University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Pramod Varshney

Syracuse professor

Distinguished Alumni Award

Carissa Walker

Flight test engineer

Boeing

Chi Xu

Product design engineer

Apple

Jim Lundeen

President/CEO

Lundeen Software

Alan Poeppel

VP/senior associate

Langan Engineering

Ed Thomson

Software engineer

Microsoft, UK

Don Ross

Senior project manager

SAP Fieldglass

Ashley Llorens

Chief, Intelligent Systems Center

Johns Hopkins University

Riley Kerestes

Technical group manager

Caterpillar of Germany

Eric Klinker

CEO/co-founder

Resilio Inc.

Chuck Haas

Engineering professor

Distinguished Alumni Award

Yu Ru

Staff data scientist

GE, China

Shiraz Tayabji

Senior principal engineer

Applied Research Associates

Bryan Paul

Advanced engineer/systems

General Dynamics

Kevin Warwick

Artificial intelligence pioneer

Former Beckman fellow

Bruce Powers

Test/evaluation engineer

U.S. Navy

John Shonder

Business development mgr.

Noresco

Doug Litteken

Structural engineer

NASA

Anil Mohammed

Design engineer

Boeing

Kevin Campbell

Fleet services manager

City of Chicago

John Oyelakin

Subsea engineer

Chevron

Keith Schacht

Co-founder

Mystery Science

Brand Fortner

Software visionary

Distinguished Alumni Award

Mary McDowell

Polycom CEO

Distinguished Alumni Award