Congratulations to the Department of Computer Science Class of 2020!

June 1, 2020

Tiger illustration by Audrey Cheng '20

On Monday, June 1, 2020, the Computer Science department held its first virtual Class Day award ceremony online.  Those honored are listed below.  

Class of 2020

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Arts

Tau Beta Pi

Accenture Prize in Computer Science

Rebecca Barber
May Jiang
Jonathan Jow
David Todd
Yanjun Yang

Computing Research Association - Honorable Mention

Rebecca Barber
Yafah Edelman
Grace Guan
Austin Wang

National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship

Grace Guan

Digital Humanities Senior Thesis Prize

Alice Xue
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
“Can A Machine Originate Art? Creating Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings Using Artificial Intelligence”

Digital Humanities Senior Thesis - Honorable Mention

Cathleen Kong
Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan
“Computerized Visual Analysis for Classifying Chinese Paintings by Dynasty”

Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal

Preeti Iyer
The Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton.

Outstanding Student Teaching Award

Reilly Bova
Daniel Chae
John Hallman
Ben Liang
Lucas Salvador
Benjamin Schiffer
William Sweeny
David Todd
Shirley Zhang

Student Teaching Award - Honorable Mention

Khyati Agrawal
Tajreen Ahmed
Rebecca Barber
Jad Bechara
Aditya Cowsik
Urvashi Uberoy
John Willet

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

Jeffrey Helt
Lisa Jian
Priscilla Lee
Linda Cai

Computer Science Service Award

Rebecca Barber
Robert Liu
Zoya Shoaib

Honors and Awards

Honors

High Honors

Highest Honors

Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Outstanding Computer Science Independent Work Prize

Daniel Chae
Maia Hamin
Lucas Salvador
Ayushi Sinha
Eitan Zlatin

Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Prize

Rebecca Barber
“Bounding the Competition Complexity for Additive Buyers over Two Independent Items”
- Adviser, Prof. Matt Weinberg

Grace Guan
“Non-Normality in Risk Adjustment Transfer Payments Under the Affordable Care Act”
- Adviser, Prof. Mark Braverman

David Major
“Mapping Broadband Internet Coverage at the Household Level”
- Adviser, Prof. Jonathan Mayer

Pulkit Singh
“Deep Prototype Models to Study Human Categorization Behavior”
- Adviser, Prof. Tom Griffiths

Ishan Sinha
“A Memory-Augmented Neural Network Model of Abstract Rule Learning”
- Adviser, Prof. Jonathan Cohen

David Todd
“Identifying Binding Positions in Proteins Using Neural Networks”
- Adviser, Prof. Mona Singh

Austin Wang
“Grounding Entities and Dynamics through Gameplay”
- Adviser, Prof. Karthik Narasimhan

Alice Xue
“Can a Machine Originate Art? Creatng Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings Using Artificial Intelligence”
- Adviser, Prof. Brian Kernighan

Yanjun Yang
“Modeling Routing Algebras and the Stable Routing Problem in Cubical Type Theory”
- Adviser, Prof. David Walker

Eitan Zlatin
“Simple Parallel Randomized Connected Components Algorithms”
- Adviser, Prof. Robert Tarjan

Bachelor of Science Degrees Conferred on April 4, 2020

Richard Du
Alexandra Palocz
Radia Soulmani
Alexander Xu

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Noah Apthorpe - Adviser: Prof. Nick Feamster
Brian Anderson Bullins - Adviser: Prof. Elad Hazan
Yichen Chen - Adviser: Prof. Mengdi Wang
Santiago Cuellar - Adviser: Prof. Andrew Appel
Ruth Dannenfelser - Adviser: Prof. Troyanskaya
Jordan Fix - Adviser: Prof. David August
Jennifer Gossels - Adviser: Prof. Jennifer Rexford
Maciej Halber - Adviser: Prof. Thomas Funkhouser
Borislav Hristov - Adviser: Prof. Mona Singh
Marcela Melara - Adviser: Prof. Michael Freedman
Olivier Savary Belanger - Adviser: Prof. Andrew Appel
Ariel Schvartzman Cohenca - Adviser: Prof. Matthew Weinberg
Elena Sizikova - Adviser: Prof. Thomas Funkhouser
Yixin Sun - Adviser: Prof. Prateek Mittal
Caroline Trippel - Adviser: Prof. Margaret Martonosi
Andy Zeng - Adviser: Prof. Thomas Funkhouser

Masters of Science in Engineering (MSE)

Tingting Cai
Joseph Eichenhofer
Haochen Li
Suriya Kodeswaran
Anastasiya Kravchuk-Kirilyuk
Jennifer Lam
Mengying Pan

Masters of Engineering (MEng)

Xi Chen
Zhongqiao Gao
James Heppenstall
Lisa Jian
Priscilla Lee
Jace Lu
Sonali Mahendran
Alberto Mizrahi Benmaman
Carlo Rosati
Xin Sun
Josh Zhang

Program in Applications of Computing

Honors presented at the SEAS Class Day Awards Ceremony 

The Calvin Dodd MacCracken Senior Thesis/Project Award was established in honor of Mr. MacCracken, Class of 1940, by his family, to recognize the senior thesis or project work that is most distinctive for its inventiveness and technical accomplishment. 
Alice Xue

The Joseph Clifton Elgin Prize is an annual prize awarded to a senior(s) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science who, in the judgment of the Dean and the departmental chairs, has done the most to advance the interests of the School in the community at large.
David Jacob Major

The George J. Mueller Award was established in 1991 by members of the faculty and staff of the School of Engineering and Applied Science in memory of Dean George J. Mueller, to honor that graduating senior who over his or her four undergraduate years at Princeton has most evidently combined high scholarly achievement in the study of engineering with quality performance in intercollegiate athletics.
Andrew Jacob Griffin

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
Jérémie 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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