The Alan J. Perlis SCS Student Teaching Awards
– These SCS student teaching awards were inaugurated in 2005 and are named for Alan J. Perlis, a founder of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon and our first Department Head (1965). These awards are based on student nominations, recommendation letters, and reviews and honors the student (graduate or undergraduate) who has shown the highest degree of excellence and dedication as a teaching assistant.

The Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award

• Harrison Grodin, 2024 – Learning as a Linguistic Process
  
  
• Kshitij Goel, 2024 – On Teaching Robotics
  
• Paul Pu Liang, 2023 – Teaching to Achieve Meta-Learning
  
• Daniel Anderson, 2022 – Why I Teach
  
• Stefani Karp, 2021 – Reflections
  
• Mary Beth Kery, 2020
  
• Franceska Xhakaj, 2019 – An opportunity to learn
  
• Anna Gommerstadt, 2018 – An Entertaining Roadtrip
• Rose Bohrer, 2017 – Teaching and Community-Building
• Kristen Gardner, 2016 – Reflections on Teaching
• Aaditya Ramdas, 2015 – Reflections
• David A. Bamman, 2014 – Teaching across disciplinary boundaries
• Cyrus Omar, 2013 – Reflections
• Wolfgang Richter, 2012 – Reflections
• Arbob D. Ahmad, 2011 – Reflections
• William J. Lovas, 2010 – Reflections
• Neelakantan Krishnaswami, 2009 – Reflections
• Robert J. Simmons, 2008 – Teaching and Learning are Community Events
• Deepak Garg, 2007 – Reflections
• Luis von Ahn, 2006 – Reflections
• Adam Wierman, 2005 – Reflections

• William Hunter Gay, 2025 – Adaptive Algorithms

• Daniel Zhi-Kai Ng, 2024 – What I've Learnedbr>
• Prashanti Anderson, 2023 – Reflections
  
• Vanshika Chowdhary, 2022 – A Recipe for Good Teaching
  
• Misha Ivkov, 2021 – The Teaching Restaurant
  
• Austin Schick, 2020
  
• Jeanne Lia VanBriesen, 2019 – Do the Boring Things
  
• Calvin J. Beideman, 2018 – Teaching from the Heart
• Jonathan Burns, 2017 – Reflections on the Role of a Teacher
• Thomson Yeh, 2016 – Effective TAing: Reflections on Three years of Teaching
• Nivedita Chopra, 2015 – Five things no one told you about being a TA
• Alexander J. Lockwood, 2014 – Reflections
• Sang Tian, 2013 – The Love Theorem
• Adam D. Blank, 2012 – The Five Things
• Hunter A. Pitelka, 2011 – The 5 Great Realities
• Jonathan D. Kilgallin, 2010 – Reflections
• Shusaku Uesugi, 2010 – Reflections
• Anton S. Bachin, 2009 – Reflections
• Jonah C. Sherman, 2008 – Reflections
• Brendan Meeder, 2007 – Reflections
• Naju Mancheril, 2007 – Reflections