Dietrich Faculty Among Six Grants Awarded by Google

Six Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, including one affiliated with the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, received grants through Google's inaugural Research Scholar Program. The program provides up to $60,000 to support the research efforts of early career professors.

Sivaraman Balakrishnan, an assistant professor of statistics in the Dietrich College and an affiliated faculty member in the Machine Learning Department, received a grant jointly with Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University.

Additional CMU faculty who received grants include Nathan Beckmann, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Dina El Zanfaly, an assistant professor in CMU's School of Design; Pravesh Kothari, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department; Nihar Shah, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning and Computer Science departments and in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; and Virginia Smith, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.