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Jia Shi Awarded 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize

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CLE Moore instructor Jia Shi will receive the seventh annual Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation Prize. Jia and two others will each be presented with the 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize at the January 4 Joint Prize Session at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. Mentored by Gigliola Staffilani, Jia is interested in fluid mechanics and partial differential […]

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88 receives IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88 (Mathematics, EECS), received the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award “for contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols.” Currently a Dell EMC  Fellow, she is best known for her invention of the algorithm behind STP, the Spanning Tree Protocol, which solved a challenging information routing problem and earned her […]