{"591617":{"#nid":"591617","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tzintzarov, Wang Share Top Student Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Love Family Foundation Scholarship goes each year to a member of the graduating class with the most outstanding scholastic record.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the $10,000 scholarship provided by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.printpack.com\/the-gay-erskine-love-foundation\u0022\u003EGay and Erskine Love Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;went to Georgie Tzintzarov, an electrical and computer engineering major, and Charles M.\u0026nbsp;Wang, a chemistry and computer science major. Students in all six of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s colleges are considered for the award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth students have maintained a 4.0 GPA while engaging in multiple academic enrichment activities outside of normal coursework. The two received the award at the annual Student Honors Celebration on April 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETzintzarov\u0026nbsp;held summer internships at Cisco and Boeing, and he has worked as a co-op student in the Georgia Tech Research Institute\u0026rsquo;s Electronic Systems Lab. He\u0026nbsp;was able to get a taste of research in two different labs during his undergraduate career. He worked in Professor Ayanna Howard\u0026rsquo;s Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab through the Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS) program and was later an undergraduate research assistant in Professor John Cressler\u0026rsquo;s Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPropelled by his exposure to undergraduate research, Tzintzarov is now pursuing a Ph.D. degree with a focus on microelectronics\/microsystems with Professor Cressler as his advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOutside of the lab, Tzintzarov is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and led efforts to improve his fraternity\u0026rsquo;s academic performance while maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle. He hopes to inspire his brothers to be great leaders both at Georgia Tech and in life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven his numerous accomplishments, perhaps the most impressive part of Tzintzarov\u0026rsquo;s journey is where it began\u0026mdash;in a small town in Eastern Europe. Below he expounds on his \u0026ldquo;American Genesis\u0026rdquo; story and how his upbringing made him the man he is today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/news\/591373\/ece-student-awarded-institutes-top-accolade\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more about Tzintzarov.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFunded by a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/content\/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards\u0022\u003EPresident\u0026rsquo;s Undergraduate Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E, Wang worked with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~jyu67\/\u0022\u003EJosephine Yu,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;an assistant professor in the School of Mathematics. The undergraduate research has yielded two articles co-authored by Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1606.01814\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Generalized Permutohedra from Probabilistic Graphical Models\u0026rdquo; has been posted on arXiv.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and is under review for publication in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/journals\/sidma.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Another research article, \u0026ldquo;Toric h-vectors and Chow Betti Numbers of Dual Hypersimplices,\u0026rdquo; is in preparation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Charles has a rare combination of curiosity, perseverance, and mathematical and computational ability, which makes him an ideal research student,\u0026rdquo; Yu said. \u0026ldquo;I have every reason to believe that he will succeed in graduate school and beyond.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u0026rsquo;s fondness for mathematics has taken him to Hungary, where he participated in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oie.gatech.edu\/content\/hungary-bsm-budapest-math-exchange-program\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Budapest Semester in Mathematics Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and to North Carolina, Germany, and Finland to attend mathematical research summer workshops. He will pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/590779\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more about Wang.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe two students shared the Love Family Foundation Award for 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The two students shared the Love Family Foundation Award for 2017."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-05-10 13:17:12","changed_gmt":"2017-05-10 13:42:15","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591618":{"id":"591618","type":"image","title":"Charles Wang, George Tzintzarov, Rafael L. 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