June 6, 2017
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
Neamah Abdulhusein | Luke Li |
Robert Aguilar | Diana Liao |
Yasmeen Almog | Jonathan Lin |
Pranav Badami | Davis Liu |
Warren Bein | Jerry Liu |
William Bertrand | Thomas Lamont |
Elizabeth Bradley | Dao Lu |
Lukas Brower | Edward Lu |
Allison Burton | Tiankun Lu |
Jason Cai | Anton Lundin |
John Case | Sara Malamut |
Advait Chauhan | Viveka Mastandrea |
Dorothy Chen | Jonathan Metzman |
Hun Choi | Bo Moon |
Min Seung Choi | John Marone |
Daway Chou-Ren | Troy Murtha |
Annie Chu | John O'Brien |
Dongwook Chung | Meaghan O'Neill |
Madeleine Clayton | Karen Ouyang |
Caroline Congdon | Nicholas Pai |
Walker Davis | Benjamin Parks |
Ricardo de los Reyes | Kalina Petrova |
Robert DeLuca | Christopher Piller |
Andreas Dias | Danielle Pintz |
Evelyn Ding | Samuel Pritt |
Paul Dornier | Crystal Qian |
Victor Du | Lisha Ruan |
Benjamin Eisner | Andrew Ruchames |
Vladimir Feinberg | Amandeep Saini |
Christopher Giglio | Joseph Sheehan |
Grant Godeke | Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman |
Jesse Goodman | Colter Smith |
Lance Goodridge | Emily Speyer |
Adam Grabowski | Grant Storey |
Christopher Hay | Jonathan Tang |
Miles Hinson | Carole Touma |
Andrew Hunt | Graham Turk |
Samvit Jain | Blair Wang |
Siddhartha Jayanti | Julia Wang |
Frank Jiang | Zachary Weed |
Jason Kim | Samantha Weissman |
Zachary Knowles | Catherine Wu |
Timothy Lau | Juliana Wu |
Blake Lawson | Rachel Xu |
Clement Lee | Maxim Zaslavsky |
Jane Lee | Michael Zhang |
Jie Liang Lee | Alice Zheng |
Gregory Leeper | Tiancheng Zheng |
Benjamin Leizman | Lulu Zhong |
Christine Li | Brandon Zhou |
Bachelor of Arts
Philip Adams | Hee Joo Nam |
Dan-Cristian Andronic | Xuewei Ouyang |
Angelica Chen | Natalia Perina |
Peter Chen | Aqeel Phillips |
Marisa Chow | Joshua Roberts |
Marc Fishman | Timothy Seah |
Elise Georis | Ann-Elise Siden |
Jeffrey Han | Zachary Stecker |
Kaitlin Hanss | Andrew Wallace |
Isabelle Ingato | Daphne Weinstein |
Alana Jaskir | Joseph White |
Erika Kirgios | Sharon You |
Nathaniel Lam | David Zhao |
Nathaniel Lam | Serena Zheng |
Nicole Marvin | Kelly Zhou |
Jonah May |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Muneeb Ali
Trust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet
Adviser: Andrea LaPaugh
Christopher T. Beck
Time and Space in Proof Complexity
Adviser: Sanjeev Arora
Sema Berkiten
Capturing, Processing, and Synthesizing Surfaces with Details
Adviser: Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Allison June-Barlow Chaney
Computational Methods for Exploring Human Behavior
Adviser: David Blei
Katherine Edwards
On edge colouring, fractionally colouring and partitioning graphs
Adviser: Paul Seymour
Ohad Fried
Photo Manipulation, The Easy Way
Adviser: Adam Finkelstein
Ankit Garg
Information Theoretic Relaxations in Complexity Theory
Adviser: Mark Braverman
Soumyadeep Ghosh
TrustGuard: A Containment Architecture with Verified Output
Adviser: David August
Guangda Hu
Lower Bounds for Error-Correcting Codes with Local Recovery
Adviser: Zeev Dvir
Xin Jin
Dynamical Control of Software-Defined Networks
Adviser: Jennifer Reord
Naga Praveen Kumar Katta
Building Efficient and Reliable Software-Defined Networks
Adviser: Jennifer Rexford
Reid Oda
Tools and Techniques for Rhythmic Synchronization in Networked Musical Performance
Adviser: Rebecca Fiebrink
Yingfei Wang
Advances in decision-making under uncertainty: inference, finite-time analysis, and health applications
Adviser: Warren Powell
Qian Zhu
Detecting gene similarities using large-scale content-based search systems
Adviser: Olga Troyanskaya
Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.)
