Please join us for a special opportunity to meet with alumni during the ECE Colloquium as the ECE Alumni Board hosts a special panel as we celebrate our 2025 alumni award recipients.
MARCIA PETERMAN ECE AWARD
Tim Trick
Emeritus Faculty and former Department Head, Illinois ECE
Urbana, IL
YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Leo Chan (BSEE '04, MS '06, PhD '08)
Co-founder and CTO, HighSpin Biosystems
Boston, MA
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
Mohammad Jamshidi (BS '69, PhD '71)
Emeritus Faculty, ECE at UT-San Antonio
Sherman Oaks, CA
John Lockwood (BSEE '91, MS '93, PhD '96)
Founder and CEO, Algo-Logic Systems, Inc. and Algo-Energy
Campbell, CA
Preston Ransom (BSEE '62, MS '66, PhD '69)
Emeritus Faculty, Illinois ECE
Former Assistant Dean/Director of Continuing Education, Grainger Engineering
Champaign, IL
Some of our ECE Alumni Board members will be on campus to join us for the panel.
-Preside: Chris Brown (BS CompE ‘98) | CTO, Relativity
-President-Elect: Yemaya Bordain (PhD ‘15) | President of Americas, Daedalean AI
-Past President: Sharon Hwang (BSEE ‘90) | McAndrews, Held & Malloy
-MiMi Aung (BSEE ’88, MS ’90) | Director of Program Management, Project Kuiper
-Jeff Lale (BS CompE ’13) | Technology Director, Apple
-Pierre Martin (PhD ’10) | CTO, Gavel
-Dennis Matthews (BS CompE ’02, MS ’07, PhD ’15) | Intel
-Corey Snyder (BSEE ’18, MS ’20, PhD ’24) | Illinois ECE Teaching Assistant Professor
-Anne Woo (BSEE ’01, MS ’03, PhD ’08) | Senior Director of Engineering, Lockheed Martin
-Gale Beanblossom (x) | Boeing; Chair, Alumni Advisory Board
-Andrew Stillwell (MS ’15, PhD ’19) – Faculty Coordinator