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Kuck Dissertation Prize recipients

Each year, the David J. Kuck Ph.D. Dissertation Prize in Computer Science and Engineering will recognize the most impactful Ph.D. dissertation submitted by a student in the University of Michigan’s program in Computer Science and Engineering. Recipients are listed below.

University of Michigan EECS alumnus David J. Kuck (BSE EE 1959), Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois and distinguished computer scientist, established this recognition in 2020.

Year	Recipient	Dissertation
2023	Fan Lai	Minimalist Systems for Pervasive Machine Learning
2022	Tara Safavi	Augmenting Structure with Text for Improved Graph Learning
2021	Akshitha Sriraman	Enabling Hyperscale Web Services
2020	Qi Zhang	Making and Keeping Probabilistic Commitments for Trustworthy Multiagent Coordination