Ghassen Jerfel -Adviser: Barbara Engelhardt
Karan Kathpalia -Adviser: Sebastian Seung
Huilian Qiu -Adviser: Jennifer Rexford
Kiran Vodrahalli -Adviser: Sanjeev Arora
Master of Engineering (M. Eng.)
Ranjana Addanki -Adviser: Kai Li
Mingru Bai -Adviser: Tom Funkhouser
Kevin Boutarel -Adviser: Nick Feamster
Mikkel Kringelbach -Adviser: Andrew Appel
Marc Leef -Adviser: Nick Feamster
Aohui Lin -Adviser: Kai Li
Hussein Nagree -Adviser: Kai Li
Ming- Yee Tsang -Adviser: Aarti Gupta
Honors and Awards
Highest Honors
Min Seung Choi | Davis Liu |
Dongwook Chung | Edward Lu |
Vladimir Feinberg | Jonathan Metzman |
Jesse Goodman | Benjamin Parks |
Jeffrey Han | Kalina Petrova |
Kaitlin Hanss | Crystal Qian |
Samvit Jain | Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman |
Siddhartha Jayanti | Grant Storey |
Erika Kirgios | Andrew Wallace |
Jie Liang Lee | Rachel Xu |
Luke Li | Maxim Zaslavsky |
Jonathan Lin | Michael Zhang |
| Jerry Liu |
High Honors
Warren Bein | Thomas Lamont |
Advait Chauhan | Dao Lu |
Angelica Chen | Tiankun Lu |
Anyuan Chu | John Marone |
Benjamin Eisner | Karen Ouyang |
Elise Georis | Samuel Pritt |
Christopher Hay | Joshua Roberts |
Isabelle Ingato | Timothy Seah |
Alana Jaskir | Graham Turk |
Frank Jiang | Blair Wang |
Blake Lawson | Julia Wang |
Gregory Leeper | Tiancheng Zheng |
Diana Liao |
Honors
Lukas Brower | Nicole Marvin |
Dorothy Chen | Lisha Ruan |
Daway Chou-Ren | Samantha Weissman |
Walker Davis | Catherine Wu |
Evelyn Ding | Serena Zheng |
Lance Goodridge | Brandon Zhou |
Clement Lee | Kelly Zhou |
Sigma Xi
Neamah Abdulhusein | Thomas Lamont |
Warren Bein | Annie Lu |
Lukas Brower | Edward Lu |
John Case | Tiankun Lu |
Advait Chauhan | Anton Lundin |
Angelica Chen | Nicole Marvin |
Dorothy Chen | Viveka Mastandrea |
Hun Choi | Jonathan Metzman |
Min Seung Choi | John Marone |
Daway Chou-Ren | Hee Joo Nam |
Annie Chu | Jack O'Brien |
Dongwook Chung | Karen Ouyang |
Madeline Clayton | Xuewei Ouyang |
Walker Davis | Nicholas Pai |
Robert DeLuca | Benjamin Parks |
Evelyn Ding | Kalina Petrova |
Paul Dornie | Aqeel Phillips |
Benjamin Eisner | Samuel Pritt |
Vladimir Feinberg | Joshua Roberts |
Elise Georis | Lisha Ruan |
Jesse Goodman | Timothy Seah |
Jeffrey Han | Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman |
Kaitlin Hanss | Colter Smith |
Christopher Hay | Zachary Stecker |
Miles Hinson | Grant Storey |
Isabelle Ingato | Carole Touma |
Samvit Jain | Graham Turk |
Alana Jaskir | Andrew Wallace |
Siddhartha Jayanti | Blair Wang |
Frank Jiang | Julia Wang |
Jason Kim | Zachary Weed |
Erika Kirgios | Samantha Weissman |
Blake Lawson | Catherine Wu |
Clement Lee | Rachel Xu |
Jie Liang Lee | Sharon You |
Gregory Leeper | Maxim Zaslavsky |
Christine Li | Michael Zhang |
Luke Li | Serena Zheng |
