{"63162":{"#nid":"63162","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Doctoral Student Wins Marshall Sherfield Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Dillon, a Ph.D. student in Computational Science \u0026amp; \nEngineering, has been selected for a prestigious two-year Marshall \nSherfield Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDillon, who is advised by Assistant Professor Guy Lebanon, works in \nmachine learning, computational statistics and information \nvisualization. At Cambridge he will work with Zoubin Ghahramani, \nprofessor of information engineering in the Department of Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cI am primarily interested in exploring the statistical theory aspects \nof machine learning and how these insights can be exploited for more \nefficient and effective data modeling and prediction,\u201d said Dillon, who \ngrew up on a small farm in Michigan and earned his bachelor\u2019s and \nmaster\u2019s degrees from Michigan Technological and Purdue universities, \nrespectively. \u201cI am interested in large-scale data problems, primarily \ntext analysis, as well as modeling challenges present in image \nprocessing, biological data and social structure.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech has had more students win the Marshall Sherfield award than\n any other U.S. university. The fellowships have been offered since \n1998 when they were begun to mark the 50th anniversary of the Marshall \nPlan, and the awards are part of the distinguished \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMarshall Scholarships\n program\u003C\/a\u003E. Georgia Tech now has two Marshall awards this year; 2009 \ngraduate Nick Wellkamp was named a Marshall Scholar in November and will\n go to Oxford University next fall.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Dillon, a Ph.D. student in Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering, has been selected for a prestigious two-year Marshall Sherfield Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CSE Ph.D. student Joshua Dillon wins two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study at the University of Cambridge."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-12-14 12:27:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63163":{"id":"63163","type":"image","title":"Joshua Dillon","body":null,"created":"1449176649","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:09","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Joshua Dillon","file":{"fid":"191760","name":"Josh_Dillon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":141548,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg?itok=J__27HMb"}}},"media_ids":["63163"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167034","name":"student awards"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}