Video Game Design Hackathon At A&m

2021		*TAMU Undergraduate Excellence in Research Award* Lina Zhang, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2021		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention* Angel Pina, NSF Computing Research Association
2021		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention* Lina Zhang, NSF Computing Research Association
2020		*TAMU Undergraduate Excellence in Research Award* Benton Guess, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2020		*Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow* Dr. Tracy Hammond, College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Awards
2020		*TAMU College of Engineering AFS Teaching Award* Dr. Tracy Hammond, AFS Teaching Award
2020		*TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award* Samantha Ray, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2020		*ACM Distinguished Member 2020* Dr. Tracy Hammond, recieves the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) award for her outstanding scientific contributions to computing
2020		*Pen&Touch Gift: $2,600.* Dr. Tracy Hammond, 11/2020-11/2022
2020		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention* Angel Pina, NSF Computing Research Association
2020		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention* Benton Guess, NSF Computing Research Association
2019		*Graduate Engineering Minority Fellowship* Larry Powell, Idaho National Labs
2019		*TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award* Larry Powell, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2018		*Best Project, Hackathon '18: Diversify Space & Place.* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Presented a solution to the challenge posted by the College of Engineering.
2018		*Best Senior Capstone Design Team", project "CommBo" in the "Other Majors" category* Cory Avra, Kaveet Laxmidas, Reed Spivey, Christopher Tsao, Leon Wallace, Christopher Wilcoxen, Engineering Project Showcase
2018		*TAMU Undergraduate Excellence in Research Award* Jake Leland, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2018		*TAMU Graduate Leadership Excellence Award* Seth Polsley, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2018		*Aggies Celebrate Teaching award* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Aggies Celebrate Teaching award from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M
2018		*2nd Place in Poster Presentation* Spencer Harder, Geoscience Undergraduate Category Team: Spencer Harder, Bryce Schumacher, Nahiyan Khandker, Dillon Gardener, Nathan Manickavasagam
2018		*1st Place in Poster Presentation* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Engineering Graduate Category
2017		*X - Factor award at the TAMU Diversity Accessibility Hackathon - College of Architecture, Texas A&M* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Vijay presented a solution for improving the interactions between the professor and students in a classroom using eye-tracking technology, and this solution won the award.
2017		*1st Place Student Game Design Competition (Jury Award)* Dr. Blake Williford, CHI Play Conference
2017		*TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award* Raniero Lara Garduno, TAMU CSE Departmental Award
2017		*1st place in Three Minute Thesis competition, People's Choice Award in the doctoral category* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, People's Choice Award in the doctoral category
2017		*2nd place in the IAP Research Poster Competition at Texas A&M, March 2017* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Gaze-Based Multimodal Approach to Rich and Accessible Human-Computer Interaction
2017		*Graduate Teaching Fellow award by the Dwight Look College of Engineering - Texas A&M University* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Graduate Teaching Fellow award
2017		*NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program)* Matthew Runyon, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2017		*NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for graduate studnets fellowship* Raniero Lara Garduno, Graduate Student Fellowship
2017		*1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest (Subject Area: Architecture) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2017* Cullen Brown, Coordinating Attention and Cooperation in Multi-User Virtual Reality Narratives.
2017		*2nd Place Student Research Competition* Dr. Blake Williford, ACM Richard TAPIA conference
2017		*1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest* Larry Powell, ACM Richard TAPIA conference
2016		*TAMU CSE Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award* Dr. Tracy Hammond, CSE Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
2016		*Texas A&M University College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. College Station, TX. (2016). First Place (out of 215 submissions).* Katelyn Goodroe, Identification of Health Disparities in Vision Care through Regression Analysis of Access
2016		*TAMU CSE Undergraduate Leadership Award* Rafael Moreno, CSE Undergraduate Leadership Award
2016		*Texas A&M University College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. College Station, TX. (2016). Awarded Second Place (out of 215 submissions).* Seth Smitherman, The Feasibility of Using CASPER to Assess Prevalence of Neglected Tropical Disease Risk Factors
2016		*The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP). 1st Place Research Poster* Swarna Keshavabhotla, PerSketchTivity
2016		*2nd Place in the Accessibility Mapping Challenge* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, GIS Day 2016
2016		*3rd Place in the Student Research Competition* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, ASSETS 2016 conference
2016		*2nd Place in Graduate Poster Contest (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2016* Raniero Lara Garduno, SmartStrokes: Evaluating sketches from digitized neuropsycology tests.
