Department grants degrees to 169 students

Mascot Herbie Husker with his diploma.
Mascot Herbie Husker with his diploma.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln held in-person graduation ceremonies for the Spring 2021 semester on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering granted degrees to 149 students at the undergraduate level, and 20 students at the graduate level.


Computer Science — Bachelor’s Degree

Aerts, Jarod — JECS-BS, High Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions), UHP, Raikes

Aguilar, Ruben — COMP-BS

Anderson, Samuel Jacob — COMP-BS, UHP

Barento, Ferhan — COMP-BS

Besonen, David John — COMP-BS, Distinction with Thesis, UHP

Biede, Hundter — COMP-BS

Bomberger, Syrus Tye — COMP-BS, High Distinction

Borden, Ethan Michael — COMP-BS

Bosley, Grant Evan — COMP-BS

Carrasco, Samuel Garth — MATH-BS, High Distinction

Carrera, Sergio — COMP-BS

Clausen, Emma -JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Clegg, Shane — COMP-BS

Corwin, Tysen Edward — COMP-BS

DeMint, Taylor Wayne — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Discenza, Christine Margaret — COMP-BS

Drake, Derek Charles — COMP-BS

Elofson, Aaron Matthew — COMP-BS

Erickson, Jimmy — COMP-BS, UHP

Francisco-Simon, Juan Luis — COMP-BS

Gardner, William Nicolas — COMP-BS

Garivay, Andre Mariano — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Garza, David Alan — COMP-BS

Ge, Qiwei — COMP-BS

Giandinoto, Dominic Thomas — COMP-BS, High Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions)

Gideon, Jacob William — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Gite, Nirmitee Sachin — COMP-BS, Distinction with Thesis, UHP,

Goel, Akshat — COMP-BS, High Distinction

Hagen, Levi Keith — COMP-BS, UHP

Handa, Achintya — COMP-BS

Hing, Chai Yen — COMP-BS

Hudson, Zoe Elizabeth — COMP-BS

Johnson, Kolby David — COMP-BS, UHP,

Jolley, Connor Joseph — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Karkazis, Lexie — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Kaup, Charles V. — COMP-BS

Klein, Brady Austin — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Knowlton, Shawn Nicholas — COMP-BS

Kornbluh, Sarah Michael — COMP-BS

Kwassieu, Judith Domedji — COMP-BS

Le, Trang Thuy — COMP-BS

Leatherman, DeLacey Ryann — COMP-BS

Lennemann, Quinn Michael — COMP-BS, Distinction, UHP

Lim, Sheng-Jie Isaiah — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Linneman, Alex Michael — COMP-BS, Distinction, UHP

Macfadyen, Maggie — COMP-BS

Maher, Kassidy Mary — COMP-BS, High Distinction

Maly, Colin Alexander — COMP-BS, High Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions), UHP

McReynolds, Cole Blake — COMP-BS, UHP

Mishra, Ayush — COMP-BS

Moy, Camryn — COMP-BS

Nanfito, Jacob Ryan — COMP-BS

Neupane, Nischal — COMP-BS

Nguyen, Brian Thien — COMP-BS

Nguyen, Nick — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Nguyen, Peter Vu — COMP-BS

Patel, Soham -COMP-BS

Paul, Tyler — AACTS-BS, High Distinction

Peddicord, Jacob Thomas — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Pham, Long — COMP-BS

Prajapati, Rahul — COMP-BS

Purczinsky, August Blue — COMP-BS

Quiring, Lara — MATH-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Rauner, Allie -JECS-BS, High Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions), UHP, Raikes

Reed, Erin LaShawn — COMP-BS

Rhoadarmer, Brennan David — COMP-BS, Distinction, UHP,

Rowley, Amanda Nicole — MATH-BS, High Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions), UHP,

Saxena, Aniruddh — COMP-BS

Schaad, Wade Michael — COMP-BS

Schilz, Austin Hunter — COMP-BS

Schrader, Taylor Alexander — COMP-BS

Schwartz, Travis James — COMP-BS

Senior, Mike — COMP-BS

Shaikh, Suhaib Sadique — COMP-BS

Siscoe, Nicholas Allen — JECS-BS, High Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Sokolov, Alexey Andreevich — COMP-BS

Soong, Ying Ying -COMP-BS

Sparks, Sam — COMP-BS, Distinction

Stuart, Benjamin Lee — JECS-BS, Distinction, UHP, Raikes

Thakker, Rohan Jayesh — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Trost, Jonathan Donald — COMP-BS

