The Computer Science Dept. Halloween party took place on Nov. 7. The party, held at Professor Matthews’ house, was fun and festive!
Check out these party pics!
2023 CS Halloween Party
2023 Computer Science Degrees, Scholarships, Prizes and Awards
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 Computer Science Majors and Minors for their outstanding achievements! Their accomplishments, along with the accomplishments of certain CS undergraduates are listed here, as they appear in the Commencement Bulletin.
2023 Graduates:
Majors:
- Abdelraham Hesham AboEitta – Bachelor of Science, Honors in Computer Science ( Thesis: “Hyperdimensional Computing for Gesture Recognitiion Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor”), Phi Beta Kappa; summa cum laude
- Praise D. Apata – Bachelor of Science
- Sujana Basnet- Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude
- Madison E. Clubb- Bachelor of Arts
- Carson Brent Cooley- Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude
- Jared Alexander Cordova- Bachelor of Science
- Ana Sophia Estrada Hamm- Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
- Dario Fumarola- Bachelor of Arts
- Selihom Gobeze- Bachelor of Science
- Daniel Kenji Kung- Bachelor of Science
- Leslie Taylor Le- Bachelor of Science
- Grace Murphy MacDonald- Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
- Nobel Sintayehu Manye- Bachelor of Science
- Ryan Davis Messick- Bachelor of Arts
- Cong Danh Nguyen- Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
- Nicholas Q. Nguyen- Bachelor of Science
- Mesoma Ifechukwu Okolocha- Bachelor of Science
- Jorge Baunner Soto-Ventura- Bachelor of Arts
- Robert Taylor Tucker- Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Virginia Slater Weston- Bachelor of Science
Minors:
- Peter McNulty Clyne- Bachelor of Science
- Caleb Minjae Choe- Bachelor of Science
- Harry Dodd Crutcher, Jr.- Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Carl Lucas Erdmann- Bachelor of Arts
- Sarah Louise Martin- Bachelor of Science
- Robert Warren Seeds- Bachelor of Science
- Nicholas Ransom Steinert- Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude
- Colin James Whiting- Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Yoseph W. Wolde- Bachelor of Arts
Fellowships Received:
- Ana Sophia Estrada Hamm ’22 – Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Israel
Departmental Awards:
- Carson Brent Cooley- The Luther Seevers Birely Scholarship
- Kathryn Marie Yurechko ’24- The James McDowell Scholarship
- Grace Murphy MacDonald – The Computer Science Department Award
- Nobel Sintayehu Manaye- The H. Thomas Williams, Jr. Undergraduate Research Award
- Mesoma Ifechukwu Okolocha- Senior Bonner Scholars
- Jackson Jacobs ’24- Richard Miller Cross Country Award
CS Major Katie Yurechko ’24 presents at the 2023 ACM Web Conference
The 2023 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference took place in Austin, Texas on April 30-May 4. This conference is considered the most recognized forum to showcase and discuss progress in research, development, standards and applications of web-related topics. Katie, along with collaborators Carnegie Mellon professor Daniel Klug and student Ella Steen of Gordon College, presented their research findings, on “How Algorithm Awareness Impacts Algospeak Use on TikTok” .
In addition to being a Johnson Scholar, Yurechko double majors in computer science and philosophy. She is also minors in poverty and human capability. Katie is dedicated to supporting marginalized communities and promoting diversity in computing, stating that “computer science is not solely about creating technical advances; it is also about critically analyzing those advances from interdisciplinary perspectives.”
Congratulations to Katie on her accomplishments and achievements!
2023 CS Phi Beta Kappa Initiates
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. Its motto is “Love of learning is the guide of life.” The Gamma of Virginia Chapter was chartered at W&L in 1911.
The PBK chapter at Washington and Lee University welcomed 49 members of the junior and senior classes at the Phi Beta Kappa/Society of the Cincinnati Convocation on March 31. Of those initiates, the following computer science majors are from the Class of 2023 and 2024:
2023
Grace MacDonald
Dan Nguyen
2024
Katie Yurechko
Congratulations!
W&L’s Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Ignas Volcokas ’25 – 2nd place winners at Hackathon
Lakpa and Ignas came in second for best education hack at Hoo Hacks 2023 with their EsyLearn project.
During the hackathon, Lakpa and Ignas were inspired to produce a personal learning assistant that would accept and adjust to the learning needs of its user.
EsyLearn communicates with users via a web interface where the users can easily speak and get responses back, just like talking to another human being. Through natural language processing, it provides responses both in text and audio for better understanding. Within 24 hours, Lakpa and Ignas essentially created a virtual assistant that is as smart as Jarvis in the Iron Man Movies.
Congratulations, Lakpa and Ignas!
You can learn more in the W&L feature story and in the Hook Hacks project gallery.
2022 Computer Science Degrees, Scholarships, Prizes and Awards
Congratulations to the Class of 2022 Computer Science Majors and Minors for their outstanding achievements! Their accomplishments, along with the accomplishments of certain CS undergraduates are listed here, as they appear in the Commencement Bulletin.
