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Sam Lerman receives Honorable Mention in NSF GRFP Competition

April 10, 2019

Photo of PhD student Samuel (Sam) Lerman

Second-year URCS PhD student Samuel (Sam) Lerman received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition. Sam is co-advised by Prof. Henry Kautz (Computer Science) and Prof. Charles Venuto (Neurology, URMC), and his interdisciplinary research involves applying deep learning to the biomedical domain and reinforcement learning.