Spring 2003
As the 2003 academic year comes to close, several CSE students have received honors and awards for their accomplishments and work. Check back often, as this page is continually updated. Notable among this year's honors are the following:
Alejandro Hevia, a 4th-year PhD student in CSE has been awarded an R.B. Woolley Jr. Graduate Leadership Fellowship for 2003-04. This $5,000 fellowship honors graduate students in engineering who demonstrate leadership in the Jacobs School. In addition to a strong research and publications record in the area of cryptography, Alejandro has demonstrated exceptional leadership in developing all aspects of a very successful TA training program at CSE.
Student entrepreneurs presented business plans to local businessmen, student attendees and a panel of four judges for the second annual UCSD Business Plan Competition on May 31, 2003. The winner of the competition was CYAN Automated Pathology, founded by Andrew Rabinovich, a UCSD computer science major. CYAN provides an automated system to identify cancer cells. Currently, only manual methods are available. Andrew is a graduating senior and will be joining CSE Professor Serge Belongie's group as an MS student this fall. Full story can be found on the UCSD Guardian Web Site.
Sara Miner More has been named a UCSD Faculty Fellow for 2003-05. With this appointment, Sara will have a combined appointment as Lecturer and Faculty Fellow Researcher, teaching selected courses and conducting research for the next two years. The objective of the Faculty Fellow Program is to provide new University of California Ph.D.s with mentored training and experience in the design and conduct of instructional courses and research; and to provide high-quality teaching of undergraduate courses.
Kristin Branson has been selected for the NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship. The NASA GSRP awards fellowships for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. Kristin is currently working with professor Serge Belongie on the smart vivarium project.
Fox Harrell and Alvin Auyoung have been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. These fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences. Fox has been working with professor Joseph Goguen on computational narratology. Alvin is working with professor Joseph Pasquale on mobile computing.
A set of our networking students (including Cristian Estan, Sriram Ramabhadran, Sumeet Singh, Florin Baboescu and Harsha Narayan) had four papers accepted at ACM SIGCOMM this year -- the premiere networking research conference. To put this achievement in context, there were 319 submissions and only 28 full papers were accepted. In addition, two UCSD alumni (Kevin Fall now at Intel Research and Harick Vin now faculty at UT Austin) each also had papers accepted.
Nate Segerlind (who is working with professors Russell Impagliazzo and Sam Buss) has received a NSF Mathematical Sciences postdoctoral fellowship, which he will use at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Karen Anderson (who works with professor Gary Cottrell), has received the La Jolla Interfaces in Science Fellowship. The primary goal of this program is to provide an environment that develops scientists who are able to apply the quantitative methods of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science to the increasing number of Biological and Biomedical problems where such methods are critically needed.
Eric Tune has been awarded an Intel Fellowship for 2003-04. Intel Fellowships are awarded to only 35 students each year. The award includes tuition and fees and a twelve-month stipend. Recipients have the opportunity to do an internship or conduct research at Intel as well as being paired with an Intel mentor.
