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JONSSON SCHOOLCOMMENCEMENT
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
DECEMBER 2020
Richard C. BensonPresident
Eugene McDermott DistinguishedUniversity Chair of Leadership
/'55#)'�61�6*'�)4#&7#6'5!is is a special moment for you and your family, and we are so proud of youraccomplishments! On behalf of !e University of Texas at Dallas, we extend our verybest wishes for your continuing success.
Commencement and the ceremonial traditions associated with it bind us to generations of scholars. Even though this unusual year requires that we conduct commencement in a virtual format, we want to acknowledge that you and your classmates have demonstrated commitment, creativity and talent – and perseverance.
Class of 2020, we encourage you to make the most of what you have learned at UT Dallas as you move into your chosen profession and into the community.
Finally, we very much hope that you stay connected with UT Dallas and continue to be a part of our bright future. Congratulations!
Inga H. MusselmanProvost
Cecil H. Green DistinguishedChair of Academic Leadership
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UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
CANDIDATE AND RECIPIENT LISTINGS
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES WITH LATIN HONORS . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-27
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES WITH MAJOR HONORS . . . . . . . . . . . 28
COLLEGIUM V HONORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
COMMENCEMENT SYMBOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31
UT DALLAS ALMA MATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
UT DALLAS ALUMNI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-34
This program contains the names of candidates for degrees and honors at time of publication. Inclusion in the program does not constitute
evidence of completion of degrees or honors.
* Indicates Summer 2020 graduates and/or doctoral students walking from a previous semeste .
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Richard C. Benson, PhDPRESIDENT
Inga H. Musselman, PhDVICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST
Kyle D. Edgington, PhDVICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
George W. Fair, PhDVICE PRESIDENT FOR DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Frank Feagans, MSVICE PRESIDENT FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Gene Fitch, EdDVICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS
Calvin Jamison, EdDVICE PRESIDENT FOR FACILITIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Rafael O. Martín, MEM, MBAVICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OF STAFF
Joseph J. Pancrazio, PhDVICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
Terry A. Pankratz, MBAVICE PRESIDENT FOR BUDGET AND FINANCE
Amanda Rockow, MAVICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS
John Walls, MAVICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS
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Nils Roemer, PhD (interim)SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Anne Balsamo, PhDSCHOOL OF ARTS, TECHNOLOGY, AND EMERGING COMMUNICATION
Steven L. Small, PhD, MDSCHOOL OF BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
Jennifer S. Holmes, PhDSCHOOL OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND POLICY SCIENCES
Stephanie G. Adams, PhDERIK JONSSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
George W. Fair, PhDSCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Hasan Pirkul, PhDNAVEEN JINDAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
A. Dean Sherry, PhD (interim)SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Jessica C. Murphy, PhDUNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Juan E. González, PhDGRADUATE EDUCATION
Edward J. Harpham, PhDHOBSON WILDENTHAL HONORS COLLEGE
Ellen Sa"ey, PhDLIBRARIES
Amanda Smith, EdDSTUDENTS
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGAlaa A. AbouseifFarah Rafat AwadatTiwalope Solomon Babayemi*Taylor Carlilie BeachCarlos Eduardo Trejo BetancourtWilliam Hogan BrownMerilyn Nicole CampbellSarah Elizabeth CheeranYing-Hsin Chen*Abdullah Faruk Coban*Connor ConatserTina DarabadeyRyan Wesley DevlinFatoumatta DibbaLoretta Mae DonaldsonAkila DonepudiKa’Toria Nadeau EdwardsJihad El AllamiMatthew Alexander GalvanMajor William GrantKathy Estefany GuerraCasey Lange Hat$eldEric B. HernandezJames Mon-Ern HuangDylan JohnKenneth Tyler JohnsonWongani KalengamaliroAli KhalilZaryaab Nasir KhanJieun KimJunjae LeeEva MartinezBrian Christopher MerloDorsa Mir NorouziHan Gia NguyenPhuc Bao !ien NguyenStephen Angelito PagdilaoSyed Hamza QuadriAdnan RaeiNundini D. RawalAnthony Allen ReyesVinay Mohan Roy*Catherine P. R. ScarrowRegina Yvonne Shumaker
Cally SohIsaac Benjamin SokolXiaoxiao TaoKatherine M. !amesJosiane TshouongangHeather Elizabeth Vanderpool*Jagriti Yadav
