<div dir="ltr"><p>Thanks, Professor, for sharing this news with the lab and for your kind words. It’s truly an honor to represent CMU in such a prestigious competition.</p><p>This recognition wouldn’t have been possible without the collaborations with the brilliant minds at the Auton Lab!</p><p>I look forward to visiting CMU soon to share our latest research and connect with everyone.</p><p>Best,<br>Cristian</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Autonians,<div><br></div><div>I am very pleased to let you know that Cristian's thesis is the sole entry representing CMU in this year's AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. <div><br></div><div>It is already a great achievement to be nominated from a very highly selective community that produces a couple of dozens of high quality AI-oriented dissertations each year, but we of course keep our fingers crossed for the award committee making the correct decision as well. I am hopeful given how impactful Cristian's PhD work is just looking at the number of citations of his AAAI 2023 paper on NHITS (counting 381 at Google Scholar now), but of course the competitors ought to be pretty strong as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Please join me in cheering for Cristian and his thesis!</div><div><br></div><div>Artur</div></div></div>
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