BU Systems Engineering 2011 Annual Report

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Graduate Student Honors and Awards 2010–2011 JUSTIN FOSTER

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• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Fellowship in Environmental Behavior and Decision Making, Sep. 2010 – Present. Advisor: Caramanis.

SE PhD Student Travel Award, $500 for the Winter Simulation Conference, December 5-8 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland. She presented the paper “Control Variates for Sensitivity Estimation” by Tarik Borogovac, Na Sun, and Pirooz Vakili. Advisor: Vakili.

• Switzer Environmental Fellowship, September 2010 – Present. • Travel Grant, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Society, Conference on Decision and Control Travel Grant, 2010. • Boston University Energy Club, Vice President, 2010. YANFENG GENG Third prize in poster session, INFORMS 2011 Northeastern Conference. Advisor: Cassandras.

XIAOJIN TANG SE PhD Student Travel Award, $500 for the Winter Simulation Conference, December 5-8 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland. She presented the paper “Importance Sampling for Parametric Estimation” by Xiaojin Tang and Pirooz Vakili. Advisor: Vakili.

REZA MOAZZEZ ESTANJINI • Best Student Paper Award, WiOpt’11 for “Improved Delay-Minimized Data Harvesting with Mobile Elements in Wireless Sensor Networks.” Advisor: Paschalidis. • SE PhD Student Travel Award, $500, IEEE WiOPT 2011. • Finalist for Best Dissertation Award, Boston University College of Engineering, 2011. • CISE Honorable-Mention Award, Boston University Science Day, 2010.

Boston University College of Engineering | Division of Systems Engineering


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