{"591227":{"#nid":"591227","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Computing Honors Its Own at 26th Awards Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing honored its top performers among students, faculty, and staff during the 2016-17 academic year at the 26\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Awards Celebration, held April 24 in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building\u0026rsquo;s atrium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are here today to honor the best of the College of Computing in 2016-17,\u0026rdquo; said Zvi Galil, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing, in calling the event order. \u0026ldquo;This is also the event where I get to talk to the friends and family of our computing community about all the great things that happened during the year.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETaking home the top honors among the faculty this year were professors Tom Conte and Irfan Essa, of the schools of Computer Science and Interactive Computing, respectively, who each received the Dean\u0026rsquo;s Award for launching new research centers. Conte now directs the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECRNCH\u003C\/a\u003E), while Essa is the founding director of the Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EML@GT\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing is a list of all 2017 winners by category.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUndergraduate Students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Freshman: Clifford Panos\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Sophomore: Marc Marone\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Junior\/EDS Rising Senior: Aditya Vishwanath \u0026amp; Sean Flanagan\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Senior: Jessica Rosenfield \u0026amp; Chelsi Cocking\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate Research: Angela Vujic\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Saurabh Kumar\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Will Johnson\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Graduate Research Assistant: Xin Zhang\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMS Research Award: Richard Li\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECS 7001 Research Project Award: Si Chen \u0026amp; David Heath\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDonald V. Jackson Fellowship: Akhilesh Srikanth, Laurane Saliou, Devavret Makkar\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMarshall D. Williamson Fellowship: Varun Agrawal, Samyukta Sherugar, Rachel LeRoy\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Instructor: David Joyner\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Post-Doctoral Research: Anup Rao\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Research Scientist: Barbara Ericson, Jason Riedy\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Research Faculty: Rosa Arriaga\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Junior Faculty Research: Hadi Esmaeilzadeh\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Senior Faculty Research: Gregory Abowd\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Faculty Mentor: Dana Randall\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWilliam A. \u0026ldquo;gus\u0026rdquo; Baird Teaching Award: Ashok Goel\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELockheed Excellence in Teaching Award: Taesoo Kim\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award: Neha Kumar\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJames C. Edenfield Faculty Fellowship: Bistra Dilkina\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJames D. Lester III Family Award: Taesoo Kim\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDean\u0026rsquo;s Award: Tom Conte \u0026amp; Irfan Essa\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStaff\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Non-Supervisory Staff \u0026amp; Service Award: Kenya Payton\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Supervisory Staff \u0026amp; Service Award: Ashtria Jordan\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Staff for Community Leadership: Kyla Reese\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/annual-awards-and-honors-past-recipients\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E for a comprehensive list of previous years\u0026rsquo; award winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing honored its top performers among students, faculty, and staff during its 2016-17 academic year at the 26\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Awards Celebration, held April 24 in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building\u0026rsquo;s atrium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing honored its top performers among students, faculty, and staff during its 2016-17 academic year at the 26th Annual Awards Celebration, held April 24 in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building\u2019s atrium."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2017-05-02 17:34:09","changed_gmt":"2017-05-03 14:11:46","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591275":{"id":"591275","type":"image","title":"CoC Awards Ceremony winners 2017","body":null,"created":"1493819904","gmt_created":"2017-05-03 13:58:24","changed":"1493819904","gmt_changed":"2017-05-03 13:58:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225303","name":"33572773744_9dc5b40de2_k.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/33572773744_9dc5b40de2_k.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/33572773744_9dc5b40de2_k.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":894948,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/33572773744_9dc5b40de2_k.jpg?itok=6PYBV08i"}}},"media_ids":["591275"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"6650","name":"awards ceremony"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Terrazas\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mterraza@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}