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It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. This summer, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and new graduates are headed for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment.  - recent graduate  - WNCG industrial affiliate company Full-Time Positions  Marius Arvinte -  Intel Labs    Meixu Chen - Meta Platforms    Saadallah Kassir -  Qualcomm    Monica Ribero - Google Research     Part-Time Positions

WNCG professor Atlas Wang has received several grants for his work on artificial intelligence. 

WNCG students Marius Facktor and Abhinau Venkataramanan and WNCG alumnus Praful Gupta from Prof. Al Bovik’s Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (LIVE) have been named Phase 2 winners in the Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge. The challenge is hosted by the Public Safety Communications Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The competition aims to support public safety missions by advancing computer vision algorithms and no-reference (NR) metrics that assess image or video quality.

It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. This summer, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and new graduates are headed (in many cases, remotely!) for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment.  - recent graduate  - WNCG industrial affiliate   Academe Ramakrishna Sai Annaluru - MIT Lincoln Labs   Full-Time Positions Ziqi Ke - Bloomberg L.P.  William Lies - UHU Technologies  Liu Liu - Tencent AI Lab

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.

WNCG student Philip Tan has been selected as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation’s 2021 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The program supports these students in pursuing full-time research-based degrees through a five-year fellowship. A full list of this year's recipients can be found on the GRFP website.

WNCG professor Aryan Mokhtari has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study Computationally Efficient Second-Order Optimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Learning. The project “lays out an agenda to develop a class of memory efficient, computationally affordable, and distributed friendly second-order methods for solving modern machine learning problems.”

WNCG student Lakshay Narula received the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for Best Paper at the 2020 IEEE/ION PLANSx Conference. The award recognizes “substantial contribution to the technology of navigation and positioning equipment, systems, or practices” judged on criteria including technical content, innovation, importance of topic, and writing quality. Narula’s winning paper, “Automotive-Radar-Based 50-cm Urban Positioning,” demonstrated how self-driving cars can use commercially-available, low-cost automotive radars to improve navigation.

Each year, WNCG presents the Student Leadership Award to an outstanding student—or students—who not only displays excellence in research and academic activities, but also embodies the spirit of the group’s mission to create a collaborative research environment. This year, the award goes to two students: Ahmad AlAmmouri and Jessica Hoffmann.

It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. As we come to the end of an unusual spring semester, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and alumni are headed (in many cases, virtually!) this summer for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment: Academe: Christopher Snyder* - University of Texas Medical Branch (School of Medicine)   Full-Time Positions:  Adam Allevato* - Pensa Systems Aditya Jain* - SparkCognition Erik Lindgren* - Google