Vikram Manikonda, M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’97 established the Vikram Manikonda Endowed Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering in January 2023. This fund provides merit-based support for graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland for the purpose of enhancing diversity, including but not limited to racial or gender diversity in engineering.