| 2007 |
Yingjuan Ma, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2006 |
John P. Dombeck, University of Minnesota |
| 2005 |
Johnathan K. Burchill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 2004 |
David L. Murr, Boston University |
| 2003 |
Matthew Hill, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2002 |
Emil Lawrence Kepko, Boston University |
| 2001 |
Kanako Seki, University of Tokyo |
| 2000 |
Mark George Linton, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1999 |
David Lario, Euopean Space Agency, The Netherlands |
| 1998 |
Juan Alejandro Valdivia, University of Maryland |
| 1997 |
Gregory Delory, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1995-96 |
No Award Given |
| 1994 |
Yuri Taranenko, Stanford University |
| 1993 |
Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1992 |
Ming Zhang, University of Chicago |
| 1991 |
Margaret Chen, The Aerospace Corporation |