2017 Cheriton Research Symposium poster winners

Friday, September 29, 2017

Each year, the David R. Cheriton Research Symposium holds a poster competition for graduate students. In total, 29 graduate students participated in the 2017 competition.

Posters were on display in the Great Hall, as students explained the theory behind and the results and impacts of their research to David R. Cheriton and a panel of judges.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 Cheriton Research Symposium poster competition. Congratulations to the winners and to all who participated in the poster contest!

Corwin Sinnamon — Winner, $300 prize
A Faster Data Structure for Distributive Lattices 

photo of Corwin Sinnamon (left)

Corwin Sinnamon (left) explains his poster to another graduate student

Ivana Kajić — Runner up, $200 prize
A Biologically Plausible Neural Network Model of Semantic Memory Search 

photo of Ivana Kajić (on left) with David Cheriton

Ivana Kajić (left) explains her poster to David R. Cheriton

Akshay Ramachandran — Runner up, $200 prize
Paulsen Problem and Operator Scaling

photo of Akshay Ramachandran (left) and Mark Giesbrecht

Akshay Ramachandran (left) explains his poster to Mark Giesbrecht, Director, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Poster presenters

Michael Abebe
Nabiha Asghar
Erinn Atwater
Pak Hay Chan
Michael Cormier
Dallas Fraser
Bradley Glasbergen
Sajed Haque
Joseph Haraldson
Jay Henderson
Taylor Hornby
Pryank Jaini
Ivana Kajić
Chathura Kankanamge
Junyu Lai

Li Liu
Jade Marcoux Ouellet
Abel Molina Prieto
Akshay Ramachandran
Samin Riasat
Deepak Rishi
Royal Denizil Sequiera
Corwin Sinnamon
Vijay Subramanya
Spencer Van Leeuwen
Nikita Volodin
Chunhao Wang
Haotian Zhang
Mohammad Zokaei Ashtiani


Judges

Professor Shai Ben-David
Professor Jonathan Buss
Professor Ian Goldberg
Professor Anna Lubiw
Professor Steven Mann
Professor Semih Salihoglu
Professor Richard Trefler
Professor Bernard Wong