Congratulations to DAC PhD student Ji Wang (advisor: Chris North), and DAC alumnus Sheng Guo who, along with U. Toronto grad student Jian Zhao, Round One Winners of the Yelp Dataset Challenge! They are in good company: other winners are from CMU, Stanford, and Berkeley.

Congratulations to DAC PhD student Huijuan Shao for her Best Student Paper Award in the Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI’13! She receives $750 from CRA/CCC.

Dhruv Batra’s research, with Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel and Greg Shakhnarovich, won a Google Research Award. Congratulations Dhruv!