
2025 Commencement Ceremony and Awards
Congratulations Class of 2025!

Nika Zahedi awarded a 2025 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Her honors thesis is titled, 'Practical Design of Mode-Division Multiplexing Systems with Group-Delay Compensation Guided by Closed-Form Statistics.'

Q and A: Steps to complete your degree and attend the department's 2025 commencement event
Laura Wuethrich explains all of the required steps to complete your degree and attend the department's 2025 commencement event.

Exceptional Graduate Student Award given to four EE students
The award recognizes their excellence in academic achievement, leadership, and service within the Stanford community.

Srabanti Chowdhury 2025 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Quantum Devices Award
Her citation reads, 'for pioneering contributions to engineered thermal interfaces that break the phonon mismatch diffusion limit between Diamond and semiconductors and to vertical power devices in

EE students receive the 2025 Centennial TA Award
The award program recognizes outstanding instruction by TA’s in the Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering schools.

'Stanford Escape' is Stanford’s first in-house escape room
A team of computer science, electrical engineering and math majors built Stanford’s first in-house escape room.

Cybench: A Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity Capabilities and Risks of Language Models
Research Article: Dan Boneh, et al. arxiv.org, 12 April 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.08926.

Dan Boneh on quantum computing
A podcast conversation that covers 'Quantum Computing: What, When, Where, How’

Welcome to the 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholars cohort
The 84 scholars in the 2025 cohort come from 25 countries, including the first scholars with citizenship from Cameroon, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Spain, Sudan, and Tunisia.