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October 9, 2006
The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department has granted Research Excellence Awards to eight exceptional CSE doctoral students. The awards are for work completed during the previous academic year and those chosen will receive $500-$1,000.
This year’s awards include a top award, the Guidant (now Boston Scientific) Excellence Fellowship, awarded to Nikolas Trawny, and a number of additional awards. Below is some information about the recipients.
Varun Chandola received an award for a paper entitled, “Summarization – Compressing Data into Informative Representation,” co-authored by CSE Department Head Vipin Kumar, presented at the fifth International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2005, in Houston, Texas.
The department granted Daniel Cosley an award for his work on, “Using Intelligent Test Routing and Contribution Review to Help Communities Build Artifacts of Lasting Value,” presented at CHI 2006.
Pamela Ludford received an award for the paper, "Because I Carry My Cell Phone Anyway: Improving Location-Based Reminder Systems," presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The department honored Anastasios Mourikis with an award for the paper, "Performance Analysis of Multirobot Cooperative Localization," which appeared in the journal, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Minh Xuan Nguyen received an award for the paper, "Geometry Completion and Detail Generation by Texture Synthesis," presented at The Visual Computer Journal for Pacific Graphics conference in October, 2005.
The department presented Nikolas Trawny with the Guidant (now Boston Scientific) Excellence Fellowship for, "A Unified Framework for Nearby and Distant Landmarks in Bearing-Only SLAM," presented at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in Orlando, Florida.
Xiaoru Yuan received an award for "High Dynamic Range Volume Visualization," presented at the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2005. This also won a Best Application Paper Award.
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