From left: Pankaj K. Agarwal (Chair), Anna Lowegard, Ashwin Machanavajjhala (DGS), Lesia Semenova, Kangning Wang, Xi He, Nat Kell, Tiancheng Liu, Chaofan Chen at the 2018 annual meeting
At the beginning of each academic year, the Department recognizes outstanding academic endeavor or service exemplified by its graduate students for the past academic year by presenting several awards.
Graduate student awards for 2017-18 were presented at the 2018 departmental meeting. We congratulate the recipients, who are listed below.
Outstanding PhD Dissertation
- Rupert Freeman
Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
Eliciting and Aggregating Information for Better Decision Making
- Xi He (ACM Dissertation Award Nominee)
Advisor: Ashwin Machanavajjhala
Policy Driven Data Sharing with Provable Privacy Guarantees
- Nathaniel Kell
Advisor: Debmalya Panigrahi
Alogorithms For Allocation Problems in Online Settings
Outstanding PhD Prelim Exam
- Chaofan Chen
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin
Interpretability By Design: Developing Interpretable Machine Learning Models
Outstanding RIP Award
- Tiancheng Liu
Advisor: Xiaobai Sun
Characterizing Properties and Activities on Sparse Networks
MS Project Award
- Minwoo Kim
Advisor: Mary Cummings
The Impact of Skill-based Training Across Different Levels of Autonomy for Drone Inspection Tasks
TA Award
- Anna Lowegard - CompSci 230, Discrete Math for Computer Science, with Bruce Donald
TA Award Honorable Mentions:
- Lesia Semenova - CompSci 571, Machine Learning, with Cynthia Rudin
- Kangning Wang - CompSci 230, Discrete Math for Computer Science, with Kamesh Munagala
The awards and recipients for recent years are
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