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Jian Peng received Microsoft Fellowship

TTIC congratulates Jian Peng, a TTIC third-year Ph.D. student who was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship this month (February 2010). The Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program for outstanding Ph.D. students, and supports men and women in their third and fourth years of Ph.D. graduate studies.

The fellowship award will cover 100 percent of recipient’s tuition and fees for two academic years (2010 and 2011), provide a stipend to cover living expenses while in school, a travel allowance for recipients to attend professional conferences or seminars, and offers recipients the opportunity to complete one salaried internship over the duration of the year following the award.

Jian works with TTIC’s professor Jinbo Xu on mathematical modellings in computational biology. His other research interests include machine learning and algorithms. For more information about Jian, check out his webpage.

Dr. Greg Shakhnarovich hosted a regional computer vision meeting, the 3rd Illinois Vision Workshop, on Tuesday, December 1. About fifty people from the Midwest and farther away participated. Among the institutions and companies represented, in addition to TTIC, were the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, University of Missouri, UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon, Eastman Kodak, and Cornell.

Karen Livescu is the recipient of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), on which she is the Principal Investigator (PI). The grant is in collaboration with co-PIs Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington) and Eric Fosler-Lussier (Ohio State University). The award covers three years and focuses on statistical models of speech based on articulatory features (such as locations of the tongue, lips, and so on).

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