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