Diana Liao | Tiancheng Zheng |
Jonathan Lin | Lulu Zhong |
Davis Liu | Kelly Zhou |
Jerry Liu |
Tau Beta Pi
Warren Bein | Edward Lu |
Dongwook Chung | Tiankun Lu |
Vladimir Feinberg | Benjamin Parks |
Christopher Hay | Kalina Petrova |
Samvit Jain | Lisha Ruan |
Siddhartha Jayanti | Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman |
Blake Lawson | Grant Storey |
Jie Liang Lee | Graham Turk |
Diana Liao | Rachel Xu |
Jonathan Lin | Maxim Zaslavsky |
Jerry Liu | Michael Zhang |
Dao Lu | Tiancheng Zheng |
Phillip Goldman'86 Senior Prize in Computer Science
Vladimir Feinberg
Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize
Angelica Chen
Prediction of Depression and Suicidality from Social Media Activity Using Deep Neural Networks
Adviser: Prof. S. Seung
Vladimir Feinberg
Large Linear Multi-output Gaussian Process Learning
Adviser: Prof. Kai Li and Prof. Barbara Engelhardt
Alana Jaskir
Learning How to Learn The Interaction Between Attention and Learning as a Mechanism for Dimensionality Reduction in the Brain
Adviser: Prof. Yael Niv
Siddhartha Jayanti
Concurrent Disjoint Set Union
Adviser: Prof. Robert Tarjan
Erika Kirgios
Constructing and Deconstructing an Empowerment-Offensiveness Classifier: Intersections of Big Data, Polarization, and Bias on Twitter During the 2016 Presidential Election
Adviser: Prof. Andrea LaPaugh
Jonathan Lin
A Statistical-Dynamical Model For Probabilistic Hurricane Intensity Prediction
Adviser: Prof. Stephan Fueglistaler
Jerry Liu
3D Shape Manipulation Using Deep Generative Adversarial Networks
Adviser: Prof. Thomas Funkhouser
Grant Storey
Computational Analysis of Alleged Homeric Texts
Adviser: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
Center for Digital Humanities Senior Thesis Prize
Grant Storey
Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
Neamah Abdulhusein
Extracting Empirical Statistics on Gender Bias From Word Embeddings: A Multilingual Analysis
Adviser: Prof. Arvind Narayanan
Jeffrey Han
I Never Signed Up For This! Exposing The Hidden Markets Behind Mailing Lists
Adviser: Prof. Arvind Narayanan
Katie Hanss
Hack Track Improving Performance, Preventing Injury
Adviser: Prof. Thomas Funkhouser
Blake Lawson
Decoy Switching: Circumventing Censorship with Emerging Switch Hardware
Adviser: Prof. Jennifer Rexford
Kalina Petrova
Linear Locally Decodable Codes – Lecture Notes
Adviser: Prof. Zeev Dvir
Samuel Pritt
A Standalone Python Library for Enumeration of Combinatorial Structures
Adviser: Dr. Jeremie Lumbroso
Serena Zheng
User Perceptions of Privacy in Smart Homes
Adviser: Prof. Nicholas Feamster
Service Award
Viveka Mastandrea
Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman
Student Teaching Award
Annie Chu | Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman |
