Computer science students, faculty duo honored atAwards Dinner

Posted By: MU Engineering on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

The Computer Science Department named its outstanding student award recipients at the annual Collegeof Engineering Awards Dinner, held March 18. From left: Outstanding Junior: Olivia Apperson of St.Charles, Mo.; Outstanding Senior: Devin Petersohn of Columbia, Mo.; Outstanding Master’s: NickolasWergeles of Windsor, Mo.; Outstanding Doctorate: Britany Morago of Columbia, Mo.; Dean ElizabethLoboa; and Department Chair Professor Dong Xu. Photos by Tanzi Propst.

The Computer Science Department named its outstanding student awardrecipients, Assistant Professor Prasad Calyam received the Junior Faculty

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Assistant Professor Prasad Calyam received the JuniorFaculty Excellence in Research Award from DeanElizabeth Loboa.

Associate Research Professor Trupti Joshi received theSpecial Academic Appointment Award from Dean

Excellence in Research Award, and Assistant Research Professor Trupti Joshiearned the Special Academic Appointment Award at the annual College ofEngineering Awards Dinner, held March 18 at the Hampton Inn & Suites inColumbia as part of the College of Engineering’s Engineers’ Week celebration. Thestudent award recipients were as follows:

Outstanding Junior: Olivia Apperson of St. Charles, Mo.Outstanding Senior: Devin Petersohn of Columbia, Mo.Outstanding Master’s: Nickolas Wergeles of Windsor, Mo.Outstanding Doctorate: Britany Morago of Columbia, Mo.

Calyam has had 18 papers inpeerreviewed journals and 21conference papers since thebeginning of 2012 and hasaccrued $1.83 million in researchexpenditures during his tenure atMU, including $1.52 million infederal funding from the NationalScience Foundation and the U.S.Department of Energy. He’stotaled 14 NSFfunded grants inthe last four years, including 12 asa principle or coprinciple investigator.

For his work, Calyam has received several awards. He earned the Cisco ResearchAward, VMware Research Award and the NSF/U.S. Ignite/Mozilla Foundation BestGigabit App in Advanced Manufacturing Award, all of which came in 2013.

Joshi is currently a core facultymember with the MU InformaticsInstitute, assistant researchprofessor of molecularmicrobiology and immunology andthe director of translationalbioinformatics.

In the last four years, Trupti haspublished 25 papers in peerreviewed journals, a peer

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Elizabeth Loboa. reviewed conference publicationand two book chapters. In

addition, she’s given nine presentations and has five more publications currentlypending peer review. In the meantime, Trupti has provided research training foreight Ph.D. students, six graduate students, four undergraduate honors students,11 undergraduate student research projects, 15 research students from ShanghaiUniversity and seven summer research/intern students. She’s also been agraduate student adviser for two five students and a graduate student committeemember for eight more.

Trupti is the lead designer and developer for the webbased Soybean KnowledgeBase, or SoyKB, and her interdisciplinary training work in the fields of medicine,biology and informatics has provided a unique service to the University of Missouriand the College of Engineering.

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