Scholarships and Award Recipients
Following is the list of students who were received scholarships and awards for the year 2005.
Congratulations to all of them.
The following CSE students received Sabre Student Leadership Awards of $1000 each for their efforts with ACM/IEEE-CS, NSBE, SHPE, and SWE:
Roshini Chandran, Rashida Esmailji,
Batenga Nakisozi,
Rasha Ramadan
The following CSE Seniors received
Sabre Scholarships of $2000 each in a two-phase competition involving resumes and then on-site interviews at Sabre Holdings in Southlake:
Thomas Moore,
Stephen Olivier,
Nevzat Pinar
The
Sabre Holdings Outstanding CSE Junior Award
goes to
Pamela Lutkenhaus. Since joining UTA in Fall 2002, she has impressed the CSE
faculty with her abilities and level of effort. She has a 4.0 GPA.
The
Raytheon Outstanding CSE Senior Award goes to
Stephen Olivier. Besides carrying a 4.0 GPA, he participates in the Honors
College and has maintained their website, along with serving as the president of the
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society.
The HAD Life Senior Design Team developed a monitoring system for detecting
life-threatening temperature variations in the passenger compartment of an automobile.
The
Santech Outstanding CSE Senior Design Team Award
goes to the five team members:
Stephen J Brown,
Robert Carlton (team lead),
Kosuke Takahashi,
Fang Townsend,
John Turner
The
Cyneta Networks Outstanding CSE Graduate Teaching Assistant
Award goes to
Xiaohui Wei for her efforts in assisting with CSE
2340 & 2341, the courses in digital design and computer organization. She is admired for
her thoroughness, attention to detail, and fairness in assisting with the laboratory for
this course. She is in the CSE doctoral program and is performing her research under
the direction of
Prof. Ishfaq Ahmad.
The
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Outstanding CSE Masters Thesis Award
goes to
Sujata Wani. Her thesis, under the direction of
Prof. Farhad Kamangar,
examines an approach for the reconstruction of 3D architectural scenes from 2D perspective
sketches and images. This work reduces the number of geometric constraints to be explictly
entered during the process of image reconstruction.
The
SensorLogic Outstanding CSE Masters Thesis Award
goes to
Erika Torres-Verdin. Her thesis, under the direction of
Prof. Manfred Huber,
examines issues in probabilistic learning to profile the user of a search engine to allow
modification of queries to improve the relevance of the retrieved documents. This work has
led to a conference paper and a technical report.
The
Shuchman Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation Award
goes to
Haitao Lin. His work, under the direction of
Prof. Sajal Das, takes a
game-theoretic approach to model non-cooperative relationships between service providers and
customers, and then uses this formulation to solve resource management problems for wireless
data networks simultaneously supporting several classes of users. His doctoral work has
resulted in seven conference papers and six journal articles. He is presently employed at
Nortel Networks, Richardson.
