Each year the School of Engineering presents the Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff award to a graduating doctoral student,or students, whose dissertation has resulted in or could lead to innovative applications of computer technology.

Recent Rubinoff Award Winners:

2008

Swarat Chaudhuri

Thesis: Logics & Algorithms for Software Analysis

2007

Matt Huenerfauth           
Thesis: Generating American Sign Language Classifier Predicates for English-to-ASL Machine Translation

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Ameesh Makadia

Thesis: Robust Correspondence-Free Algorithms for 3D Motion Recovery

2006

Insik Shin

Thesis: A Compositional Framework for Real-time Embedded Systems

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Marcello Siqueira

Thesis: Mesh Generation from Imaging Data

2005

David Chiang

Thesis: Evaluating Grammar Formalisms for Applications to Natural Language Processing and Biological Sequence Analysis

2004

Karthikeyan Bhargavan

Thesis: Network Event Recognition

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Franjo Ivancic

Thesis: Modeling and Analysis of Hybrid Systems

2003

Christopher Geyer

Thesis: Catadioptric Projective Geometry: Theory and Applications

2002

Davor Obradovic

Thesis: Formal Analysis of Routing Protocols

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Liwei Zhao

Thesis: Synthesis and Acquisition of LMA Qualitative Parameters for Communicative Gestures

2001

Mahesh Viswanathan

Thesis: Foundations for the Run-time Analysis of Software Systems

2000

Idith Haber

Thesis: Three-Dimensional Motion Reconstruction and Analysis of the Right Ventricle from Planar Tagged MRI

1999

D. Scott Alexander

Thesis: ALIEN: A Generalized Computing Model of Active Networks

1998

Bangalore Srinivas

Thesis: Complexity of Lexical Descriptions & its Relevance to Partial Parsing

Dr. Ameesh Makadia receiving the 2007 Rubinoff Award

Dr. Matt Huenerfauth receiving the 2007 Rubinoff Award

Other award winners at www.seas.upenn.edu/under/awards/grad_awards.html

Selected past Rubinoff Award winners at www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/rubinoff-winners-select.shtml.