Congratulations to my former PhD student Xiaoyuan Joey Liu for winning Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement Award! Her thesis is titled "Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms on Quantum and Quantum Inspired Devices". Xiaoyuan is now a research scientist at Fujitsu working in the area of quantum computing. This award is given to a computer science graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance, and potential for future significant contribution to the field of computer science.
