Arden Baxter (OR) : Heterogeneous Multi-Resource Allocation with Subset Demand Requests.

Zaiwei Chen (ML): A Unified Framework for Finite-Sample Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Yatharth Dubey (OR): On the Success of Strong Branching

He Jia(CS): Robustly Learning of Mixtures of Gaussians

Hassan Mortagy (OR): First-Order Methods for Combinatorial Structures and Machine Learning

Daan Rutten(OR): Improving Capacity Scaling With Machine Learning Predictions

Zhanzhan Zhao(CS): Mitigating Residential Segregation Through Urban Infrastructure

The selection committee this semester included Anton Bernshteyn, Santanu Dey, Xiaoming Huo, Mohit Singh, Prasad Tetali, Siva Theja and Santosh Vempala. Congratulations to the winners and look forward to great research from them!