

Graduate student Nagesh Patle received the 2025 Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award, which is granted once per year to a computer science or electrical engineering graduate student who demonstrates a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and creativity in their work and method. The award honors the memory of Timothy B. Campbell, a former Ph.D. student working on digital fabrication and the human-computer interface at UC Berkeley, before he passed away from cancer in 2015. As part of receiving this award, Nagesh met with the Campbell family to learn more about Timothy’s work, life, and impact. You can watch Nagesh’s acceptance speech in the video below, and read more about the Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award at this link: http://campbellscholar.org/. Past winners of the award are listed at this page: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Students/Awards/100/.