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PS Ph.D. Tara Willis awarded NYU University-Wide Outstanding dissertation award

Friday, Apr 1, 2022

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Performance Studies alum Tara Willis (Ph.D. '22) was awarded the NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of Arts and Humanities. 

Tara received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies in January 2022. Her dissertation, "Dancing Blackness: Kinetic Theorizations of Race in Contemporary Improvised Choreographies," directly addresses the complexities of what it means to be Black in the contemporary moment through the lens of making dances and dancing while Black. Her research works against racial inequality in dance scholarship, shifting away from linear, white-centered dance historical narratives to emphasize complex entanglements of lineage and influence, interpersonal relationships, and individual and collective agency. The dissertation expands the presence of several underrecognized but pivotal Black, avant-garde dance artists in the archival record of the present and explores how dance and race are mutually, albeit differently, intricate, malleable, and indescribable, centering two contemporary, improvisation-based performances.

Tara is currently Curator in Performance & Public Practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and a lecturer in dance at the University of Chicago.

Congratulations Tara!

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For University-wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards For The Academic Year

• 2021   Junaid Farooq "Cyber-Physical Dynamic Decision Mechanisms for Large Scale Internet of Things Systems & Networks" Advisor: Quanyan Zhu
• 2020   Roozbeh Soleymani "Multi-Talker Babble Noise Reduction in Cochlear Implant Devices" Advisor: Ivan Selesnick

Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Alexander Hessel to a graduate student for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in electrical engineering. The award carries a cash prize of $1500. All Ph.D. students who completed a doctoral dissertation (or a complete draft) between April of the previous year and March of the current year are eligible.

• 2022   Bo Pang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
• 2021   Juntao Chen (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2020   Parisa Hassanzadeh (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip)
• 2019   Roozbeh Soleymani (Advisor: Prof. Ivan Selesnick)
• 2018   Tao Bian (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
• 2017   Sanjay Goyal
• 2016  Jeyavijayan Rajendran

David Goodman Leadership and Academic Excellence Award

This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus David Goodman to one or more  Ph.D. students who have demonstrated excellence in leadership and service while maintaining outstanding research and academic performance. This award recognizes both internal and external leadership and service to the profession. Students graduating in the past year (between June of the previous year and May of the current year) are eligible. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022) This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus David Goodman to ECE students with excellent research performance. This award is open to all ECE undergraduate and graduate students who have received a paper award as the lead author from a peer-reviewed journal or conference, or a prestigious recognition of their research work, in the past year.

• 2021   Mengzhe Huang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
• 2020   Tao Zhang (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2019   Parisa Hassanzadeh (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip) Weinan Gao (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)

The Dante Youla Award For Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Emeritus Dante Youla for timely recognition of important research contributions made by Ph.D. students. The award recognizes one impactful paper in which the awardee is the principal author or a significant external award. The paper needs to be published/accepted or the external award received in the past year (between April of the previous year and March of the current year). The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022) This award is given in honor of ECE Professor Emeritus Dante Youla to a graduate student who has made the most significant research contributions among all ECE graduate students (Ph.D. and MS) in the past year.

• 2022   Fabrizio Carpi (Advisors: Prof. Elza Erkip, Prof. Siddharth Garg) Leilei Cui (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang) Linan Huang (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu) Guanrui Li (Advisor: Prof. Guiseppe Loianno) Bo Pang (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
• 2021   Zhujun Huang (Advisor: Prof. Davood Shahrjerdi)
• 2020   Junaid Farooq (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2019   Arun Parthasarathy (Advisor: Prof. Shaloo Rakheja) Juntao CHEN (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2018   Shu Sun
• 2017   George Robert MacCartney
• 2016   Erdem Asa Tao Bian (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)

David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Education Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established and funded by the former President of Polytechnic University David C. Chang and his wife Cecilia M. Chang, this award is given to one or more ECE graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in assisting undergraduate or graduate classes in the past year (Spring and Fall semesters of the previous year). The award carries a cash prize of $500.

