Grad Student Awards 2016-17

From left: DGS Landon Cox, Abe Frandsen, Pulkit Misra, Chair Pankaj Agarwal

Graduate student awards for 2016-17 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:

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

See photos of the annual meeting