{"520121":{"#nid":"520121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ph.D. Students Earn Top Research Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeven College of Computing graduate students have been selected for premier computing fellowships from such top companies as Microsoft and Google.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EAmir Yazdan Baksh, Caitlyn Seim, Sadra Yazdanbod, Alexander Clegg, April Simmons, Matthew Fahrbach, Samantha Petti, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EAri Schlesinger\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;all received fellowships from prominent companies and organizations for their innovative research and emerging expertise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYazda Baksh\u003C\/strong\u003E, a second year Ph.D. student in CS, was awarded a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/northam\/northam-fellows.aspx\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese achievements show off the quality of Georgia Tech\u2019s students,\u201d says Assistant Professor Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, faculty advisor to Yazda-Baksh. \u201cI am extremely proud of Amir [Yazda Baksh] and excited to see how this propels his future research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs reported previously in \u003Cem\u003EInterface\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EYazdanbod\u003C\/strong\u003E, a third-year doctoral student at the School of Computer Science advised by Vijay Vazirani, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/student-spotlight\/sadrayazdanbod\u0022\u003Ewas selected for Google\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. fellowship program in mid-March.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFahrbach\u003C\/strong\u003E, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science\u2019s Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) program, rounds out the School of Computer Science students with fellowships. An advisee of Professor Dana Randall, Fahrbach received a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138123\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E for his research on Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPetti, a fellow Ph.D. ACO student, also received a NSF fellowship. Though based in the School of Mathematics, she\u2019s advised by Professor Santosh Vempala in SCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeim, Simmons, Clegg,\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESchlesinger\u003C\/strong\u003E are Ph.D. students in the School of Interactive Computing that earned fellowships. Seim, a third-year doctoral student advised by Professor Thad Starner, received a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/northam\/northam-fellows.aspx\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E for her research in wearable devices for rehabilitation and learning new tasks without active participation. With Yazdan Baksh , the two are Georgia Tech\u2019s first \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/northam\/northam-fellows.aspx\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Research Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E in nearly five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was ecstatic,\u201d Seim said about winning the fellowship. \u201cThis support is invaluable, and the connection with Microsoft Research is something that benefits my current research and my future career.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimmons, Clegg, and Schlesinger all earned \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138123\u0022\u003ENSF Graduate Research Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E. They are advised respectively by GVU Director Keith Edwards; Professor Greg Turk and Associate Professor Karen Liu; Professor Beki Grinter and GVU Director Keith Edwards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach fellowship provides monetary support to its recipient in his or her continued research and education. 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