• 2022   Kevin Joon Tai Kim (Nominator: Prof. Guiseppe Loianno)
• 2021   Fabrizio Carpi (Advisor: Prof. Elza Erkip and Prof. Siddharth Garg)

The Theodor Tamir Award for the Best MS Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established by the late ECE Professor Emeritus Theodor Tamir, this award is given to a student in the MS program for the most outstanding MS Thesis or research project (with detailed report or published/accepted papers) in electrical or computer engineering. All MS students who completed a MS Thesis (or a complete draft) or a research project the past year (between April of the previous year and March of the current year) are eligible. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

(Before 2022)

Theodor Tamir Award for the Best MS Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established and funded by ECE Professor Emeritus Theodor Tamir, this award will be given to a MS student for the most outstanding MS Thesis in electrical or computer engineering.

• 2022   Tianyun Sun (Advisor: Prof. Farokh Atashzar)
• 2021   Dipankar Shakya (Advisor: Prof. Ted Rappaport)
• 2020   Alexander Dunyak (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2019   Guanze Peng (Advisor: Prof. Quanyan Zhu)
• 2018   Yunfei Teng
• 2017   Ruturaj Nankumar Pujari
• 2016   Carlos Hernan Alonso Martinez

The Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best MS Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This award is given to MS students in electrical or computer engineering who have achieved excellent academic performance. All MS students who graduated or expect to graduate between June of the previous year and May of the current year are eligible. This award carries a cash prize of $200.

(Before 2022) This award is given to a MS student in electrical or computer engineering based on the course work as well as MS thesis or project.

• 2022  Cheng Chen Xiaotian Li Zulong Ye
• 2021  Dajr Alfred (Advisor: Prof. Dariusz Czarkowski)
• 2019  Ish Kumar Jain (Advisor: Prof. Shiv Panwar)
• 2018  Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani
• 2017  Jun Li
• 2016   Rui Zhang

The Athanasios Papoulis Award 

For Graduate Teaching Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 2018   Fraida Fund Muhammad Junaid Farooq
• 2017   Nikhil Rangerajan
• 2016   Erdem Asa

Inclusive Excellence Award

• 2021   Zahra Ghodsi

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Margaret goldstone memorial fund award .

Given by the late Professor Leonard O. Goldstone, in memory of his wife, to the graduating senior receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering with the highest academic standing.

• 2021   Katelyn Rose Owings
• 2020   Mayank Vanjani
• 2018   Damian S Dziedzic
• 2017   Robert Ryszewski
• 2016  Wells Santo

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Established by the late Professor Myron M. Rosenthal and awarded to electrical engineering juniors with the highest academic standing.

• 2021  Mir Naveen Alam
• 2020  Katelyn Owings
• 2018  Rundong Chen
• 2017  Damian Dziedzic Riya Varughese
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• 2020   Mir Naveen Alam
• 2018   Mayank Vanjani
• 2017   Rundong Chen
• 2016  Fahim Ghani

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• 2017   Hieu Sy Do Nathan Thomas Ly Riya A Varughese Bilal Saleem Anfernee Zhao Fahim Ghani Alex Uriel Concepcion Romero Teddy Zeng

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• 2023   Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (2023) "Do Switches Still Need to Deliver Packets in Sequence?" Ufuk Usubutun, Fraida Fund, and Shivendra Panwar.
• 2022   Best Paper Award at the IEEE Globecom 2022. "Thermal Conduction as a Wireless Communication Channel". Ruth G. Gebremedhin; Advisor: Thomas Marzetta
• 2021   Best Paper Award at the Wireless Communications Symposium, Globecom 2021. "Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical MIMO Channel Model for Urban Microcells at 142 GHz". Shihao Ju; Advisor: Theodore Rappaport

PhD Graduate Dr. Xupeng Mao Receives NYU Outstanding Dissertation Awards Honorable Mention

Dr. Xupeng Mao, a 2018 graduate of NYU Silver’s PhD Program who is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at East China University of Science and Technology, has been awarded Honorable Mention in NYU’s University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards. Dr. Mao was recognized in the category of Allied Health & Social Services for her dissertation, “The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults in China.” NYU President Andrew Hamilton announced the award winners at a ceremony before the annual NYU Research Showcase on April 24, 2019.

