UW CSE Bachelors alumna (and Carnegie Mellon faculty member) Emma Brunskill, and UW CSE adjunct professor (and Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Statistics) Emily Fox, are two of the 36 recipients of 2015 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards.
The ONR Young Investigator Program is designed to promote the professional development of early-career academic scientists, both as researchers and as educators. For awardees, the funding supports laboratory equipment, graduate student stipends and scholarships, and other expenses critical to ongoing and planned studies.This year’s candidates were selected from 383 research proposals based on merit and potential breakthrough advances for the Navy and Marine Corps. All are college and university faculty who have obtained tenure-track positions within the past five years.
Congratulations to Emma and Emily!!!!!