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This year, the (graduate) Student of the Year Award went to Alireza Safaei, who recently graduated from our Ph.D. program.
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Alireza built an outstanding track record during his years in our program, co-authoring multiple papers in high-impact journals and four patent applications. His work generated substantial press coverage. He was supervised by Debashis Chanda and is now heading to post-doc position in California.
We had two runner-ups for this award: Stephanie Jarmack (supervised by Josh Colwell) and Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar (supervised by Mike Chini), who also have an excellent track records in various fronts. The selection committee had a very hard picking a winner. Please, congratulate them next time you see them.
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