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Student Awards

CSE grad student awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

May 14, 2007

photo of Anastasios Mourikis

CSE graduate student Anastasios Mourikis has been awarded a 2007-2008 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). The University’s Graduate School Fellowship Office selects award winners from a pool of candidates. The fellowship enables promising Ph.D. candidates to devote all of their time working on their dissertation.

Mourikis studies robotics and computer vision. His dissertation addresses the problem of robot navigation, focusing on optimizing the navigation accuracy of autonomous vehicles. His research has applications in spacecraft landing systems, search and rescue robots, car navigation in urban environments, and service robots. For more information about his work, visit Anastasios Mourikis' web page.

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