Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Students’ Honors and Awards

Faculty Accomplishments, Honors and Awards Department Undergraduate Scholars Students recognized the following faculty members and TAs for Aravind Srinivasan has been elected as an ACM Fellow for their teaching excellence: contributions to algorithms, probabilistic methods and networks. (4.0 GPA CS majors at/beyond “Sophomore Level”) He was also named Editor and Chief of ACM Transactions on Professorial Faculty Algorithms. Lawrence Bathon Christopher Harris Pete Keleher Neil Spring received the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Rebecca He Philip Kim Award. Mihai Pop DEPARTMENT Peter Koutras Jeremy Krach Ben Shneiderman received an Honorary Doctorate from Instructor Faculty Stoneybrook University. William Kunkel Cassidy Laidlaw OF Nelson Padua-Perez Andrew Childs was named Director of QUICS and Canadian Hojoon Lee Isabel Nathan COMPUTER Institute for Advanced Research Fellow. Graduate Teaching Assistant Poom Natrakul Charles Parker Jonathan Katz received the Humboldt Award. Hong Wei

Daniel Portin Anna Putintseva SCIENCE Michael Hicks was elected Chair of SIGPLAN, UMD. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Adam Porter received the CMNS Board of Visitors Creative Benjamin San Nicolas Mihai Sirbu Educator Award and named Named Executive Director of Joan Zhang Fraunhoffer Center for Experimental Software Engineering. Kevin Wittmer Julia Zheng

Mohammad Hajiaghayi received the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. Staff Awards Association for Women in Computing Co-Chairs Larry Davis had a Cape Cod Workshop in his honor. Semi-Annual Award for Exemplary Service to the Department Undergrad: Aboli Kumthekar Brandi Adams Grad: Preeti Bhargava Promoted to Full Professor July 2014 Savannah Renehan

Ramani Duraiswami CS Departmental Scholarship Awards 2013 – 2014 Jeff Foster New Staff Members Brian Lyons Endowed Scholarship Atif Memon Regis Boykin Michael Tontchev Promoted to Emerita Faculty July 2014 Marcus Lauer Christopher David Malter Memorial Scholarship Bonnie Dorr Amy Vaillancourt AWARDS Ryan Dorson Emerita Faculty and Distinguished University Professor Chevy Chase Bank Dean’s Scholarships CEREMONY Dianne O’Leary 2014 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Members Raja Ayyagari Albert Koy 2015 Emily Jones Raja Ratna Murthy Ayyagari Raj Khera and Tripti Sinha Scholarship New Faculty Members Joseph Owen Zachary Siegel Chunxing Yin Marine Carpuat Daniel Rabinovich Eliana Vornov Guy A. Wassertzug/InfoStructures, Inc. Scholarship Andrew Childs Halley Weitzman Tom Goldstein

Michelle Mazurek

Eytan Ruppin

Hassan Sayyadi, Comcast Cable, Washington, DC The Jeffrey C. and Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed John D. Gannon Entering Student Awards Future Faculty Fellows

Computer Science Scholarship Douglas Summers-Stay, Army Research Lab, Frederick, Neelima Pradhan Christian Wolf Chang Liu MD Lukas Zhupa Boeing Scholarship Manish Purohit Gleneesha Williams, Dept. of Defense, Ft. Meade, MD AFCEA-Bethesda Chapter Scholarships Max Tatiefo University of Maryland Outstanding Graduate Student Awards, Derrick Wood, Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, 2015 Anupam Ghosh Theo Lorrain-Hale MD Computer Science Partners in Computing Scholarships

Ioana Bercea Andrew Miller The David E. Eisner and Family Scholarship Summer: Paige Nelson Joel Samelson Mohammad Reza Khani Shangfu Peng Ian Sweet Kan Leung Cheng, Google, Mountain View, CA Sarah Reehl Scholarship Matthew Mauriello The Tony and Diana Chen Computer Science Adam Groce, Visiting Asst. Prof., Reed College, Portland, Aboli Kumthekar Scholaships OR Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Awards, 2014

