Computer Science & Engineering

Outstanding CSE students recognized with Research Excellence Awards

The CSE department has granted Research Excellence Awards to seven exceptional doctoral students. The awards are for work completed during the previous academic year and those chosen receive $500-$1,000.

2007 Research Excellence Award recipients

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

Previous Excellence Award recipients

Varun Chandola
Varun Chandola (Advs. Vipin Kumar and Arindam Banerjee) received an award for a paper entitled, “Summarization - Compressing Data into Informative Representation,” co-authored by Vipin Kumar and presented at the 5th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2005, in Houston, Texas.
Daniel Cosley
The department granted Daniel Cosley (Advs. John Riedl and Loren Terveen) an award for his work on, “Using Intelligent Test Routing and Contribution Review to Help Communities Build Artifacts of Lasting Value,” presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2006, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Pamela Ludford
Pamela Ludford (Adv. Loren Terveen) received an award for the paper, “Because I Carry My Cell Phone Anyway: Improving Location-Based Reminder Systems,” also presented at ACM‘s CHI in 2006.
Anastasios Mourikis
The department honored Anastasios Mourikis (Adv. Stergios Roumeliotis) with an award for the paper, “Performance Analysis of Multirobot Cooperative Localization,” which appeared in the journal, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Minh Xuan Nguyen
Minh Xuan Nguyen (Adv. Shashi Shekar) 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.
Nikolas Trawny
The department presented Nikolas Trawny (Adv. Stergios Roumeliotis) with the Guidant Foundation Research Excellence Award 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
Xiaoru Yuan (Adv. Baoquan Chen) received an award for “High Dynamic Range Volume Visualization,” presented at the IEEE Visualization Conference 2005. This also won a Best Application Paper Award.