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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Outstanding Graduate Diego Puerta dedicated himself to excellence in electrical engineering with a focus on power electronics and maximizing opportunities to teach other students.
Recognized as a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, Puerta received numerous academic awards and led initiatives aimed at advancing the careers of his peers, serving as president of @asuhkn .
Puerta is also deeply passionate about teaching. He was an undergraduate teaching assistant for multiple courses serving over 200 students, where he had the opportunity to create and deliver lectures and several exam review sessions.
🎓 After graduation, Puerta will join Texas Instruments this summer as an analog design intern with the high-speed amplifiers team in Tucson, AZ. Later this fall, he will pursue his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Grand Challenges Scholar Gustavo Mora Gamez turned his early fascination with electricity and building models into a career with a tangible impact in his community.
The Phoenix native contributed to projects aimed at reducing outages and strengthening infrastructure and reliability through an internship with Salt River Project.
After graduation, he intends to remain in Arizona and continue working in the utility industry with goals to obtain his professional engineering license and a master’s degree in business administration.
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Grand Challenges Scholar Nabiha Alam immersed herself in hands-on learning opportunities at ASU. She applied engineering solutions to projects in @theluminositylab and though two @epics_asu experiences where she researched energy solutions for a school in Vietnam and designed an obstacle course for Prescott Pines Camp in Arizona.
She supported her community as a peer lead in the @face_fulton program and as a @fultonambassadors_asu .
🎓 After graduation, Alam will stay in Tempe working as an electrical engineer at @wsp.usa . Charged by her experiences, she is ready to design the kinds of systems that quietly power modern life.
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! ✨ Grand Challenges Scholar Ayomide Laguda dedicated his time to valuable research experiences in multiple labs and supported his peers as a student ambassador in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.
Also a student in ASU’s @barretthonors , he earned numerous scholarships, was recognized on the Fulton Schools dean’s list and was a recipient of the ASU Moeur Award.
🎓 After graduating, he will continue his studies at ASU in the electrical engineering Accelerated Master’s degree program.
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Grand Challenges Scholar Trevor Smith built experience through impactful research working in the Semiconductor Device Research Lab and through an @epics_asu project developing an affordable braille display for visually impaired students in South Africa.
Through his experiences, he says that students may overestimate the difficulty and scale of electrical engineering as a major, but highlights the many resources that can help students stay on track. One of the most important resources he says students should utilize: connecting with faculty.
🎓 After graduation, Smith plans to stay in the Fulton Schools and begin his master’s degree in electrical engineering, focusing on his interests in mixed-signal circuit design and semiconductor devices.
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Join us virtually for tonight’s Undergraduate Convocation ceremony at 7:30 p.m. 🎓
🎥 Tune in as we celebrate the achievements of the #ASUEngineering Class of 2026: video.ibm.com/asutv
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Grand Challenges Scholar Toller Phipps pursued every opportunity in his path at ASU.
He gained industry experience though an internship with Intel, served as co-president of the Alexander Hamilton Society student chapter and conducted research in Germany through the DAAD RISE Program. He cites being named a Timothy P. O’Shaughnessy Scholar as extremely meaningful to his experience.
🎓 After graduating, Phipps will continue his studies through the Accelerated Master’s degree program with his sights set on entering the nuclear power industry.
“I would like to be part of the engineering efforts that make nuclear energy more efficient, reliable and widely adopted,” he says. “I believe it can play a major role in meeting future energy needs while supporting a more sustainable and secure energy system.”
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Each semester, the Fulton Schools selects members of the graduating class who embody academic excellence, leadership and community service during their time as students. These exceptional students have excelled in research, public service, entrepreneurship and outreach. #ASUGrad #ASUEngineering
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Congratulations to 2026 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award winner Glen S. Uehara. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering with a research focus on the development of novel QML algorithms for quantum signal processing and quantum communication systems.
At ASU’s Sensor, Signal and Information Processing, or SenSIP, center, and Quantum Collaborative, he contributed to building a stronger presence in quantum research, collaborating with industry partners in the process, and applying quantum techniques to real-world challenges.
Uehara credits much of his development at ASU to his long-time mentor Andreas Spanias, a professor of electrical engineering in the Fulton Schools, whose guidance spanned decades and helped mold his career in signal processing and communications.
For his exceptional efforts, Uehara is being recognized with the Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, an honor given to a single electrical engineering doctoral student each year who exemplifies academic and research achievement. The award was first established in 2003 by Professor Emeritus Joseph Palais, a former electrical engineering graduate program chair, and his wife, Sandra.
After graduation, Uehara will continue working at @generaldynamics while remaining closely connected to ASU. He plans to contribute to quantum research and education, working with SenSIP and the Fulton Schools to help strengthen the learning experience for future students.
🎓 Congratulations, Dr. Uehara!
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✨ Celebrating our @asuengineering spring 2026 Outstanding Graduates! 🎉 Dean’s Dissertation Award winner Li-Li Ye received her doctoral degree in electrical engineering, under the supervision of ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai, who describes her as a brilliant and remarkably productive young scientist with significant research accomplishments in quantum systems, nonlinear dynamics and machine learning.
Her main research focuses on relativistic quantum materials and machine learning as applied to controlling quantum information systems. She has demonstrated superior research ability with over a dozen publications in leading interdisciplinary journals.
After graduation, Ye will continue at ASU as a postdoctoral researcher.
🎓 Congratulations, Dr. Li-Li Ye!
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