Florida State University
Department of Computer Science
2012 Honors and Awards Ceremony
Friday April 13, 2012
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Awards Program
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Recognition of Guests and Opening
Remarks
… Dr. Robert van Engelen
Computer Science Department Chair
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Special Guests Today
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Julene Irwin, Harris Corp.
Thomas Leonard, Red Rocket Solutions
Michael Clarke, Citilabs
Carl Owenby, Maclay School
Ermine Owenby
Tami Thomas, Infinity Software
Jonathan Taylor, Infinity Software
Ed Tunstall, retired from Eli Lilly
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Departmental Highlights and News
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Newest Degree Programs
 MS
in Computer and Systems Network Administration
reactivated in Fall 2011
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Dean of Arts and Sciences funded 5 Students to support this
degree program
 BA
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in Computer Science activated in Fall 2011
Enrollment
 Undergraduate
 Graduate
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Departmental Highlights and News
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Dr. Robert van Engelen took over as Chair, August 2012
Feifei Li accepted another position at the University of
Utah
Department has authorization to hire two new faculty:
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Staff News
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Carl Forney II : new in the department as
Administrative Support Assistant
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Esther Diaguila : became Undergraduate
Advisor (replacing Matthew Claypool)
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Betty Stanton: returned to department as a part
time Distance Learning advisor
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Recent Research Grants
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Dr. Wang – Exploiting Semantic Equivalence of
Files to Improve Storage System, NSF $499,904
Dr. Burmester – Scholarships for Information
Assurance at FSU, NSA, $19,326
Dr. Zhang – Energy-Efficient Wi-Fi Partial
Packet Recovery for Android System, Google,
$31,216
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Faculty Recognitions
… Dr. Robert van Engelen
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Dr. Michael Mascagni was awarded the Distinguished
Scientist award by the ACM for 2011
Dr. Ted Baker professor of Computer Science
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Selected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to real-time computing
applications."
 Dr. Baker was awarded Emeritus status for his contributions to the
Department, College and University.
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Awards… Mr. Robert Myers
Jonathan Jenkins
 Santosh Mahapatra
 Biswas Parajuli
 Surjyendu Ray
 Myles Wright
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ACM Recognitions…
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FALL 2011 ACM Programming Contest
1st Place Team
 Andrew
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Szyzadlisk, Patrick Tully
2nd Place Team
 Steven
Burgart, Justin Danielson, Robert Griesmeyer
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ACM Recognitions… Dr. Zhang
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SPRING 2012 ACM Programming Contest
1st Place Team
 Steven
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Bronson, Nick Newson, Patrick Tully
2nd Place Team
 Brandon
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Davis
3rd place
 Josh
Lindsey, Matt Lundberg
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Student Publications
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S. Chatterjee
B. Neff
M. Mitchell
C. Meyers
F. Sposaro
I. Finlayson
F. Sanchez
P. Chen
P. Yount
G. Miller
S. Zhou
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O. Redwood
A. Marathe
D. Lowenthal
Z. Gu
M Small
W. Nienaber
S. Mahapatra
H. Yu
J. Xie
W. Hu
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~zzhang/paperlist.htm
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Student Career and Award Recognition
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Presidential Fellowship
 Alejandro
Cabrera
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Student Career and Award Recognitions… p.2
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Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for
Service (SFS)
 Michael
Backherms
 Patrick Dwyer
 Sean Easton
 Ryan Gidus
 David Guidry
 Ivan Lozano
 Sereyvathana Ty
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The Graphics and Multimedia
Contest
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The Art Category
 Varun
Venkatesan
 Heidy Khlaaf
 Frank Brailsford
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Research Category
 Nigel
Nye
 Rajat Raychaudhuri
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Harris Corporation Awards
Presented By Ms. Julene Irwin
 Graduate Fellowship
 Melina
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Vastola
Undergraduate Scholarship
 Brandon
Davis
 Cassandra Coan
 Cassandra Urmano
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Carl and Ermine Owenby
Sr. Scholarships
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Presented By
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Ms. Ermine Owenby
 Mr. Carl Owenby
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Scholarship Awardees
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Jake Jennings (Fall 2012)
 Clark Wood (Spring 2013)
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Certificates in Information
Security… Dr. Mike Burmester
William Owen Redwood
 William Falcon Street
 Zheng Gu
 Sereyvathana Ty
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Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Electees
… Ms. Ann Ford Tyson
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest honor society in the United States, founded in 1776,
and is the nation's leading advocate for the liberal arts and sciences at the
undergraduate level
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Phi Beta Kappa Honor
Society Electees 2012
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Britton Dennis III
Steve Rutkowski
Andrew Szydlik
PBK Induction ceremony was held
Sunday April 15th this year
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Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society Induction
… Heidy Khlaaf, Caitlin Carnahan, Patrick Tully
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UPE Inductees
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Paul Ackerman
Brandon Davis
Matthew Davison
Thomas Erskine
Haonan Lu
Stephanie Ramseier
Sarah Reinhardt
Timothy Valentine
Clark Wood
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The 6 Chairs of UPE
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Reception Following
Please join us now in Room 151 of the Love
Building for our Celebratory Reception
Thanks To…
Organizing the Reception and Refreshments: CS Alumna Diana Orrick
And… to all of the CS department faculty, staff and students who helped
out in many ways too numerous to list here
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