Ph.D. Achievements

Fellowships

Adobe Research Fellowship

• Zachary Ferguson (2022 )
• Yixin Hu (2019 )
• Zhongshi Jiang (2018 )
• Francisca Gil-Ureta (2017 )

Apple Scholars in AIML

• Nur Muhammad Shafiullah (2023 )
• Aahlad Puli (2022 )

AT&T Labs Fellowship

• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2011 - 2014)

Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF)

• Michael Paik (2024 )

Fulbright Fellowship

• Nektarios Paisios (2007 - 2010)

Google PhD Fellowship

• Alexander Bienstock (2022 )
• Martin Arjovsky (2017 )
• Emily Denton (2016 )
• Wojciech Zaremba (2015 )
• Nguyen Tran (2010 )

Hertz Fellowship

• Nikhil Bhattasali (2022 )

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award

• Thien Nguyen (2016 )
• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2016 )
• Giuseppe Narzisi (2010 )
• Daniel Wichs (2010 )

la Caxia Foundation Fellowship

• Carles Domingo i Enrich (2019 )

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

• Dilip Krishnan (2010 - 2011)
• Russell Power (2010 - 2011)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship

• Ellis Brown (2024 - 2027)
• Christopher Hoang (2024 - 2027)
• David Brandfonbrener (2019 - 2022)
• Karl Otness (2019 - 2022)
• Theresa Avitabile (2012 - 2015)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

• Alexander Wang (2023 - 2026)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Fellowship

• Sébastien Jean ( PGS-D 2017 - 2019)
• Assimakis Kattis ( PGS-D 2017 - 2020)
• Emily Denton ( PGS-D 2015 - 2017)
• Emily Denton ( PGS-M 2013 )
• Yonatan Halpern ( PGS-D 2013 - 2016)
• Yonatan Halpern ( PGS-M 2012 )
• Matthew Zeiler ( PGS-D 2010 - 2013)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

• Noah Amsel (2024 - 2027)
• Saroja Erabelli (2024 - 2027)
• Megan Richards (2024 - 2027)
• Jane Pan (2023 - 2026)
• Betty Hou (2022 - 2025)
• Yucen (Lily) Li (2022 - 2025)
• Ulyana Piterbarg (2022 - 2025)
• Alexander Bienstock (2020 - 2023)
• Nitish Hemant Joshi (2020 - 2023)
• Ethan Perez (2018 - 2021)
• Alex Wang (2018 - 2021)
• Lamont Nelson (2016 - 2019)
• Shravas Rao (2015 - 2018)

NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

• Minjie Wang (2016 - 2017)

NYU Courant Institute Jacob T. Schwartz Ph.D. Fellowship

• Zachary Ferguson (2020 - 2021)
• Marc Finzi (2020 - 2021)
• Harish Karthikeyan (2020 - 2021)
• Zhongshi Jiang (2019 - 2020)
• Yixin Hu (2018 - 2019)
• Abhinav Tamaksar (2017 - 2018)
• Minjie Wang (2016 - 2017)
• Talal Ahmad (2015 - 2016)
• Emily Denton (2015 - 2016)
• Zvonimir Pavlinovic (2014 - 2015)
• Ashwin Venkataraman (2014 - 2015)
• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2013 - 2014)
• Jonathan Tompson (2012 - 2013)
• Preyas Popat (2011 - 2012)
• Russell Power (2011 - 2012)

NYU GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

• Arasu Arun (2023 )
• Nitish Joshi (2023 )
• Elaine Li (2023 )
• Elaine Li (2023 )
• Zachary Ferguson (2022 )
• Harish Karthikeyan (2021 )
• Shiva Iyer (2020 )
• Sebastien Jean (2020 )
• Matthew Morse (2020 )
• Siddharth Krishna (2018 )
• Minjie Wang (2018 )
• Zvonimir Pavlinovic (2017 )
• Sainbayar Sukhbaatar (2017 )
• Ashwin Venkataraman (2017 )
• Laura Florescu (2016 )
• Thien Nguyen (2016 )
• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2016 )
• Yonatan Halpern (2015 )
• Liana Sorina Hadarean (2013 )
• Aristeidis Tentes (2013 )
• Vasileios Gkatzelis (2012 )
• Dilip Krishnan (2012 )
• Y-Lan Boureau (2011 )
• Eugene Weinstein (2009 )
• Yotam Gingold (2008 )
• Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (2008 )
• Raia Hadsell (2007 )
• Shabsi Walfish (2006 )
• Iuliana Ionita (2005 )
• Yi Fang (2004 )
• Lexing Ying (2003 )

NYU GSAS Engberg Fellowship

• Sixin Zhang (2010 - 2011)

Open Phil AI Fellowship

• Ethan Perez (2020 )

