ECE Alumni Awardee Panel

Sep 10, 2026   4:00 - 5:00 pm  
Grainger Auditorium, ECE Building
Sponsor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Contact
Nikki Slack
E-Mail
nslack@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Illinois ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series

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 2026 alumni award recipients.

MARCIA PETERMAN ECE AWARD
Aran Hegarty
 Retired, Hegarty Research
 Paris, France

YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
 Pradeep Shenoy (MS '10, PhD '12)
 Director of Data Center Power, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments
 Dallas, TX

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
 Sharon Xue Yang (PHD ‘05)
 Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, InBot 
 San Jose, CA

 James Raftery, Jr. (PHD ‘05)
 Professor Emeritus, EE/CS, US Military Academy-West Point | Brigadier General, US Army
 St. Peters, MO

 Prasun Raha (PHD ’98)
 Vice President of Autonomy Systems, Rivian
 Palo Alto, CA

Some of our ECE Alumni Board members will be on campus to join us for the panel.
 -President: Yemaya Bordain (PHD ‘15) 
 -Past President: Sharon Hwang (BSEE ‘90) 
 -MiMi Aung (BSEE ’88, MS ’90) 
 -Pierre Martin (PHD ’10) 
 -Dennis Matthews (BS CompE ’02, MS ’07, PHD ’15) 
 -Corey Snyder (BSEE ’18, MS ’20, PHD ’24) 
 -Michael Gonnella (BSEE '15)
 -Brian Raczkowski (BSEE '03, MS '05, PHD '09)
 -Michael Anderson (BSEE '06, MS '09, MBA '19)
.....and more former board members and awardees.

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