From left: DGS Landon Cox, Abe Frandsen, Pulkit Misra, Chair Pankaj Agarwal at the 2017 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 2016-17 were presented at the 2017 departmental meeting. We congratulate the recipients, who are listed below. See photos of the annual meeting
Outstanding PhD Dissertation
- Hieu Bui
Advisor: John Reif
Localized DNA Computation
Outstanding Prelim Exam
- Pulkit Misra
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Enabling Lightweight Transactions with Precision Time - Yuan Deng
Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
Disarmament Games - Chaofan Chen
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin
An Optimization Approach to Learning Falling Rule Lists
Outstanding Teaching
- Ali Razeen - Compsci 310, with Landon Cox
- Abe Frandsen - Compsci 330, with Debmalya Panigrahi
The awards and their recipients for recent years are
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