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Qi Lei Wins Oden Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award

May 10, 2021
WNCG alumnus Dr. Qi Lei has received the 2021 Oden Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her winning dissertation, “Provably effective algorithms for min-max optimization," proposes optimization algorithms to find the equilibrium point of two-player zero-sum games. Read the dissertation abstract and find the link to the full text via the University of Texas Libraries. At WNCG, Lei was advised by Prof. Alex Dimakis; she was co-advised by Dr. Inderjit Dhillon from the University of Texas Department of Computer Science.
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Prof. Jeff Andrews Receives 2015 ASEE/HP Terman Award

May 14, 2015
Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been named the 2015 recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). The Terman Award is bestowed annually upon "an outstanding young electrical/computer engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contributions to the profession."