2016		*Best Poster Award - 1st Place. ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA)* Dr. Vijay Rajanna,
2015		Best Student Paper Award. MobiHealth 2015 - 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Best Student Paper Award
2015		*TAMU Undergraduate Leadership Excellence Award* Rafael Moreno, TAMU CSE Departamental Award
2015		*TAMU Mentoring Excellence Award* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, TAMU CSE Departamental Award
2015		*TAMU Undergraduate Research Excellence Award* Trevor Nelligan, TAMU CSE Departamental Award
2015		*The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP). 1st Place Research Poster* Trevor Nelligan, Mechanix: A Sketch Based Educational Interface.
2015		*2015 Girl Scouts of Central Texas Most Passionate Collaborator Award* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Wired Youth, Inc. and Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science & Engineering
2015		*Best Poster at 2015 ACM International conference on intelligent user interface* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Michael Helms, Dr. Julie Linsey, Trevor Nelligan, Seth Polsley, Jaideep Ray, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Educational Interface
2015		*Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Abram Gutierrez, gRec: A Gesture Recognition Interface for CourseSketch
2015		*Capstone. Sigma Xi Interdisciplinary Award. TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Abram Gutierrez, gRec: A Gesture Recognition Interface for CourseSketch
2015		*2nd Place Graduate Oral (Subject Area: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Business, Education, Political Science, Economics) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* David Turner, CourseSketch
2015		*2nd Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Medicine, Biomedical, Neuroscience) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Dr. Folami Alamudun, Visual Search Patterns during Mammographic Screening
2015		*Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Oral (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Joseph Newman, Hayden Wood, Frontier
2015		*Capstone. 2nd Place Undergraduate Poster (Subject Area: History, Literature, Fine Arts, Communication, Languages, Philosophy) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* KidGab: A Social Media Tutorial
2015		*1st Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Jaideep Ray, Approximate Sketch Matching and Retrieval
2015		*2015 2nd Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Anurag Garg, Seth Polsley, Jaideep Ray, Optimizing Corner Finder
2015		*Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Oral (Subject Area: Health, Nutrition, Kinesiology, Physiology) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Shoot Responsibly
2015		*2nd Place Graduate Oral (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Raniero Lara Garduno, SmartStrokes: Evaluating Sketches from Neuropsychological Tests
2015		*1st Place Graduate Poster. TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015* Trevor Nelligan, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Educational Interface
2015		*Best research presentation - 2nd place* Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Best Research Presentation
2015		*1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest. ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA)* Raniero Lara Garduno, Analyzing neuropsychological tests with sketch recognition.
2014		*3rd place TAMU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium* Emily Berk, Haptic Feedback from Wearable Device for Indoor Navigation in Disaster Situations, Session A on August 8, 2014
2014		*1st Place TAMU CSE Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) Poster Session* Dr. Folami Alamudun, Fractal Analysis of Radiologists' Visual Scanning Pattern in Screening Mammography, (September)
2014		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalist* David Turner, NSF Computing Research Association
2014		*Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation* Raniero Lara Garduno, Alliance for Minority Participation
2014		*Best Graduate Research Presentation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research Alliance in Math and Science Program* Dr. Folami Alamudun, Fractal Analysis of Radiologists' Visual Scanning Pattern in Screening Mammography
2014		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Engineering/Architecture* Raniero Lara Garduno, Larry Powell, Enhancing Mechanix - Interface and Algorithms
2014		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Sigma Xi Award for Interdisciplinary Research* Raniero Lara Garduno, Larry Powell, Enhancing Mechanix - Interface and Algorithms
2013		*1st Place Best Capstone Project, College of Engineering* Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, AggieExpo. Capstone: Kamistry
2013		*Texas A&M University Dissertation Fellowship* Dr. Manoj Prasad, Dissertation Fellowship
2013		*Susan M. Arseven '75 Make-A-Difference Memorial Award* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, (award: $1000)
2013		*TAMU CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award* Ayobami Olubeku, CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award
2013		*Best Case Study Honorable Mention, CHI 2013* Chris Aikens, Dr. Danielle Cummings, Dr. Tracy Hammond, George Lucchese, Dr. Manoj Prasad, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Multimodal Location-Aware System for Paratrooper Team Coordination
2013		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention* David Turner, NSF Computing Research Association
2013		*NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program)* Kiley Sobel, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2013		*NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program* Dr. Paul Taele, EAPSI, Singapore
2013		*NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program)* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2013		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Glasscock Award (Humanities)* Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, Capstone: Kamistry
2013		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences* Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, Capstone: Kamistry
2013		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Social Sciences* Dr. Manoj Prasad, Designing Spatial Tactors