Paul Garabedian Fellowship

• Lamont Nelson (2017 - 2018)
• Emily Denton (2016 - 2017)

PhRMA Foundation

• Mukund Sudarshan (2019 )

Rudin Fellowship

• Davi Colli Tozoni (2019 - 2020)
• Chelsea Tymms (2018 - 2019)
• Francesca Gil Ureta (2016 - 2017)
• Qingnan Zhou (2011 - 2015)
• Denis Kovacs (2010 )
• Daniel Galron (2009 )
• Octavio Braga (2008 )
• Ian Spiro (2008 )
• Adrian Secord (2007 )
• Piotr Mirowski (2006 )
• Raia Hadsell ( Fall 2005 )
• Venkatesh Mysore (2004 )
• Yotam Gingold (2002 - 2003)
• Evgueni Parilov (2001 - 2002)

Snap Fellowship

• Zhenyi He (2017 )

 

Scholarships

AdeptMind Scholarship

• Sébastien Jean (2017 - 2018)

Google Lime Scholarship for Students with Disabilities

• Nektarios Paisios (2010 - 2011)

Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship

• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2010 - 2011)

 

Internships

Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars)

• Jihun Yu (2010 )

 

NYU Prizes

Harold Grad Memorial Prize

• Jules Berman (2024 )
• Dzianis Yarats (2023 )
• Pavel Izmailov (2020 - 2021)
• Ananth Balashankar (2018 - 2019)
• Yixin Tao (2016 - 2017)
• Thien Nguyen (2015 - 2016)
• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2014 - 2015)
• Sunandan Chakraborty (2012 - 2013)
• Preyas Popat (2011 - 2012)
• Aditya Dhananjay (2010 - 2011)
• Daniel Wichs (2009 - 2010)
• Afshin Rostamizadeh (2008 - 2009)
• Yotam Gingold (2007 - 2008)
• Ashish Rastogi (2006 - 2007)
• Shabsi Walfish (2004 - 2005)

Henning Biermann Prize

• Mark Goldstein (2024 )
• Ishan Agarwal (2023 )
• Ioanna Tzialla (2021 - 2022)
• Gregory Benton (2020 - 2021)
• Shiva Iyer (2018 - 2019)
• Zvonimir Pavlinovic (2017 - 2018)
• Bowen Yu (2016 - 2017)
• Rahul Gopalkrishnan (2015 - 2016)
• Shravas Rao (2015 - 2016)
• Siddharth Krishna (2014 - 2015)
• Jonathan Tompson (2014 - 2015)
• Timothy King (2013 - 2014)
• Adriana López-Alt (2012 - 2013)
• Alex Rubinsteyn (2011 - 2012)
• Vasilis Gkatzelis (2010 - 2011)
• Antonina Mitrofanova (2009 - 2010)
• Piotr Mirowski (2008 - 2009)
• Ameet Talwalkar (2007 - 2008)

Janet Fabri Prize

• Alexander Bienstock (2024 )
• Ananth Balashankar (2023 )
• Harish Karthikeyan (2023 )
• Yixin Hu (2022 )
• Cheng Tan (2020 - 2021)
• Connor Defanti (2019 - 2020)
• Siddharth Krishna (2019 - 2020)
• Emily Denton (2018 - 2019)
• Sainbayar Sukhbaatar (2018 - 2019)
• Noah Stephens Davidowitz (2017 - 2018)
• Yonatan Halpern (2016 - 2017)
• Sunandan Chakraborty (2015 - 2016)
• Jonathan Tompson (2015 - 2016)
• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2014 - 2015)
• Russell Power (2014 - 2015)
• Vasilis Gkatelis (2013 - 2014)
• Dilip Krishnan (2013 - 2014)
• Y-Lan Boureau (2012 - 2013)
• Dejan Jovanović (2012 - 2013)
• Jay Chen (2011 - 2012)
• Daniel Wichs (2011 - 2012)
• Piotr Mirowski (2010 - 2011)
• Ameet Talwalkar (2010 - 2011)
• Yotam Gingold (2009 - 2010)
• Antonina Mitrofanova (2009 - 2010)
• Raia Hadsell (2008 - 2009)
• Michael Freedman (2007 - 2008)
• Iuliana Ionita (2006 - 2007)
• Yi Fang (2005 - 2006)
• Lexing Ying (2004 - 2005)

NYU Courant Institute Jacob T. Schwartz Ph.D. Fellowship

• Siddhant Haldar (2024 )
• Nur Muhammad Shafiullah (2023 )
• Alex Bienstock (2022 )
• Dzianis Yarats (2022 )

