Sasankh Munukutla

James W. Lyons Award for Service, Citation

For your exceptional leadership and dedication to social impact through everything that you do, including the creation of the Computer Science Undergraduate Council through which you began a mentorship program for new Computer Science students, and your contributions to creating long-lasting, scalable solutions to bring more students into the Tech for Good space;

For your tremendous vision and drive to expand the Tech for Good ecosystem on campus, such as through your co-founding of Terradot, an AI+Climate startup, your collaborative efforts on AI for Climate Change research in a Stanford Machine Learning group, and your work as a Microsoft intern in which you proposed and developed a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) product to help dyslexic users;

For your tireless advocacy for public service work demonstrated through your service on the National Advisory Board for the Haas Center for Public Service in which you successfully expanded fellowship opportunities for other students, your contributions to integrate Tech + Public Service opportunities into the first-year Stanford COLLEGE program, and your work as the only student Board Member of TechShift, an international alliance of 30+ Tech for Good college organizations;

Sasankh Munukutla is warmly thanked for exceptional service to and on behalf of Stanford University

• Presented on May 25, 2023 by Mona Hicks, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Students