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERINGGideon Ahferom AkilasCesar A. AvellanedaEvan Scott BahnerNeilesh Arvind Betrabet*Mario J. Bolivar*Caleb Fang BurnettCarlos Canto*Frank Alexander CazarezYechan Choi*Jawad Gani Chowdhury*Trinh T. Dao*Pooja DeepMitchell ElizaldeAlex Espinoza*Benjamin !omas FieldsOmar Fierros*Afework Eshete Habtemariam*Solomon Lulu Habtie*Tamara Ashley HavisDana Temitayo KayodePatrick Quang LeNicholas Roch MalzacAlexander Byron MoeHuy Duc NguyenSujeet Ojha*Shivam PatelHemraj Polavaram*Ayush Kumar Sah*Cody Layne Smith*Tan !anh TranSenjuti TwishaChukwuka Kelechi-Xhos Van-LareVictor Vu
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCEJibril Adetomiwa AbdulIssa Ahmed AbduleTrenton Nash Abrams*Syed AbutalibJesse D. AdamsAdje Modeste AkoiRiyo AloshyasJesse Everett AlottoSamuel Christian ArdoinAlexander Ryan ArmstrongJoey C. ArrigoAlejandro Rafael Guariguata ArroyoGrayson Garner AyresSpencer James BalogMadhura BanerjeeZachary Todd BankheadBrandon Michael BartlettGarrett Michael BattagliaNathan Alexander BeckSamuel Isaac BellShreya Sanjay BhaktaSaad Ahmed BhattiMohit Rajendra BholeLiang Y. Bi*Kevin Blake BonillaNiklas A. BorcanskiKrishna Sahith Varma BoredaAngelina Bridgette BoudroSamuel Joseph ButtonJames Allan CastanhoMatthew James Chalcra&Nianhuan ChenRoman Viktorovich ChernovJoyce ChooEvan Bennett ColeRyan Christopher CorcoranEnrique Jose Rodriguez CupelloJohn !omas DangeloAaron Chirstopher DavilaCollin Kane DavisVictor Antonio Delgado*Arib DhukaDuy Trong DinhMary Grace DoviakHongyun DuJames Colin Dubzak*Paul Josef Dumerer*Jonah Allen Duncan*Michael McLyn EfughuKishore ElangovanYusuf Elsehety
Osman FindikBriscoe Paul FletcherMark Wayne FosterAlexandros !eokles FrangeskouMatthew Lee FunderburkBryanth Chiotfu FungMatthew John GeiseRyan Kennedy GeorgeJason Quoc GiangMax !omas Go#steinAndrea Kasandra Gomez-SaucedaTalha Jamil GuddaChristopher J. GuerraRiddhi GunasekaranPurvi GuptaChristopher James Hamilton*Joseph Colton HarkerRonak Prakash HegdeLiam James He#ernanKelsey Elizabeth HessSawyer Alan HillGiakhanh Huu HoangKevin Nhu HoangJustin Wade HollowayJoseth Daniel HolmanErum Jamaluddin HoodaMazhar HossainJiao HuangXinqiu HuangRyan Matthew HunterAnthony-Tien Nhat HuynhPhuong Hoang HuynhMd Siamul IslamMuhammad JamalShravan JambukesanOviya JayakumarSteve JosephChris Young Jin JungAshley Nicole Kelgard*Andrew Michael Kelly*Abdullah Ibn Moiez KhanAndrew Payton KilgoreJonathan Kim*Patrick Hal KleinSadikshya KoiralaPavithran Konda*Vishnu Varma Kunadharaju*Olumayowa O. Labinjo*Ethan Todd LacourMatthew Dwight LaGroneMartin Leewin LamAnon LaosirilurchakaiJennifer A. LeJonny Minh Le
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Nguyen Hoang Phuong LeTran !ien Phuc LeKaitian LiQiyang Gavin LiaoJacob Che-Yen LiouMichael Jonathan LoneyGeorge LuRaymond LuServando LuvianoKeigo MaDarla Joanino ManejaAlbin Jestine MathewNathan John McBride* Steven Ray McCawleyMadhav Nilesh MehtaNathalie Chioma MeremikwuKatherine Marie MerolaAddison Cain MillerAbed M. MirShayan Sohail Mu&iSteven Michael NallSandeep NamburiAmmar Hasan-Mehboob NanjianiKawser Nasim*Dat Quoc NgoAdam Preston NguyenAn Q. NguyenBrian NguyenDylan NguyenRichard Giangsan NguyenKaren Helen NicholsonStefan Obinna NwosuLuis David Castro OchoaMegalion OeiJoshua Larena OrtizLuis David OstaJames Erik OstlindKenneth Bradley Joseph PalmerRae Won ParkDisha Anilbhai PatelJuhi Mehul PatelNikhil PatilEvan Andrew PaulZane !omas PerkinsEric Kane PetersonTram PhamDuc Minh PhanPhifong Phan*Anjali PrabhalaNilay PrajapatiAbdussamad Syed QuadriMuhammad Arham QuadriJaer Rafael Quijivix-SweeneyArchita Racherla
Rasmus Sebastian RaikaaLabeeba Farhana RanaBenjamin Davis RayMarshal A. RenfrowOmar Sheikh Riaz*Dylan Alexander Rice*Camryn Paige RogersCalvin Douglas RossDalton Kane RussellEthan Charles SchultzEric Joshua SeallJoshua Allen SeguraKevin Jayesh Shah*Miral Vijay ShahSmit Chirag ShahBorna Mansoor ShamlooBradley James ShawParijat SinghAustin James SlobodnikStuart Jackson SmallArjun SridharAnsun SujoeUmaymah Shams Sultana*Anthony Brian SwinkItzel Ramirez TapiaMatthew J. TarinPaul Camping !angAndrew Keaton !ompson*Brian H. ToJuan De Dios TorresKhang Minh TranToan T. TranJuan Carlos TrejoLizbeth Carolina TrevinoDuy Nhat TruongMohammed Wasif UddinKristina Upadhaya*Andres Daniel UriegasGaurav VaidyaTrishal VarmaBelmin VehabovicMeghana Amrutha Vellaturi*!ang D. VuTyler Mark Waller*Alexander James Wang*Weiyi WangZhengyuan WangTrevor WhelanTyler Marc WhittJoshua David WiedemeierJ. Lander Finley WilliamsSpencer James WilliamsTori Ann WindrichKeith William Winterton
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Emily Megan WojciechowskiSarah Michelle WorleyRobert Brian WuDaoqun YangMichael Nathan YesudasAbdulkadir Talha Yilmaz
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGJosiah Ukunim AgabiTin Dai BanhSean Connor BarnettMohamed Benaissa*Joshua Canik BerndtAdrienne Marie BullDeiv Merc CastilloJosue Gustavo Flores ChavezLayne Austin Clendenin*Chase Alan CrockerOlivier DamananAhmad Dweik*Tyler Christopher EleyMekuanent Getachew EyasuJames Michael FasolinoMatthew D. FloresBrett Joseph FriedheimMario De Jesus Molina FuentesAmirali HaghighipodehKarl Daniel Harber*Hamidreza JavidAnant KanungoWyatt Keller*Kingshuk I. Khan*Robert Ernest KohnAmy Lin KronschnabelChristopher Ashton LeeLindsey Jo Leith*Nan LiuAnthony Joseph LodiBreanna Nichole LyndJonathan MaldonadoBrian Patrick McGinnisJonathan Christopher MemmerDaniel MonclovaIsai MurilloAric Anson NasrHai Xuan NgoSelena Trang NguyenTochukwu Franklin OsuagwuBrittany Nicole PargaAndrew Clayton PearceDrew William PierpontRhett Loren Rasmussen*
