Siebel Scholars Foundation Announces Class of 2027

World’s Brightest Business, Computer Science and Bioengineering Students Join Distinguished Leaders, Growing Scholars Community to over 2,000

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Siebel Scholars Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2027 Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 26^th year, the Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes over 70 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

The 72 distinguished students of the Class of 2027 join past Siebel Scholars classes to form an unmatched professional and personal network of more than 2,000 scholars, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Through the program, this formidable group brings together diverse perspectives from business, science, and engineering to influence the technologies, policies, and economic and social decisions that shape the future.

“Every year, the Siebel Scholars continue to impress me with their commitment to academics and influencing future society. This year’s class is exceptional, and once again represents the best and brightest minds from around the globe who are advancing innovations in healthcare, artificial intelligence, financial services, and more,” said Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman of the Siebel Scholars Foundation. “It is my distinct pleasure to welcome these students into this ever-growing, lifelong community, and I personally look forward to seeing their impact and contributions unfold.”

Founded in 2000 by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, the Siebel Scholars program awards grants to 16 universities in the United States, China, France, Italy and Japan. Following a competitive review process by the deans of their respective schools on the basis of outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, the top graduate students from 27 partner programs are selected each year as Siebel Scholars and receive a $35,000 award for their final year of studies. On average, Siebel Scholars rank in the top five percent of their class, many within the top one percent.

This year’s honorees are:

Graduate Schools of Bioengineering

Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine:
Leonardo Cheng, Weiwen Vicky Cui, Manav Jain, Nikita Sivakumar, Yang Zhao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering:
Evan Collins, Jacob Hochfelder, Kasey Love, Chyna Mays, William Pinney III

Stanford University, School of Engineering and School of Medicine:
Janelle Kaneda, Hope T. Leng, Tony X. Liu, Akshita A. Rao, Yixin Wang

University of California, San Diego, Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering:
Shayesteh Arasti, Muhammad Waleed Khalid, Yuhan (Sherlyn) Weng

Graduate Schools of Business

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management:
Joshua Beasley, Marvin Bennett Jr., Cooper Fetters, Chhavi Keswani, Amar H. Shah

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business:
Cayla Davis, Philipp Gerber, Aakanxit Khullar, Amrita Palaparthi, Elijah Pierre

University of Chicago Booth School of Business:
Charles Doris, Alexis Megdanoff, Rishab Mokkapati, Bhadrinarayanan Ravichandran, Maria Jose Suarez Escalante

Graduate Schools of Computer Science

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:
Prashanth Amireddy, Tian (Sunny) Qin, Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Itai Shapira, Kevin Zhang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering:
Jason Adhinarta, Keya Hu, Jakob Nogler, Arda Ozdemir, Jialiang Zhang

Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Science:
Linrong Cai, Peter Halmos, Nicolaas Kaashoek, Stephen Newman, Anchengcheng Zhou

Stanford University, School of Engineering:
Tyler Abernethy, Candace Cang, Matthew Mattei, Jaduk Suh, Benson Wengreen

Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology:
Junjie Chen, Jianwei Dong, Zhaoxi Li, He Wang, Jianyuan Wang

University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering:
Alexander Proshkin, Nicolas Rakela, Saathvik Selvan, Hiya Shah, Karen Shieh

University of Chicago, School of Computer Science:
G. Jake Chanenson, María Fernanda Muñoz, Anup Sathya, Alex Wuqi Zhang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering:
Henry Che, Pengrui Han, Tony Hong, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Caroline Bozena Stoklosinski

To date, the over 2,000 Siebel Scholars have driven innovations in over a dozen industries, launched more than 1,100 products, authored more than 481 patents, published over 44 books and more than 5,011 articles or book chapters, and managed more than $2.8 trillion in assets. As leaders of some of today’s most preeminent start-ups, nonprofits and research institutions, Siebel Scholars have served on more than 348 boards, established more than 55 philanthropic initiatives, and founded more than 162 companies – of which more than 57 have successfully gone public or were sold to enterprises including Google, Intuit, Match.com and Dropbox.

For more information about the Siebel Scholars program, please visit www.SiebelScholars.com.

About Siebel Scholars

The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 by the Siebel Foundation to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy science. These include: Carnegie Mellon University; École Polytechnique; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Northwestern University; Politecnico di Torino; Princeton University; Stanford University; Tsinghua University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania; and University of Tokyo. Today, our active community of over 2,000 leaders serves as advisors to the Siebel Foundation and works collaboratively to find solutions to society’s most pressing problems.

About the Siebel Foundation

The Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, was established as a private foundation in 1996. Its mission is to foster programs and organizations that improve the quality of life, environment, and education of its community members. The Siebel Foundation funds projects to support education, the homeless and underprivileged, public health, research and development around the world.