CS student Janani Sundaresan receives Graduate Research Excellence Award

Janani Sundaresan, a PhD candidate at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award. Conferred annually to two graduate students who have authored or coauthored an outstanding research paper, the prestigious recognition comes with a prize of $5,000.

Janani’s paper titled “Hidden Permutations to the Rescue: Multi-Pass Semi-Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximate Matchings” was co-authored with her doctoral advisor Professor Sepehr Assadi. It was presented at FOCS 2023, the 64^th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the two top international conferences in theoretical computer science.

Read the full article from Computer Science to learn more.