{"id":2146,"date":"2018-04-24T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:18:21","slug":"two-department-of-computer-science-students-receive-graduate-school-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2018\/04\/24\/two-department-of-computer-science-students-receive-graduate-school-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Department of Computer Science students receive Graduate School Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Two Computer Science graduate students were recipients of annual awards presented by the graduate school at Virginia Tech on March 29.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rachel Kohler, a recent master&#8217;s recipient, received the William Preston Thesis Award which recognizes the outstanding MS thesis in STEM.\u00a0 Kohler&#8217;s thesis research was supervised by Kurt Luther,<br \/>\n&gt;assistant professor of computer science and director of the Crowd Intelligence Lab. Her research examined the problem of geolocating images and videos through crowdsourcing.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gustavo Arango Argoty, a doctoral student, received the award for Outstanding Doctoral Student in an Interdisciplinary Program. Arango is advised by Liqing Zhang.\u00a0 His research focuses on developing tools&#8212;including web services, deep learning, crowdsourcing and NLP strategies&#8212;to accelerate and improve the detection andquantification of antimicrobial resistance genes from metagenomics data.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all our graduates!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Computer Science graduate students were recipients of annual awards presented by the graduate school at Virginia Tech on March 29. Rachel Kohler, a recent master&#8217;s recipient, received the William Preston Thesis Award which recognizes the outstanding MS thesis in STEM.\u00a0 Kohler&#8217;s thesis research was supervised by Kurt Luther, &gt;assistant professor of computer science and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}