize in Mathematics is given in recognition of distinguished scholastic achievement, professional promise and enthusiasm for mathematics.

2024 Saba Lepsveridze and Frank Wang
2023 Carl Schildkraut, Anqi Li, and Daniel Zhu
2022 Shengtong Zhang
2021 Qiuyu Ren and Junyao Peng
2020 Anlong Chua and Douglas Stryker
2019 Yunkun Zhou
2018 Sammy Luo
2017 Yibo Gao
2016 Yongyi Chen and Mitchell Lee
2015 Ka Yum Tam
2014 Dennis Tseng
2013 Holden Lee
2012 Fan Wei
2011 Alexandr Zamorzaev
2010 Yufei Zhao
2009 Hansheng Diao and Ruitian Lang
2008 Anand Deopurkar and Galyna Dobrovolska
2007 Daniel M. Kane
2006 Jacob Fox
2005 Reid Barton and Karola Mészáros
2004 Maksym Fedorchuk
2003 Ivan Petrakiev
2002 Abhinav Kumar
2001 Ethan Cotterill and Joshua Sussan
2000 Benjamin Wieland
1999 Eric Heng-Shiang Kuo, Amit Khetan and Vivek Mohta
1998 David Yen Jao
1997 Pramod N. Achar and Aleksey Zinger
1996 Ruth Britto-Pacumio and Thomas Weston
1995 Henry L. Cohn
1994 Justin J.C. Corvino and Andrew Prjeworski
1993 James Turetsky
1992 Christos Athanasiadis and Mikhail Grinberg
1991 Charles G. Waldman
1990 Daniel A. Klain and Timothy M. Hsu
1989 David T. Blackston and David P. Williamson
1988 Jeffrey S. Silver and Leonard J. Schulman
1987 Avrim L. Blum and Eric P. Twietmeyer
1986 Haw-Minn Lu and Lee A. Newberg
1985 Chun-Nip Lee and Maciej Zworski

Burchard Scholars

The selective Burchard Scholars program, named in honor of John Ely Burchard, the first dean of SHASS, recognizes sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated outstanding abilities and academic excellence in some aspect of the humanistic fields — the humanities, arts, and social sciences — as well as in STEM fields.

2024 Sashko Horokh, Margaret Wang, and Grace Zhang
2021 Ryan Conti, Swapnil Garg, and Jeffery Yu
2020 Ifeoluwapo Ademolu-Odeneye, Kevin Costello, and Edwin Song

Community Building Award

2022 Ariana Park
2021 Talia Blum, Katie Gravel, and Letong "Carina" Hong

Emerging Leader Award

2021 Letong "Carina" Hong

The Hartley Rogers Jr. Prize SPUR

(Combined Undergrad-Grad Student Prize)

The Hartley Rogers Jr. Prize, first given in Summer 2001, is awarded to the team of an Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student Mentor for best paper(s) in the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research:

2024

Luis Modes and Benjamin Li
Edward Yu and Alek Westover

2023

Saba Lepsveridze and Yihang Sun
Daniel Santiago and Isaac Lopez

2022

Milan Haiman and Yannick Yao
Kenta Suzuki and Hao Peng

2021

Dain Kim, Anqi Li and Jonathan Tidor
Daishi Kiyohara and Feng Gui

2020

Kevin Chang and Robert Burklund
Carl Schildkraut, William Zhao and Chun Hong Lo
Hans Yu and Jonathan Tidor

2019

Yuan Yao, Shengtong Zhang, and Jonathan Tidor
Douglas Stryker and Ao Sun
Qiuyu Ren and Yuqiu Fu

2018

Julius Baldauf-Lenschen and Ao Sun
Juan Gil, Joshua Amaniampong and Jake Wellens
Dhruv Rohatgi and Jake Wellens

2017

Justin Lim and Frederic Koehler
Jianqiao Xia and Gus Lonergan

2016

Lingfu Zhang and Hong Wang

2015

Yuchen Fu and Seth Shelley-Abrahamson
Ofer Grossman and Dongkwan Kim

2014

Saarik Kalia and Ben Yang

2013

Fan Zheng and Chenjie Fan
Zipei Nie, Anthony Wang, and Ben Yang

2012

Amol Aggarwal and Guozhen Wang

2011

Whan Ghang and John Ullman

2010

Harrison Chen and Martina Balagović

2009

Asilata Bapat and David Jordan
Gabriel Bujokas and Qian Lin
Shaunak Kishore and Hoda Bidkhori

2008

Aleksandr Arkhipov and Zuoqin Wang (First Prize)
Sungyoon Kim and Hoda Bidkhori (First Prize)
Wes Brown and Hoda Bidkhori
Yuncheng Lin and Julia Wolf (Outside Postdoc Mentor)
Cordelia Link and Julia Wolf (Outside Postdoc Mentor)

2007

Hansheng Diao and Catherine Lennon (First Prize)
John Kim and Xiaoguang Ma
Charmaine Sia and Hoda Bidkhori

2006

Anand Deopurkar and Xiaoguang Ma
Galyna Dobrovolska Pavlo Pylyavskyy

2005

Nathan Ince and Pavlo Pylyavskyy
Nikhil Savale and Vito Iacovino

2004

David Roe and Alexei Oblomkov
PoNing Chen and Vasily Dolgushev

2003

PoNing Chen and Vasily Dolgushev
Emanuel Stoica and Alexei Oblomkov

2002

David Pritchard and Gyula Lakos
David Milovich, Jr. and Ben Stephens

2001

Denis Chebikin and Anda Degeratu

Louis Sudler Prize

The Louis Sudler Prize is presented annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence or the highest standards of proficiency in music, theater, painting, sculpture, design, architecture or film.

