Congratulations to the Department of Computer Science Class of 2022!

May 24, 2022

Tiger illustration by Mariah Crawford '22

On Monday, May 23, 2022, the Computer Science department held its Class Day award ceremony in person. 
Those honored are listed below.  

Class of 2022

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

*January 2022 Graduates 

Bachelor of Arts

*January 2022 Graduates 

Tau Beta Pi

Accenture Prize in Computer Science

Anthony Hein

Class 1939 Princeton Scholar Award

Anthony Hein

Computing Research Association Award - Honorable Mention 

Tiana Fitzgerald

Fulbright US Student Grant

Yibo Betsy Pu

George B. Wood Legacy Prize

Michelle Woo

Princeton Research Day 2022 Winner 

Cathy Teng
Advisers,  Prof. Kyriaki Kylili, Prof. Constantinos Hadjistassou
“Deploying Deep Learning to Estimate the Abundance of Marine Debris from Video Footage”

Schwarzman Scholars

Justin Curl
Katherine Dykstra

Outstanding Student Teaching Award

Caio Costa
Katherine Dykstra
Anthony Hein 
Alek Kawczynski
Monique Legaspi
Daniel Macleod
Ron Miasnik
Yibo Betsy Pu
Joseph Rubin 
Julia Ruskin
Erin Vuong
Michelle Woo
Cheyenne Zhang

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

Neil Agarwal
Ilya Chugunov
Dan Friedman
Jens Tuyls
Mona Wang
Mengzhou Xia

Computer Science Service Award

Gagik Amaryan
Sara Dardik
Amina Elgamal
Leslie Kim
Yibo Betsy Pu
Nalin Ranjan
Sacheth Sathyanarayanan
Rachel Sylwester
Valeria Torres-Olivares
Michelle Woo
Cheyenne Zhang

Honors and Awards

Honors 

High Honors

Highest Honors

Sigma Xi Membership

Justin Curl
Vedant Dhopte
Ryan Eusebi
Manan Goenka
Jacqueline He
Anthony Hein
Henry Herrington
Jenny Sheng
Yael Stochel
Alexander Valchanov
Ryan Zhang

Computer Science Achievement Award

Nathan Finkle
Ron Miasnik
Joseph Rubin

Outstanding Computer Science Independent Work Prize

Gagik Amaryan
Tiana Fitzgerald
Dane Jacobson
Jenny Sheng
Yael Stochel
Erin Vuong
Toussaint Webb

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize

Marina Beshai
“‘I’m Not Selling until Nancy Pelosi Does’: A Look into the Market Activity of Congress Members”
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan

Ryan Eusebi
“Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Tropical Cyclone Data Assimilation and Modeling”
Advisers, Prof. Gabriel Vecchi, Prof. Ching-Yao Lai

Manan Goenka
“Interpreting and Expanding Censorship Data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)”
Adviser, Prof. Prateek Mittal

Jacqueline He
“Learning Fair Contextualized Word Representations with Natural Language Inference”
Advisers, Prof. Danqi Chen, Dr. Christiane Fellbaum

Anthony Hein
“Searching for Optimal Strategies in Proof-of-Stake Mining Games with Access to External Randomness”
Adviser, Prof. Matt Weinberg

Henry Herrington
“Ballot Acrobatics: Altering Electronic Ballots using Internal PDF Scripting”
Adviser, Prof. Jennifer Rexford

Briana Macedo
“Identifying Noncoding Genetic Mutations That May Confer Breast Cancer Risk Using SiFoN, a Novel Framework for Analyzing Noncoding Variation in Human Disease”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Troyanskaya

Jenny Sheng
“Controllable Perturbation Generation via Interpolations with Variational Autoencoders”
Adviser, Prof. Danqi Chen

Alexander Valtchanov
“Provably Securing Object Detectors against Adversarial Patch Hiding Attacks via Pixel-Masking”
Adviser, Prof. Prateek Mittal

Ryan Zhang
“Token Reduction Module for Efficient Vision Transformers”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky

Phillip Goldman’86 Senior Prize in Computer Science

Anthony Hein

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Chaitanya Aluru - Adviser, Prof. Mona Singh
Ryan Amos - Adviser, Prof. Prateek Mittal and Edward Felten
Jonathan Michael Balkind - Adviser, Prof. David Wentzlaff
Gregory William Gundersen - Adviser, Prof. Barbara Engelhardt
Jordan Alexander Holland - Adviser, Prof. Nick Feamster and Prateek Mittal
Austin Hall Hounsel - Adviser, Prof. Nick Feamster
Wei Hu - Adviser, Prof. Sanjeev Arora
Qipeng Liu - Adviser, Prof. Mark Zhandry
Sixue Liu - Adviser, Prof. Robert Tarjan
Fermi Ma - Adviser, Prof. Mark Zhandry
Thomas R. Macrina - Adviser, Prof. Sebastian Seung
Themistoklis Melissaris - Adviser, Prof. Margaret Martonosi
Seyed Sobhan Mir Yoosefi - Adviser, Prof. Chi Jin
Malte Moeser - Adviser, Prof. Arvind Narayanan
Divyarthi Mohan - Adviser, Prof. Matt Weinberg
Nayana Prasad Nagendra - Adviser, Prof. David August
Quang Minh Khiem Ngo - Adviser, Prof. Wyatt Lloyd
Lauren Marcelyn Pick - Adviser, Prof. Aarti Gupta
Orestis Plevrakis - Adviser, Prof. Sanjeev Arora
Raghuvansh Raj Saxena - Adviser, Prof. Gillat Kol
Ari Seff - Adviser, Prof. Ryan Adams
Riley William Simmons-Edler - Adviser, Prof. Sebastian Seung
Karan Singh - Adviser, Prof. Elad Hazan
Jiaqi Su - Adviser, Prof. Adam Finkelstein
Nicholas Larry Turner - Adviser, Prof. Sebastian Seung
Alexander Bremner Upjohn Beatson - Adviser, Prof. Ryan Adams
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira - Adviser, Prof. Matt Weinberg
Yi Zhang - Adviser, Prof. Sanjeev Arora

Masters of Science in Engineering (MSE)

Can Cui - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Barbara Engelhardt
Juan Agustin Duque - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Karthik Narasimhan
Joshua Gardner - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Matt Weinberg
Anat Kleiman - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Ryan Adams 
Dale Lee - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Barbara Engelhardt
Huihan Li - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Danqi Chen
Danqi Liao - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky
Christina Suzanne Shatford - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Dorothy Zhao - Thesis Adviser, Prof. Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Masters of Engineering (MENG)

Weicong Dong
Julian Knodt
Runze Liu
Tara Shankar
Kawin Tiyawattanaroj

Program in Applications of Computing

Congratulations to the Computer Science Class of 2022!

Special thanks to:
Jennifer Rexford, Department Chair
Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Department Vice Chair
Adam Finkelstein, Department Associate Chair
David Walker and Brian Kernighan, Directors of Undergraduate Studies
Michele Brown, Department Manager
Colleen Kenny, Undergraduate Program Manager
Mikki Hornstein, Independent Work Program Administrator
Laura Cerrito, Undergraduate Program Administrator
Kobi Kaplan, Course Administrator

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