Graduate student awards for 2006-7 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:

Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
• Dazhi Wang
Advisor: Kishor Trivedi
Service Reliability: Models, Algorithms and Applications
(Also nominated for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
• Anita Lungu
Advisor: Daniel Sorin
Verification-Aware Processor Design

Outstanding Doctoral Candidacy Award
• Piyush Shivam
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Active Learning of Application Models for Utility Resource Planning
• Aydan Yumerefendi
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
System Support for Strong Accountability

Outstanding Research Initiation Project Award
• Raluca Gordan
Advisor: Alex Hartemink
Incorporating Multiple Informative Priors into a Gibbs Sampling Algorithm for {de novo} Motif Discovery

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
• Laura Grit
COMPSCI 82S: Intellectual Property Rights, Spring 2007

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
• Bei Wang
COMPSCI 102: Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2007
Instructor: Herbert Edelsbrunner

Outstanding Graduate Departmental Service Award
• Tingting Jiang
For her dedicated service to the Department of Computer Science and the Graduate Program

For more information, see the graduate awards page