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Rice CS Students win scholarships and awards

The awards recognize academic success, research, service and development

Rice Students win scholarships and awards

Congratulations to our 2021-22 engineering scholarship and award recipients! Rice Engineering and Rice Computer Science students have a variety of scholarships, awards and opportunities available to them — recognizing academic success, research, service and development.

We encourage our students to apply for the awards next academic year. Browse the award opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

Junhyung Lyle Kim  

REA Graduate Student Travel Grant

Junhyung Lyle Kim
Ph.D. computer science, 2024

“My adviser, Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis, is always the biggest motivator and supporter for my research. I would like to thank the REA for the travel grant. I will attend conferences to make research connections.”

     
Prashanth Pai  

REA Senior Merit Award

Prashanth Pai
B.S. computer science 2022

“I plan to use the scholarship to fund my move to Seattle, where I'll begin my career in computer science and also to help me begin saving up for graduate school, if I eventually decide to go down that path.”

     
Alison Qiu  

REA Leadership Excellence Award

Alison Qiu
B.S. computer science 2025

“It will encourage me to continue to develop myself as an engineering leader and empower other women in engineering to become leaders. Thank you for your kindness.”

     
Mantej Singh  

Distinguished Senior Merit Award

Mantej Singh
B.S. computer science 2022

“This award instills the confidence in me that I can make an impact in this world. This award will help further my goal of improving human health through technology, as I continue my graduate studies at Johns Hopkins.”

     
Pasan (Pete) Sirithanachai  

Fluor Daniels Scholarships

Pasan (Pete) Sirithanachai
B.S. computer science 2023

     
Eliot Solomon  

REA Junior Merit Award

Eliot Solomon
B.S. computer science 2023

“It will help me purchase supplies and equipment relevant to my computer science studies.”

     
Berk Alp Yakici  

REA Leadership Excellence Award

Berk Alp Yakici
B.S. computer science 2022

“I will use this award to cover any additional expenses during my fifth-year master's thesis program that are not covered by the departmental graduate stipend.”