ECE Alumni Awardee Panel

- Sponsor
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Contact
- Nikki Slack
- 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, FranceYOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Pradeep Shenoy (MS '10, PhD '12)
Director of Data Center Power, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments
Dallas, TXDISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
Sharon Xue Yang (PHD ‘05)
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, InBot
San Jose, CAJames Raftery, Jr. (PHD ‘05)
Professor Emeritus, EE/CS, US Military Academy-West Point | Brigadier General, US Army
St. Peters, MOPrasun Raha (PHD ’98)
Vice President of Autonomy Systems, Rivian
Palo Alto, CASome 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.