The Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Computer Science, established in 2003, is granted on behalf of Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science alumni. The Award recognizes technical excellence in research and development. The Award is also intended to promote awareness within the undergraduate community that graduation represents both the end of an important phase of life and the beginning of a new phase within the vibrant Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science community as an alumnus. The Alumni Award recognizes such factors as novelty; technical excellence; potential impact; accessibility; quality of the written, oral, and poster presentations, and general excitement among the alumni community participating in the process.

2009 Alumni Award

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Andrew Maas, Boris Sofman, Hatem Alismail

-Andrew Maas (CS'09)*
"Learning about Related Tasks with Hierarchical Models"

Advisors: Andrew Bagnell (CS'01, '04), Charles Kemp

-Hatem Alismail (CS'09)*
"Exploring visual Odometry for Mobile Robots"

Advisor: Brett Browning
co-recipients*
2009 Alumni Award Committee

Grace A. Lewis, Chair (MSE 2001)
R. Craig Coulter, (B.S. 1990, M.S. 1992 (ME), M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1996) (Robotics)
Kayvon Fatahalian (B.S. 2003)
Bruce L. Horn (M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1993)
James Ivers, (MSE 1996)
Raúl Medina-Mora, (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982)
David I. Murray (B.S. 2006, B.F.A. 2006)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
Boris Sofman (B.S. 2005, M.S. 2007)
David P. Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D.1989)

2008 Alumni Award


Noura El-Moughny and Andrew Widdowson

Noura El-Moughny (CS'08)
"Assistive Technology for Learning to Write Braille"

Advisor: M. Bernardine Dias (CS'00, '04)

2008 Alumni Award Committee

Grace A. Lewis, Chair (MSE 2001)
R. Craig Coulter, (B.S. 1990, M.S. 1992 (ME), M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1996) (Robotics)
Kayvon Fatahalian (B.S. 2003)
James Ivers, (MSE 1996)
Raúl Medina-Mora, (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982)
David I. Murray (B.S. 2006, B.F.A. 2006)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
Boris Sofman (B.S. 2005, M.S. 2007)
David P. Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D.1989)
Andrew Widdowson, (B.S. 2005)

2007 Alumni Award

Hasan Rom (CS'07)
"Robust Detection & Recovery from Service Disruptions in Distributed Systems"
Advisor: Greg Ganger


2007 Alumni Award Committee

Grace A. Lewis, Chair (MSE 2001)
M. Bernardine Dias, (M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2004) (Robotics)
Marc Donner (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1984)
Caroline Hayes, (B.S. 1983, M.S. 1987, Ph.D. 1990)
James Ivers, (MSE 1996)
Philip L. Lehman (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1984)
Raúl Medina-Mora, (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982)
Ken Modesitt, Ph.D. (M.S. 1969)
David I. Murray (B.S. 2006, B.A. 2006)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
Boris Sofman (B.S. 2005)(ECE and CS)
David Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D.1989)

2006 Alumni Award

David I. Murray (CS'06, A'06)
"Adaptive LAN-to-Host Multicast: Optimizing End System Multicast via LAN Multicast Integration "
Advisor: Hui Zhang

Grace Lewis and David Murray

2006 Alumni Award Committee

Grace A. Lewis, Chair (MSE 2001)
M. Bernardine Dias, (M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2004) (Robotics)
Marc Donner (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1984)
Kayvon Fatahalian (B.S. 2003)
James Ivers, (MSE 1996)
Philip L. Lehman (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1984)
Raúl Medina-Mora, (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982)
Ken Modesitt, Ph.D. (M.S. 1969)
Erik Riedel, (B.S. 1992, MSE 1995, Ph.D. 1997 (ECE))
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
David Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D.1989)

2005 Alumni Award

Scott Niekum (CS'05)
"Reliable Rock Detection and Classification for Autonomous Science"
Advisor: David Wettergreen

Philip Lehman and Scott Niekum

2005 Alumni Award Committee

Grace A. Lewis, Chair (MSE 2001)
Douglas Clark, (Ph.D.1976)
M. Bernardine Dias, (M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2004) (Robotics)
Spot Draves (Ph.D. 1997)
Marc Donner (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1984)
Caroline Hayes, (B.S. 1983, M.S. 1987, Ph.D. 1990)
John Heffner, (B.S. 2002)
James Ivers, (MSE 1996)
Philip L. Lehman (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1984)
Raúl Medina-Mora, (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982)
Jim Muller, Ph.D. (B.S.1984)
Todd Rockoff, (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1994)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
David Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D.1989)

2004 Alumni Award

Bernice Ma (CS'04)
"Augmented Reality Human Machine Interface for a Teleoperated Nano-Manipulation System"
Advisor: Metin Sitti

Todd Rockoff and Bernice Ma

2004 Alumni Award Committee

Todd E. Rockoff, Co-Chair (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1994)
Grace A. Lewis, Co-Chair (MSE 2001)

Karl Crary, (B.S. 1993)
M. Bernardine Dias, (M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2004) (Robotics)
Kayvon Fatahalian, (B.S. 2003)
John Heffner, (B.S. 2002)
Peter Highnam, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D. 1991)
Mike Kazar, (Ph.D. 1985)
Mark Plesko, (B.S. 2000)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
David Steier, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D. 1989)

2003 Award Recipient
Kayvon Fahtahalian (CS'03)
"Real-Time Global Illumination of Deformable Objects"
Advisor: Doug James

2003 Alumni Award Committee

Grace Lewis, Co-Chair (MSE 2001)
Todd Rockoff, Co-Chair (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1994)

Douglas Clark, (Ph.D.1976)
Marc Donner (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1984)
Jeff Eppinger, (B.S. 1982, M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1989)
Peter Highnam, (M.S. 1986, Ph.D. 1991)
Mike Kazar, (Ph.D. 1985)
Mark Plesko, (B.S. 2000)
Erik Selberg, Ph.D. (B.S. 1993)
Bradley White, (M.S. 1988)