The William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award

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William Chan was an exceptional graduate student in our department who was killed in a tragic automobile accident one week after defending his dissertation and a month before joining the faculty at Brown University. His dissertation was posthumously recognized in the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition in 2000.

Each year the faculty are asked to nominate students whose dissertations from the past academic year show exceptional merit. The winner of the award is selected from that pool of nominees by a small group of faculty.

The winner receives a cash award and an individual plaque. The winner's name is engraved on a plaque on display in the department's main office.

Year Awardee Dissertation Title

2008 Krzysztof Gajos
Automatically Generating Personalized User Interface

2008 Tapan Parikh
Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World

2007 Lin Liao
Location-Based Activity Recognition

2007 Atri Rudra
List Decoding and Property Testing of Error Correcting Codes

2006 Aseem Agarwala
Authoring Effective Depictions of Reality by Combining Multiple Samples of the Plenoptic Function
Honorable Mention ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

2006 Mike Swift
Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems

2005 Gerome Miklau
Confidentiality and Integrity in Distributed Data Exchange

2005 Zasha Weinberg
Accurate Annotation of Non-Coding RNAs in Practical Time

2004 Luke McDowell
Meaning for the Mases: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems

2004 Matthew Richardson
Learning and Inference in Collective Knowledge Bases

2003 AnHai Doan
Learning to Map between Structured Representations of Data
Winner ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

2003 Jonathan Aldrich
Using Types to Enforce Architectural Structure

2002 Mathieu Blanchette
Algorithms for Phylogenetic Footprinting

2002 Stefan Savage
Protocol Design in an Uncooperative Internet

2001 Jeremy Buhler
Search Algorithms for Biosequences Using Random Projection

2000 Michael Ernst
Dynamically Detecting Likely Program Invariants Honorable Mention ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Year	Awardee	Dissertation Title
2008	Krzysztof Gajos	Automatically Generating Personalized User Interface
2008	Tapan Parikh	Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World
2007	Lin Liao	Location-Based Activity Recognition
2007	Atri Rudra	List Decoding and Property Testing of Error Correcting Codes
2006	Aseem Agarwala	Authoring Effective Depictions of Reality by Combining Multiple Samples of the Plenoptic Function	Honorable Mention ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
2006	Mike Swift	Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems
2005	Gerome Miklau	Confidentiality and Integrity in Distributed Data Exchange
2005	Zasha Weinberg	Accurate Annotation of Non-Coding RNAs in Practical Time
2004	Luke McDowell	Meaning for the Mases: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems
2004	Matthew Richardson	Learning and Inference in Collective Knowledge Bases
2003	AnHai Doan	Learning to Map between Structured Representations of Data	Winner ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
2003	Jonathan Aldrich	Using Types to Enforce Architectural Structure
2002	Mathieu Blanchette	Algorithms for Phylogenetic Footprinting
2002	Stefan Savage	Protocol Design in an Uncooperative Internet
2001	Jeremy Buhler	Search Algorithms for Biosequences Using Random Projection
2000	Michael Ernst	Dynamically Detecting Likely Program Invariants	Honorable Mention ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

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