Hassan Rafique received the Best Paper Award Runner-up at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2019 (http://2019.dsconf.cc/index.html) for the paper "Model-Agnostic Linear Competitors" (with co-authors Tong Wang, Qihang Lin & Arshia Shinghani).
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Melanie King, Pake Melland, Roberto C. Toro-Rodriguez, and Rajinda S. Wickrama received the University of Iowa Council on Teaching - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards in 2019.
The inaugural AMCS Day successfully took place on April 20, 2019. Two major activities of the AMSC Day were research presentations by eight AMCS students and panel discussion on career opportunities. The schedule of the AMCS Day can be found at http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~whan/AMCS_Day_schedule.pdf.
Pake Melland has been selected for a 2019 Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) under the program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences. His internship will take place at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM with mentors Jason Albright and Nathan Urban. The appointment is for 10 consecutive weeks over the summer. Pake's Ph.D. thesis advisor is Prof. Rodica Curtu.
The profile on Sara Reed can be found at https://www.grad.uiowa.edu/news/2019-03-28/exploring-effectiveness-of-au...
The news article regarding the Dare to Discover Campaign can be found here: https://research.uiowa.edu/impact/news/student-research-and-discovery-di...
Sara Reed's profile can be found here: https://dare.research.uiowa.edu/reed-sara/
Greg Ongie received the Graduate College's D.C. Spriesterbach Dissertation Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering in 2018 for his dissertation, “Off-the-grid Compressive Imaging”, supervised by Professor Mathews Jacob. For detail, click https://www.grad.uiowa.edu/news/2018-09-10/dissertation-winner-creates-a...
Jason Graham (Ph.D. 2012) is first author on the main paper described in this article by the Simons Foundation's magazine Quanta:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-bui...
and a link to the actual paper that has Jason as first author:
AMCS students have been successful in competing for NSF funds!
Ken Czuprynski received an NSF EAPSI award in 2016, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1613777
Nathaniel Richmond received an NSF EAPSI award in 2015, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1515118
Nathan David Ellingwood received an NSF EAPSI award in 2011, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1107967
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2016-2017: Hassan Rafique
