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2025 Commencement Ceremony and Awards

Congratulations Class of 2025!

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Nika Zahedi
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.'

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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.

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2025 Exceptional Graduate Student Award winners Julia Costacurta, Sebastian Fernandez, Erin Kunz, and Mo Wu
Exceptional Graduate Student Award given to four EE students

The award recognizes their excellence in academic achievement, leadership, and service within the Stanford community.

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prof Srabanti Chowdhury
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

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2025 Centennial TA Award winners Siddharth Chandak, Varun Desai, and Ishikaa Lunawat
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.

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'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.

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prof Dan Boneh
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.

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Dan Boneh on quantum computing

A podcast conversation that covers 'Quantum Computing: What, When, Where, How’

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Knight-Hennessy Scholars, EE students
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.

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