Andrew Reisse Memorial Scholarship Mitchell Arnett Michael Eleff Yuening Hu, Yahoo Labs, Sunnyvale, CA Sujal Bista, “Visual Computing Tools for Studying Corey Lowman Micro-scale Diffusion” Baris Gokpinar Yuancheng Luo, Visisonics, College Park, MD Advisor: Amitabh Varshney Cipher Tech Fig Leaf Software Drucker/Gallerizzo Computer Science Alex Quinn, Asst. Prof., ECE, Purdue Univ., South Bend, Rajesh Chitnis, “ Directed Graphs: Fixed-parameter IN Tyler Austin Tractability & Beyond” Jerome Kelman Jason Rubin Advisor: Mohammad Hajiaghayi Geoffrey Stoker, U.S. Army, Ft. Bliss, TX

Best Paper Awards: Graduate Students’ Honors and Awards Fall: John D. Gannon Awards

Rajesh Chitnis, Postdoc, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Fellowships and Awards: Sujal Bista, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and John D. Gannon Scholarships Rehovot, Israel Computer Graphics 2014: “Visualization of Brain Microstructure Preeti Bhargava, Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, In honor of a former Chair of Computer Science, Dr. John through Spherical Harmonics Illumination of High Fidelity 2015-16 Ashwin Kayyoor, Symantec Research Labs, Culver City, Gannon, these scholarships provide recognition and Spatio-Angular Fields” CA financial support to outstanding advanced undergraduate Victoria Cepeda Espinoza, Fulbright Fellowship, 2014-15 students within the department. The awards are based Chang Liu, ASPLOS 2015: “ GhostRider: A Hardware- Jared Sylvester, Booz Allen Hamilton, Annapolis upon students’ academic merit as well as their aptitude for Software System for Memory Trace Oblivious Computation” Snigdha Chaturvedi, IBM PhD Fellowship, 2015-16; Kulkarni Junction, MD and commitment to teaching and research. Summer Research Fellowship, 2015 Theodoros Rekatsinas, SIAM International Conference on Ke Zhai, Yahoo Labs, Sunnyvale, CA Omar Ahsan Alex Alberg Soham De, Future of Information Alliance-Deutsch Data Mining 2015: “SourceSeer: Forecasting Rare Disease Foundation Seed Grant Fellowship, 2015 Outbreaks Using Multiple Mason Bedard Tim Crawford Data Sources" Hossein Esfandiari, World Quantitative and Science Matthew Demers Aaron Dugatkin Scholarship, 2014-15; Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, Jeff Stuckman, ISSRE 2014: "Predicting Vulnerable 2015-16 Components: Software Metrics vs Text Mining" Daniel Albarnaz Farias Gedalia Kott

Seokbin Kang, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation 4 Year Youcef Moumena Paige Nelson Ph.D. Graduates 2014 Scholarship

Joel Samelson Christopher Terefinko Spring: Ugur Koc, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Jeffrey Wang Joan Zhang Turkey Fellowship, 2014-15 and 2015-16 Ronald Alford, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC John D. Gannon Portal Awards Srijan Kumar, World Quantitative and Science Scholarship, 2014-15; Future of Information Alliance-Deutsch Foundation Sujal Bista, Research Associate, UMIACS, UMCP These scholarships recognize outstanding computer Seed Grant Fellowship, 2015 science undergraduates early in their studies. The awards Arijit Biswas, Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore are given to outstanding undergraduate students based Vahid Liaghat, Google Fellowship, 2014-15 on academic merit who have demonstrated aptitude for Peter Fontana, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD and commitment to teaching and research. Alex Malozemoff, National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2015 Jiarong Jiang, Two Sigma Investment LLC, New York, NY Chowdhury Barua Ryan Eckenrod Jayanta Mondal, Kulkarni Summer Research Fellowship, Michael Lam, Asst. Prof., James Madison Univ., Maria Furman Andrew Liu 2015 Harrisonburg, VA

Megan Monroe, IBM, Cambridge, MA