Congratulations to Anne Farrell and Haopeng Liu for receiving the CERES 1st Year Graduate Research Awards.

This award recognizes outstanding research progress and productivity in their first year in the Department of Computer Science PhD Program.

Anne was recognized for her outstanding work with Professor Hank Hoffmann in ensuring real-time completion with near-optimal energy consumption.

Haopeng  was recognized for his outstanding work with Professor Shan Lu on an automated program patching for concurrency bugs.

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