Graduate Student Awards 2021-2022

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation

• Dr. Kangning Wang
  Advisor: Kamesh Munagala
  Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness

• Dr. Zhengjie Miao
  Advisor: Professor Sudeepa Roy
  Simplifying Human-in-the-loop Data Science Pipeline: Explanations, Debugging, and Data Preparation

Outstanding MS Project/Thesis

• ZhangZhang Yue
  Advisor: Professor Danyang Zhuo
  Balancing Bandwidth and Accuracy in Distributed Video Analytics Systems

Outstanding Ph.D. Preliminary Research Exam

• Sravya Yandamuri
  Advisor: Professor Kartik Nayak
  Efficient Protocols for Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Given Various Limitations on the Power of the Adversary

Outstanding Ph.D. Research Initiation Project

• Jingrong Chen
  Advisor: Professor Danyang Zhuo
  NetHint: White-Box Networking for Multi-Tenant Data Centers

• Chudi Zhong
  Advisor:  Professor Cynthia Rudin
  How Smart Guessing Strategies Can Yield Massive Scalability Improvements for Sparse Decision Tree Optimization

• Ruoxu Cen
  Advisor: Professor Debmalya Panigrahi
  A New Algorithm for Edge Connectivity Augmentation

Outstanding Departmental Service

• Alina Barnett
  Work as Social Committee Chair

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

• Daniel Fu

TA Award

• Jingrong Chen - CompSci 310, with Professor Danyang Zhuo
• Yunzhou Liu - CompSci 116 and 216, with Professor Kristin Stephens-Martinez
• Kyle Pinhiero di Oliviera - CompSci 260, with Professor Alexander Hartemink
• Yu Tang - CompSci 590.03, with Professor Samuel Wiseman

Awards and recipients:

2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014