PhD graduate Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. Established in 2019, the annual award recognizes outstanding doctoral research at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and includes a $1,000 prize.
Aseem completed his doctoral studies co-supervised by Professor Kimon Fountoulakis from the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Professor Aukosh Jagannath from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. His thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, which he defended in October 2024, investigates the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data.
“Congratulations to Aseem on receiving this year’s Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award,” said Professor Fountoulakis. “His thesis makes groundbreaking contributions to the field of graph neural networks and statistical learning on graphs, offering novel solutions with provable guarantees.”
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