CSE Winners from Engineering Reception and Banquet
Feb. 21, 2009
On Feburary 20, 2009, the E-Week Engineering Reception and Banquet was held in UC Bluebonnet with great success. The factuly and students from CSE department have received several awards.
Dr. Sajal Das received the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Excellence in Teaching Award. Recipients of this award are distinguished educators who demonstrate their dedication to the teaching profession by their superior classroom instruction and exceptional interactions with students.
The Nokia Outstanding CSE Sophomore is awarded to Paul Sassaman for his outstanding performance in courses, along with his participation in activies such as summer research experience, engineering outreach, and the robot programming contest.
The Sabre Holdings Outstanding CSE Junior is awarded to Kapil Vyas for his outstanding performance in courses, along with his participation in undergraduate research on robotics and as a SOAR tutor for mathematics.
The Raytheon Outstanding CSE Senior is awarded to Jamila Phillips for her academic, leadership, and outreach activities. She is a senior design team leader, a peer recruiter for the CoE, and the chair of this year's E-Week committee.
The Santech Oustanding CSE Senior Design Team is team Fatal Exception, the voting machine project for Student Governance. Team members are Michael Lumsden, Brandon Creech, Jonathan Ndede, and Deene Ogden. This team was consistently on or ahead of schedule with their project deliverables, and provided finished, high-quality products at each step of the development process. Team members were inquisitive, creative and very focused on the tasks required of them throughout the two-semester CSE Senior Design experience. This team’s approach to their project, as well as their final product prototype will serve as a model for future Senior Design classes.
The Cyneta Networks Outstanding CSE Graduate Teaching Assistant is Aditya Telang for his efforts in assisting with courses on database systems, data mining, and software engineering. CSE professors have been impressed with his abilities in assisting students, lecturing, and preparing course materials. Aditya is a doctoral student working with Professor Sharma Chakravarthy.
The Verizon Outstanding CSE Masters Thesis is awarded to Predrag Djurdjevic for his work with learning task decomposition and exploration shaping for reinforcement learning agents. Predrag's masters thesis and ongoing doctoral efforts are supervised by Professor Manfred Huber.
The Shuchman Outstanding CSE Doctoral Student is awarded to Brent Lagesse for his research efforts on reputation and trust mechanisms for pervasive distributed computing. Besides this research, supervised by Professors Mohan Kumar and Matthew Wright, Brent has instructed the introductory programming course for several semesters and has participated in summer internships at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Outstanding Contribution to the Development of the CSE Department is awarded to Jing Wang. As a doctoral student of Professor Yonghe Liu, her research emphasizes the energy efficient deployment of wireless sensor networks in situations such as the green roof of the UTA Life Sciences Building.
Dr. Habib Ammari, PhD graduate in May 2008 and now an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University in New York, is the recipient of Nortel Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dedication to research and overall preparation as a scholar.