NCWIT Selects 2026 AiC Collegiate Award Finalists
The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Program is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2026 NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award, celebrating 63 undergraduate and graduate students from 47 academic institutions nationwide. The award recognizes technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.
The NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award is sponsored by Bank of America.
Finalists
- Laasya Acharya: University of California - Berkeley
- Emily Alemán: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Navya Annapareddy: University of Virginia
- Vitica Arnold: University of California - Irvine
- Maryam Bigonah: Auburn University
- Sofija Bulatovic: University of Pittsburgh
- Adriana Caraeni: University of Massachusetts - Amherst
- Skylar Chan: University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Sharanya Chatterjee: Columbia University
- Tishya Chhabra: University of Hawaii - Manoa
- Maria Cuevas: Columbia University
- Preetal Deshpande: University of California - Berkeley
- Anusha Dudella: University of Texas - Austin
- Promise Ekpo: Cornell University
- Jeffrey Ernest: The College of New Jersey
- Anne-Sophie Frederick: Williams College
- Katherine Guerrerio: Johns Hopkins University
- Divya Gupta: Carnegie Mellon University
- Hannah Havel: Northern Illinois University
- Holland Henderson-Boyer: University of Alabama
- Kathleen Higgins: University of Delaware
- Fumi Honda: Stony Brook University
- Lauren Hu: Santa Clara University
- Charli Hughes: University of Connecticut
- Shana Ibatuan: University of California - San Diego
- Hajara-Yasmin Isa: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Isha Jagadish: University of Washington - Seattle
- Rhea Jethvani: University of California - Irvine
- Tisha Kaur: University of Georgia
- Alistair Keiller: University of California - Irvine
- Michelle Lee: University of California - Los Angeles
- Marina Lin: Harvard University
- Kanthi Makineedi: Duke University
- Ashley Malkin: Stanford University
- Frances McConnell: Macalester College
- Ayushi Mehrotra: CalTech
- Alexander Metzger: University of Washington - Seattle
- Coral Miniel: Florida International University
- Michelle Mobius: Cornell University
- Meenakshi Nair: Carnegie Mellon University
- Teresa Nguyen: Yale University
- Chinenye Okafor: Purdue University
- Neeley Pate: University of Rochester
- Vidhi Patra: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Srihansi Sagi: University of Alabama
- Ishitaa Saxena: Lehigh University
- Janani Sekar: University of Chicago
- Diya Shah: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Prisha Shroff: Stanford University
- Maria Beatriz Silva: New York University
- Mohammad Ariful Hoque Sojib: Virginia Commonwealth University
- Diya Sreedhar: Harvard University
- Risha Surana: University of Southern California
- Anisha Tehim: Cornell University
- Immanuel Tesfaye: Western Washington University
- Amoligha Timma: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Riyashi Varia: Yale University
- Advika Vuppala: Carnegie Mellon University
- Stephanie Wan: Yale University
- Hana Winchester: Ohio State University
- Charlotte Wyman: University of Colorado - Boulder
- Crystal Yang: University of Pennsylvania
- Mary Zhao: University of Texas - Austin