Neea Rusch

Academic Scholarships, Fellowships, and Recognitions

Merit-based Awards

  1. Distinguished Artifact Reviewer at TACAS 2025
  2. Distinguished Artifact Reviewer at OOPSLA 2024
  3. Ralph W. Shrader Graduate Diversity Scholarship 2023 (AFCEA & Booz Allen Hamilton)
  4. Excellence in Research in Computer & Cyber Sciences 2022 (Augusta University)
  5. Grace Hopper Scholarship 2015 (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  6. The Outstanding Computer Science Student Class of 2014 (Augusta University)
  7. Savannah River Scholars Program Scholarship 2013 (Augusta University)

All Awards

This list contains complete details of all support I have received for my research.

My doctoral studies funding was generously supplemented by the various agencies listed below. I keep this meticulous list to recognize everyone who helped me on this journey.

I especially appreciate The Graduate School at Augusta University for their continuous and consistent support in every year of my doctoral studies.

Total awards $30,000+
(excluding indirect payments and exchange rates)

Academic year 2024/2025

Academic year 2023/24

  • 7/2024: The Graduate School Scholarship — $1,330
    by The Graduate School at Augusta University

  • 6/2024: Travel Scholarship — $2,000
    by organizers of IEEE CSF 2024 and funded by NSF and IEEE
    for attending CSF'24 in the Netherlands

  • 5/2024: Marktoberdorf Summer School Travel Grant — 1,000€
    by organizers of the summer school
    for cost of travel to the Marktoberdorf Summer School in Germany

  • 3/2024: Research Travel Award — $150
    by the GSGA at Augusta University
    for attending ETAPS'24 in Luxembourg

  • 3/2024: VerifyThis Travel Grant — 850€
    by ETH Zürich Programming Methodology Group
    to participate in VerifyThis 2024 verification competition in Luxembourg

  • 2/2024: ETAPS Student Scholarship — 500€
    by ETAPS e.V. and local organizers
    to attend the ETAPS'24 conference in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

  • 1/2024: Ralph W. Shrader Graduate Diversity Scholarship, Fall 2023 — $3,000
    by AFCEA Educational Foundation and sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton
    support for educational expenses

  • 8/2023: Travel Award — $1,000
    by The Graduate School at Augusta University
    for travel to ATVA'23 conference in Singapore

Academic year 2022/23

  • 5/2023: Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW) Scholarship — $3,600
    by the workshop organizers
    for travel expenses to attend VMW and CAV'23 conference in Paris, France

  • 4/2023: Summer School on Formal Techniques Travel Award — $700
    by SRI International and funded by NSF
    to attend the SSFT 2023 Summer School in Atherton, California

  • 1/2023: Student Research Program Award — $1,000
    by Augusta University Provost's Office and the Translational Research Program of the Department of Medicine at Medical College of Georgia
    for support in dissertation research

  • 10/2022: Travel Award — $1,000
    by The Graduate School at Augusta University
    to attend POPL'23 conference in Boston, Massachusetts

Academic year 2021/22

  • 5/2022: Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) Scholarship — $350+
    by ACM SIGPLAN
    to attend PLMW and the PLDI'22 conference in San Diego, California

  • 4/2022: Excellence in Research in Computer & Cyber Sciences Award — $100
    by The Graduate School at Augusta University
    for presentation at Augusta University's 37th Annual Graduate Research Day

  • 12/2021: VMCAI 2022 Student Travel Fellowship — $1,500
    by the VMCAI 2022 organizers and funded by NSF
    to attend the VMCAI 2022 conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 11/2021: Travel Award — $1,000
    by The Graduate School at Augusta University
    for travel expenses to present at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord (LIPN) seminar in Paris, France

Pre-doctoral awards

  • 8/2015: Grace Hopper Scholarship
    by College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology
    full cover of costs to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas

  • 4/2014: The Outstanding Computer Science Student 2014
    by Hull College at Augusta University
    recognition for academic excellence awarded annually to one graduating student

  • 5/2013: Savannah River Scholars Program Scholarship — $7,800
    by Augusta University, Andy Hauger and Sam Robinson, and funded by NSF

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