This month, three doctoral students in the Department of Computer Science received the Catacosinos Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science. After a rigorous selection process, students Maryam Rostamipoor, Prerna Khanna and Weimin Lyu were awarded the fellowships in recognition of their contributions to the field of computer science.
The Catacosinos family, founders of the fellowship, generously provide computer science students with this opportunity through an endowment, the Catacosinos Fellowship Fund, which began in 1978. Each of this year’s fellows will receive $5,000 to support their educational and research-related pursuits.
Candidates are nominated by faculty members, and a committee reviews their application packages, which include their research statement and vision, publications, and CV.
Rostamipoor, who hails from Shiraz, Iran, focuses her research on software and systems security, particularly exploit mitigation technologies against data-oriented attacks for serverless platforms and Kubernetes clusters.
Khanna, originally from New Delhi, India, is a PhD candidate whose research aims to improve the accessibility of mobile applications for individuals with disabilities.
Lyu, a Chinese native, has published multiple first-author papers in top-tier conferences such as ICLR, ECCV, NAACL, EMNLP and AMIA, covering topics including AI security and multimodal learning.
Read more about the three new Catacosinos Fellows at the Computer Science website.
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