Graduate Student Awards 2022-2023

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation

• Dr. Harsh Parikh
  Advisors: Professor Cynthia Rudin, Associate Professor Alexander Volfovksy, and Associate Professor Sudeepa Roy
  Interpretable Causal Methods for High-Stakes Decisions

• Dr. Chenghong Wang
  Advisors: Associate Professor Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Assistant Professor Kartik Nayak
  Encrypted Data Management Systems with Tunable Privacy

Outstanding Ph.D. Preliminary Research Exam

• Ruoxu Cen
  Advisor: Professor Debmalya Panigrahi
  Beyond the Quadratic Time Barrier for Network Unreliability

• Chudi Zhong
  Advisor: Professor Cynthia Rudin
  Exploring the Whole Rashomon Set of Sparse Decision Trees

Outstanding Ph.D. Research Initiation Project

• Xinhao Kong
  Advisor: Assistant Professor Danyang Zhuo
  Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA Subsystems

• Jiaao Ma
  Advisor: Assistant Professor Lisa Wills
  PyTFHE: An End-to-End Compilation and Execution Framework for Fully Homomorphic Encryption Applications

Best TA Award

• Xinhao Kong: COMPSCI 310 with Assistant Professor Danyang Zhuo
• Yuxi Liu: COMPSCI 316 with Associate Professor Sudeepa Roy
• Shao-heng Ko: COMPSCI 216 with Assistant Professor Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Awards and recipients:

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