Sarath John RegiBryson Herbert RoyalMaria Guerrero SantanaFernando Martin ValenzuelaInocencio VelazquezGuadalupe VillanuevaGetinet Geremew Wollie*Chase Austin WoodJoyce Yu
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGAshima Soni
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGArsalaan Mustafa AbbasSamantha June AcevesOnan Zehab AhmedYoojun AhnOsama Jamal AlbannaDuraid Mufeed AlheetiDeng Chol AmolJin Hyung BaeAli Ibrahim BalloutNathan Tyler BartonEdward Michael BatesEdgar Bassem BeshayDaniel Wesley BoneJacob Cole BrownBryan Huy BuiLouis !anh BuiBraden Conrad ButlerVictor CabreraChristopher A. CarmonaGennesis Belen CuevasJohn Matthew De LiraRyan Edward Morrison DeuriarteKarthik DharmalingamKevin Wang DianOmanue DiazBrandt Ali FarazianJaime Ernesto FloresDennis Jesus GaonaChase Cain GonzalesRyan Alexander GrahamAndres Rolf HachmeisterZachery !omas HamiltonKori Michelle HarlanHakim Saleh HasanNatalie Rose HeathMatilda Ho
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Tyler Minh HoangTravis Gunnar HornsteinMichelle Elena Hu#Dzung Andy Chi HuynhKarl IssaAshwin JaikishoreJennifer Kelsey KernerNawal M. KhanJames Alan KirschtLauren Nicole KiskaMegan Lynn Lagrange*Xenophon James Laskaris!ien Van LeStephanie Leblanc!omas Lawrence LedfordJoung Won LeeAlexander Micheal LoiblCarina LunaDylan Christian MartinezMaho Robyn MatsumotoCameron Brett McKnightSimeon B. MelakeMiguel Angel MendiolaIan MenesesYusuf Abdi MohamudJames Gabriel MorganAndrew Charles MorrowJulie NakamuraDylan NewberryMinja Anthony NozinovicJesus Antonio OchoaTrevor James O’DonnellOlufunso J. OnipedeWesley PanAvadh Minesh PatelKenny Qui-Khang PhamJuan Cirilo Regalado-TorresBradley Sven RivenesHussein SafaouiCarlos Adrian SalazarRachel Elizabeth SavinoAditya Manish ShahPradnesh Kumar Asino SharmaErik V. SharpAndres Alejandro Guadalupe SierraDavid Gregory SloanPhyo Pyae SoneEmily Storm StoneNicholas Paul SwatchickBenjamin !omas!eresa Bich TranMaria Fernanda ValdezJuan Hector VegaJose Alexander Ventura
Shehzad Sirajuddin ViraniPriyank Rasik VoraNeil Jacob WhitneyAdam Mostafa YousriMatthew John Zaksek
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGAngeleen Maury Fernando AbesamisFarzin Frank AmiriWesley BalesTaylor Scott BenavidesDorian Ray BenitezYeswanth Reddy BogireddyFareen ChowdhuryRicardo CruzJames Allen DixonPatrick David FellowsRemnin Ezekiel FerrerJessalyn Mary-Grace GallowayAlejandro Amaya GironJorge Alexis GonzalezAta GowaniAngel Giovanny GuajardoSalwa Maheen HaiderJunaid S. M. HashmiAnton K. JosephAman Amirali Khoja*Andrew Joseph KoenigWilfred LabueKrishna LamichhaneEric Alejandro LeonYoon Seong LimCarlos MartinezJorge Luis MartinezDavid Mathew*Sagar Babu Moozhikulam*Antonio ParedesJorge PerezAlan !ienminh PhamQuan Minh PhamGuljemal RahmanovaJose Pastor Rodriguez-ZunigaMariana Castaneda RoizJacob Henry RoseMohammad ShalabiAbdullah Sohaib SiddiqueZunayed Iqbal SiddiquiKarey Edward SmithGary Aaron StoneBlake Logan StroudMohammad Noorul SyedIhfaz Tajwar
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Zachary James TarellJohan Herman TerblancheMaanasa !anjavurKatherine Rose !ompsonRicardo Rodriguez Torres*
Emmanuel C. UcheEric !anh Dat VanRobertus Dulfo Van TilburgSa% Ali Zaidi*
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGMuhammad Umer Ahmad*Bushra Bilal AmarnehBhuvana Lakkasetter ChandrashekarSophie Ellen FarmerDanielle HerubinBrenden Nicholas Koltho#Matthew Francis MaaleKaitlin Gail Rabe*Spandana SkandanJe#rey Bryan Sum
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERINGAmeya Abhijit ChitnisYiheng Gao*Abhishek Jagdish GhadigaonkarAishwarya Nandakumar JoshiZachary Cameron KearneyPriyadarshini NagarajuNishith Rao*Santosh Shankar ShettyZhaolun ShiHarshambika VenkateshManoj VijayGen Zhou
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCEAshika Prakash AcharyaAbdulmateen Ayandeji AdebiyiAnmol AgarwalAshutosh Agrawala*Prashuk AjmeraSurya AllaVineet Vilas Amonkar*Preethika Anand*Manindra Kumar AnantaneniSanjana AnnamaneniRon Adrian Pura AntonioSurajit Baitalik*Zooey Wilson Baker*Sreekar Balabommala*Rutali Dilip Bandivadekar*
Ananya BanerjeeJoseph Z. BaoShivani Sateesh BhidePratik BhusalShiva Prasad Reddy Bitla*Janelle Lynn BuchananManas Mahesh Bundele*!eodore Robert CackowskiXavier A. CadotChao CaiLucas D. CastroCristian James CaveChe Ho ChanAnusha Chandrasekaran*Vignesh ChandrasekharanRajarshi ChattopadhyaySiddhi ChechaniYi Ting ChenArihant Rajesh ChhajedYi-Yuan ChiangMarcus Rocky ChiuVadim Gochayevich Chochua*Yen-Ting Chou*Hua ChuangConnor Lee Colombe*Sreyas Reddy DadiHanxuan Dai*Habil DamaniaKareem Ahmed Hassan Ahmed DarweeshDebanjana Dasgupta*Deepesh*William Donovan DeLaughterTakshak DesaiLi DingGage Mikal Dittmer*Aditi Shirish Dixit*Naga Ramya Sruthi DoddiDarrel Lamothe Donald II*Yiqun DongArpita Dutta*Lawrence Eric Castillo EvangelistaZhongming FanZhou Fang*Chieh Fu*Yuan Tai FuAishwarya Madabushi Gadavarthi
