Graduate Student Awards 2023-2024

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation

  • Nathan Guerin
    Advisor: Bruce Donald, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
    New Computational Methods to Predict Cancer Resistance Mutations and Design D-Peptide Therapeutics
  • Lesia Semenova
    Advisors: Cynthia Rudin, Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor; & Ronald Parr, Professor of Computer Science
    In Pursuit of Simplicity: The Role of the Rashomon Effect for Informed Decision Making 
  • Ceyu Xu
    Advisor: Lisa Wills, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    In Pursuit of Simplicity: The Role of the Rashomon Effect for Informed Decision Making 

Outstanding Ph.D. Preliminary Research Exam

  • Xinhao Kong 
    Advisor: Danyang Zhuo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    Towards Reliable and High Performance RDMA Networks for Clouds and AI
  • Yiheng Shen 
    Advisor: Kamesh Munagala, Professor of Computer Science
    Core Stability in Participatory Budgeting

Outstanding Ph.D. Research Initiation Project

  • Yicheng Jin
    Advisor: Danyang Zhuo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    Curator: Efficient Tree-Based Vector Indexing for Filtered Search
  • Hayden McTavish
    Advisor: Cynthia Rudin, Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor
    Interpretable Machine Learning for Datasets with Missing Values

Best TA Award

  • Alex Chao: COMPSCI 230 with Shao-Heng Ko
  • Sixuan Dang: COMPSCI 590.03 with Danfeng Zhang
  • Christopher Kjellqvist: COMPSCI 210 with Danyang Zhuo
  • Vincent Kubala: COMPSCI 323D with Kate O’Hanlon

Awards and recipients:

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