Dr. Mao’s dissertation used data from two longitudinal national surveys of Chinese residents to examine the relationship between social support and Chinese older adults’ subjective well-being, and to identify the groups most vulnerable to low subjective well-being and the types and sources of social support that may promote the older adults’ subjective well-being.

“Subjective well-being at older ages is important to individuals, their families, and society,” said Dr. Mao. “It dictates how we think, feel, and behave, and helps determine how we handle stress.” She noted that upheavals in Chinese society over the past 40 years, stemming in part from the country’s one-child policy and massive rural-to-urban migration, have both introduced new stressors and changed the types and sources of social support China’s older adults now receive.

Dr. Mao cited a number of important findings that emerged from her dissertation. “First, children’s support (i.e., financially, instrumentally, and emotionally) was important to Chinese older adults’ subjective well-being, particularly those who had relatively disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g., low educational levels) or have their preferred living arrangement. Second, older adults receiving formal financial support (e.g., retirement pension) had the same or even better subjective well-being than their counterparts receiving financial support from their children. Third, although receiving instrumental support from non-child sources was generally associated with lower subjective well-being, receiving instrumental support from a spouse tended to benefit urban Chinese older adults’ subjective well-being. Fourth, being widowed, having poor health, and being functional dependent were negatively associated with Chinese older adults’ subjective well-being. In addition, instrumental support from children and formal financial support may serve as buffers for older adults dealing with these stressors, resulting in better subjective well-being than their counterparts who receive support from other sources or have no support. Last, compared to older adults living with children, rural older adults who live alone were less likely to be satisfied with their lives. “

Professor  Wen-Jui Han , the Director the School’s PhD Program and Dr. Mao’s Dissertation Committee Chair, said “I am pleased that Dr. Mao has received this prestigious recognition by our University. She has proven to be a high caliber early career researcher whose dissertation has the potential to shape public policy and social programs in China to enhance the well-being of the country’s older adults and their families. We are very proud of Xupeng and are exciting to see many more contributions she will make to advance our scholarship and our profession.”  

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• Ethan Perez (2018 - 2021)
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• Lamont Nelson (2016 - 2019)
• Shravas Rao (2015 - 2018)
• Minjie Wang (2016 - 2017)
• Zachary Ferguson (2020 - 2021)
• Marc Finzi (2020 - 2021)
• Harish Karthikeyan (2020 - 2021)
• Zhongshi Jiang (2019 - 2020)
• Yixin Hu (2018 - 2019)
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• Zvonimir Pavlinovic (2014 - 2015)
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• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2013 - 2014)
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• Minjie Wang (2018)
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• Ashwin Venkataraman (2017)
• Laura Florescu (2016)
• Yonatan Halpern (2015)
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• Y-Lan Boureau (2011)
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• Yi Fang (2004)
• Lexing Ying (2003)
• Sixin Zhang (2010 - 2011)
• Ethan Perez (2020)
• Lamont Nelson (2017 - 2018)
• Emily Denton (2016 - 2017)
• Mukund Sudarshan (2019)
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• Chelsea Tymms (2018 - 2019)
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• Ian Spiro (2008)
• Adrian Secord (2007)
• Piotr Mirowski (2006)
• Raia Hadsell (Fall 2005)
• Venkatesh Mysore (2004)
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• Evgueni Parilov (2001 - 2002)
• Zhenyi He (2017)

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• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2010 - 2011)