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Goutham Visvas GandhamGnaneswar GanduDebargha GhoshUrvi Nirmal GianchandaniTushar Sanjaykumar GonawalaTimothy Allan GowanXiaoran GuoVyom Gupta*Luyi HanWasif Arman HaqueAdarsh Raghupati HegdeRuiwen HuBingyu HuangHrishikesh Atul InamdarAnup Dilip JaltadeKavya Jampani*Pankaj Kr JhawarJinghao JieGagandeep Singh Jossan*Sheetal Arun Kadam*Jashandeep Singh KalekaNikhil Laxman KalekarMrugapphan Kannan*Parth KhetarpalGeorgiy I. Klimenko*Chia-Yu KoMatthew Joseph Koch*Saisuhas KodakandlaRanjith Reddy KommidiKedar Ashok KulkarniRushikesh Shirish Kulkarni*Andrew Chuong LeMatthew Minh-Duc LeChangsong Li*Jincheng Li*Xia Li*Yifan LiJu-Chen LinRyan Alexander Lira*Chienchi LiuJin LiuLi LiuPeizhe LiuYicun Liu*Ying LiuJing LuChaitanya Kumar Malineni*Sahithi MallavarapuKritika ManchandaShivani Mankotia*Yesha Milanbhai MehtaAlejandro Javier MestanzaAndrew Michael MitschkeAnmol Mittal
Yash Bhavinkumar ModiAdhya Murugesan*Bhavish Khanna NarayananMansi NawaniAmtul NazneenAlexander John NealSiva Krishna NeppaliBradley Ronald OlbreyNana Kwame Sakyi OwusuLaukik Prafull PadgaonkarLogan Scott Padon*Lakshmi Sindhuri PallapothuPrameela ParasaNikhil PareekDivyesh Ghanshyam Patel*Nilkumar Kirtibhai PatelRonit Rakeshbhai PatelMathew PerezNagendra Sai Kumar Posani*Dhanushu Anumanpalli PrabhakaranAdharsh RajendranSrikumar Ramaswamy*Obuli Vignesh Rangasamy*Prajakta RayBharath Rudra*Bharat Simha Reddy R. S.Shayan Shahid Sadar*Shweta Rakesh Sahalot*Siddhant SahooVigneshwaran SampathMaliha SarwatLipsa SenapatiMansi SethiaMeet Samir Shah*Namra Bhadreshkumar ShahSaraswathi ShanmugamoorthyBhawani Shankar SharmaJinru Shi*ShreyaHao SiNirbhay SibalShivaprakash Sivagurunathan*Zihe Song*Raman Kumar SrivastavaMarie StandevenDavid D. Stenson*Arthur Christopher StewartBohyun SuhJackson Armistead TackettYongxuan Mike Tan*Hemeng TaoShurong TianHenry !anh TranSafal Kumar Tyagi*
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Pawan Anantrao VaidyaSheela Keerthi Vallabhaneni*Anjali Sundareswaran VarierBhushan S. VasishtCarla Patricia VazquezRoopasri VemulaAdharsh Viswanath*Vamshider Reddy VonchaChristopher Hao WangHuibin WangJikai WangMengru WangQi WangYeqi WangZhuoyi Wang*Darrin Michael Wiley*Wayne Mark WinskiHao WuHanzhang XieMax Ya-Kai XieKairui XuEdward Inserni Yang Jr.Zhaohua YangQiang YaoHarichandana YeleswaramYashwanth YellaMing-Hsuan YenJoel YinDylan Sidarta YuXinyue YuZailin YuanZhichao YuanWenxi ZengShen ZhangShouzhe ZhangYijia ZhangZenong Zhang*Dishi Zheng*Yi Zheng
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGBhakti Rajeev Bilwanikar*Bryan CoAllen Paul Devaprasath*Sharmila GomathiAnvesha GoyalAishwarya Gupta*Kavya GuptaColbey Nathaniel HairMarlon Dewayne HodgeSesha Sai Aditya Venkatappaiah Sarma Inguva
Salar JafarlouMahmoud Wajdi Ja#alJayashree JayabalanFranson Joshua Jeromenath*Ramya KarnamadakalaSumanth Kumar Reddy KotareddySwaminadha KottanaRohith Venkata Bhargav Reddy KovvuriAkshay Raju Krishnani*Parikshit KrishniaTyler Malone*Anandha Natarajan ManickamAadhavan Sibi MathivananBaalakrishnan MeenakshisubramanianShubham Gautam Mungekar*Nijita Kesavan NamboothiriAyush Nashine*Justin NguyenGenchang PengPuneeth PrahaladSana RajiAishwarya RavichandranSiddhartha Regmi*Omkar Venkatesh Revankar*Mohamed Abrar SaitShreyas S. Shastry*Meena Mudha Chandra Shekar*Sreyas SurendarTalha TahirAditya Tarey*Mahereen Sultana TazreeRahul Singh !akur*Aditya Sharadkumar !anawalaSai Kiran Voruganti*Aaron Mitchell WeittenhillerZhaoran YinZihang YouTianliang Zhang*
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGCarlos Hugo Avila AvendanoConnor CrabtreePedro Emanuel Rocha FloresRamyapriya KrishnasamyKolade Augustine OyekanZhiyang Qin*Peter Dirk Jan Reyntjens*Zeshaan ShamsiVidushi SinghUdumbara Chethana WijesingheWeijie Xu
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGReza Bagherian Azhiri*Joel !eodore BayJacob Roland BoehmJennifer CamachoSandeep Yadav ChakkaYi GuoLiliana Claire Haus*Brian Torng-Hau HsiaOlusola Paul JegedeLin JiangTareq KhreimChangyuan LiBrian Edward Meaney*Vikram Louis MichaelMadison Rush MonzingoMatthew West Mueller*Alexandria Lynn OlafsonSungju ParkRamakrishnan Kalahasti RavikrishnanNitin SanganaNadine Van ZylLiyuan Zheng
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Naga Venkata Lalitha Supriya Adhanki*Mihir Hindocha*Shou-Yu Lee*Chun Ping Yang
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENTAjinkya Vivek Bhalerao*Maegan Leeann ChavezJoshua Anthony LaubePaul Uchenna Mba*Micah Philip MurdochAbishek NatarajanFeng RenPhilip Ryan Samsky*Kanishka SarkarGarrett Landon StaasAndrew Joseph VallalgershomDejanae White
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERINGIshant ChauhanKashish Ravindra Kitawat*
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGCedric Paul Ambulo
Professors: David SchmidtkeTaylor Ware
Dissertation: 4D Printing Liquid Crystalline Actuators toward Assistive DevicesPooneh Soltantabar
Professor: Mihaela StefanDissertation: Microfabrication of an Organ-On-A-Chip Device to Model Cardiotoxicity Induced by Chemotherapies for Cancer Nanomedicine Evaluation
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COMPUTER SCIENCEImrul Chowdhury Anindya
Professor: Murat KantarciogluDissertation: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Risks Raised By Record Linkage
Srijita DasProfessor: Sriraam NatarajanDissertation: Sample E$cient Cost-Aware Active Learning
