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CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award Recipients
Recipients 2024-25
| Year | Recipient | Dissertation Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Pingchuan MA | Algorithms, Applications, and Verification of Causal Structure Learning | Best PhD Dissertation Award |
| 2024-25 | Haoqiang HUANG | Exact and Approximate Algorithms for Frechet Problems | Honorable Mention |
| 2024-25 | Yi LIN | Toward Efficient Yet Effective Algorithms for Medical Image Segmentation | Honorable Mention |
| 2024-25 | Kaiqiang XU | Towards Efficient and Accessible Systems for Distributed Machine Learning | Honorable Mention |
Recipients 2023-24
| Year | Recipient | Dissertation Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | Yuanyuan YUAN | Side Channel Analysis for AI Infrastructures | Best PhD Dissertation Award |
| 2023-24 | Yuandao CAI | Making Call Graph Construction More Practical for Program Analysis in the Real World | Honorable Mention |
| 2023-24 | Haotian LI | Bridging Data Analysis and Storytelling with Human-AI Collaborative Tools | Honorable Mention |
| 2023-24 | Hao ZHANG | From Query to Prompt: Towards Open-World Perception | Honorable Mention |
Recipients 2022-23
| Year | Recipient | Dissertation Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Wei DONG | Query Evaluation under Differential Privacy | Best PhD Dissertation Award |
| 2022-23 | Zhibo LIU | Towards Assessing and Enhancing Modern Software Reverse Engineering | Honorable Mention |
| 2022-23 | Tengfei WANG | High-Quality Visual Content Creation With Foundation Generative Models | Honorable Mention |
| 2022-23 | Chaoliang ZENG | Towards High-performance Datacenter Systems with Application-oriented Optimizations | Honorable Mention |
Recipients 2021-22
| Year | Recipient | Dissertation Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Aoyu WU | Efficient Creation and Analysis of Visualizations for Data Communication | Best PhD Dissertation Award |
| 2021-22 | Qichen WANG | Conjunctive Query Processing with Comparisons and Updates | Honorable Mention |
| 2021-22 | Peisen YAO | Solidifying and Scaling SMT-based Program Analysis | Honorable Mention |
| 2021-22 | Junxue ZHANG | Towards Efficient Transports for Datacenter Networking with High Environmental Variations | Honorable Mention |
* Honourable Mention recipients are listed alphabetically by last name.