2018 Bertrand Stone

Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award

2023 Tianyuan (Margaret) Zheng
2021 Kevin Costello

Laya W. Wiesner Award

2021 Anjali Nambrath

Marshall Scholarship

This Scholarship finances young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom.

2024 Rupert Li
2018 Radha Mastandrea and Kyle Swanson
2017 Kevin Zhou
2016 Võ Tiến Phong
2013 Kirin Sinha

MIT Mathematics Department Teaching and Learning Award

2023 Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu and Esha Bhatia
2022 Keita Allen, Quinn Brodsky, Paige Bright, Abe Montes and Yi (Eva) Xie
2021 Jack-William Barotta, Andrew Lin, and Nelson Niu

NSF Fellowships for Graduate Study

This Fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees.

2022 Elisabeth Bullock, Shardul Chiplunkar, Robert Preston Cranford, Swapnil Garg, Brin Harper, Alexandra Hoey, Andrew R. Komo, Andrew Y. Lin, Alan E. Peng, Dylan Pentland*, Kevin Ren, Edwin Song, Shobhita Sundaram, David X. Wu, Yuqing Xie
2020 Marisa Gaetz, Michael Kural, Allen Liu, Ashwin Sah, Roshni Sahoo, Maya Sankar, Mehtaab Sawhney, Douglas Stryker, Sarah Wu, Michelle Xu
2017 Colin Aitken, Brian Axelrod, Shi-Fan Chen, Robert Jones, Saarik Kalia, Jing Li, Alexander Moss, Mark Sellke, Jonathan Tidor, Kevin Zhou

Patrick E. McGovern Jr. '59 Entrepreneurship Award

This award is for those making a significant impact on the quality, visibility, and overall spirit of entrepreneurship education and support across the Institute.

2022 Ben Spector

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

This program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Each year, they invest in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture or their academic field. Each Fellow receives up to $90,000 in financial support over two years, and they join a lifelong community of New American Fellows.

2021 Fiona Chen and Ashwin Sah

Peter Baddoo Community Building Award

2024 Mehrab Jamee, Paige Bright, and Daniel Santiago-Alvarez
2023 Chirag Falor, Serina Hu, and Nitya Mani

Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service

2021 Marisa Gaetz

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, MAA

- last ten years

2023 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Ankit Bisain, Papon Lapate, Luke Robitaille
Putnam Fellows: Ankit Bisain, Jiangqi Dai, Papon Lapate, Brian Liu, Luke Robitaille

2022 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Mingyang Deng, Luke Robitaille, Daniel Zhu
Putnam Fellows: Mingyang Deng, Papon Lapate, Brian Liu, Luke Robitaille, Daniel Zhu

2021 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Edward Wan, Shengtong Zhang, and Daniel Zhu
Putnam Fellows: Andrew Gu, Michael Ren, Edward Wan, Shengtong Zhang, Daniel Zhu

2019 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Ashwin Sah, Shentong Zhang, and Daniel Zhu
Putnam Fellows: Ashwin Sah, Kevin Sun, Yuan Yao, Shengtong Zhang, and Daniel Zhu.

2018 - MIT Team placed Second

Team Members: Junyao Peng, Ashwin Sah, and Yunkun Zhou
Putnam Fellows: Yuan Yao and Shengtong Zhang.

2017 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Allen Liu, Sammy Luo, and Yunkun Zhou.
Putnam Fellows: Omer Cerrahoglu, Jiyang Gao, Junyao Peng, Ashwin Sah, and Yunkun Zhou.

2016 - MIT Team placed Fourth

Team Members: Robert C. Shen, David H. Yang, and Yunkun Zhou
Putnam Fellows: Yunkun Zhou

2015 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Mark A. Sellke, Bobby C. Shen, and David H. Yang
Putnam Fellows: David H. Yang and Yunkun Zhou

2014 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Mitchell M. Lee, Zipei Nie, David H. Yang
Putnam Fellows: Zipei Nie, Mark A. Sellke, Bobby C. Shen, David H. Yang, Lingfu Zhang

2013 - MIT Team placed First

Team Members: Benjamin Gunby, Mitchell Lee, Zipei Nie
Putnam Fellows: Mitchell Lee, Zipei Nie, Bobby Shen, David Yang

Rhodes Scholarship

This international fellowship finances young Americans to study at Oxford University. Winners are chosen for outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead.

2022 Letong "Carina" Hong
2015 Noam Angrist
2013 John Mikhael

Ronald E. McNair Scholarship

The Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, established in Dr. McNair’s honor by the Black Alumni/ae of MIT, recognizes a Black undergraduate who has demonstrated strong academic performance and who has made a considerable contribution to the minority community.

2022 Omomayowa A. Songonuga
2021 Miles Johnson
2020 Timothy Leplae-Arthur

William L. Stewart, Jr. Award

The Stewart Awards are presented in memory of William L. Stewart, Jr., an alumnus and member of the Corporation who demonstrated deep interest in student life at MIT. The Stewart Awards recognize outstanding contributions by an individual student or student organization to extracurricular activities and events during the preceding year.

2022 Ananya Gurumurthy
2020 Marisa Gaetz