Partha De Professor: R. Chandrasekaran Dissertation: Robust and Adaptive Optimization
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Yuanzhen Guo Professor: Nicholas Ruozzi Dissertation: Variational Inference Methods for Continuous Probabilistic Graphical Models
Navdeep KaurProfessor: Sriraam NatarajanDissertation: E$cient Combination of Neural and Symbolic Learning for Relational Data
Anahita MahzariProfessor: Ravi PrakashDissertation: Exploiting Mobile Edge Computing to Improve E$ciency of 360° Video Streaming
Kelvin Khuong MaiProfessors: Murat Kantarcioglu
Alvaro CardenasDissertation: Anomaly Detection in SCADA Networks Using Expert Models and Machine Learning Based Techniques
Nandini RamananProfessor: Sriraam NatarajanDissertation: E$cient and E"ective Structure Learning of Graphical Models
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGJianqi Chen
Professor: Benjamin Carrion SchaeferDissertation: Leveraging the Advantages of High-level Synthesis: From Hardware Security to Low-Power Design
Lin CongProfessor: Hoi LeeDissertation: Design Techniques for Volume-E$cient So%-Switched Power Converters with Enhanced Power E$ciency and Reliability
Mohamed Fouad MarzbanProfessor: Naofal Al-DhahirDissertation: Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Security and Safety in Vehicular Applications
Ayon QuayumProfessor: Hlaing MinnDissertation: Signal Design and Processing for Grant-Free Access
Haoran WeiProfessor: Nasser KehtarnavazDissertation: Deep Learning Solutions for Continuous Action Recognition Using Fusion of Inertial and Video Sensing and for Far Field Video Surveillance
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGAkash Anilkumar Laturia
Professor: William VandenbergheDissertation: Study of the Electrical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials Using Plane-Wave Computational Methods
Siddartha Srinivasan Nandagopala KrishnanProfessor: Manuel Quevedo-LopezDissertation: Scalable Low-Cost Large-Area Micro-Structured !ermal Neutron Detectors
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Udumbara Chethana WijesingheProfessor: Mark LeeDissertation: Integrated Circuit “Astrolabe” Angular Displacement Sensor Using On-Chip Pinhole Optics
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGYi Guo
Professor: Tyler SummersDissertation: Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures
Jonathan Corwin HornProfessors: Robert Gregg
Tyler SummersDissertation: Nonholonomic Virtual Constraints for Bipedal Locomotion
Meenakshi NarayanProfessor: Ann Majewicz FeyDissertation: Data-Driven Models for Real-Time Prevention of Adverse Events in Robotic Needle Interventions
Mark Russell YeatmanProfessors: Robert Gregg
Mark SpongDissertation: Energy and Passivity Based Control for Bipeds and Assistive Walking Devices
Rui ZhangProfessor: Dong QianDissertation: Multiscale Methods for Fatigue and Dynamic Fracture Failure and High-Performance Computing Implementation
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Students graduating with Latin Honors have enrolled and successfully completed a minimum of 45 undergraduate hours at UT Dallas. Each Latin Honors level requires a minimum grade point average (GPA) to be attained over all course work taken at UT Dallas.
Summa cum laude:!e grade point average that represents the top 5 percent of all graduates in a particular school is
considered the threshold for awarding summa cum laude honors.
Magna cum laude:!e grade point average that represents the next 10 percent of all graduates in a particular school
is considered the threshold for awarding magna cum laude honors.
Cum laude: !e grade point average that represents the next 15 percent of all graduates in a particular school
is considered the threshold for awarding cum laude honors.
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CUM LAUDENesren AbdelazizSyed AbutalibSteven Anthony AdornoRehnuma AfreenKanupriya Agarwal*Sonia Lorena Aguilera*Samantha Arely Aguinaga*Irslan Ahmad*Hamza AkbarRashwan Walid AlameddineRamazan AliNikolai AlkuinoOsama AlmayyahiAshley Lynn AnchundiaJose Humberto Vega Arcay*Marisol Brigith ArceLemuelson AryeeteyRamzia AsyoonDinesh Kumar Ramesh Babu*Wesley BalesJoseph Clark D. BalilisMaraiah Shem Maghinay BangoyAndrew Morris Barlass*Matthew Earl BarnesNathan Tyler BartonTaylor Carlilie BeachMahita Reddy BeeramKamren Nicole BellMary John Benjamin
Ariel Perry BenzviMohit Rajendra BholeNiklas A. BorcanskiLalo Bediso BorodgeKirsten Taylor BorregoAdrienne Marie BullNoelle Kristine CaballeroAubree Lynn CantabranaJeremiah Douglas Carlson*James Allan CastanhoBlanca Sarai CastellanosDavid CervantesMatthew Daewon ChaHelen C. ChenWanyu Chen*Xuemeng ChenTiara ChoiPeyton Willis ChunAlisha Anwarali ChunaraEvan Bennett ColeLeslie Yuliana CouohLindsey Nicole CoxChase Alan CrockerJohn Angelo Tecson CruzCarly Erin CurranSydney Clare Davis*Allishba Arsham DawoodDomiziana Eisner De Eisenhof*Christopher Glenn Dean
