CIS Students Receive Several Awards at ACM Conference

Over 40 students from all over the southeast attended the ACM MidSoutheast conference (ACM’s oldest conference now in its 51st year!). The conference was held in Gatlinburg, TN, on November 13, 2009.

The CIS department was represented well by many students who gave presentations:

Undergrad: Robert Cloud

Masters: Walker Haddock

PhD: Soma Halder, Liping Zhou, Richa Tiwari, Song Gao, Yu Sun, and Robert Tairas

Among the five awards in the graduate category, UAB CIS students won four of the awards. The following students received awards at the conference banquet:

Masters:

•  Walker Haddock, Second Place

PhD:

• Richa Tiwari, First Place;
• Robert Tairas, Second Place;
• Yu Sun, Third Place