CS News Briefs

Layne received both the Louis T. Rader Chairperson/Research and Teaching awards!
About Layne:
I'm a rising fourth year hoping to enter a PhD program in Natural Language Processing after graduation to combine my love of both computer science and linguistics. I make time to cook and to knit, and am fostering an adorable kitten named Honey Bunches of Oats. I have a little brother studying theater at Northwestern who I couldn't be more proud of. Apart from my majors, I'm entering my sixth semester of Classical Sanskrit this Fall.

About Jake:

About Madison:

About Sanjana:
I really enjoy exploring different fields of CS and engineering and I am happy I got to take a wide variety of classes in UVA these past four years. Besides school, my hobbies include reading, doing stuff outdoors, exercising, and playing games.
What has kept Sanjana motivated:

About Alex, Computer Science Major:
I love TAing for algorithms and hope to pursue a professorship in computer science one day. In my free time, I play board games, and go hiking in the Shenandoah National Park.

About Cameron:

About Nadia:
My name is Nadia Hassan, and I'm a 3rd year in the Engineering School. I'm from Richmond, VA but I lived in Michigan for over 10 years. Two fun facts about me are I'm a Bangladeshi-American, and I'm a makeup artist and a graffiti artist!

About Sarah:
Discrete math is in my bones. I have been a teaching assistant for CS 2102 (Discrete Mathematics) for 4 professors who taught at least 5 distinct versions of the course over 6 semesters. I had no idea that I would fall in love with discrete math as a student almost 7 semesters ago. I suppose this has been in the works ever since I got a tiny taste of proofs and logic in 8th grade geometry class.

About Sean:
I like to think of myself as a general-purpose software engineer, but I think sometimes the real joy comes from the silly little hacks. While the pillars of proper development are important, sometimes it's fun to just throw something together with band-aids and chewing gum to make something that solves or automates an immediate problem.

About Simranjit: