Rickoid of the Year Winners

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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.