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• Cheng Tan (2020 - 2021)
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• Noah Stephens Davidowitz (2017 - 2018)
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• Chelsea Tymms "Tactile Perception of the Roughness of 3D-Printed Textures", Journal of Neurophysiology (2018)
• Cheng Tan "The Efficient Server Audit Problem, Deduplicated Re-execution and the Web" (with Mike Walfish), SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles) (2017)
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• Zhongshi Jiang "ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset For Geometric Deep Learning" (with Daniele Panozzo, Denis Zorin, and Francis Williams), SGP (Symposium on Geometry Processing) (2019)
• Tim King "Finding Minimum Type Error Sources" (with Thomas Wies), OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Language, and Applications) (2014)
• Zvonimir Pavlinovic "Finding Minimum Type Error Sources" (with Thomas Wies), OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Language, and Applications) (2014)
• Ameet Talwalkar "Ensemble Nyström Method", New York Academy of Sciences' annual Symposium on Machine Learning (2009)
• Yotam Gingold "From Rock, Paper, Scissors to Street Fighter II: Proof by Construction", Proceedings of Sandbox (2006)
• Vikram Sharma "Almost Tight Complexity Bounds for the Descartes Method" (with Arno Eigenwillig and Chee Yap), 31st International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (2006)
• Afshin Rostamizadeh New York Academy of Sciences Machine Learning Symposium (2008)
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With sincere appreciation for all those involved in the nomination and review process, the Department of Statistics proudly announces the winners of the full group of doctoral dissertation awards this year. Each hard-won distinction is accompanied by a prize of $1,000, and recipients will be presented with their certificates during the department's diploma ceremony on June 16th. Congratulations to these outstanding students!

Theodore W. Anderson Theory of Statistics Dissertation Award

Isaac Gibbs – for his groundbreaking work on adaptive conformal inference, maintaining prediction coverage over time despite substantial changes in the data distribution, and his amazing contribution to conformal prediction, quantifying the uncertainty of modern black box algorithms without distributional assumptions.

Jerome H. Friedman Applied Statistics Dissertation Award

Sifan Liu – for her work on high dimensional integration, machine learning optimization strategies and pre-integration in randomized quasi-Monte Carlo, and its novel application in data science.

Ingram Olkin Interdisciplinary Research Dissertation Award

Ying Jin – for pioneering model-free selective inference methods for multi-stage decision pipelines such as job hiring and drug discovery, and for providing new methods for diagnosing replication failure.

Probability Dissertation Award

Kangjie Zhou – for discovering precise high-dimensional asymptotics for projection pursuit with random data, using techniques from spin glasses and empirical process theory.

• Outstanding Dissertation in Counseling Psychology Award

The Outstanding Dissertation in Counseling Psychology Award is given in recognition of a dissertation of especially high quality and potential impact in the field of counseling psychology.

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Gabriele Farina receives 2023 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award

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Amanda Moore

May 31, 2024

The award is given annually for an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation

Gabriele Farina has received the 2023 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games Learning Dynamics, Equilibrium Computation, and Complexity.”  The award is given for an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation, and is conferred annually at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation. 

Farina’s thesis extensively contributes to our fundamental understanding of equilibrium computation and learning in imperfect-information games, resolving recognized open problems, establishing new positive complexity results, and leading in several cases to state-of-the-art performance in theory and/or practice. Among other breakthroughs, it resolves the existence of efficient learning dynamics leading to extensive-form correlated equilibria, provides state-of-the-art regret rates for learning in multiplayer imperfect-information settings, and yields positive complexity results together with the first polynomial-time algorithm for exact sequentially-rational equilibria in large-scale games.

Farina is the X-Window Consortium Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer science, operations research, and economics, with a focus on learning and optimization methods for sequential decision-making under imperfect information, and computational game theory. Before joining LIDS, he spent a year as a Research Scientist at Meta, where he helped design the learning dynamics behind Cicero , a human-level AI agent combining strategic reasoning and natural language. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGEcom dissertation award, the Runners Up Victor Lesser dissertation award, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science’s dissertation award, a NeurIPS Best Paper Award, an ICLR Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention, and a Facebook Fellowship in the area of economics and computer science. He earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS in control theory from Politecnico di Milano.

ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom) encourages research and applications at the interface between computer science and economics, using economic ideas and computational reasoning to understand and improve social and economic interactions.

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