SCS STUDENT AWARDS

SCS Student Awards
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
(412)268-8525 . (412)268-5576 (fax)

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2021

• Paul Pu Liang, Ph.D.,Machine Learning Department
  – Advisors: Louis-Philippe Morency, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  
• Mikhail Misha Khodak, Ph.D., Computer Science Department
  – Advisors: Nina Balcan, Ameet Talwalkar
  Additional Information

  Finalists in SCS:

• Xinshuo Weng, Ph.D., Robotics
  
• Jenna Wise, Ph.D., Software Engineering
  
• Karan Ahuja, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction
  

  
  

2017

• Anuj Kalia, Ph.D., Computer Science
  – Advisor: David Andersen
  
• Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Ph.D., Machine Learning
  – Advisors: Jeff Schneider, Barnabás Póczos
  
• Diyi Yang, Ph.D., Language Technologies
  – Advisors: Robert Kraut, Eduard Hovy

  Finalists in SCS:

• Ishan Misra, Ph.D., Robotics
  
• Xiaolong Wang, Ph.D., Robotics
  
• Yu-Xiang Wang, Ph.D., Machine Learning
  
• Zhilin Yang, Ph.D., Language Technologies
  

  
  

2016

• Christian Kroer, Ph.D., Computer Science
  – Advisor: Tuomas Sandholm
  

  
  

2014/2015

• Alex Beutel, Ph.D., Computer Science
  – Advisor: Christos Faloutsos
  
• Nisarg Shah, Ph.D., Computer Science
  – Advisor: Ariel Procaccia
  
• Haiyi Zhu, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction
  – Advisors: Robert Kraut, Niki Kittur
  Release

  Finalists in SCS:

• Mrinmaya Sachan, Ph.D., Machine Learning
  
• William Yang Wang, Ph.D., Language Technologies

  
  

2013/2014

• Justin Cranshaw, Ph.D., Computation, Organizations and Society Program / ISR
  – Advisor: Norman Sadeh
  
• Julian Shun, Ph.D., Computer Science
  – Advisor: Guy Blelloch
  Release, CMU News Story
  

  Finalists in SCS:

• Alex Beutel, Ph.D., Computer Science
  
• Wang Ling, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute
  

2012/2013

• Hyeontaek Lim, Ph.D., Computer Science Department
  – Advisor: David Andersen
  
• Michelle Mazurek, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
  – Advisor: Greg Ganger, Lujo Bauer
  Release, CMU News Story
  

2010 (Inaugural Year)

• Mladen Kolar, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department
  – Advisor: Eric P. Xing
  Release

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