Carnegie Mellon Siebel Scholars
-The Siebel Foundation has established the Siebel Scholars Program to recognize the most talented students who have demonstrated academic and leadership excellence at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer science. Each year, these outstanding students are selected based upon academic merit and leadership in the first year of the graduate studies. Each student receives an award of $25,000.

The purpose of the Siebel Scholars program is threefold: to recognize graduate students who have demonstrated the highest levels of academic achievement and leadership; to support the graduate programs at universities that have made great contributions to the information technology industry and society; and to create a unique community of individuals who will share knowledge, engage in innovative projects, and provide one another with professional support throughout their careers. There is no end to what these Scholars, the best and brightest in their fields, can achieve individually and as a community.

2011/2012

• Andrew Chambers, M.S., Robotics Institute

• Luis Pedro Coelho, Ph.D., Computational Biology, Lane Center for Computational Biology

• Preethi Raju, M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Stephanie L. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Robert J. Simmons, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Michael Benisch, Ph.D., Computation, Organizations and Society, ISR

• Jana Diesner, Ph.D., Computation, Organizations and Society, ISR

• Hsin Huang, M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Institute

• Elijah Mayfield, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Adam Skory, MS, Language Technologies Institute

2009/2010

• Anton Bachin, M.S., Computer Science Department

• Betty Yee Man Cheng, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute

• Matthew Easterday, Ph.D., Human Computer Interaction Institute

• Brina Goyette, MS, Robotics Institute

• Jonathan G. Hartje, MS, Software Engineering

2008/2009

• David Abraham, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Andrew Gilpin, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

• Ryan D. Miller, MS, Software Engineering, Institute for Software Engineering

• Daniel Munoz, MS, Robotics Institute

• Merhbod Sharifi, MS, Language Technologies Institute

2007/2008

• Shilpa Arora, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Eric Davis, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Jason Ernst, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department

• Uma Menon, Master of Software Engineering

• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

2006/2007

• Michael Dille, MS, Computer Science Department

• Michael J. Heilman, MS, Language Technologies Institute

• Lucia de Lascurain Hinojosa, MS, Software Engineering Program

• Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department

• Adam Wierman, Ph.D., Computer Science Department

2005/2006

• Dinesh Govindaraju, MS, Robotics Institute

• Anna Goldenberg, PhD, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
  
  Advisor: Andrew Moore

  Estefania Pickens, MS, Entertainment Technology Center

  Alla Safonova, PhD, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Jessica Hodgins

  Sebastian Scherer, MS, Robotics Institute

• Guy Lebanon, Language Technology Institute
  
  Advisor: John Lafferty

  Spiros Papadimitriou, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

  Jeremy Searock, Robotics Institute
  

  Advisor: Manuela Veloso

  Ricardo Silva, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
  

  Advisor: Richard Scheines

  Christopher Urmson, Robotics Institute
  

  Co-Advisors: William Whittaker and Reid Simmons

2003/2004

• Aditya Agarwal, Computer Science Department
  
  Advisor: William Scherlis

  Nikhil Bansal, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Avrim Blum

  Jun Gao, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Peter Steenkiste

  Nicholas Hopper, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Manuel Blum

  Aleksandar Nanevski, Computer Science Department
  

  Advisor: Frank Pfenning

2003/2004

• Yiheng Li
  
  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

  Aaron Greenhouse, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: William Scherlis

  Brigitte Pientka, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: Frank Pfenning

  Ashish R. Venugopal, Language Technologies Institute, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: Alexander Waibel

  Ulas Bardak, Language Technologies Institute, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: Yiming Yang

2002/2003

• Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
  
  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos

  Timothy Eck, Entertainment Technology Center, M.S.
  

  Advisor: Randy Pausch

  John Langford, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  

  Advisors: Avrim Blum, Sebastian Thrun

  Gregory Steffan, Computer Science Department, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: Todd Mowry

  David Wilkinson, Robotics Institute, Ph.D.
  

  Advisors: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Yoky Matsuoka

  
  

2001/2002

• Frank Dellaert, Computer Science, Ph.D.
  
  Advisors: Chuck Thopre, Sebastian Thrun

  Rayid Ghani, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, MS
  

  Advisor: Tom Mitchell

  Craig Olinsky, Language Technologies, MS
  

  Advisor: Alan Black

  Jovan Popovic, Computer Science, Ph.D.
  

  Advisors: Steve Seitz, Michael Erdmann

  Jeffrey Smith, Robotics, Ph.D.
  

  Advisor: Irving Oppenheim