Sandra Bleistein Prize

• Elaine Li (2024 )
• Yixin Hu (2020 - 2021)
• Emily Denton (2017 - 2018)
• Y-Lan Boureau (2011 - 2012)
• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2010 - 2011)
• Samantha Kleinberg (2009 - 2010)
• Antonina Mitrofanova (2008 - 2009)
• Raia Hadsell (2007 - 2008)
• Heng Ji (2005 - 2006)
• Bing Sun (2004 - 2005)

 

Awards

American Physiological Society Award Certificate

• Chelsea Tymms
  "Tactile Perception of the Roughness of 3D-Printed Textures", Journal of Neurophysiology (2018 )

Best Paper

• Cheng Tan
  "The Efficient Server Audit Problem, Deduplicated Re-execution and the Web" (with Mike Walfish), SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles) (2017)
• Lingfan Yu
  "The Efficient Server Audit Problem, Deduplicated Re-execution and the Web" (with Mike Walfish), SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles) (2017)
• Siddhant Haldar
  "Teaching a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations", Robotic Science and Systems, Best Student Paper Award (2023 )
• Zhongshi Jiang
  "ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset For Geometric Deep Learning" (with Daniele Panozzo, Denis Zorin, and Francis Williams), SGP (Symposium on Geometry Processing) (2019 )
• Tim King
  "Finding Minimum Type Error Sources" (with Thomas Wies), OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Language, and Applications) (2014 )
• Zvonimir Pavlinovic
  "Finding Minimum Type Error Sources" (with Thomas Wies), OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Language, and Applications) (2014 )
• Ameet Talwalkar
  "Ensemble Nyström Method", New York Academy of Sciences' annual Symposium on Machine Learning (2009 )
• Yotam Gingold
  "From Rock, Paper, Scissors to Street Fighter II: Proof by Construction", Proceedings of Sandbox (2006 )
• Vikram Sharma
  "Almost Tight Complexity Bounds for the Descartes Method" (with Arno Eigenwillig and Chee Yap), 31st International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (2006 )

Best Student Submission

• Afshin Rostamizadeh
  New York Academy of Sciences Machine Learning Symposium (2008 )

CHI Game Competition (Winner)

• Ian Spiro ( Winter 2012 )

Dissertation Awards

• Ameet Talwalkar
  Honorable mention, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
• Ashwin Venkartaraman
  Honorable mention, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award

Distinguished Paper

• Zvonimir Pavlinovic
  "Inferring Annotations for Device Drivers from Verification Histories", IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (2016 )

Harvard CRCS Rising Stars in AI

• Shiva Iyer

Notable Paper

• Adriel Saporta
  "Don’t be fooled: label leakage in explanation methods and the importance of their quantitative evaluation" (with Neil Jethani and Rajesh Ranganath) AIStats (2023 )

NYU GSAS Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award

• Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (2018 )
• Russell Power (2014 - 2015)

Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award

• Zvonimir Pavlinovic (2018 )

Runner-Up Student Submission

• Afshin Rostamizadeh
  New York Academy of Sciences Machine Learning Symposium (2007 )

Second Best Paper

• Jihun Yu
  "Reconstructing Surfaces of Particle-Based Fluids Using Anisotropic Kernels" (with Greg Turk), Symposium on Computer Animation (2010 )
• Yotam Gingold
  "Controlled-Topology Filtering" (with Denis Zorin), Proceedings of SPM (2006 )

SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

• Zachary Ferguson (2024 )

Third Best Paper

• Yotam Gingold
  "Computing Discrete Shape Operators in General Meshes" (with Eitan Grinspun, Jason Reisman, and Denis Zorin), Eurographics (2006 )

 

Conference Participants

Grace Hopper Celebration Participants

• Yucen Li (2023 )
• Jessica Berg (2022 )
• Ulyana Piterbarg (2022 )
• Ren Yi (2019 )
• Yixin Hu (2018 )
• Jing Leng (2017 )
• Ioanna Tzialla (2017 )
• Zhenyi He (2016 )
• Azam Abdollahi Asl (2015 )
• Emily Denton (2014 )
• Chelsea Tymm (2014 )
• Francisca Gil Ureta (2014 )
• Laura Florescu (2013 )
• Chaya Ganesh (2013 )
• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2012 )
• Maria Pershina (2012 )
• Adriana Lopez-Alt (2011 )
• Wei Wang (2011 )
• Liana Hadarean (2010 )
• Xin Li (2010 )
• Antonina Mitrofanova (2009 )
• Y-Lan Boureau (2008 )
• Wei Xu (2008 )
• Raia Hadsell (2007 )
• Samantha Kleinberg (2007 )
• Shasha Liao (2007 )
• Elif Tosun (2007 )
• Ayse Naz Erkan (2006 )
• Raia Hadsell (2006 )
• Heng Ji (2006 )
• Elif Tosun (2006 )
• Ganna Zaks (2006 )