Department Chair Pankaj Agarwal opens the annual meeting

Justin Manweiler, Prof. Jun Yang, Lirong Xia

Jeff Martin, Prof. Jun Yang

Sayan Bhattacharya, Prof. Jun Yang

Prof. Jun Yang, Sharath Raghvendra

Prof. Jun Yang, Dmytro Korzhyk

This year's annual departmental meeting, hosted by the Chair and DGS, introduced new faculty and students, announced what will be happening in the department this year, and presented student and staff achievement awards for 2008-2009. A picnic catered by Three Seasons followed the meeting. Family and friends joined in, making the picnic a great place to meet and greet.

Congratulations to:

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award and Nomination for the ACM Dissertation Award
• Ivelin Georgiev
Advisor: Bruce Donald
Novel Algorithms for Computational Protein Design with Applications to Enzyme Redesign and Small-Molecule Inhibitor Design

Outstanding PhD Proposal Award
• Sharath Raghvendra
Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal
Geometric Summaries

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
• Jeffrey Martin
Advisor: Bruce Donald
Algorithms for Structure Determination of Symmetric Proteins from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data

Outstanding Research Project
• Justin Manweiler
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
Order Matters: Interference-Aware Transmission Reordering in Wireless Networks
• Lirong Xia
Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
Voting in Multi-issue Domain
• Sayan Bhattacharya (Honorable Mention)
Advisor: Kamesh Munagala
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions

Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award
• Brittany Fasy
Course CPS 102: Discrete Mathematics
Spring 2009 with Herbert Edelsbrunner

Outstanding Departmental Service Award
• Dmytro Korzhyk
In recognition of his contribution and service as Team Coach for the ACM Programming Contest which went to the World Finals in Stockholm in April

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
• Caleb Vandenheuval
In recognition of his overall excellence and leadership

Staff Excellence Award
• Camelia Pierson Eaves