Congratulations to the Computer Science Department Class of 2018!

June 15, 2018

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Arts

Doctor of Philosophy
(Ph.D.)

Aaron Michael Blankstein
Exploiting the Structure of Modern Web Applications
Adviser: Michael Freedman

Huiwen Chang
Personal Photo Enhancement
Adviser: Adam Finkelstein

Annie Edmundson
Privacy Infrastructure for Content and Communications
Adviser: Nick Feamster

Zeyu Jin
Speech Synthesis for Text-Based Editing of Audio Narration
Adviser: Adam Finkelstein

Tengyu Ma
Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning: Design, Analysis, and Understanding
Adviser: Sanjeev Arora

Rafael Mendes de Oliveira
Polynomial Identity Testing: Derandomization Results And Applications Gebraic Computation
Adviser: Zeev Dvir

Yonatan Naamad
Hardness from Densest Subgraph Conjectures
Adviser: Moses Charikar

Jude Christopher Nelson
Wide-area Software-defined Storage
Adviser: Larry Peterson

Rajesh Hampapur Ranganath
Black Box Variational Inference: Scalable, Generic Bayesian Computation and its Applications
Adviser: David Blei

Andrej C. Risteski
New Techniques for Learning And Inference In Bayesian Models
Adviser: Sanjeev Arora

Linpeng Tang
Efficient processing and delivery of multimedia data
Adviser: Kai Li

KatieAnna Elizabeth Wolf
Methods for Personalized Design of Data Sonification
Adviser: Adam Finkelstein

Fisher Yu
Pixel-Level Prediction: From Geometry to Semantics
Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser

Haoyu Zhang
Resource Management for Advanced Data Analytics At Large Scale
Adviser: Michael Freedman

Master of Science in Engineering
(M.S.E.)

Oluwatosin Courage Victor Adewale - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Jerry Cai - Adviser: Jennifer Rexford
Pranjit Kumar Kalita - Adviser: Matt Weinberg
Mikhail Khodak - Adviser: Matt Weinberg
Mark Anthony Martinez - Adviser: Alain Kornhauser
Claudia Victoria Roberts - Adviser: Arvind Narayanan
Nikunj Umesh Saunshi - Adviser: Sanjeev Arora
Thomas Frederick Schaffner - Adviser: Barbara Engelhardt

Master of Engineering
(M. Eng.)

Irene Fan - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Akash Kapoor - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Ashley Sarah Kling - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Mayank Mahajan - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Robin Qiu - Adviser: Michael Freedman
Gautam Sharma - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Ashley Jihye Thomas - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Natalie Wilkinson - Adviser: Thomas Funkhouser
Allen Wu - Adviser: Jennifer Rexford

Program in Applications of Computing

Honors and Awards

Highest Honors

High Honors

Honors

Sigma Xi

Tau Beta Pi

Salutatorian

Katie Lim

Phillip Goldman’86 Senior Prize in Computer Science

Prem Nair

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize

Ben Cohen
“No Such Thing as a Free App: Understanding User Perceptions of Privacy and Security around Zero-Rated Apps in South Africa”
Adviser: Dr. Marshini Chetty
 

Karen Feng
“A Biostatistician Walks Into A Casino: Bandits For Experimental Design”
Adviser: Prof. Barbara Engelhardt

 

Melana Hammel
“Analyzing Increasing Enrollments and Diversity in Princeton Computer Science”
Adviser: Prof. Margaret Martonosi

 

William Hinthorn
“Inferring Intent from Pointing with Computer Vision”
Adviser: Asst. Prof. Olga Russakovsky
 

Katie Lim
“Building and Evaluating a Heterogeneous ISA Multiprocessor System Utilizing the OpenPiton Framework”
Adviser: Asst. Prof. David Wentzlaff
 

Cindy Liu
“Understanding Academic Emotions at Princeton University”
Adviser: Prof. Christiane Fellbaum

 

Eric Mitchell
“DeepAlign: Learning Optical Flow for Image Alignment”
Adviser: Prof. Sebastian Seung
 

Jasmine Peled
“Toward a Pedagogy of Principles: Teaching Ethics In Computer Science”
Adviser: Nick Feamster

 

Bharath Srivatsan
“Senator, We Run Ads”: Understanding Users Through Targeted Advertisements
Adviser: Prof. Edward Felten

 

Nico Toy
“Context-Aware Algorithmic Composition in the Style of Classical Composers using Machine Learning”
Adviser: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum

 

Robert Whitaker
“Processable: A Visual Assembly Debugger and Program Tracer in the Browser”
Adviser: Dr. Robert Dondero

Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Sung Won Chang
"GERRYFINDER Implementing, Visualizing and Analyzing the "Three Tests for Practical Evaluation of Partisan Gerrymandering"
Adviser: Prof. Brian Kernighan

Thomas Clark
“The Echo Chambers of Twitter: Measuring the Effect of Social Media on Ideological Alignment and Drift”
Adviser: Prof. Arvind Narayanan

Rohan Doshi
“FITBOT: Machine Learning Anomaly Detection Framework for IoT Device Networks”
Adviser: Prof. Nick Feamster

Manbir Gulati
“Generative Adversarial Nets for Time Series Data Augmentation” 
Adviser: Prof. Barbara Engelhardt

Waqarul Islam
“DroneTalk: Communicate with the Sky”
Adviser: Dr. Marshini Chetty

Stefan Keselj
“State of the Art Question Answering using Shallow Dynamic Memory Networks”
Adviser: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum

Jonathan Lu
“Improved Methods for Causal Inference and Experimental Prioritization in Gene Regulatory Networks”
Adviser: Prof. Barbara Engelhardt

Di Qi
“Trip Clustering Using Big Data”
Adviser: Asst. Prof. Han Liu

Matthew Rosen
“Navigating Textual ‘Metric Space’: On Quantifying Differences in Literature”
Adviser: Prof. Brian Kernighan 

Center for Digital Humanities Senior Thesis Prize for 2018

Jessica Ji
 

Service Award

Jessica Ji
Jonathan Lu
Susan Wang
 

Student Teaching Award

Allison Chang
Cathy Chen
Leila Clark
Caleb Gum
Heesu Hwang
Sally Jiao
Lucy Lin
Shefali Nayak
Daniel Stanley
Natalie Wertz
Nicholas Yang
Jennifer Yin
 

Accenture Prize in Computer Science

(from left to right) Katie Lim, Sung Won Chang, Nick Jiang, Cathy Chen, Prem Nair
 

Computing Research Association Award Honorable Mentions

Rohan Doshi

 

ACE Teaching Fellowship Notre Dame

Thomas Clark

 

Fulbright US Student Grant

Cathy Chen

 

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Katie Lim

 

Gates Cambridge Fellowship

Adam Berman

 

Martin A. Dale ‘53 Fellowship

Alice Tang

 

Princeton in Asia Teaching Fellowship

Cindy Liu

 

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

Kyle Genova
Malte Moeser
Divyarthi Mohan