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It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. This summer, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and new graduates are headed for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment.  - recent graduate  - WNCG industrial affiliate company Full-Time Positions  Marius Arvinte -  Intel Labs    Meixu Chen - Meta Platforms    Saadallah Kassir -  Qualcomm    Monica Ribero - Google Research     Part-Time Positions

WNCG students Marius Facktor and Abhinau Venkataramanan and WNCG alumnus Praful Gupta from Prof. Al Bovik’s Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (LIVE) have been named Phase 2 winners in the Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge. The challenge is hosted by the Public Safety Communications Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The competition aims to support public safety missions by advancing computer vision algorithms and no-reference (NR) metrics that assess image or video quality.

It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. This summer, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and new graduates are headed (in many cases, remotely!) for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment.  - recent graduate  - WNCG industrial affiliate   Academe Ramakrishna Sai Annaluru - MIT Lincoln Labs   Full-Time Positions Ziqi Ke - Bloomberg L.P.  William Lies - UHU Technologies  Liu Liu - Tencent AI Lab

WNCG student Philip Tan has been selected as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation’s 2021 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The program supports these students in pursuing full-time research-based degrees through a five-year fellowship. A full list of this year's recipients can be found on the GRFP website.

WNCG student Lakshay Narula received the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for Best Paper at the 2020 IEEE/ION PLANSx Conference. The award recognizes “substantial contribution to the technology of navigation and positioning equipment, systems, or practices” judged on criteria including technical content, innovation, importance of topic, and writing quality. Narula’s winning paper, “Automotive-Radar-Based 50-cm Urban Positioning,” demonstrated how self-driving cars can use commercially-available, low-cost automotive radars to improve navigation.

Each year, WNCG presents the Student Leadership Award to an outstanding student—or students—who not only displays excellence in research and academic activities, but also embodies the spirit of the group’s mission to create a collaborative research environment. This year, the award goes to two students: Ahmad AlAmmouri and Jessica Hoffmann.

It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. As we come to the end of an unusual spring semester, WNCG members are staying busy! Here’s where some of our students and alumni are headed (in many cases, virtually!) this summer for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment: Academe: Christopher Snyder* - University of Texas Medical Branch (School of Medicine)   Full-Time Positions:  Adam Allevato* - Pensa Systems Aditya Jain* - SparkCognition Erik Lindgren* - Google

First-year graduate student Joshua Ebenezer has received the Nilanjan Ganguly Memorial Award for his undergraduate thesis on haze- and fog-affected images and videos. The award designates the “best B.Tech thesis in the Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering Department” at IIT Khargapur and is given annually to a single student. The award also includes a cash prize for the recipient from the Ganguly family. 

It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. Here's where WNCG students and alumni are headed this summer for internships, academic positions, and full-time employment: Industry Internships: Aditya Gopalan Nokia Bell Labs Murray Hill, NJ Ajil Jalal IBM Research AI Yorktown Heights, NY Akash Doshi Cisco Systems San Jose, CA Alan Gee CognitiveScale Austin, TX

The fall semester has begun, and though many of our students have been keeping busy over the summer with continued research here at the University of Texas at Austin, some WNCGers like Monica Ribero are returning from summer internships with WNCG Affiliates and other prominent tech companies. Ribero spent the summer in Holmdel, New Jersey, working at Bell Laboratories. During her internship she conducted research with Dr. Dmitry Chizhik and Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela at Bell Labs’ Access Lab for a project called "Machine Learning for Site-Specific Propagation Models.”