Oral and Poster Presentation Awards Announced from 2025 Student Research Symposium

Recently, KU’s Institute for Information Sciences’ (I2S) Student Organization (ISO) held their annual Student Research Symposium, Jan. 23-24, at the Kansas Memorial Union. The two-day event featured more than dozen oral presentations on a wide range of research topics, including machine learning, high-performance computing, and AI and machine learning.

I2S congratulates the winners of the oral presentations: Ahmet Soyyigit, Landon Doty, and Iman Iskari for winning the first, second, and third place prizes, respectively. In addition to their achievements, ISO awarded several prizes to students who participated in poster presentations during the course of the event. Conratulations to Mahmudul Hasan and Md Mashfiq Rizvee for winning first and second place for their graduate poster presentations, and to Shravya Matta and Daniel Neugent for winning first and second place for their undergraduate poster presentations.

The 2025 Student Research Symposium also featured a keynote presentation by Andy Gill on his work with Haverscript, a lightweight Python library crafted to simplify and enhance interactions with large language models (LLMs). Gill is a Principal Engineer at Rain AI, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in the development of low-power AI accelerators. With extensive experience in designing and optimizing AI accelerator compilers, Gill has previously held roles at Cerebras Systems and Google, contributing to compiler technologies for AI hardware. Before transitioning to the private sector, Gill served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kansas, where his research centered on domain-specific languages for FPGAs and GPUs.

Learn more about this years I2S Student Research Symposium and stay tuned for next year's event.