ARC is delighted to announce that 5 fellowships were awarded to PhD students in CS and ISyE for the Fall 2016 semester:

• David Durfee (ACO PhD, CS), advisor: Richard Peng
  • Project title: Vertex Elimination Techniques and their Applications to Graph Algorithms
• Ezgi Karabulut (OR PhD, ISyE), advisors: Shabbir Ahmed and George Nemhauser 
  • Project title: Auction Algorithms for Distributed Integer Programming
• Kevin Lai (ACO PhD, CS), advisor: Santosh Vempala
  • Project title: Parameter Estimation for Mixtures of Gaussians with Adversarial Noise
• Tung Mai (ACO PhD, CS), advisor: Vijay Vazirani
  • Project title: Approximating the Non-symmetric Nash Social Welfare
•  Tianxin Tang (CS PhD, CS), advisor: Alexandra Boldyreva
  • Project title: Keyless Fuzzy Search on Encrypted Data

Thanks to the generosity of IISP, Tang's award was a joint GTISC-ARC fellowship.