Carnegie Mellon Siebel Scholars
-The Siebel Foundation has established the Siebel Scholars Program to recognize the most talented students who have demonstrated academic and leadership excellence at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer science. Each year, these outstanding students are selected based upon academic merit and leadership in the first year of the graduate studies. Each student receives an award of $25,000.

The purpose of the Siebel Scholars program is threefold: to recognize graduate students who have demonstrated the highest levels of academic achievement and leadership; to support the graduate programs at universities that have made great contributions to the information technology industry and society; and to create a unique community of individuals who will share knowledge, engage in innovative projects, and provide one another with professional support throughout their careers. There is no end to what these Scholars, the best and brightest in their fields, can achieve individually and as a community.

2024 Scholars

• Lea Albaugh, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Bailey Flanigan, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Maxwell Jones, M.S., Machine Learning

• Paul Pu Liang, Ph.D., Machine Learning

• Shih-Lun Wu, M.S., Language Technologies

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• Victoria Dean, Ph.D., Robotics

• Shivam Duggal, M.S., Robotics

• Isaac Grosof, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Divyansh Kaushik, Ph.D., Language Technologies

• Lynn Kirabo, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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• Karan Ahuja, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Priya Donit, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy

• Yasmine Kotturi, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Ryan Shi, Ph.D., Societal Computing

• Kayo Yin, M.S., Language Technologies

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• Brandon Bohrer, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Rogerio Bonatti, Ph.D., Robotics

• Megan Hofmann, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung, Ph.D., Machine Learning

• Lijun Yu, M.S., Language Technologies

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• Kenneth Holstein, Ph.D.., Human-Computer Interaction

• Michael Madaio, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Amadou Ngom, M.S., Computer Science

• Eric Wong, Ph.D., Machine Learning

• Junpei Zhou, M.S., Language Technologies

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• Xaioyue Cui, M.S., Commputational Biology

• Alankar Jain, M.S., Language Technologies

• Tanya Marwah, M.S., Robotics

• Kijung Shin, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Zhilin Yang, Ph.D., Language Technologies

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• Karan Goel, M.S., Machine Learning

• Nika Haghtalab, Ph.D., Machine Learning

• Jeffrey Helt, M.S., Computer Science

• Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Ph.D., Machine Learning

• Danish Pruthi, M.S., Language Technologies

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• Akash Bharadwaj, M.S., Language Technologies

• Jingkun Gao, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering (M.S., Machine Learning)

• Kristen Gardner, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Timothy Lee, M.S., Robotics

• Anqi Li, M.S., Robotics

• Jennifer Olsen, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction
  

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• John Dickerson, Ph.D., Computer Science

• Rohit Girdhar, M.S., Robotics

• Po-Yao Huang, M.S., Language Technologies

• Jeffrey Rzeszotarski, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction

• Matt Wytock, Ph.D., Machine Learning (Energy)

• Xun Zheng, M.S., Machine Learning

• Joydeep Biswas, Ph.D., Robotics Institute

• Anca Dragan, Ph.D., Robotics Institute

• Anirudh Viswanathan, M.S., Robotics Institute

• Pengtao Xie, M.S., Computer Science Department

• Adams Wei Yu, M.S., Language Technologies Institute

• Jason Richard Koenig, M.S., Computer Science Department

• Anuj Kumar, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Gabriela Marcu, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Ishan Misra, M.S., Robotics Institute

• Mrinmaya Sachan, M.S., Language Technologies Institute

• Sanjiban Choudhury, Ph.D., Robotics Institute

• Ruta Desai, M.S., Robotics Institute

• Min Kyung Lee,Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Martina A. Rau, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Zeyu Zheng, M.S., Language Technologies Institute

• Andrew Chambers, M.S., Robotics Institute

• Luis Pedro Coelho, Ph.D., Computational Biology, Lane Center for Computational Biology

• Preethi Raju, M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Stephanie L. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Robert J. Simmons, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Michael Benisch, Ph.D., Computation, Organizations and Society, ISR

• Jana Diesner, Ph.D., Computation, Organizations and Society, ISR

• Hsin Huang, M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Elijah Mayfield, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Adam Skory, MS, Language Technologies Institute

2009/2010

• Anton Bachin, M.S., Computer Science Department

• Betty Yee Man Cheng, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute

• Matthew Easterday, Ph.D., Human Computer Interaction Institute

• Brina Goyette, MS, Robotics Institute

• Jonathan G. Hartje, MS, Software Engineering

2008/2009

• David Abraham, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Andrew Gilpin, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Ryan D. Miller, MS, Software Engineering, Institute for Software Engineering

• Daniel Munoz, MS, Robotics Institute

• Merhbod Sharifi, MS, Language Technologies Institute

2007/2008

• Shilpa Arora, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Eric Davis, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Jason Ernst, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department

• Uma Menon, Master of Software Engineering

• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

2006/2007

• Michael Dille, MS, Computer Science Department

• Michael J. Heilman, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Lucia de Lascurain Hinojosa, MS, Software Engineering Program

• Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department

• Adam Wierman, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

2005/2006

• Dinesh Govindaraju, MS, Robotics Institute

• Anna Goldenberg, PhD, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
  
  Advisor: Andrew Moore

• Estefania Pickens, MS, Entertainment Technology Center

• Alla Safonova, PhD, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Jessica Hodgins

  Sebastian Scherer, MS, Robotics Institute

• Guy Lebanon, Language Technology Institute
  
  Advisor: John Lafferty

• Spiros Papadimitriou, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

• Jeremy Searock, Robotics Institute
  
  Advisor: Manuela Veloso

• Ricardo Silva, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
  
  Advisor: Richard Scheines

• Christopher Urmson, Robotics Institute
  
  Co-Advisors: William Whittaker and Reid Simmons

2003/2004

• Aditya Agarwal, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: William Scherlis

• Nikhil Bansal, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Avrim Blum

• Jun Gao, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Peter Steenkiste

• Nicholas Hopper, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Manuel Blum

• Aleksandar Nanevski, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: Frank Pfenning

2003/2004

• Yiheng Li
  
  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

• Aaron Greenhouse, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: William Scherlis

• Brigitte Pientka, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Frank Pfenning

• Ashish R. Venugopal, Language Technologies Institute, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Alexander Waibel

• Ulas Bardak, Language Technologies Institute, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Yiming Yang

2002/2003

• Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

• Timothy Eck, Entertainment Technology Center, M.S.
  
  Advisor: Randy Pausch

• John Langford, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  
  Advisors: Avrim Blum, Sebastian Thrun

• Gregory Steffan, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Todd Mowry

• David Wilkinson, Robotics Institute, Ph.D.
  
  Advisors: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Yoky Matsuoka

  
  

2001/2002

• Frank Dellaert, Computer Science, Ph.D.
  
  Advisors: Chuck Thopre, Sebastian Thrun

• Rayid Ghani, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, MS
  
  Advisor: Tom Mitchell

• Craig Olinsky, Language Technologies, MS
  
  Advisor: Alan Black

• Jovan Popovic, Computer Science, Ph.D.
  
  Advisors: Steve Seitz, Michael Erdmann

• Jeffrey Smith, Robotics, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Irving Oppenheim