Each year, the Computing Research Association (CRA) selects four undergraduates who show outstanding research potential in computing research for its Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA). This year, 15 Cornell students were recognized as honorable mentions, and one was selected as a finalist.
The URA is given to students in recognition of their research contributions, including conference presentations, papers, and software. Several students also serve their community as teaching assistants, tutors, and mentors.
Eric Chen '24, a computer science major affiliated with the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is one of 16 finalists for the award.
Additionally, the following 15 students were among 116 selected for honorable mentions; 11 are affiliated with Cornell Bowers CIS, while four others major in math or operations research and information engineering.
Alsa Khan '25, information science, systems and technology
Angela Cui '25, computer science and electrical and computer engineering
Benny Rubin '24, computer science
Caroline He '23, M.Eng. '24, operations research and information engineering
Greta Berendes '23, math
Guilin Hu '24, computer science
Huong Pham '25, information science
Imani Finkley '24, english, computer science minor
Pinxian Lu '24, information science
Prithwish Dan '24, computer science
Rowan Hess '25, math
Ryun Shim MPS '24, information science
Sidhanth Holalkere '25, computer science and math
Yijia Dai '24, computer science and physics
Yizhou Deemo Chen '24, electrical and computer engineering
Cornell had the most students with honorable mentions, receiving almost four times as many nominations compared to Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern.