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NEWS
INDEX
2001
November
UI
students receive 2002 Siebel Scholars award
Kesha Green,
News Bureau
(217) 333-1085; k-green3@uiuc.edu
11/7/01
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Five
University of Illinois students received the 2002 Siebel Scholars award
for their outstanding work in the computer science graduate program.
Bhaskar Borthakur, Albert Chu, Hui Fang, James Jackson and Ryan Szypowski
were honored based on academic merit and leadership excellence. Each
received a $25,000 cash award to defray tuition costs and expenses for
their second year of graduate study.
Borthakur received his undergraduate degree at Birla Institute of Technology.
Chu did his undergraduate work at the UI. Both focused on systems software
and networking.
Fang studied physics at Nanjing University in China, and received a
masters degree in physics from the University of Delaware. His
research interest is computational science as it applies to astronomy.
Jackson, whose interest is artificial intelligence, earned his bachelors
degree at West Point.
Szypowski studied at the University of Manitoba, where he completed
an honors project on the simulation of black holes. His research interest
is numerical methods.
The award stems from the Siebel Scholars Program established at graduate
schools of business or computer science at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Stanford, University
of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania
and the UI.
Siebel Systems Inc., an eBusiness application software provider, donated
$2.6 million to each institution for the Siebel Scholars program. The
investment proceeds of the endowment were designed to support the program
indefinitely. Siebel Systems employees, including chairman Thomas M.
Siebel, have assisted Siebel Scholars through providing mentoring services,
job search assistance, and helping with business and public service
initiatives.
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