September 30, 2016
Graduate student awards for 2015-16 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:
Outstanding PhD Dissertation
- Jiangwei Pan - Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal. Algorithms for Geometric Matching, Clustering, and Covering.
Outstanding Prelim Exam
- Nathaniel Kell - Advisor: Debmalya Panigrahi. Online Budgeted Allocation with General Budgets.
- Rupert Freeman - Advisor: Vincent Conitzer. Diversity, Fairness and Repetition in Computational Social Choice.
Outstanding Teaching
- Caitlin O'Hanlon - Compsci 230, with Carlo Tomasi
- Abhishek Dubey - Compsci 520, with Xiaobai Sun
- Brendan Tschaen - Compsci 514, with Theo Benson
- Brandon Fain - Compsci 531, with John Reif
- Yuanjun Yao - Compsci 590, with Bruce Maggs