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Courtney Elizabeth DeikeSabrina Chua Del RosarioErika Kathryne DempsterAbbigael Katheryn Denman*Bigyan DevkotaAlexis Sierra DhananiKarthik DharmalingamArib DhukaLillian Marie Dierschke*Alexander Travis DolanLaura Brestet DominguezAudrey Eilise Donovan*Rawan S. DweikClaire Sterling EdwardsAnum Fatima E#endiJihad El AllamiAhmed Mohamed Elbushra*Saima Kabir Eva*Blaire Wirth EvansBrandt Ali FarazianKimberly Rae FarekSidra Alam FirozviMontgomery Ryan FloresJanna Alexia FrancisRachel Ellen FrankoClaudia Valeria GalindoNicholas Antonio GambirasiJuan Raul GarciaYesenia Guadalupe GarciaVictor Garcia-KnabKarine Graciela GardunoRose Kathleen GarrettDeepshikha Goel*Abbigail Renee GonzalezAngela N. GoodwinReese Gregory Grainger*Neeshat HabibSalwa Maheen HaiderAustin Jack HamptonHafsa HaqueMelaa HasoonNatalie Rose HeathKimberly L. HernandezStacy Nicole HernandezGraham Josiah HissGiakhanh Huu HoangElizabeth Rebecca Ho#manHarrison Frank Ho#manDaylia Rae HollinsCameron Tremayne HolmesClayton Ray Hufstedler*Abigail Grace HughesRyan Matthew HunterTea Huseinbegovic
Vanessa Ifechukwude IdigbeAlex Catalin IlieJonathan Dante IngaShelby Denise JacksonTrenton Leon JamesMarghi Manish Jani*Taylor Michele JarizLexi Nicole-Dorothy JensonChristina Sherry JiaJustin E. JohnKiandrah Janae JonesChris Young Jin JungNesreen Kailani*Morgan Elia KaineNeha KancharlaSameer Ali KhanAstha Sunil Khiani*Andrew Payton KilgoreJieun Kim!alia Ashley KingJames Alan KirschtSanja KnezevicElaina Gina-Ann KoestersKrishnateja KommeraSrikruthi Sai Krishnachaitanya*Himangi KulshresthaJuhi G. KumarVishnu Varma Kunadharaju*Madison Caroline LarmeuFlorin Lasc-Necsa!omas Lawrence LedfordJason W. LeungKaitian LiAlan Sui-Lun LiangQiyang Gavin LiaoMackenzie Diane LiddellEvan LieuMichael Jonathan LoneyAndres Lopez-Videla*Chau Ngoc Minh LyNicholas Roch MalzacJoseph Tyler Manichia*Carlos MartinezEileen Nicole MataBibin John MathewShereen Ann MathewsAnna M. McCa#reyBrian Patrick McGinnisFrancis Conor McGuigan*Jennifer Michelle McIntireColin Stuart McMahanKarina Vellon MejiasRa$an Rehan MemonJuan Mendoza
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Katherine Marie MerolaVeronica Chava MichaelsDustin Lee MiddletonAbed M. MirAlexander Byron MoeJacqueline MorelNadia Elise MuhammadAlerice Mazie NakhroTavia Christina NealJacob Nathaniel Nelson*Dylan NewberryJoshua Presley NewmanDat Quoc NgoAdam Preston NguyenKenny Khang Nguyen*Phuc Bao !ien NguyenRichard Giangsan NguyenTu NguyenSahar I. NoorJohn Tyler O’BrienLuis David Castro OchoaMegalion OeiNatalia OrtizKrutika Abhijit PanditTajagna Kanhal ParikhWilliam Cotton PayneJovanna PazBrian Q. PhamNgan Xuan PhanTurner Christopher PikulinskiChristle Jean PinheiroAdriana Giorgiana PinteaMadeline Avery PrestonSyed Ahmedullah QadriAmy Tran QuachArchita RacherlaNaushin Afruz RahmanLacey Elise Rebel*Omar Sheikh Riaz*Armando Luis RiveraFida Farheen RiyasBrianna Alexis RodriguezCrystal Ivette Alvarado RodriguezSkyler Gabriel RogersKenzie Lueree RooksJacob Henry RoseRyan P. Sadovsky*Hussein SafaouiAlisha Zuhra Saiyed*Jazmin Roxanne Salinas!alina Crystal SalinasSalina SarkerCatherine P. R. ScarrowHailemichael Yirefu Sei$
Nica Layne Ruiz SelinErik V. SharpRai H. ShawMorgan Danielle SheltonMelissa Melanie ShethZunayed Iqbal SiddiquiNikita Lakshmi Simha*Jackson Joseph SimsDenver Phillip SiuMelanie Rose SjobergSean Vu Slater*Cody Layne Smith*Moselle Grace Smith*Stephanee Christine SmithAustin Garrett Sommers*Verunique Sta#ordLauren Elizabeth StebbinsMadison Elizabeth StevensCameron Allen Summers*Anjana SwamiCecilia TamayoItzel Ramirez TapiaRadwan Monzer Tassabhji*Katherine Rose !ompsonBrock Carson !orneRonald Walter Timm IIKausicka TivakarBrian H. ToDan Anh TonAndrea My TranToan T. TranLizbeth Carolina TrevinoJosiane TshouongangCandace TuAlisia Cornelia Tumac*Senjuti TwishaJose S. ValerioRobertus Dulfo Van TilburgAlexis Reed VandercookKarthika VenugopalanNgan Boi ViAutumn Alyss VillaMartin Leon Vincent*!ang D. VuStephanie WangAnju WatanabeRobert !omas WestJ. Lander Finley WilliamsWilliam Jacob WilsonEmily Megan WojciechowskiTimothy Nathan ZamanPayam Branden ZamhaririZiming Zhao
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MAGNA CUM LAUDEIrtiza Ahmed*Ayesha AliMaria Mohammad Ali*Amanda Nicole AllenWendy AmpueroChloe Delphine AndersonSarah Aqil AnsariJohana Jaramillo ArboledaAlexander Ryan ArmstrongEvan Scott BahnerSamuel Isaac BellMohamed Benaissa*Bruno BernardonOlena M. BogdashkinaAndrew Robert Bond-HarrisKyndall Paige BrownLillian Rae BrownAnalisa CabreraRachel Maribella Calderon*James William Carter*Anna Nikolaevna CavnarMegan D. CepakSarah ChangNianhuan ChenRoman Viktorovich ChernovHope Nicole CoryCaroline Lee CutbirthAli Asad DamaniJennifer Savannah DanLatoya Victoria DardenBlake !omas Day!omas Michael DeckerBianca Marie Del RioGraziella Faye Buena DetecioAlexandra Lynn DiazTaylor Tuan DiepAhmad Dweik*Harrison Frazier Eagle*Trevor Osborne EdwardsAmanda Nicole EhnisDominique Justine EuleRachel Anne FarleyLily Victoria FernandezBenjamin !omas FieldsJaime Ernesto FloresMatthew D. FloresRebecca Rose GarrardMary Jean GarseaMadalyn Elizabeth GoetzCarmen Maleny Mejia GonzalezWilliam Peter GoudreauTimothy Patrick Graham*
