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Jon Tamir and Atlas Wang Receive Google Research Scholar Awards

June 8, 2023
Prof. Jon Tamir and Atlas Wang have received Google Research Scholar Awards for 2023. The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. Jon Tamir received his award for his work on: Generative Physical Modeling for Blind Imaging Inverse Problems
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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.