The 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships – the most prestigious graduate fellowships in science and engineering – were announced today. To our delight, UW has the second largest number of fellowship recipients in the “Computer and Information Science and Engineering” category of any institution in the country!
NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding student researchers who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Congratulations to the UW students who were recognized today:
Fellowship awards
Cynthia Bennett (HCDE): Human Computer Interaction
Yvonne Chen (CSE): Human Computer Interaction
Carlo del Mundo (CSE): Computer Architecture
Alex Mariakakis (CSE): Human Computer Interaction
Laurel Orr (CSE): Databases
Pavel Panchekha (CSE): Formal Methods, Verification, and Programming Languages
Hannah Rashkin (CSE): Natural Language Processing
John Robinson (HCDE): Human Computer Interaction
Anna Kornfeld Simpson (CSE): Computer Security and Privacy
Doug Woos (CSE): Formal Methods, Verification, and Programming Languages
Honorable mentions
Kira Goldner (CSE): Algorithms and Theoretical Foundations
Daniel Gordon (CSE): Robotics and Computer Vision
Jacob Schreiber (CSE): Machine Learning
Go Team!