Edwin Esequiel GuzmanYoustina N. HabeebHannah HadidiAli Anwar HaggazShadman HameedKarl Daniel Harber*Casey Lange Hat$eldRonak Prakash HegdeSawyer Alan HillMatilda HoClaire E. Ho#mannJames Mon-Ern HuangZara IbrahimAyah Musa I&eihaPatrick Stewart IsomBrian Wesley Jameson*!omas Liong JerdeeRachel JiangJerin JoseNikith KandunuriWyatt Keller*Raquel Marie KeyFatima KhanRobin Minsoo KimMeghan Mechelle KitchenMarion Carol KretschmannJamie Yujei Ku*Britney LamNguyen Hoang Phuong LeNhi Hoai Tuyet Le*Tran !ien Phuc LeJason LeeAudrey Christine LewisJulia Rachael LittleAnthony Joseph LodiMohammad Syed MadaniSharmeen MakdaMarkus Damen MakelaTamara Aisha MamboAnmol Singh MandaraBrady Scott ManningAllison Maria McNallyAlexandra Lynn McNeillTanupriya MehraLauren Kay MinceySuhail Mirza*Pooja Mohan*Ashley Lashay MontgomeryJoshua Taylor MooreEsteban Fernandez MoralesPatrick Russell MorgantoMadhav Mukundan*
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Autumn Rebecca MurrayAlis NahapetyanHope Reem NasrJandel Bartolome NelvisAn Q. NguyenDylan D. NguyenLinh Khanh NguyenMadelina Lan NguyenSydney NguyenAaron Lyndel NorrisSujeet Ojha*Luke Elijah PalaparthiKristina Michelle PaliwodaJuhi Mehul PatelKavita Rajen PatelRadhika Suresh PatelNikhil PatilTram PhamMegan Nicole PinksaMahwish Zahid QuraishiRafael RamirezSavanna Kate RamseyLaya RaoSa$ya Rasheed*Rhett Loren Rasmussen*Benjamin Davis RayChristopher Eli ReynaTaha SalmanScott H. SasajimaGaurav Sethi*Miral Vijay Shah
Zul$qar Ali ShahRiya Katrina SharmaRegina Yvonne ShumakerChase Benjamin Shurts*Abdullah Sohaib SiddiqueAisha Ahmad SiddiquiFarida SodawaterwalaNicole Vargas SolisAshima SoniBarbara Elaine SorheChloe Catherine Sparks*Umaymah Shams Sultana*Pouya TabyanianTarini Sai TalluriDev Mahesh !immisettyTan !anh TranCaroline Tseggay*Brianna Nicole VargasAlexandra Marie VeguillaLaney !uy VoClarish M. VuAnh !uy VuongNeil Jacob WhitneyKeith William WintertonChase Austin WoodSamantha WoodAllison Marie WuenschYewon Yang*Giovanni ZamboniSarah ZariwalaHaley Marie Ziomek
SUMMA CUM LAUDEAli AbbasSumayah AbdullaSyra Gail AbrahamPaul Charles Adams*Simbran Zul$qar AliAhmed Mohammed AlshaikhsalamaMays AlshaikhsalamaPaul Alexander AndersonCharles Travis Awalt*Faraaz Anwer AzamKarianna Yazmin BarretoEdward Michael BatesNicholas Dell BeaufaitNathan Alexander BeckHadar BernsteinNeilesh Arvind Betrabet*Saad Ahmed BhattiVirginia Katherine BlackwellBrandon Quinn-Osharov BorickAndrew Wayne Brocious
Liron BunkerNewton Dang CaoSavannah Marie CargillChing-Hsuan ChangJosue Gustavo Flores ChavezJustin James ChemplanikalStephanie Jouan ChenJenna Rene CherreyDanielle Jina ChoiEnrique Jose Rodriguez CupelloLoretta Mae DonaldsonLauren Estelle Duernberger*Shelley Meihua FangMariam Nargess FarahmandLujain Abu FarhaJames Michael FasolinoAlyssa Isabelle Flores FontanillaCarlos Matthias FrancoAlexandra GamboaEric R. Gaunt*
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Matthew John GeiseJustina Nagi Ghali*Mackenzie Rae GlosserLeslie Guerrero*Riddhi GunasekaranMohammed Samiul HaqueSyed Ezharuddin HasanKelsey Elizabeth HessErum Jamaluddin HoodaAaly Hina Hussain*Kelly JacobiFathima Aali Maznavi JaleelJermy JohnsonBreanna KalayaboonJennifer Kelsey KernerZara KhanKestrel Ann KiegelSarang Anna KimRubiya Elsy KoshyRuba KuzbariMartin Leewin LamCharles Russell LeoneChihyo LinKathryn Grace Luptak*Madeleine Elizabeth McCallAlexis Denise McGowanAddison Cain MillerHovsep NahapetyanBrian NguyenChau !i Kim NguyenJustin Ngoc-Huy NguyenShayla Hoang NguyenAbdul Basir NooryNedeke B. NtekimWesley PanJuyeon Park*
Darshita Jayeshkumar Patel*Carrie Maureen PattersonJulia Christine PattersonAlexander Hugh PaulJennifer PhamAmy Michelle Poland*Bonnie Scot PriceAdiva SaharJonathan Walter SchoemakerCameron Nicholas SchutzeMohammad ShalabiKatherine Elizabeth ShriverBrittany A. Shrode*Ashley Blair SimpsonKatrina Sharee SmithArjun SridharShreyas SrinivasanJonathan Michael StewartAnsun SujoeAysha Mohamed Yakub SultharLauren Elizabeth SunderhausDonna Sprayberry SwansonIhfaz TajwarAdriana TapiaLianne Bencomo TejeiroHayden G. TinerMarissa Ann VillanuevaAnjelica Jay VinduaVictor VuNaureen Zeenat WajahatJoshua David WiedemeierTori Ann WindrichMegan Nicole YiuBrandon West Youssi*Yi-An YuJennifer Huan Zheng
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To earn Major Honors in their disciplines, students must meet criteria set by the faculty within their school. Each program provides two levels of recognition: Honors and Distinction. Student must have completed a minimum amount of coursework at UT Dallas to be recognized with Major Honors.
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MAJOR HONORS WITH DISTINCTIONPaul Alexander Anderson
MAJOR HONORSAlexander Ryan ArmstrongMatthew Earl BarnesBrandon Quinn-Osharov BorickJustin James ChemplanikalRachel Ellen FrankoLeslie Guerrero*Edwin Esequiel GuzmanGraham Josiah HissMarghi Manish Jani*Jerin JoseAlan Sui-Lun LiangKatherine Marie Merola
Addison Cain MillerNiyati Manish ModhaEsteban Fernandez MoralesAn Q. NguyenKrutika Abhijit PanditMadeline Avery PrestonBonnie Scot PriceSyed Ahmedullah QadriGaurav Sethi*Katrina Sharee SmithLauren Elizabeth SunderhausJennifer Huan Zheng
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A student graduating with the distinction of Collegium V Honors has completed at least 24 hours of honors level coursework at UT Dallas, has presented a senior capstone project and has graduated with at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA.
