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Three recent FSU CS graduates earn the highly competitive NSF Career Award!March 30, 2010

Congratulations to Dr. Prasad A. Kulkarni (Computer Science PhD, 2007) on being named a winner in the highly competitive 2010 NSF CAREER Award. Prasad did his PhD at Florida State University under the advisorship of Prof. David Whalley in the area of Compilers. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Kansas. He also has the distinction of winning an IBM Fellowship award in 2006-2007. Way to go, Prasad!

http://www.eecs.ku.edu/faculty_staff/bio/faculty/kulkarni

In 2009, Dr. Yaohang Li (Graduate CS, Advisor: Dr. Michael Mascagni), another graduate of the FSU CS Department won the NSF CAREER Award in 2009. Dr. Li graduated with his Ph.D. from our Department 2003, working on distributed and Grid-based Monte Carlo methods, and then joined the CS faculty at North Carolina A&T University (NCAT). He also works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in 2009 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure at NCAT.

In total, three graduates of the FSU Computer Science Department have won this award since its inception. In 2003, Frank Mueller, another graduate of the FSU Computer Science department won this prestigious award.

http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/directories/faculty_info.php?id=1805