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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor among 213 selected to join honorary society.

Xin Jin, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, won best paper award at the 15th annual USENIX on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Symposium. The paper, “NetChain: Scale-FreeSub-RTTCoordination” presents NetChain, a new approach that provides scale-free sub-RTT coordination in datacenters. NetChain exploits recent advances in programmable switches to store data and process…

This awards program was launched by Facebook to spur research and innovations that are key to building next generation communications and networking systems.

In August 2017, The American Statistical Association awarded the fifth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Ilya Shpitser, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science. Established in 2013 to “encourage the teaching of basic causal inference methods in introductory statistics courses,” the annual award recognizes the work of an individual or…

The two-year fellowship, founded in 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes scientists early in their careers who show promise in making significant contributions to their fields.

Each year, TUM honors a group of select international top-level scientists and research alumni with the title of “TUM Ambassadors” in recognition of their services, acknowledging them as representatives of all the TUM research alumni around the globe.

Hager was recognized for contributions to vision-based robotics and to computer-enhanced interventional medicine.

The distinction recognizes and honors academic inventors who have created or facilitated outstanding inventions that have made a significant difference to people and to society.