15 MIT students named Siebel Scholars

Fifteen students from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Department of Biological Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management have been named among the 85 new Siebel Scholars for 2013.

The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science and bioengineering and to form an active, lifelong community among an ever-growing group of leaders. Based on academic excellence and leadership, graduate students are honored as Class of 2013 Siebel Scholars and receive a $35,000 award for the final year of their master’s degree program.

This year’s honorees from MIT are:

• Senthil Balasubramanian, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Rachel Chasin, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Francisco Felijó Delgado, Department of Biological Engineering
• Peter DeMuth, Department of Biological Engineering
• Sriram Emani, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Stephen Goldfless, Department of Biological Engineering
• Ningren Han, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Matthew Kasenga, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Anirudha Majumdar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Miles Miller, Department of Biological Engineering
• Elena Schrum, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Rohit Singh, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Adina Taylor, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Yvonne Joy Yamanaka, Department of Biological Engineering
• Tao Yu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The Siebel Scholars Foundation is funded by the Siebel Foundation. Established as a private foundation in 1996, the Siebel Foundation is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation. Its mission is to support projects and organizations that work to improve the quality of life, environment and education of its community members.