The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce the Fall 2024 winners of the Martin D. Fraser Graduate Student Conference Travel Award:
Jinkun Han for the paper “Quantum Cognition-Inspired EEG-Based Recommendation via Graph Neural Networks,” 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024), Boise, Idaho, October, 2024. All authors: Jinkun Han, Wei Li, Yingshu Li, and Zhipeng Cai.
Hui Ye for the paper “UAV3D: A Large-Scale 3D Perception Benchmark for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), Vancouver, December, 2024. All authors: Hui Ye, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, and Shihao Ji.
Tanvir Hossain for the paper “Tackling Oversmoothing in GNN via Graph Sparsification: A Truss-Based Approach,” European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2024), Vilnius, Lithuania, September, 2024. All authors: Tanvir Hossain, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Farhan Tanvir, and Esra Akbas.
Ian Parzival Pruitt for the paper “Exploring the Humanistic Role of Computer Science Teaching Assistants Across Diverse Institutions,” Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2025), Pittsburgh, February-March, 2025. All authors: Grace Barkhuff, Ian Pruitt, Vyshnavi Namani, William Gregory Johnson, Rodrigo Borela, Ellen Zegura, Anu Bourgeois, and Benjamin Shapiro.
M.S. and Ph.D. students are eligible to apply for Fraser Travel Awards, which provide financial support for travel to a conference where they will present a paper. Awards are granted twice a year, in April and October. Funding is provided by the Martin D. Fraser Endowed Fund for Graduate Student Travel. The fund was established in 2021 by associate professor emeritus K. N. King and his wife Susan Cole to honor the memory of Dr. Fraser, the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and a key contributor to the establishment of the department’s Ph.D. program.