University of Wisconsin–Madison

Eight Computer Sciences undergrad honorees awarded scholarships

The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held online this year and honors include eight Computer Sciences undergraduates. Congratulations to all! You can read the full article here. CS honorees are as follows:

Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships

These fellowship provide students with funds to conduct research projects in collaboration with faculty members.  The award provides $3,000 to each undergraduate winner and $1,000 to the student’s faculty or staff advisor.  Ishan Chakravarty Biology, Computer Sciences Zachary Morris, Faculty Advisor Utilizing Locally Injected Immune Adjuvants to Enhance the Efficacyof External Beam Radiotherapy in an Immunologically “Cold” Tumor Model Taijing Chen Computer Sciences, Mathematics Ben Parrell, Faculty Advisor Modeling Speech Motor Learning under Auditory Perturbations Yichen Li Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering Irena Knezevic, Faculty Advisor Exciton Diffusion in Carbon-Nanotube Thin Films Noah Siegel Computer Sciences Saswati Bhattacharya, Faculty Advisor Investigating of Combination CDK4/6 Inhibition with Anti-Androgens in a Novel Bicalutamide-Resistant Androgen Receptor-Positive Triple Negative Breast Cancer Line Allison Winter-Reed Biology, Computer Sciences Jon Audhya, Faculty Advisor High-Throughput Analysis to Assess Gait Dysfunction in Rodent Models of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Zhaoyi Zhang Computer Sciences Claudia Solis Lemus, Faculty Advisor Understanding Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria from Whole-Genome Sequences

Sophomore Research Fellowships

Funded by generous grants from the Brittingham Fund and the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest, the Sophomore Research Fellowships provide $2,500 each to undergraduate students and $500 to their faculty/staff advisors to work in collaboration on research projects. Award recipients and their faculty advisors are listed below. Sarah Fahlberg Biochemistry, Computer Sciences Philip Romero, Faculty Advisor Engineering of Acyl-CoA Reductases for the Improved Production of Computer Sciences Fatty Alcohols via Biosynthesis Conor Perreault Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Political Science Jerry Zhu, Faculty Advisor Stability of Algorithms in Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Teacher Mathematics, Political Science