Andrew Hunt | Blair Wang |
Blake Lawson | Kevin Wang |
Diana Liao | Rachel Xu |
Lydia Liu | Victor Xu |
Thomas Lamont |
Accenture Prize in Computer Science
Vladimir Feinberg | Benjamin Parks |
Siddhartha Jayanti | Kalina Petrova |
Luke Li |
Computing Research Association Awards
Siddhartha Jayanti, Runner-Up
Kalina Petrova, Honorable Mention
Jessica Shi, Honorable Mention
American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship
Jonathan Lin
Fulbright US Student Grant
Alana Jaskir
Graham Turk
Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellowshipfrom MIT
Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Siddhartha Jayanti
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Erika Kirgios
Maxim Zaslavsky
Princeton in Asia Teaching Fellowship
Nicole Marvin
Natalia Perina
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
Noah Apthorpe
Ariel Schvartzman Cohenca
Kathleen Emerson
Claudia Roberts
Program in Applications of Computing
Ahmed Akhtar | Joseph Lee |
James Almeida | Katherine Letai |
Sreya Basuroy | Lydia Liu |
Thomas Beauchemin | Zhiyu Liu |
Nayan Bhat | Anne Lovett |
Max Bressler | Colin Lualdi |
Thomas Byrne | Yiwei Luo |
Samuel Cabot | Rellie Luo |
Ted Callon | Sarah Lurie |
Adam Cellon | Helena Ma |
June Chang | Chitra Marti |
Grace Chang | Anna Matlin |
Junhan Chen | Nitai Melnick |
Xinyi Chen | Ryan Miller |
Eric Chiou | Carlos Molina |
Haley Chow | Valerie Morin |
Josh Collins | Theodore Moskovitz |
Nathaniel Cope | Ahmed Musse |
Chad Cowden | Catherine Ariadne Mytelka |
Antoine Crepin-Heroux | Avaneesh Narla |
Mihaela Curmei | Catherine Niu |
Dora Demszky | Sumer Parikh |
Andy Deng | Raj Patel |
Yue Ding | Justin Patel |
Brandon Djaja | Caleb Peckham |
Hunter Dong | Jennifer Peng |
Alan Du | Vikram Pothuri |
Philip Etter | Jillian Puskas |
Artur Filipowicz | Aneesh Rai |
Shirley Fu | Samvitha Ram |
Simon Gee | Grant Rheingold |
Matthew Gibbons | John Rillos |
Daniel Gift | Will Rose |
Keith Gladstone | Emory Ruscus |
Ethan Gordon | Eric Schneider |
Abby Grosskopf | Aaron Schwartz |
Lorena Grundy | Andrew Seastream |
Devansh Gupta | Andrew Semelhago |
Sarah Herrmann | Bradley Snider |
Katy Ho | Nancy Song |
Tyler Hoffman | Marcus Spiegel |
Ariel Hsing | Andrew Tao |
Amy Hua | Amy Tian |
Brendan Hung | Kaijia Tian |
Anastasia Ivanushkina | Stephen Timmel |
Naman Jain | Bill Van Cleve |
Belinda Ji | Margaret Wang |
Tony Jin | Suyang Wang |
Kathryn Jones | Yuan Wang |
Shreyes Joshi | Connor Werth |
Brian Chi Suk Kang | Derrick Xin |
Heegwon Kang | Eric Xu |
Jay Karandikar | Victor Xu |
Zachary Kendrick | Paul Yang |
Zena Kesselman | Daniel Yang |
Joanna Kourkoulou | Joseph Yates |
Hana Ku | Edgar Yu |
Andrew Lauria | Emily Zhang |
Alexander Lee | Benjamin Zhang |
Jennifer Lee | Roy Zhao |
Katherine Lee |