Professor Richard Lucic (right) presents the Outstanding PhD Preliminary Exam Award to Pablo Gainza

Graduate student awards for 2011-12 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:

Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awards
• Herodotos Herodotou
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Automatic Tuning of Data-Intensive Analytical Workloads
• Sharathkumar Raghvendra
Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal
Geometric Approximation Algorithms - A Summary Based Approach

Outstanding PhD Preliminary Exam Award
• Pablo Gainza
Advisor: Bruce Donald
Protein Design Algorithms using Continuous Flexibility and their Application to Antibiotic Resistance Prediction

Outstanding Research Initiation Project (RIP) Award
• Salman Parsa
Advisor: Herbert Edelsbrunner
Reeb Graph Computation for a PL Function on a Simplicial Complex

Outstanding TA Awards
• Janardhan Kulkarni
Course 130, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, spring semester, with Pankaj Agarwal
• Vamsi Thummala
Course 182S, The Technical and Social Analysis of Information, spring semester, with Owen Astrachan