Congratulations to the Department of Computer Science Class of 2021!

May 24, 2021

Tiger illustration by Audrey Cheng '20

On Monday, May 24, 2021, the Computer Science department held its Class Day award ceremony online. 
Those honored are listed below.  

Class of 2021

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

*January 2021 Graduates

Bachelor of Arts

Tau Beta Pi

Accenture Prize in Computer Science

Charles Zhao
Dora Zhao

Computing Research Association Award- Runner-Up

Henry Birge-Lee

Computing Research Association - Honorable Mention

Eve Fleisig
Arjun Mani
Dora Zhao 

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Avinash Boppana 
Arjun Mani

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship: Honorable Mention

Geoffrey Mon

Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative  Graduate Scholars

Bevin Benson

Schwarzman Scholarship

Ilene E
Arjun Krishnan

Digital Humanities Senior Thesis Prize

William Ughetta
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
“The Old Bailey, U.S. Reports, and OCR: Benchmarking AWS, Azure, and GCP on 360,000 Page Images”

Outstanding Student Teaching Award

Diamond Acharya
Justin Chang
Connor Hainje
Julie Kallini
Ze-Xin Koh
William Li
Aaron Lichtblau
Haley Zeng
Lily Zhang

Student Teaching Award - Honorable Mention

Somya Arora
Avi Bendory
Nathan Bergman
Donovan Coronado
Kimberly Ding
Jessica Fielding
Yoni Goldberg
Michael Hu
Jeanna Joseph
Joseph Kim
Jonathan Kutasov
Drew Limpasuvan
Charles Smith
Connie Miao
Natalie O'Leary
Sahan Paliskara
Anna Qin
Tiffany Sun
Eileen Wang
Maxwell Xu
Chris Yang

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

Ameet Deshpande 
Joshua Gardner
Sadhika Malladi 
Matthew Myers
Chris Sciavolino 
Tara Shankar 
Susan Tan 

Computer Science Service Award

Matthew Fastow
Allan Kipkorir 
Noa Zarur
Haley Zeng

Honors and Awards

Honors

High Honors

Highest Honors 

Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Henry Birge-Lee
Anabelle Chang
Arjun Devraj
Kimberly Ding
Eve Fleisig
Tinashe Handina
Nina He
Jeanna Joseph
Daniel Jubas
Jason Kim
Arjun Mani
Geoffrey Mon
William Ughetta
Amy Xu
Dora Zhao

Outstanding Computer Science Independent Work Prize

Avinash Boppana
Hari Raval

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize

Henry Birge-Lee
“Experiences Deploying Multi-Vantage-Point Domain Validation at Let’s Encrypt”
Adviser, Prof. Jennifer Rexford
 
 Kimberly Ding
“Spatial-NetMix: Less Biased and More Flexible Anomaly Detection”
Adviser, Prof. Ben Raphael
 
Eve Fleisig
“Adversarial Learning for Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation”
Adviser, Prof. Christiane Fellbaum
  
Michael Hu
“Case Studies on the Interaction between Machine Learning and Language”
Advisers, Prof. Tom Griffiths, Prof. Karthik Narasimhan
  
Mikako Inaba
“Using Ordered Learning to Mitigate Privacy Risks of Neural Networks”
Adviser, Prof. Prateek Mittal
  
Julie Kallini
“A Corpus-based Analysis of Two-termed Coordination”
Adviser, Prof. Christiane Fellbaum
  
Jason Kim
“Meta4: Analyzing Internet Traffic by Domain Name in the Data Plane”
Adviser, Prof. Jennifer Rexford
  
Julian Knodt
“Neural Ray-Tracing: Learning Surfaces and Reflectance for Relighting and View Synthesis”
Adviser, Prof. Felix Heide
  
Arjun Mani
“Point and Ask: Incorporating Pointing Into Visual Question Answering”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky
 
 Geoffrey Mon
“Query Complexity of Graph Problems in a Directed Cut Oracle Model”
Adviser, Prof. Matthew Weinberg
  
William Ughetta
“The Old Bailey, U.S. Reports, and OCR: Benchmarking AWS, Azure, and GCP on 360,000 Page Images”
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
  
Dora Zhao
“Understanding and Evaluating Racial Biases in Image Captioning”
Adviser, Prof. Olga Russakovsky

Phillip Goldman’86 Senior Prize in Computer Science

Julie Kallini

Honors presented at the SEAS Class Day Awards Ceremony 

Jeffrey O. Kephart ’80 Prize in Engineering Physics
Charles Zhao

The Joseph Clifton Elgin Prize
Dora Zhao

The Calvin Dodd MacCracken Senior Thesis/Project Award
Henry Birge-Lee

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Sotirios Apostolakis - Adviser: Prof David August
Jordan Thomas Ash - Adviser: Prof Ryan Adams
Sumegha Garg - Adviser: Prof Mark Braverman
Kyle Adam Genova  - Adviser: Prof Thomas Funkhouser
Nikolaos Giannarakis - Adviser: Prof David Walker
Yatin Avdhut Manerkar - Adviser: Prof Margaret Martonosi
Arunesh Mathur - Adviser: Prof Marshini Chetty
Anders Francis Miltner - Adviser: Prof David Walker
Andrew Or - Adviser: Prof Michael Freedman
Zoi Paraskevopoulou - Adviser: Prof Andrew Appel
Niranjani Prasad - Adviser: Prof Barbara Engelhardt
Laura Monica Roberts - Adviser: Prof Ed Felten
Cyril Xi Yao Zhang - Adviser: Prof Elad Hazan

Masters of Science in Engineering (MSE)

John Li - Adviser: Prof Andrew Appel
Johan Ospina - Adviser: Prof Jia Deng
Lucas Salvador - Adviser: Prof David August 
Christopher Sciavolino - Adviser: Prof Danqi Chen
Daniel Changyan Wang - Adviser: Prof Yoram Singer

Program in Applications of Computing

Congratulations to the Computer Science Class of 2021!

Special thank you to everyone who made this virtual Class Day possible!
Audrey Cheng, Illustration
Jennifer Rexford, Department Chair
Adam Finkelstein, Associate Chair
JP Singh and Brian Kernighan, Directors of Undergraduate Studies
Jeremie Lumbroso, Lecturer
Michele Brown, Department Manager
Colleen Kenny, Undergraduate Program Manager
Mikki Hornstein, Independent Work Program Administrator
Laura Cerrito, Undergraduate Program Administrator
Joseph Crouthamel, Technical Manager

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