Spark (Resilient Distributed Datasets/RDDs) has won the Best Paper award at NSDI 2012. Woohoo! We were also nominated for the inaugural Community Award for open-sourcing the project.
Tag Archives: Awards
I’ve won the Facebook Fellowship 2012-2013
Great news! I’ve been selected as one of the 12 recipients of 2012-2013 Facebook Fellowship :) We have two more winners from Berkeley. Go BEARS!!!
Official release from Facebook can be found here.
I have received the Best TA Award (Winter’09)
I am excited to announce that I have received the Best TA Award from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo for my service as the Head TA of the CS436 (Distributed Computer Systems) course during the Winter 2009 term.
I would like to give my heartfelt gratitude to the course instructor Prof. Raouf Boutaba and to the award selection committee for this honor. I should also mention that it would’ve been impossible to attain this success without the unmitigated help from my co-TA Nabeel and the cooperation of the CS436 class. Last but the not least, I thank all my co-TAs in last 2 years, ISG members, and graduate school staff at Waterloo for their continuous support without reservation.
Right now, I am just waiting to see when my name will appear on this page and looking forward to my GSI duties at Berkeley.
I’ve been awarded the Cheriton Scholarship
A very good news on the 2nd working day of the year… This is the time when you can say “off to a great start” :D I have been awarded the Cheriton Type I scholarship (10,000$ for two years) to continue my PhD in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the award committee, the school, my supervisor Prof. Boutaba, and of course Prof. Cheriton (the scholarship is eponymous to him) for this honor. This scholarship will smooth out some rough edges in my lifestyle, and hopefully it will let me focus more on the real stuff.
This year the scholarship was awarded to eight ongoing and incoming students in total. I congratulate all the fellow winners in this achievement !!!
Following is an excerpt from the school website on this scholarship:
Dr. David Ross Cheriton is a distinguished Computer Science alumnus of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. Dr. Cheriton received his MMath and PhD in Computer Science form Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and heads the Stanford University Distributed Systems Group. He is widely known for his extraordinary research contributions in high-performance scalable distributed systems, Internet architecture and hardware-software interaction, and the successful commercialization of his research results..
The David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarships are valued between $10,000 and $20,000 and will be awarded annually to forty to seventy full-time University of Waterloo graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer science on the basis of scholastic excellence and a demonstrated interest in research that addresses problems associated with designing and implementing efficient and reliable computing systems along with their effective integration.
These scholarships are open to Canadian and International students holding a student visa.