OGSI Recipients 2024-2025

The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award honors over 200 UC Berkeley GSIs each year for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates. Details about the award and the nomination process are posted on the main Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award page.

African American Studies

Zana Sanders

Agricultural & Resource Economics

Jie Song
Yuen Ho
Rebecca Cardinali

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Sophie Cushman
Cecily Manson
Emily Mullin

Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

Elizabeth Keyser

Anthropology

Tanya Bertone
Emily McKenzie
Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor
Emily Fjaellen Thompson

Architecture

Shuyue Chen
Xin Zhou
Charlotte Chan
Shaoyi Wang

Art Practice

Jasmine Nyende

Astronomy

Ishani Cheshire 
Neil Pichay
Sophie Willis

Bioengineering

Lordean Gustinvil

Buddhist Studies

Howard Mu

Business

Imogen O’Connor
Kwamina Arthur
Xinyang Chen
Yao Zhao
John McMichael
Rachel Gaines
Lauren Gamboa
Allison Schaaff
Thor Larson
Chenyan Huang
Ryan Jewe

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Adam Cahn
Karim Karouta
Rebecca Wheeler
Animesh Patel
Dunya AlMarzooqi
McKenna Loop Yao

Chemistry

Samuel Beaudry
Katherine Hightower
Phillip Jeong
Morgan Kennebeck
David Murillo
Justin Purnomo
Nicholas Watanabe
Polina Barzova
Fisher Hall
Emily Ho
Tanner Myers
Michael Norinskiy
Lauren Orr
Julian Robles
Celine Wang
Dylan Almeida
Elizabeth Hazen
Gwyneth Pudner
Yingze Yingze
Alfredo Jose Florez Ariza

City & Regional Planning

Nicholas Shatan
Isabel Currie

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mayahuel Garcia
Wilson McNeil
Sienna White
Madison Callan
Jonathan Uhler
Bodhinanda Chandra
Treves Li
Satuk Sari

Comparative Literature

Cole Carvour
Albert Castro
Karol Alzate Londono

Data Science

Samantha Centeno
Rebecca Dang
Yash Dave
Angela Feng
Jessica Golden
Ramisha Kabir
Abigail O’Neill
Zackary Oon
Christy Quang
Nikki Suzani
John Teng
Edwin Vargas Navarro
Richard Wang
Jacob Yim

Demography

Rae Willis-Conger

Earth & Planetary Science

Alexander Bearden
Mrinal Dursun
Daniel Spears

East Asian Languages & Cultures

Mei Jiahe

Economics

Pavel Bacherikov
Teresita Cruz Vital
Gonzalo Ferres
Sarah Frick
Louis Heizlsperger
Paula Jaramillo
Kiyea Jin
Gevorg Khandamiryan
Jianmeng Lyu
Alice Schmitz
Maximilian Schwarz
Sharath Sonti
Justine Weng
Kiyotaka Yageta

Education

Isaac Felix
Xueqin Lin
Jill Yochim
Zoe Silverman

Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences

Junha Kim
Christopher Bannon
Ethan Tam
Rod Bayliss
Daniel Teal
Yatong Bai
Collin Finnan
Noah Adhikari
Timothy Aveni
Abigail Brooks-Ramirez
Ashley Chiu
Ryan Cottone
Wilson Fung
Irene Geng
Lydia Ignatova
Anto Kam
Anniyat Karymsak
Erik Kizior
Jacob Leigh
Andrew Liu
Carolyn Liu
Sarah McClure
Suzanne Petryk
Diana Poplacenel
Bhaskar Roberts
Jordan Schwartz
Saathvik Selvan
Shomini Sen
Ayati Sharma
Efsane Soyer
Vanessa Teo
Henry Zeng
Jennifer Zhao
Wen Cao
Ashwin Chugh
Arjun Damerla
Alexander DeRouen
Andrea Lou
Myrah Shah
Owen Thompson
Rohan Kumar
Dima Nikiforov
Nima Rahmanian
Averal Kandala
Rahul Lall
Alexander Di
Sophie Nazarian
Victoria Stukalova
David Yang
Priya Venugopal

Energy & Resources Group

Annika Luo

Engineering: Fung Institute

Mike Santos

English

Annabel Barry
Rumur Dowling
Kathryn Funderburg
Maddie Kim
Tom Kozlowski
Sylvie Thode

Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

Ashlyn Olah
Maggie Grundler
Kieren Rudge
Mei Zhang
Hannah Warr

Ethnic Studies

Maria Chi Chable
Jose Valdivia Heredia

Film & Media

Jonathan Mackris
Osarugue Otebele

French

Oliver Whitmore
Benjamin Beitler

Gender & Women’s Studies

Jennifer Kaplan Kaplan

Geography

Tamara Jamil
Clara Perez
Maggie Camillos

German

Ambika Siddhanta Athreya

History

Chi Kwan Vivian Ngan
Julia Frankenbach
Hilal Tümer
Emma Bates
Keren Zou
Peter Michelli
Kyle Martin

History of Art

Krishna Shekhawat
Zachary Smithline

Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Grace He
Shruti Penumatsa
Alberto Gennaro
Baturalp Yalcin

Information

Suraj Nair
Lauren Chambers

Integrative Biology

Riley Hayes
Asa Conover
Jackie Galvez
David Manahan
Lourenco Martins
Anna Scharnagl
fern Wildtruth
Jocelyn Castillo
Grace Toolsie
Maya Munstermann
Charles Tralka

Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs

Ameen Lotfi
Zaid Yousef
Allison Evans
Kelsey Oliver

Italian Studies

Michele Segretario

Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Sebastian Gaviria Gomez
Abigail Barton
Florencia Sepulveda Trucco

Legal Studies

Jorge Cortes-Monroy
Ralph Madlalate
Todd Neece
Sharaban Zaman

Linguistics

Zachary Wellstood
Katherine Russell

Materials Science & Engineering

Pedro Paulo Paixao Oliveira Borges
Nathan Bieberdorf

Mathematics

Wanzhou Lei
Theo Keller
Joseph Hlavinka
Galen Liang
Sterling Saint Rain
Jason Zhao
Will Fisher
Jonathan Guo
Tejas Rao
Olivine Silier
Luke Triplett
Emma Boniface
Ethan Ebbighausen
Lukas Krause
Jacob Parish

Mechanical Engineering

Wu-Te Yang
Parth Behani
Jack Leckert
Musaiel Gebremar
Maya Horii
Jadesola Aderibigbe
Sara Crogh
Spencer Schutz

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Dylan Guerra

Molecular & Cell Biology

Michael Young
Connor Horton
Paula Vargas
Scarleth Chalen Ulloa
Camille Fulmore
Maria Torres-Colon
Juliana Valenica Lesmes
Christina Seo
Michael Singer
Alex Haugan
Isabel Baldwin
Charlotte Langner
Sage Kang
Charlie Mineo
Hannah Rishik

Music

Andrew Harlan
Max Jefferson
Saagar Asnani
Collin Ziegler

Neuroscience

Caroline He
Eric Hu

New Media

Jillian Crandall

Nuclear Engineering

Haley Williams

Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Catherin DeSousa
Kaitlyn Vitangcol
Sophia Hakam
Carolyn Adams

Optometry and Vision Science

Emily Ward

Philosophy

Sarah Vernallis
Virginia Foggo
Elias Allen
Hannah DeBrine

Physics

Umaima Afifa
David Marco
Need Modi
Sam Weiss
Daisong Pan
Olive Eilbott
Dana Griffith
Andrew Sun
Amogh Waghmare
Kailash Raman
Shahin Jahanbani
Emil Albrychiewicz
Henry Liu
Hana Mir

Political Science

Yein Ra
Aaron Zielinski
Jiaqian Ni
Shira Cohen
Alex Zhang
Maya Lu
Grant Durow
Sara Jozer

Psychology

Rosalinda Nava
Maria Luciani
Kylie Cassutt
Jefferson Ortega
Logan Thomas
Patrick Hanlin
Conrado Eiroa Solans
Jacqueline Anton

Public Health

Rashmi Krishnan Krishnan
Emma Bergon
Jorge Morales Alfaro
Amanda Mazur
Solis Winters
Stephanie Veazie
Bhavya Joshi
Saher Daredia
Brittany Campbell
Nadia Rojas
Eleanor Tsai
Andy Jaeyoon Kim

Public Policy

Gabrielle Lohner
Nina Hankins

Rhetoric

David Lau
Robin Manley

Scandinavian

Natalya Nielsen

Slavic Languages & Literatures

Michael Lerner

Social Welfare

Neena Albarus

Sociology

Emma Goh
Kirstin Krusell
Khoi Quach
Esmeralda Ruiz Navarro
David Su

South & Southeast Asian Studies

Daniel Owen

Statistics

Tiffany Ding
Mriganka Basu Roy Chowdhury
Anthony Ozerov
Lauren Murai
Annie Ulichney
Adam Jaffe

Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies

Zihan Loo

Undergraduate & Interdisciplinary Studies

Harshit Kaushik
Eli Abigail Gendreau-Distler