The School of Information’s 2015 commencement ceremony presented an opportunity to honor both faculty and student achievements.
Dean AnnaLee Saxenian presented the 2015 Dr. James R. Chen Awards for outstanding MIMS final projects to the projects Snapily, DiscoverCT, and TIRO.
On behalf of the student body, Information Management Student Association co-presidents Brian Carlo & Bill Chambers and presented three awards. The award for outstanding teaching assistant was given to Katey Bayse; Pablo Arvizu won the prize for student with the most spirit; and the students gave their distinguished teaching award to professors Marti Hearst and Steve Weber.
James R. Chen Awards
For Outstanding MIMS Final Projects
Track 1: Moving People and Prices
Snapily
Irina Lozhkina, Becca Stanger, Todor Tzolov, Matt Valente
Advisor: Steven Weber
Website | Report
Honorable mentions:
Tagalong (Pablo Arvizu, Chalenge Masekera, Suhaib Syed, Dan Tsai)
City Trail (Arezu Aghaseyedjavadi, Marjan Ghahremani, Ruchita Rathi, Dheera Tallapragada, Rahul Verma)
Track 2: Information Search, Navigation, Visualization, and Discovery
DiscoverCT
Colin Gerber, Jason Ost
Advisor: Marti Hearst
Website | Report | Presentation Slides
Honorable mentions:
EnForm: Information Portal (Shaun Giudici, Hassan Jannah, Anthony Suen)
Pivot (Tiffany Barkley, Cameron Reed, Anna Swigart)
Track 3: Networking to Help
TIRO
Faye Ip, Sophia Lay, Jenny Lo, Timothy Meyers
Advisors: Tapan Parikh, Jenna Burrell
Report
Honorable mentions:
Audio Autonomy (Renu Bora, Andrew McConachie)
Flyover (Siddharth Agrawal, Ankita Bhosle, Divyakumar Menghani, Sufia Siddiqui)
Student Awards
(Presented by the Information Management Student Association)
Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Katey Basye
Student with the Most Spirit: Pablo Arvizu
Distinguished Teaching Award (tie): Marti Hearst & Steven Weber
