The Rickoid of the Year award recognizes academic acumen, leadership, and personal demeanor. It is named for the late Admiral H.G. Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy and co-founder of CEE. Winners of this prestigious award are chosen by their Research Science Institute peers.
1984 |
Kevin Murdock |
1985 |
Karl Rumelhart |
1986 |
Tess Hildebrand |
1987 |
Dallas Wrege |
1988 |
Peggy Hsia, Karl Wirth |
1989 |
Jed Macosko |
1990 |
Raga Ramachandran, Oliver Rando |
1991 |
Susan S. Lee |
1992 |
Ravi Kamath |
1993 |
Erin Lynch, Josh McDermott |
1994* |
Daniel Biss |
1995 |
Bruce Haggerty |
1996 |
Jay Sengupta |
1997 |
Sapan Shah |
1998 |
Jeremy England |
1999 |
Zackary Stone |
2000 |
Nate Craig |
2001 |
Sheel Ganatra |
2002 |
Steve Byrnes |
2003 |
Arup Sarma |
2004** |
Johann Komander, Nick Semenkovich |
2005 |
Huan Liu |
2006 |
Dexian Lim |
2007 |
Christina Chang, Paul Kominers |
2008 |
Varoon Bashyakarla |
2009 |
Anjali Balakrishnan |
2010 |
Samih Kabalane |
2011 |
Daniel Pollack |
2012 |
Connor Duffy |
2013 |
Tara Murty, Rajet Vatsa |
2014 |
Kavish Ghandi |
2015 |
David Zhao |
2016 |
Kathy Liu, Joshua Zhou |
2017 |
Syamantak Payra |
2018 |
William Ellsworth, Matthew Tan |
2019 |
Jaehyun (Joshua) Lee |
2020 |
Eldar Urkumbayev |
2021 |
Isabella Quan |
2022 |
Apoorva Panidapu |
2023 | Minh Nguyen |
* Marc Horowitz, RSI 1987 was named Rickoid of the decade in 1994.
** Douglas Heimburger, RSI 1995 was named Rickoid of the second decade in 2004.