Graduate Student Awards

Graduate Students Honored with CSE Excellence in Research Awards

December 19, 2007

The CSE department is proud to honor seven exceptional CSE doctoral students with the annual CSE Excellence in Research Awards. The award honors PhD students who have passed the Written Preliminary Exam and made a singular significant research achievement as a primary contributor, including: serving as the primary author of an accepted, peer-reviewed and highly selective conference or journal paper or completing and delivery of a software project or system with documented use by outside parties.

This award was funded by a generous grant from the Guidant Foundation. Each recipient is given $500. The 2007 awardees include:

  • Chi-Yin Chow, advisor CSE professor Mohamed Mokbel
  • Yu Gu, advisor CSE professor Tian He
  • Joel Hesch, advisor CSE professor Stergios Roumeliotis
  • Faraz Mirzaei, advisor CSE professor Stergios Roumeliotis
  • Aravindan Raghuveer, advisor CSE professor David Du
  • Huzefa Rangwala, advisor CSE professor George Karypis
  • Xun (Sam) Zhou, advisor CSE professor Stergios Roumeliotis