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Elise Karinshak
Congratulations, Elise Karinshak

Elise Karinshak, a junior majoring in Data Science and Marketing, was named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the United States for excellence in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Drs. Yan Jin, Jeff Hancock and Abhyuday Mandal were her mentors for this scholarship. Elise aspires to a research career at the intersection of data science and AI-mediated communication. As an undergraduate,…

Huimin Cheng
Congratulations to Huimin Cheng

Congratulations to Huimin Cheng (from the Big Data Analytics Lab) for being selected to receive the prestigious Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Assistantship for 2022-2023. An initiative of the SEC provosts, this award recognizes outstanding students and serves to prepare them for careers in higher education. This grant enables doctoral students to conduct research in support of their dissertations. Under the guidance of Drs.…

Monsur
Congratulations, Monsur!

Monsur Chowdhury is the recipient of the 2022 Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is made possible by a generous gift from the late Ted and Caroline Ridlehuber, friends and alumni of the college who make a life-changing impact on their students. Students are responsible for nominating faculty for the award. A committee of students (Franklin Ambassadors) chose the finalists. The letters that nominated Monsur…

Chen
Congratulations to Xianyan Chen!

Xianyan Chen is part of a Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant titled "Nanotechnology- and Machine Learning-Based Rapid Infectious Disease Diagnostics," led by Dr. Yiping Zhao of Physics. The project aims to combine nano-optics and machine-learning techniques to develop a rapid, portable, and cost-effective point-of-care method to detect viruses—such as SARS-CoV-2—and bacterial infections in patients. Funding will support one…

Lynne
Congratulations to Lynne Seymour!

Lynne Seymour is part of a Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant titled "Developing New Storm Design Criteria for Natural Hazards Planning Research and Practice," led by Dr. J. Scott Pippin with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The project aims to modernize precipitation and wind velocity data to improve public safety and foster the development of resilient infrastructure. Funding will support one student in Statistics from Spring…

Gyu
Gyu Beom Kim is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2022

Statistics student Gyu Beom Kim is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2022. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. Under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal and Dr. Suraj Sharma (Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors), Gyu will analyze that aims at the consumer’s intention of using face masks with respect to comfort and safety with surveying the…

Case
Congratulations, Catherine!

Catherine Case receives the 2022 General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award. This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction.

Students
Congratulations to UGA Students!

Congratulations to Haoran Lu, Jeevan Jankar and Mengrui Zhang for winning the Excellent Poster Awards at the 2021 Georgia Statistics Day held at Emory University! Congratulations to Shushan Wu and Yongkai Chen for receiving the honorable mentions! Names Posters Haoran Lu Positive-unlabeled Learning with Optimal Transport: Detecting Latent HIV Infected Cells in Single-cell RNA-seq Jeevan Jankar A General Equivalence…

Yiren Hou
Yiren Hou is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Fall 2021

Statistics student Yiren Hou is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Fall 2021. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. Under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal and Dr. Suraj Sharma (Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors), Yiren will evaluate the optimal spinning process for the production of regenerated protein fiber from milk casein protein. To combat food waste,…

Ping Ma
Congratulation Ping Ma!

Dr. Ping Ma will be appointed as a Distinguished Research Professor, effective July 1, 2021. This appointment is one of the highest honors for research afforded to UGA faculty by the institution. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ma on this prestigious recognition!
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