Prismers have been very active this academic year, and our students
have many accomplishments to congratulate!
- Marc Liberatore has accepted a job as a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow offered to him by the CTW Consortium (Connecticut College, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University) and had papers this year in ToN, CoNext, and CCS.
- Patrick Stahlberg is graduating with an MS, got a pub in SIGMOD, two in CIDR, and will be working at Google.
- Hee-Jin Chae is graduating with an MS and will be working at Raytheon.
- Jim Cipar is graduating with an MS and won Best Paper at FAST. Jim received his BS at UMass and will be completing his PhD at CMU.
- George Bissias (and alum John Burgess) have a paper at MobiHoc, and George had an extended abstract accepted to Sigmetrics.
- Tom Heydt-Benjamin had his work on credit cards featured in the NYTs and published in Financial Crypto.
- Jim Partan had a paper at WUWNet, which was then selected for a special issue of MC2R.
- Jacob Sorber had his work published in MobiSys.
- Nilanjan Banerjee had his work published in MobiSys, Infocom, and Ubicomp, and he was cited by the department for passing his portfolio exam with distinction.
- Boris Margolin had his work published in Financial Crypto.
- Benessa Defend was awarded the Verizon Rising Star fellowship and had her work published in PerSec.
- Aruna Balasubramanian had her work accepted to Sigcomm, will be presenting a research poster at the Grace Hopper conference, and was cited by the department for passing her portfolio exam with distinction.
- New additions: We welcomed many people to our group this year, including new research staff Brian Lynn, graduate students Matt Vail and Sidd Datta, and visiting grad student Jeremie Leguay.
- Summer Internships: Sidd Datta will be at Google. Jacob Sorber will be working with Roy Want at Intel Research. Aruna Balasubramanian will be working with Ratul Mahajan at Microsoft Research. Nilanjan Banerjee will be working with Kevin Fall at Intel Research.
