Grad Student Awards 2018-2019

Graduate student awards for 2018-2019 were presented at the 2019 annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients:

Outstanding PhD Dissertation

• Brandon Fain
  Advisor: Kamesh Munagala
  Algorithms for Public Decision Making

Outstanding PhD Prelim Exam

• Yuan Deng
  Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
  Dynamic Mechanism Design in Complex Environments

Outstanding RIP Award

• Zhengjie Miao
  Advisor: Sudeepa Roy
  Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples

• Xiang Wang
  Advisor: Rong Ge
  Stabilized SVRG: Simple Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization

MS Project Award

• Reem Mokhtar
  Advisor: John Reif
  Modeling DNA Nanodevices Using Graph Rewrite Systems

TA Award

• John Snyder - CompSci 310, Introduction to Operating Systems, Term Spring 2019, Professor Alvin Lebeck