2013		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Glasscock Award (Humanities)* Ben Beadle, Colby Cartwright, Jennifer Than, Homer Werbiski, Capstone: Campus Compass (tie with Kamistry)
2013		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences* Ben Beadle, Colby Cartwright, Jennifer Than, Homer Werbiski, Capstone: Campus Compass (tie with Kamistry)
2013		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Oral in Computational Sciences* Matt Borders, Bret Parker, Joseph Tomlinson, Capstone: Animal Games - Android Game with Table-Phone
2013		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week (SRW) Graduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Mechanix - A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Courses
2012		*Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow* Dr. Tracy Hammond, College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
2012		*TAMU CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award* Sarin Regmi, CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award
2012		*IAAI Innovative Applications of AI Deployed Application Award* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Hong-Hoe (Ayden) Kim, Wenzhe Li, George Lucchese, Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Course
2012		*DoD Information Assurance Scholarship* Dr. Danielle Cummings, DoD Scholarship
2012		*NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program* Dr. Danielle Cummings, HITLab, New Zealand with Dr. Mark Billinghurst
2012		*NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program* Dr. Paul Taele, Taiwan
2012		*1st Place TAMu Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Oral in Computational Sciences* David Turner, Creative Design in Mechanix (award: $300)
2012		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences* George Lucchese, GestureCommander (award: $300)
2012		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences* Sarin Regmi, Haptigo (award: $150)
2012		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Oral in Engineering, Architecture* Dr. Stephanie Valentine, (award: $150)
2011		*2nd Place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition* Dr. Danielle Cummings, Unmanned Air System: Multimodal Interaction for Unmanned Air Vehicles, September 11, 2011 (award: $250)
2011		*3rd Place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition* Dr. Manoj Prasad, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly, September 11, 2011 (award:$100)
2011		*TAMU Graduate Leadership Excellence Award* Dr. Paul Taele, TAMU CSE Departamental Award
2011		*Teaching-as-Research Fellow. TAMU Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning* Dr. Manoj Prasad, Teaching-as-Research Fellow.
2011		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Oral in Computational Sciences* Chris Aikens, Dr. Danielle Cummings, Jimmy Ho, George Lucchese, Dr. Manoj Prasad, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly
2011		*People's Choice Award for Best Poster. Tapia Conference for Diversity* Dr. Danielle Cummings, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly
2010		*3rd place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition* Drew Logsdon, Hand Gesture Tool Manipulation in a Gaming Environment. September
2010		*Best Paper Nomination, SBIM at Expressive* Martin Field, Dr. Tracy Hammond, Kourtney Kebodeaux, Defining Precise Measurements with Sketched Annotations, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling - Expressive
2010		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences* Dr. Brandon Paulson, Expanding Primitive Recognition for Hand-sketched Military Course of Action Diagrams (award: $200)
2010		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Oral Computational Sciences* Dr. Joshua Peschel, A Surfaceless Pen-Based Interface (award: $200)
2009		*TAMU CSE 2nd Place Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition* Dr. Brandon Paulson, An Algorithm for Recognizing Sketched Multi-stroke Primitives, September IAP
2009		*CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Honorable Mention* Dhivya Padmanabhan, NSF Computing Research Association
2009		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences* Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting
2009		*TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Environmental Health and Safety Award* Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting
2009		*TAMU Student Research Week Interdisciplinary Research Ribbon Recognition* Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting
2008		*1st Place TAMU CSE Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition* Dr. Brandon Paulson, A System for Recognizing and Beautifying Low-level Sketch Shapes Using NDDE and DCR (award: $500)
2008		*NSF National Merit Fellowship Honorable Mention* Aaron Wolin, National Science Foundation
2008		*1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences* Aaron Wolin, ShortStraw: A Cheap and Simple Corner Finder for Polylines (award: $300)
2008		*3rd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences* Dr. Brandon Paulson, A System for Recognizing and Beautifying Low-level Sketch Shapes Using NDDE and DCR (award: iPod)
2007		*TAMU CSE Distinguished Former Student Scholarship* Dr. Brandon Paulson, $1000 awarded to outstanding TAMU CSE student
2007		*Nominated for Best Short Video* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Brandon Paulson, MARQS: Media Album Retrieval by Query Sketch, Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
2007		*AWRA GIS and Water Resources Most Outstanding Student Presentation* Dr. Joshua Peschel, Sketch-Based Interface for Rapid Floodplain Assessment, American Water Resource Association
2007		*2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences* Dr. Brandon Paulson, MARQS: Media Album Retrieval by Query Sketch (award: iPod)
2004		*Best Paper Award, Student Oxygen Workshop, MIT* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Automatically Generated Sketch Interfaces from Shape Descriptions. MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, September 10, 2004.
2002		*New Faculty Fellow, Frontiers in Education* Dr. Tracy Hammond, Gender-Based Underrepresentation in Computer Science and Related Disciplines. Frontiers in Engineering, (FIE) November 6, 2002