Xipeng Shen (Ph.D. '06) was among 68 researchers selected to receive the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Fiscal Year 2011 Early Career Research Award. Awardees were selected from a pool of about 1,150 university- and national laboratory-based applicants, based on peer review by outside scientific experts.
Frank Ferraro '11 has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Francis (Frank) Ferraro '11 has been selected to receive a 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. His selection was based on his outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as his potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise.
Michael Scott has been selected to receive The University Dean's Award for Meritorious Service in Ph.D. Defenses. The award will be presented to him on stage at the University Doctoral Commencement ceremony at the Eastman Theatre the morning of Saturday, May 14, followed by a reception for students, families, everyone.
Two teams of CS undergraduates chose to spend the beginning of their spring break, from March 4-6th, competing in Montreal, Canada in the CS Games.
The National Research Council recently released its long-awaited Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs. On the “S” scale, which weights metrics based on their perceived importance among leaders in the field, URCS ranked between 13 and 32, nationwide, with 90% confidence. On the “R” scale, which uses a regression model to weight the metrics, URCS ranked between 7 and 39, with 90% confidence.
Junior Xiaoqing (Sean) Tang, who is majoring in both Computer Science and Mathematics, placed third in this year's 32 Annual Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest by scoring 35 out of a possible 70 points. Full Story,
University of Rochester is hosting a site for the 2012 North American Olympiad in Computational Linguistics (NACLO). NACLO is a competition for middle-school and high-school students which involves solving problems about language and computational linguistics. It consists of two rounds: the Open Round (February 2), open to all interested students, and the Invitational Round (March 13), for students who have advanced from the first round. The winners of the Invitational Competition will be invited to participate in the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Tom Kollar (BS - '04) earned the distinction of Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces in Beijing, China this month. Kollar's paper is entitled "Grounding Spatial Language for Video Search". Tom is currently a Ph.D. candidate at MIT.