Nathan Alexander BeckBenjamin !omas FieldsTanner Bradyn HausmanNatalie Rose HeathMatilda HoKestrel Ann KiegelNguyen Hoang Phuong LeChihyo LinDavid Philopateer MikhailAddison Cain MillerAudra Madison Miller
Vy Hoang NguyenLaya RaoAdiva SaharAshley Blair SimpsonAshima SoniShreyas SrinivasanDev Mahesh !immisettyKarthika VenugopalanNaureen Zeenat WajahatJoshua David Wiedemeier
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!e mace is a ceremonial sta# of authority that administrators and faculty at universitiesworldwide carry at the head of academic processions. Traditionally made of wood and clad with metal, the mace was originally a weapon of war used to knock an enemy from his horse or crush his armor. !e mace evolved into a symbol of peaceful leadership and kings encrusted them with jewels and precious metals.
!e UT Dallas mace was handcra&ed from wood from the 600-year-old Treaty Oak tree inAustin, which is said to have shaded Stephen F. Austin as he signed the $rst boundary agreement between American Indians and settlers in 1824. !e tree was also said to be the last of a grove of live oaks where Native Americans once held feasts and religious ceremonies.
!e 4-foot, 10-pound mace includes a sterling silver University seal surrounding a waferembedded with Texas Instruments microchips, which represent the company’s role in the founding of the University. A steel band in the headpiece and the metal foot of the sta# are fashioned from a scienti$c instrument designed by the UT Dallas Space Sciences Institute and "own aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in September 1995. !e mace stands in the president’s o%ce when not in use.
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!e UT Dallas chain of o%ce is the traditional symbol used to signify the responsibilities andauthority of the University president. !e links of the chain are engraved with the names of the presidents of the University above a large medallion in the form of the University seal.
!e seal of !e University of Texas at Dallas has as its central feature a shield that is divided intotwo $elds, the upper and the lower. In the lower $eld are the historic wreath — the right half of which is an olive branch, the le& half a live oak branch — and the star of the Great Seal of the State of Texas. In the upper $eld is an open book, a $tting symbol for an institution of learning.
!e shield rests in a circle and contains the motto “Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis.” !e mottois the late Dr. Edwin W. Fay’s terse Latin rendering of the famous quotation from Mirabeau B. Lamar: “Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.” Around the disk is a larger one, bearing the words “!e University of Texas at Dallas.”
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Students in the medieval universities of Paris, Bologna, Oxford and Cambridge organized into guilds and gradually their costumes of "owing robes became distinctive for Bachelors (apprentices) of Arts, masters (teachers) and doctors (teachers who had completed postgraduate studies).
!e academic hood worn by today’s master’s and doctoral students derives from the medievalcloak worn over the gown. !e color on the outside trim of the hood indicates the degree earned; the colors on the hood lining area those of the university granting the degree.
!e academic cap was a later development, $rst conferred as a symbol of the master’s degree.Some caps were sti#, some so&; some were square, some found with a tu&. !e tassel of today is an elaboration of the tu&. Round caps are still used by some institutions. !e square mortar board style originated at Oxford.
In the United States, the Intercollegiate Code has taken the Oxford costume and standardized academic regalia. !e master’s gown has long, pointed sleeves; the doctoral gown has closed sleeves with three bars of velvet on each and velvet facing.
Six colors of tassels are worn by UT Dallas graduates. !e white tassel is worn by those receiving the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts; the golden tassel is worn by those receiving the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science; the drab tassel is worn by those receiving the Master of Business Administration; the peacock blue tassel is worn by those receiving the Master of Public A#airs; the brown tassel is worn by those receiving the Master of Fine Arts; and the gold tassel is reserved for Doctors and Presidents.
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!e gonfalons — or college banners — add a wonderful element of color and pageantry to !eUniversity of Texas at Dallas commencement and convocation ceremonies. !e gonfalon is a long banner that is suspended from a crossbar. !e name derives from medieval Italy, where “gonfalone” was the name given to a community meeting in Florence. Each neighborhood had its own "ag and coat of arms and the word gonfalon eventually came to be associated with the "ag.
All gonfalons have in common several elements that symbolize the uni$ed mission of the University. Among these common elements are the school colors, green and orange. !e color orange represents !e University of Texas System and is derived from the burnt orange UT Austin, the $rst UT school. In the world of academia, the orange color symbolizes engineering. UT Dallas’ green color stems from the green olive and oak branches that are represented in the UT Dallas seal. Olive branches symbolize peace, and oak branches symbolize strength and endurance.
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Your graduation from !e University of Texas at Dallas is a celebration of years of hard work and incredible achievement. Congratulations on all that you have accomplished! Let me be the $rst to welcome you to our alumni community of more than 113,000 worldwide.
As you prepare to take on the exciting new opportunities open to you as a graduate of this great institution, all of us at the University look forward to seeing what you will do in the future. We hope that you will remain connected to UT Dallas and invite you to o%cially become a member of the UT Dallas Alumni Association.
As an Alumni Association member, you can keep up-to-date with your fellow Comets through our online alumni directory and continue to enjoy use of the UT Dallas Career Center, Activity Center and Eugene McDermott Library. Members also receive special perks and discounts at the UTD Bookstore, Tech Store and local businesses, among other bene$ts.
Visit alumni.utdallas.edu to learn more and stay “joined as one” with your fellow Comets.
I wish you the best of luck as you begin this next chapter in your lives.
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!ere are many ways to stay connected and continue to leave an impact on UT Dallas.As a new graduate, we invite you to become a UT Dallas Alumni Association member
at a discounted rate of $19.69 in celebration of our founding year.
YOUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONAll new UT Dallas Alumni Association members will receive the o%cial alumni box — featuring an exclusive alumni T-shirt — as part of their $rst-year welcome gi&.
TEMOC SOCKSShow your Comet pride with Temoc socks! Collect them all and a portion of your purchase will go back to the University.
LEGACY LANE BRICKSLeave your mark on UT Dallas. As a new graduate, we invite you to purchase your brick at a discounted rate of $50.
NEW GRADUATE RESOURCESCheck out the Class of 2020 website that includes all the resources you’ll need as a new graduate. Wherever you are, show us how you celebrated using #UTDGrad
alumni.utdallas.edu/classof2020
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