September 13, 2018
From left: Pankaj K. Agarwal (Chair), Anna Lowegard, Ashwin Machanavajjhala (DGS), Lesia Semenova, Kangning Wang, Xi He, Nat Kell, Tiancheng Liu, Chaofan Chen.
Graduate student awards for 2017-18 were presented at the 2018 annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:
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