Vaitla, Shreeya — COMP-BS

Varilek, Nicholas William — COMP-BS

Vuong, Nguyen Huy — COMP-BS

Wang, Zeyu — COMP-BS, High Distinction

Wright, Megan — JECS-BS, UHP, Raikes

Yop, Zheng Nian, — COMP-BS, High Distinction

Zhang, Pengxiang — COMP-BS

Zhang, Zhiyuan — COMP-BS, High Distinction



Computer Engineering — Bachelor’s Degree

Askey, Isaac Alexander — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN

Atkins, Jacob Allen — CENG-BSCP, UHP

Beard, Garrett — CENG-BSCP

Berglund, Cody Jacob — CENG-BSCP, Distinction,

Borer, Bryan Austin — CENG-BSCP, BUSN-MIN, Distinction,

Cantu, Jeremiah Lance — CENG-BSCP

Chmelka, Alex Kenneth — CENG-BSCP, BUSN-MIN

Dorhout, Hunter William — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN, Highest Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions)

Earnest, John — CENG-BSCP, Highest Distinction,

Elliott, Conner Dewayne — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN

Feng, Dennis — CENG-BSCP, BUSN-MIN; MATH-MIN

Fong, Nicholas Teng Kang — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN

Fox, Jacob Thomas — CENG-BSCP

Gillette, Isaac William — CENG-BSCP, BUSN-MIN

Lee, Bernard — CENG-BSCP, High Distinction

Moore, Derek Christopher — CENG-BSCP

Nguyen, Dat Duy — CENG-BSCP

Nooka, Avinash, Reddy, CENG-BSCP

O'Dell, Paul Robert — CENG-BSCP, BUSN-MIN

Ozanne, Mac, Kay, CENG-BSCP, ART-MIN

Scott, Zac — CENG-BSCP

Seamans, Josh — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN, Distinction

Shchur, Daniel Pavlovich — CENG-BSCP, MATH-MIN

Steiner, Devan Scott — CENG-BSCP

Termini, Sean Patrick — CENG-BSCP

Thibodeau, Dan — CENG-BSCP



Software Engineering — Bachelor’s Degree

Thomas, Ryan Scott — CENG-BSCP

Galusha, Ben — SOFT-BSSE, Distinction

Gray, Adam Christopher — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Distinction, UHP

Maxon, Maria — JESE-BSSE, EJBU-MIN; MATH-MIN, Distinction

Rine, Olivia M. — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Distinction

Sichterman, Matt — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Distinction

Stream, Spencer Craven — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Distinction

Tanzillo, Peyton Lee — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Distinction

Hallett, Conner William — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, High Distinction, UHP

Butt, Ethan Daniel — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Highest Distinction, UHP

Madsen, Zachary Christian — SOFT-BSSE, Highest Distinction

McIntosh, Anthony Christopher — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Highest Distinction, UHP

Nguyen, Phillip Nhat — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Highest Distinction

Harder, Maggie — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN, Highest Distinction and Chancellor's Scholar (earned "As" on all of their graded work at UNL and all other postsecondary institutions)

Attebery, Tristan Quaid — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Ballentine, Joey — SOFT-BSSE, MUST-MIN; MATH-MIN

Benes, Anthony Michael — SOFT-BSSE, BUSN-MIN; MATH-MIN, UHP

Berck, Christian — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Boedhram, TyReesh Vijay — SOFT-BSSE

Burbach, Christopher Michael — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Chandler, Wyatt — SOFT-BSSE

Clyde, Braydon Ryan — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Cummings, Colin James — SOFT-BSSE

Joachimsen, Easton Ray — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Kashyap, Samir Arjun — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Le, Ryan SP. — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Morris, Benjamin Leath — SOFT-BSSE

Neupane, Sam — SOFT-BSSE

Orellana, Jacob Ismael — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Rowen, Jack David — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Segal, Parker, SungWoo, SOFT-BSSE, MENG-MIN

Sullivan, Jacob Patrick — JESE-BSSE, EJBU-MIN; MATH-MIN, UHP and Raikes

Wheeler, Jessica — SOFT-BSSE, MATH-MIN

Zittler, Gage — SOFT-BSSE



Computer Science — Master’s Degree

Bienhoff, Tyler

Cai, Junzhe

Chen, Yuanzhi

Lafferty, Robert

Lee, Molly

Madadjim, Roland

Malyshev, Alexey

Mann, Sumeet

Morrow, Patrick

Rajagopal, Jeevan

Roscoe, Sarah

Tendle, Atharva

Thapa, Suresh

Wu, Cong

Yunhao, Fan



Computer Science — Ph. D.

Behera, Sairam

Firestone, Justin

Ha, Phuong

Zhang, Zhe



Computer Engineering — Ph. D.

Baofeng, Zhou