Click on each prize for a list of winners from previous years.
Graduate Prizes
Herb Alexander Prize:
for an outstanding dissertation in pure mathematics
2025-26: Carlos Esparza Sánchez, Qiuyu Ren, Ely Sandine
Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics:
for outstanding research in applied mathematics
2025-26: Yang Chu, Gil Goldshlager, Gabriel Raposo
Kenneth Ribet & Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra:
for an outstanding dissertation in algebra
2025-26: Fangu Chen, Daigo Ito, Feiyang Lin
Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize:
for exceptional teaching performance
2025-26: Isabel Detherage, Mitsuki Hanada, Seewoo Lee
Outstanding GSI Award:
2025-26: Ahmad Abassi, Katalin Berlow, Christian Campbell, Tyler Chamberlain, Samuel Goldberg, Robin Huang, Kabir Kapoor, Shosuke Kiami, Bryan Li, Zuo Lin, Danielle Murphy, Nilay Patel, Alan Peng, Vilas Winstein, Willow Ziehr
Undergraduate Prizes
University Medalist:
awarded to UC Berkeley’s most distinguished graduating senior
2025-26: Eli Gendreau-Distler (Finalist)
Departmental Citation (Valedictorian):
2025-26: David Zhang
Paul Chernoff Memorial Prize:
to the Department of the Mathematics Valedictorian and Department Citation Winner
2025-26: David Zhang
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize:
to seniors who have demonstrated truly exceptional scholarship in mathematics
2025-26: Declan Karl Hoban, Yoonsang Kim, Bryan Li, Tristan Liu
Percy Lionel Davis Award:
to seniors who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in mathematics
2025-26: Neel Nitin Agrawal, Daniel Ao, Drisana Bhatia, Siying Chen, Kyle Fenimore, Jason Guo, Tyler Hou, Aathreya Kadambi, Jackson Patrick Koos Davis, Jack W. Lipson, Youngmin Park, Atharv Sampath, Sushanth Sathish Kumar, Liam Tan
Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman:
2022: Lily (Qiao) Li (Honorable Mention)
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition:
2025
Team Honorable Mention: Theodore Danial, Benedikt Vilji Magnússon, Zening Xuan
Top 200: Bradley Louie Saito, Benedikt Vilji Magnússon,Robert Yang
Top 500: Yash Aggarwal, John Archibald, Nathaniel Barnes, Jason Cheng, Benjamin Gildea, Jiawen(Kevin)Huang, Henry Hutchings, Aarush Khare, Praneel Samal, Robin Sharif, Brian Zhou