On Sept. 20, the Siebel Scholars Foundation introduced the 2025 Siebel Scholars Award recipients. 5 Illinois Grainger Faculty of Engineering college students have been named to this yr’s class within the Graduate Colleges of Pc Science class. The 2025 group of 78 honorees be a part of previous Siebel Students lessons in a community of greater than 1,900 students, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Tanay Dixit
Tanay Dixit is an MS scholar in Pc Science on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the place professor Jiawei Han advises him. He accomplished his bachelor’s diploma on the Indian Institute of Expertise Madras. Throughout his undergraduate research, Tanay was awarded the distinguished NSF REU and DAAD scholarships, which enabled him to pursue analysis internships throughout the summer time. He additionally represented IIT Madras twice on the Inter IIT Tech Meets and gained gold and bronze medals. His analysis pursuits primarily lie within the intersection of Machine Studying and Pure Language Processing (NLP), specializing in growing dependable and sturdy NLP programs that may be successfully utilized in real-world situations. His analysis has been printed at conferences corresponding to ACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, and EMNLP 2021. Along with this, he has gained worthwhile expertise in utilized analysis by internships at Microsoft Analysis and Adobe.
Hao-Yu (Max) Hsu
Hao-Yu (Max) Hsu is a first-year MS scholar in pc science at Illinois. Beforehand, he was a analysis assistant at Nationwide Taiwan College (NTU) and graduated summa cum laude in electrical engineering from Nationwide Tsing Hua College, rating first out of 102 college students.
Max’s analysis focuses on 3D imaginative and prescient, together with 3D scene reconstruction, level cloud processing, and physics-based rendering and simulation. At NTU, he labored on environment friendly reconstruction and rendering of indoor scenes and object-level partial level cloud completion. Each have been accepted by CVPR and NeurIPS, two top-tier imaginative and prescient and AI conferences.
At Illinois, he focuses on physics-informed 3D imaginative and prescient, working with professor Shenlong Wang on growing a bodily reasonable video modifying system. Moreover lecturers, Max labored as a software program intern at ITRI, constructing OCR pipelines. He additionally led a workforce to win an honorable point out award in a nationwide recreation design competitors.
Baoyu Li
Baoyu Li is a first-year MS scholar in pc science suggested by professor Kris Hauser. She attained twin bachelor’s levels in arithmetic and statistics with magna cum laude honors from the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Baoyu’s analysis pursuits lie within the intersection of robotics, pc imaginative and prescient, and machine studying, particularly specializing in growing structured world fashions for robotic manipulation of deformable objects. Her research goal to boost robots’ understanding and bodily interactions inside unstructured environments. Her graduate work has been printed in RSS2024 and gained the Greatest Paper Award on the ICRA 2024 Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects. Moreover, she had publications at ACL2023 and ICRAW2023 on graph studying and meta-learning for robotics. Past her analysis, Baoyu has served as a TA/CA at Illinois and as a instructing volunteer in Champaign, Guangxi, and Galle.
Ashutosh Sharma
Ashutosh Sharma is a graduate scholar on the Siebel College of Computing and Information Science pursuing a grasp’s diploma. He graduated from IIT Bombay in 2023 with a bachelor of expertise in mechanical engineering, with honors and twin minors in pc science and synthetic intelligence. Ashutosh has been acknowledged with the distinguished KVPY Fellowship and Kulapati Okay. M. Munshi Award. His analysis focuses on reliable ML and ML for social good. At Illinois, he has labored on the adversarial robustness of LLMs, heterogeneous differential privateness, and out-of-distribution detection for temporal information.
He labored on medical picture translation and neural info retrieval for low-resource languages throughout his undergraduate research. His analysis goals to learn society, particularly marginalized communities, and his work has been printed in main ML conferences. Ashutosh has additionally proven a stable dedication to group service, mentorship, {and professional} excellence, with notable experiences at Wells Fargo and Amazon.
Alan Wang
Alan Wang is a BS/MS pc science scholar on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with ECE professor Christopher Fletcher in {hardware} safety. At the moment, Alan’s main focus is side-channel assaults and defenses. On the facet, he additionally researches working programs with professor Tianyin Xu. Alan is a software program developer intern at Jane Road and has labored as a pc science intern at D.E. Shaw Analysis. As an underclassman, he labored on autonomous biology moist labs for 2 years at Argonne Nationwide Laboratory. In highschool, he labored with the Navy on autonomous bomb-defusing robotics.
Exterior of lecturers, Alan is an ACM mentor and helps incoming college students transition to varsity. He was additionally the swim coordinator for 2 years on the Illinois Triathlon Membership, main all water-related actions and swim classes.
Now in its 24th yr, the Siebel Students program yearly acknowledges almost 80 distinctive college students from the world’s main graduate colleges of enterprise, pc science, and bioengineering. This system awards grants to 16 universities in the USA, China, France, Italy and Japan. Following a aggressive assessment course of by the deans of their respective colleges primarily based on excellent tutorial achievement and demonstrated management, the highest graduate college students from 27 companion packages are chosen annually as Siebel Students and obtain a $35,000 award for his or her remaining yr of research.
Grainger Faculty of Engineering affiliations
Jiawei Han is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of Pc Science and is affiliated with The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the Data Science and the Data and Information Systems Laboratory. Jiawei Han holds the Michael Aiken Chair.
Shenlong Wang is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of Pc Science and is affiliated with The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, the IMMERSE: Center for Immersive Computing and the Illinois Robotics Group.
Kris Okay. Hauser is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of Pc Science and is affiliated with The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and the Intelligent Motion Laboratory.
Christopher Fletcher is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of Pc Science and is affiliated with The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Tianyin Xu is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of Pc Science and is affiliated with The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.