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Sandy wins best poster award

tlab PhD student Sandy Dash wins the “Best Poster: Best Communication” award at the 2024 ECE PhD Day for her poster “Generalized Prediction of Running Performance for Various Distances and Elevation Gains.” Congrats!

Nesara wins National Aspirations in Computing Award

tlab intern Nesara Shree won a National Aspirations in Computing Award from the National Center for Women in Computing (NCWIT).

Each year, U.S. high school students in grades 9 through 12 who are women, genderqueer, or non-binary are eligible to receive recognition for their aptitude and aspirations in technology and computing, as demonstrated by their computing experience, computing-related activities, leadership experience, tenacity in the face of barriers to access, and plans for post-secondary education. This year, 40 winners and 360 honorable mentions were selected from more than 3,300 amazing, talented young applicants.

Samyak named top 300 Scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS)

The Society for Science announced that tlab intern Samyak Shrimali has been named a top 300 Scholar in the 82nd Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) — the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors.


Regeneron STS recognizes and empowers the most promising young scientists in the U.S. who are creating the ideas and solutions that solve our most urgent challenges. A listing of all 300 Scholars can be found here ; a total of 1,949 students around the country entered the competition this year.  Each scholar will receive $2,000, and their schools will also receive $2,000 to use toward STEM-related activities.

Sandy wins best poster award

tlab PhD student Sandhyarani “Sandy” Dash won the best poster award at the “2022 Winter School on Algorithms for Graphs and Games” at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Jodhpur.

She presented her work on “Accurate Race Time Prediction for Ultra-Distance Trail Races Using Neural Networks.”