The Computing Research Association honors the recipients of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards for 2005, sponsored this year by Microsoft Research. The program is sponsored by Microsoft Research and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in alternate years.

Andrea Grimes, Northeastern University, received the Outstanding Female Undergraduate award.

Mihai Patrascu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the Outstanding Male Undergraduate award.

 

Jane Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, and Suporn Pongnumkul, Carnegie Mellon University, were Runners-Up for the female award.

Aditya Sunderam, Harvard University, was Runner-Up for the male award.

This year’s selection committee included Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University (Chair); Oscar Garcia, University of North Texas; Hank Korth, Lehigh University; and Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd College.

Finalists

Shao-shan Huang, University of British Columbia
Amy Sliva, Georgetown University
Li Yan, York University
Dmitriy Bespalov, Drexel University
Bogdan Caprita, Columbia University
Cary Cherng, University of Washington
Charles Davi, Hunter College CUNY
Jared Go, Carnegie Mellon University
Steve Hanneke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pawel Wrotek, Brown University.

Honorable Mention - Female

Sarah Bell, Brown University
Stephanie Collett, University of Washington
Katherine Coons, University of Virginia
Shilpa Desai, Carnegie Mellon University
Rui Dong, Harvard University
Neha Jain, North Carolina State
Daphne Liu, Simon Fraser University
Maryam Mahdaviani, University of British Columbia
Ami Malaviya, University of Virginia
Carol Nichols, University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Saftalov, Purdue University
Karolina Sarnowska, Mississippi State University
Dong-Hui Xu, DePaul University
Jenny Yuen, University of Washington

Honorable Mention - Male

Robert Adolf, Northwestern University
Achraf Allali, University of South Carolina
Jesse Attas, University of Waterloo
Peter Barnum, University of Rochester
Nels Beckman, University of Southern California
Bhargav Bhatt, Columbia University
Alan Boyle, Mississippi State University
Christopher Burns, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Chong, Illinois Institute of Technology
Brian Cornell, Northwestern University
Michael Coupland, Harvey Mudd College
Beau Crawford, University of Washington
Matthew Curry, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vinayak Deshpande, University of Virginia
Peter Djalaliev, Washington and Lee University
Lior Elazary, University of Southern California
Nick Elprin, Harvard University
Micha Elsner, University of Rochester
Powei Feng, University of Texas at Austin
Robin Friedman, UC San Diego
Zachary Friggstad, University of Lethbridge
Shougata Ghosh, University of Virginia
Erwin Gianchandani, University of Virginia
Steven Hakusa, New York University
Stephen Hanssen, Texas A&M
John Hugg, Tufts University
Tyler Johnson, North Carolina State
Chad Jones, University of Tennessee
Brendan Juba, Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher Kanich, Purdue University
Joseph Kopena, Drexel University
Dustin Kozal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Srinivas Krishnan, SUNY Brockport
Stanislav Luban, Purdue University
Kenneth MacKay, University of British Columbia
Panayiotis Mavrommatis, MIT
Rory McGuire, University of New Mexico
Patrick Meredith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paul Ralph, Memorial University
Aaron Roth, Columbia University
Jon Sargeant, Arizona State University
Paul Shafer, Cornell University
Najaf Shah, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leo Singleton, Georgia Tech
David Sontag, UC Berkeley
Brian Tagiku, Harvey Mudd College
Arsalan Tavakoli, University of Virginia
Brian Tran, UC San Diego
Michael Tschantz, Brown University
Matthew Vail, North Carolina State
Minh Vu, University of Arkansas
Nicholas West, New York University
Timothy Williamson, Dartmouth College
Michael Yu, UC Berkeley

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