2026 Commencement Ceremony and Awards
Congratulations Class of 2026!
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Student Speaker Nika Zahedi, BS 2026
Nika shared stories about her family ties to Stanford and the new family she has made in the Electrical Engineering Department.
"These are the people who invested their time and effort into helping us become who we are today. And the longer I’ve been here, the more I’ve realized that Stanford EE is one big family: not connected through blood, but through curiosity, problem-solving, late nights in the Packard basement, impossible psets, and the shared belief that broken things are worth fixing."
The 2026 Design Awards
• Eli Silverstein and Ryota Sato for their project in EE 264W: 'Real-Time Neural Guitar Amplifier Modeling on Apple Silicon Using Stacked FIR CNNs'
Design project experiences bring together many aspects of our undergraduate curriculum and encourages students to innovate in creative new ways.
Electrical Engineering Outstanding CA Award
Matthew Hung and Siddhant Gupta were recognized for their extraordinary work in EE 272, Design Projects in VLSI Systems I.
Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
For outstanding contributions by students teaching in the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, and Earth Sciences.
James F. Gibbons Award
• Andrew Bechdolt
• Roman Dimov
The awardees are enthusiastically nominated by faculty and students for their excellent service as teaching assistants.
Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction
Awarded to the top 15% of the graduating class based on cumulative GPA.
| Alexander Diaz Ecker | Merritt Vassallo | |
| Connor Herson | Jeffrey Xue | |
| Victor Viet-Trung Huynh | Nika Zahedi | |
| Ege Turan |
Bachelor's Degree with Honors
Awarded to Honors Program students whose work is at an advanced level.
| Rupert Lu | ||
| Rohan Karunaratne | ||
| Guilherme Beyruti Suranyi |
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa is a nationwide society honoring students for the excellence and breadth of their undergraduate scholarly accomplishments.
Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi serves the Stanford community by acting as a representative entity for academic excellence, leadership, and continued service to our community. Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession.
| Merritt Vassallo | Spencer Edward Wallace | |
| Ege Turan | Rupert Lu | |
| Nika Zahedi | William Minghan Zhu | |
| Jeffrey Xue | Nora Menon | |
| Sam Chen | Annabelle Aurelia Jayadinata | |
| Victor Viet-Trung Huynh | Micha David Rand | |
| Sally Lee | Vivien Cheng | |
| Alex Diaz Ecker | Alexander Soto |
Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award
The Terman Award is presented to only the top 5% of each senior class in the School of Engineering.
Ford Scholar Award
They are recognized for having one of the highest GPAs in the School of Engineering.
