Yahoo! Honors Future Thought Leaders Through Inaugural Key Scientific Challenges Program
The verdict is in for the Yahoo! 2009-2010 Key Scientific Challenges Program. Twenty exceptional PhD students have been selected to receive this prestigious award in its inaugural year.
Supporting the academic community is a top priority at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate-student researchers who will have the greatest potential to make significant contributions and become thought leaders in their research fields.
We received an overwhelming number of outstanding applications, and the competition was very keen. Based on our desire to support research in new scientific areas that will deliver next generation Internet technology to our users, we selected the following student researchers as recipients of our 2009-2010 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
Award:
Community Infrastructure and Information Management
Parag Agrawal, Stanford
Greg Druck, University of Massachusetts
Raphael Hoffman, University of Washington
Michele Merler, Columbia University
Computational Advertising
Raju Balakrishnan, Arizona State University
Qi Guo, Emory
Maryam Karimzadehgan, UIUC
Economics and Social Systems
Alex Frankel, Stanford
Coco Krumme, MIT
Yandong Liu, Emory
Dana Rotman, University of Maryland
Benjamin Rubenstein, UC Berkeley
Machine Learning & Statistics
Pinar Donmez, Carnegie Mellon University
Ian Stevenson, Northwestern
Ya Xu, Stanford
Yi Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Search Technologies
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Polo Chau, Carnegie Mellon University
Henry Feild, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kim Pham, UIUC
Bangalore Labs - Computational Advertising
Aashish Mangalampalli, IIIT Hyderabad
The highlights of each recipient’s award benefits include $5,000 unrestricted seed funding, the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo! scientists, and an exclusive invite to this summer’s Yahoo! Graduate Student Summit.
We were extremely impressed with the all of the applicants and would like to thank each student and professor who applied to the program this year. Please check our Web site at http://research.yahoo.com/ksc for more information on how to apply for the program next year, and please keep in touch with us for future research funding and partnership opportunities (academicrelations@yahoo-inc.com).
