We are excited to celebrate our 2025 Illinois ECE Alumni Award recipients!
MARCIA PETERMAN ECE AWARD
Tim Trick
Emeritus Faculty and former Department Head, Illinois ECE
YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Leo Chan (BSEE '04, MS '06, PhD '08)
Co-founder and CTO, HighSpin Biosystems
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
Mohammad Jamshidi (BS '69, PhD '71)
Emeritus Faculty, ECE at UT-San Antonio
John Lockwood (BSEE '91, MS '93, PhD '96)
Founder and CEO, Algo-Logic Systems, Inc. and Algo-Energy
Preston Ransom (BSEE '62, MS '66, PhD '69)
Emeritus Faculty, Illinois ECE
Former Assistant Dean/Director of Continuing Education, Grainger Engineering
Xinzhou Wu (MS '00, PhD '04)
Vice President of Auto, NVIDIA
The reception and banquet is co-hosted by our ECE Alumni Board and the members will be on campus to join us to celebrate.
-President: 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