2004 Spring Research Conference
Student Travel Award Recipients

The societies that sponsor the Spring Research Conference (IMS and SPES) and the SRC management committee offer student scholarships to support expenses for registration and lodging. Five of the six recipients of these scholarships for the 2004 conference in Gaithersburg are pictured here.

Back row: Dennis Lin (SPES chair), Thomas Loughin (SRC Contributed Papers Chair)

Front row: Recipients - Deng Huang, Shiling Ruan, Kary Myers, Gavin Richards, Tirthankar Dasgupta

Recipients are chosen based on the submitted abstracts for their papers. The following papers were presented by this year's recipients.

Deng Huang, Ohio State University - "Reliability Engineering Patching Together Field, Lab, and Computer Data" (with Theodore T. Allen, Ohio State University)
Shiling Ruan, Ohio State University - "Estimation of Origin-Destination Trip Table Using Link Flow Information from Ground Data and High Resolution Satellite Images" (with Prem Goel, Ohio State University)
Kary Myers, Carnegie Mellon University - "Brain Activity at Nine Million Bytes per Second: Synchronizing Video Data and Physiological Recordings to Reveal Brain Function"
Gavin Richards, Ohio State University - "A Simple Bayesian Regression Diagnostic to Address Model Bias with Applications in Welding Engineering" (with Theodore T. Allen, Ohio State University, and Mikhail Bernshteyn, Sagata Ltd.)
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Georgia Institute of Technology - "Robust Parameter Design with Feedback Control" (with C.F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology)
David Hutchison, Johns Hopkins University (Not Pictured) - "Stopping Stochastic Approximation Procedures Based on Streamed Data Observations"

2004 Spring Research Conference Student Travel Award Recipients

2004 Spring Research Conference
Student Travel Award Recipients