Honors & Awards

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

Graduate Prizes

Herb Alexander Prize:

for an outstanding dissertation in pure mathematics

2022-23: Hongyi Liu, Mitchell Taylor, Chi Cheuk Tsang, and Yuan Yao

Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics:

2021-22: Jess Banks, Jorge Garza-Vargas, Mehdi Ouaki, and Yu Tong

Kenneth Ribet & Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra:

2022-23: Andrew Gitlin

Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize:

2018-19: Catherine Cannizzo

Outstanding GSI Award:

2022-23: Alex Burka, Jacopo Di Bonito, Nancy Eagles, Haya Halabieh, Connor Halleck-Dubé, Mitsuki Hanada, Philip LaPorte, Vinh-Kha Le, Yixuan Li, Felicia Lim, Matthew Liu, Rose Lopez, Yelena Mandelshtam, Yuji Okitani, Lewis Pan, Carlos Sanchez, Amar Shah, Jeremy Taylor, Jiahao Yao, and Austin Zhu

Undergraduate Prizes

University Medalist:

awarded to UC Berkeley’s most distinguished graduating senior

2022-23: Rohith Sajith (Finalist) 

Departmental Citation (Valedictorian):

2022-23: Miles Kretschmer

Paul Chernoff Memorial Prize:

2022-23: Miles Kretschmer

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize:

to seniors who have demonstrated truly exceptional scholarship in mathematics

2022-23: Bryce Goldman, Haydn Gwyn, Jon William Hilery, Yuming Huang, Jacob Krantz, Choco (Tianyue) Li, Scott McIntyre, Mingze Yu, and David (Zhaoqi) Zhu

Percy Lionel Davis Award:

to seniors who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in mathematics

2022-23: Eshaan Bhansali, Catherine (Siyu) Gai, Jack Hale, Selena Li, Vishal Raman, Christopher Randall, Nate Tausik, and Tom Zhang 

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

2022: Lily (Qiao) Li (Honorable Mention)

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition:

2023: Top 200: Theodore Lysek, Noah Mart, Jianzhi Wang

Top 500: Yash Aggarwal, Daniel Ao, Aditya Baireddy, Ralph Cao, Preston Fu, Andrew Huang, Aathreya Kadambi, Andrew Lee, Bradley Louie Saito, Justin Park, Youngmin Park, Shreyas Ramamurthy, Robin Sharif, Brian Sui, Dylan Xu, Robert Yang