Congratulations to the Computer Science Class of 2025 — majors and minors alike — for their outstanding achievements!
Below are their accomplishments, listed along with those of select CS undergraduates, as they appear in the Commencement Bulletin.
2026 Graduates:
Majors:
- Sylvia Agatako – Bachelor of Science
- Janeet Bajracharya- Bachelor of Science, (Thesis “An Empirical Evaluation of Learning-Augmented Combinatorial Auction Algorithms”)
- Brandon Wayne Bishop-Bachelor of Arts
- Trey Alejandro-Duke Custodio- Bachelor of Arts
- Elias Dakhoul- Bachelor of Science
- Justin Adrian Gomez- Bachelor of Arts
- Julie Junehee Ham- Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Art History (Thesis: “The digital is Real: Understanding Skawennati and Virgil Ortiz’s Digital Approaches to Art”)
- Joseph Reynolds Holden- Bachelor of Science, Honors in Computer Science (Thesis: “Using field Programmable Gate Arrays to Accelerate the Computation of Financial Risk Metrics”)
- Wonjun Joe- Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude
- Timothy Daniel Johns – Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
- Michael Kharadze – Bachelor of Arts
- Nicholas James Lagges- Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Austin McBride– Bachelor of Arts
- Ciel Reine Morrill- Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa; Honors in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Thesis: “Obscured in English: The Cultural Logic of Communication in Japanese”)
- Quyen Thuc Pham- Bachelor of Arts
- Edward Lewis Ross- Bachelor of Science
- Kate Meredith Sacerdote- Bachelor of Arts
- Anthony Justin Thomas – Bachelor of Arts
- Micah Brian Tongen – Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Nisha Prashant Walvekar- Bachelor or Science
- Nabil Rater Nabil Abbas Youssef- Bachelor or Science
- Vincent Ziccardi- Bachelor or Science
Minors:
- Samuel James Bready- Bachelor of Science; cum laude
- Marsha Chung- Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude
- Arun MIchael Ghosh – Bachelor of Arts
- Cailen Robert Graham-Bachelor of Arts
- Chelsea Edie Hyland- Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa; summa cum laude
- Abid Farhan Jeem- Bachelor of Science,Honors in Physics (Thesis: “Low-Latency Gravitational-Wave Sky Localization: Optimization and Machine Learning Extensions of the NorthStar Pipeline”)
- Rihards Paradnieks- Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa; summa cum laude
- Kriya Nandkishor Shah- Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude
- Elizabeth Marie Trubeck- Bachelor or Arts
- Kevin Thomas Warren I- Bachelor or Science
Special Honors:
- Rihards Paradnieks- Valedictorian
Fellowships Received:
- Ciel Reine Morrill ’26 – Boren Scholarship, Japanese
- Brandon Wayne Bishop ’26 – U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship
Scholarships Awards and Prizes:
- Saad Ahmed Khan Ghori – The James D. Davidson Memorial Fund Scholarship
- Kidus Tegene – The James McDowell Scholarship
Departmental Awards:
- Chelsea Edie Hyland – The Business Administration Department Award
- Janeet Bajracharya – The Computer Science Department Award
- Rihards Paradnieks – The Garrett Economics Prize, The Williams Prize in Mathematics
- Brandon Wayne Bishop – Certificate of International Immersion
- Gabriel Thomas Hogan ’27 – The Lenfest Center of the Arts Award, The John W. Elrod General of the Year Award
- Abid Farhan Jeem – The H. Thomas Williams Jr. Undergraduate Research Award
- Gaby White ’27 – The Madison Montgomery Shinaberry ’16 Outstanding Student Leadership Award
- Toluwalope Bakare ’27 – The Michael K. and Linda Gorman Award
- Nick Lagges- Captain Dick Smith Baseball Award
- Cooper Tinsley ’28 – William J. Stearns Improved Swimmer