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Awards Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). He 6 6 Konstan chosen to receive Teaching Award Associate Department Head Joe Konstan was recently chosen as a recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education. Konstan was chosen for his excellence in instruction; involvement in students’ research, scholarship, and professional development; development of instructional programs; and advising and mentoring of students. He was recognized at a ceremony in April. Konstan will also be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. The CS&E department is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation has awarded Assistant Professors Arindam Banerjee and Mohamed Mokbel CAREER Awards. Banerjee’s work is “Combinatorial Online Learning and its Applications.” Mokbel’s work is “Extensible Personalization of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Database Management Systems.” The Institute on the Environment recently named Assistant Professor Arindam Banerjee resident fellow. He will begin his three-year appointment with the Institute in June 2010. Joe Konstan was nominated to run for ACM President. Professor Konstan is a Fellow of the ACM and he is currently serving on the ACM Council. Previously, Konstan served as President of the 4500-member Special Interest Group on Faculty Achievements has also served as Chair of the ACM SIG Governing Board and on the ACM Executive Committee. The University of Minnesota awarded I. Volkan Isler the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, a twoyear appointment that includes a research grant for each year. The award was bestowed in March and begins on July 1, 2010. Isler’s research interests are in the emerging and highly promising area of robotic sensor networks. Professor John Riedl was recently named Fellow of the ACM for his contributions to recommender systems and to social and collaborative computing. The ACM Fellows Program recognizes Best Paper Awards CSE Professor John Riedl and his student, Michael D. Ekstrand, received a best paper award for their work “rv you’re dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History” at WikiSym 2009. Forty-five papers were submitted, of which 16 were accepted (36%), and one named Best Paper. Jon Weissman and his colleagues received a best paper award at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009), for their paper “Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed Applications and Production Grids.” The acceptance rate for the conference was 24%. Abhishek Chandra and his student Dave Boutcher received a best paper award for their paper “Does ACM members who have contributed substantially to the mission of the ACM. Associate Professor Loren Terveen has been selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist. The Distinguished Grade recognizes those ACM members who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. Terveen is one of 58 Distinguished Scientists selected for 2009. Professor Yousef Saad was selected for the 2010 Class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Saad was recognized for his contributions in numerical linear algebra and its applications. Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passé?” at HotStorage’09: SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems. The paper was one of three best papers at the workshop, for which the acceptance rate was 21%. Graduate students Katherine Panciera and Reid Priedhorsky, along with Associate Professor Loren Terveen and IBM researcher Thomas Erickson received an Honorable Mention Best Paper Award for their paper “Lurking? Cyclopaths? A Quantitive Lifecycle Analysis of User Behavior in a Geowiki.” Stergios Roumeliotis and his students Anastasios Mourikis and Nikolas Trawny were winners of the King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics for their article “Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent, and Landing.”
Outstanding CS&E students recognized with Scholarships, Fellowships, and awards Graduate student Dimitrije Jevremovic has been selected to receive an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. The award includes a $20,000 stipend for the academic year as well as a $10,000 education allowance. The fellowship also includes an internship with IBM. Dimitrije’s advisor is Professor Dan Boley. IBM Academy of Technology Visiting Member Carlos Sosa will act as Dimitrije’s mentor for the award. Vijay K. Adhikar won the Best Paper Award at the highly selective USENIX/ACM conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’10) for a paper “Reverse Traceroute.” He co-authored the paper with two colleagues from the University of Washington. Graduate student Anand Singh received a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Security of Information Networks (SINCONF) for his paper “Improving Risk Assessment Methodology: A Statistical Design of Experiments Approach.” His advisor is David Lilja. Ph.D. student TaeHyun Hwang won the first prize for the 2009 the Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KOCSEA)/Moon Jung Chung scholarship/ poster competition. The KOCSEA is a non-profit organization of Korean and Korean-American computer scientists and engineers in North America. Every year KOCSEA offers a scholarship to recognize an outstanding Korean or Korean- American student studying computer science or related areas int he U.S. Graduate student Vassilios Christopoulos received the “American Legion Brain Sciences Award.” The award was created by the American Legion family’s Brain Science Foundation and includes an honorarium of $1000. Ph.D. student Joel A. Hesch was selected to participate in the 2009 NASA Planetary Sciences Summer School. Hesch spent an intensive week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA developing an early-mission concept study for a New Frontiers class robotic space mission. Graduate student Eugene Vasserman was selected as one of five Google Lime scholars. Google Lime Scholars are recognized for thier tremendous achievements in the field of computer science. Vasserman received a $10,000 academic scholarship and was invited to the Google headquarters in California. Graduate student Jie Chen was one of 3 winners chosen for the 2009 SIAM Student Paper Prize for his paper “On the Tensor SVD and the Optimal Low Rank Orthogonal Approximation of Tensors.” Graduate student Rohit Gupta was selected to present his work on “Colorectal cancer despite colonoscopy” in the clinical science plenary session in DDW 2009, an international conference on gastroenterology recently held in Chicago and attended by more than 15,000 GI professionals. Out of 4,475 submissions, Gupta’s work was among only 4 selected for presentation at the clinical science plenary session. 2010-2011 CSE Scholarship Awards CH Robinson: Andrew Schultz Lando Scholarship: Della Polla Alexander Daniel Balm Nathan Fox Evan Gilbert Nicholas Malbraaten Daniel Moy Christopher Thompson KatieAnna Wolf Thomson Reuters Scholarship: Dhruv Goel Jonathan Hsiao Thomson West Scholarship: Jim Avery Travel Awards Andrew Schultz - England KatieAnna Wolf - Italy 7 7
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