Honors & Awards

Graduate Prizes

Click on each prize for a list of winners from previous years. More years of prize winners forthcoming!

Herb Alexander Prize:

for an outstanding dissertation in pure mathematics

2018-19: Albert Ai and Alexander Appleton

Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics:

2019-20: Milind Hegde and Jeffrey Kuan

Kenneth Ribet & Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra:

2019-20: Madeline Brandt and Chris Eur

Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize:

2018-19: Catherine Cannizzo

Outstanding GSI Award:

2019-20: Andy Chen, Yijia Chen, Shinu Cho, Ethan Dlugie, Sarah Firestone, Michael Franco, Jorge Garza Vargas, Frederick Huang, Jeremy Meza, Sam Mossadeghian, Kyeong Sik Nam, Alexander Paauwe, German Stefanich, Dun Tang, Xiaohan Yan, Michael Yeh, Leon Zhang, Xinyu Zhao, Ziwen Zhao, Maksym Zubkov, Roy Zhao

Undergraduate Prizes

University Medalist:

awarded to UC Berkeley’s most distinguished graduating senior

Departmental Citation (Valedictorian):

2020-21: Junhao (Frank) Fan

Paul Chernoff Memorial Prize:

2020-21: Junhao (Frank) Fan

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize:

to seniors who have demonstrated truly exceptional scholarship in mathematics

2020-21: Reuben Drogin, Mason Haberle, Nathan Kenshur, Casey Perdue, Eunice Sukarto, Yuanning (Andy) Zhang

Percy Lionel Davis Award:

to seniors who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in mathematics

2020-21: Matin Ghavamizadeh, Kyle Huang, Reid Johnson, Rohan Joshi, Xiaoyu Niu, Mark Olson, Kai Shaikh, Shengze (Robert) Wang, Sixian (Alex) Yu

Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman:

2021: Eunice Sukarto (Runner-Up)

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: