Ben receives Uber Presidential Fellowship

[Barnabas Poczos]

This is awesome! Congrats Ben!

Best,
Barnabas

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Barnabas Poczos, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director of PhD Program
Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon University

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:03 PM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Autonians,
>
> Please join me in congratulating our distinguished colleague Benedikt
> Boecking on his receipt of the 2018 Uber Presidential Fellowship Award!
>
> This great honor for Ben and our team comes with an added benefit of
> reducing the Lab's responsibility for the costs of Ben's stipend and tuition
> for one year. It should be noted that Ben follows the (equally distinguished)
> footsteps of Nick Gisolfi, who won the Presidential Award in 2016.
> At that point, we set a lofty but not completely crazy goal of making sure that
> every Auton Lab graduate student receives the same award, so that we could
> perpetually stabilize our research budget. We are evidently still working on it,
> yet progress has just been made :)
>
> Cheers to Ben!
>
> Artur