Columbia University

2025 Electrical Engineering Department Student Awards

WiMNet Ph.D. student Kevin Hermstein, MS student Amelia Kwak and undergraduate student Anya Trumbach received awards from the Department of Electrical Engineering:

  • Kevin received the Edwin Howard Armstrong Memorial Award – “Awarded to one outstanding candidate for the MS degree to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of communications and electronics. The Armstrong Awards are sponsored by the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation.”
  • Amelia received the MS Research Award  – “Recognizing outstanding research achievement among graduating MS students.”
  • Anya received the Department Research Award – “Awarded by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering to one outstanding graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding passion and accomplishment in research.”

Find out more information about the undergraduate awards and about the graduate awards.