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

Award announcement 2024-25

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

Award announcement 2023-24

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

Award announcement 2022-23

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

Award announcement 2021-22

* Honourable Mention recipients are listed alphabetically by last name.