Six CICS PhD Students Selected to Receive Spring 2025 Dissertation and Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowships

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Doctoral students Zafeiria (Iro) Moumoulidou and Dmitry Petrov have been selected to receive Spring 2025 Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Dissertation Writing Fellowships, which provide a stipend of over $15,000 for students who are nearing the end of their dissertation writing and are planning to defend their dissertations and graduate. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors based on the strength of their dissertations and their significance to computing theory and practice.

Image	Zafeiria (Iro) Moumoulidou   Advisor: Alexandra Meliou  “Fair and Diverse Data Selection Schemes for Data Management and Visualization”
Image	Dmitry Petrov Advisor: Evangelos Kalogerakis  “Structure-aware 3D Shapes and Image Synthesis”

Additionally, Zhanna Kaufman, Cooper Sigrist, Elita Lobo, and Allison Poh have been selected for the Spring 2025 Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship for students in the early stages of the dissertation writing. 

Image	Zhanna Kaufman  Advisor: Yuriy Brun
Image	Cooper Sigrist  Advisor: Mohammad Hajiesmaili  “Sustainable Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Sustainability”
Image	Elita Lobo  Advisor: Yair Zick "Robust Algorithms for Handling Model Mis-specifications in RL and Resource Allocation"
Image	Allison Poh  Advisor: Ivon Arroyo “Designing Real-Time Dashboards for K-12 Teachers”