2022 Graduates:
- Luke Patrick Alli – Bachelor of Science
- Theodore C. Bentley – Bachelor of Science
- Samuel Thomas Bluestone – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
- Dominique Nicole Broomfield – Bachelor of Science
- August Spencer Donovan – Bachelor of Arts
- Ana Sophia Estrada Hamm
Jackson Mark Gazin – Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Mathematics (Thesis: “Linear Algebraic Methods in Data Science and Neural Networks”) - Bryan Lawrence Hadley – Bachelor of Science
- Jae-Ung Jung – Bachelor of Science
- Tara Krishnadas Kakkaramadam – Bachelor of Science
- Laurie A. Lee – Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
- Elyssa M. McMaster – Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Art History (Thesis: “Florence + The Machine: A Computational Approach to Florentine Liturgical Manuscript Illuminations from the Late Trecento”)
- Walter Ellis Millwood – Bachelor of Science
- Garrett Montgomery Mize – Bachelor of Science, cum laude
- Evan Lewis Phaup – Bachelor of Science
- Joseph Paul Salerno – Bachelor of Science
- Yoseph Mandefro Tamene – Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude
- Finn Ellis Thorne – Bachelor of Science
- Haochen Tu – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
- (Alyssa) Trang Thuy Vu – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, Valedictorian
- Scott Kenneth Walters – Bachelor of Arts
- Taylor Ryan Witherell – Bachelor of Science
Fellowships Received:
- Elyssa M. McMaster – Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Italy
- Ana Sophia Estrada Hamm – U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, Arabic
Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes:
- (Alyssa) Trang Thuy Vu – The Robinson Award in Mathematics and Science
Departmental Awards:
- Samuel Thomas Bluestone – The Computer Science Department Award
- Ana Sophia Estrada Hamm – The Computer Science Department Award
- Yoseph Mandefro Tamene – The Computer Science Department Award
- (Alyssa) Trang Thuy Vu – The Computer Science Department Award
- Dominique Nicole Broomfield – The Linda Cooper and Bobby Henderson Prize
- Haochen Tu – International Education, Certificate of International Immersion
- Samuel Thomas Bluestone – Office of Jewish Life, The Jewish Learning Fellowship
- Nicholas Ranson Steinert ’23 – The Economic Academic Excellence Award
- Sujana Basnet ’23 – The Griffith Scholarship
- Jackson J. Jacobs, ’24 – Richard Miller Cross Country Award
2022 PBK initiates from the Computer Science Department
Here are the CS Dept. student inductees from the Class of 2022 and 2023 for the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Society of Cincinnati:
2022
Sam Bluestone
Ana Estrada Hamm
Haochen Tu
2023
Abdel AboEitta
Congratulations!
Computer Science Game Demo Day 2022!
Mark your calendar for Game Demo Day!
Students in Professor Matthews CSCI 319 Video Game Design class will showcase their final games.
Game Demo Day will take place on Saturday, April 9 from 10:30am – 12:30pm in the Science Center Great Hall.
Everyone is welcome!
2021 Computer Science Degrees, Scholarships, Prizes and Awards
Congratulations to the Class of 2021 Computer Science Majors and Minors for their outstanding achievements! They are listed here, as they appear in the Commencement Bulletin.
2021 Graduates:
TEMITOPE ELIZABETH ADEYANJU – Bachelor of Science, cum laude
KUSH ATTAL – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
JEFFREY MICHAEL BRADLEY – Bachelor of Science
MICHAEL WILLIAM BROWN – Bachelor of Science, Honors in Geology (Thesis “Estimating Soil Carbon Content of Grazing Lands in Rockbridge County, Virginia, using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques”)
TRISTAN HENRY CADE – Bachelor of Science
ALEXANDER ALFREDO CAINES – Bachelor of Science
JAY JAEYEON CHOI – Bachelor of Arts
KATIE SUE CONES – Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Mathematics (Thesis: “Bounding Box Sizes and Closure Properties of Spirolateral Graphs generated by Permutations”)
JACOB AIDAN FLOOD – Bachelor of Arts
COLETTA R. FULLER – Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Computer Science (Thesis: “Evolving Neural Controllers for Micro Aerial Vehicles in Simulation”), Computer Science Department Award, cum laude.
CALLAN JANE GARST – Bachelor of Science, Honors in Mathematics (Thesis: “It’s a Point, It’s a Line, It’s the Projective Plane: An Exploration of the Algebraic and Geometric Connections of the Projective Plane”), magna cum laude
ANNJOY MUTHONI GICHANE – Bachelor of Arts
FADY E. GOUDA – Bachelor of Science
ABHI ANANDA JHA – Bachelor of Arts
(TINA) DONGTING JIN – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
CORINNE GRACE JOIREMAN – Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude
HANNAH LAURIE JONES – Bachelor of Science
DANIEL AUSTIN KUNTZ – Bachelor of Science
JAMES EDGAR LAWSON – Bachelor of Arts
WILLIAM WYATT MEDICK – Bachelor of Science
ALLIE SMITH MILLER – Bachelor of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
SAMUEL WILSON NODEN- Bachelor of Arts
GRIFFIN WILLIAM NOE – Bachelor of Arts
WILLIAM HARRISON PINKERTON – Bachelor of Arts
MARGARET GRACE ROQUEMORE – Bachelor of Science
JOHN NICHOLAS ST. PIERRE – Bachelor of Science, cum laude
UTKRIST PRATAP THAPA – Bachelor of Science
ANDREW TOSTEN THOMPSON – Bachelor of Science, cum laude
ALEXANDRA ROTH WAGNER – Bachelor of Arts
Fellowships Received
ANA ESTRADA HAMM, ’22 – Boren Scholarship (scholarship for language study abroad)
Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
(ALYSSA) TRANG THUY VU ,’22 – The James D. Davidson Memorial Fund Scholarship, The James McDowell Scholarship
KUSH ATTAL ,’21 – The Mapleson Award
MICHAEL WILLIAM BROWN, ’21 – The Henry Ruffner Scholarship, The Lena T. Stevens Scholarship in Geology
KATIE SUE CONES, ’21 – The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Award
LAURIE A. LEE, ’22 – The Catherine Houston Campbell Scholarship in English Literature
SAMUEL THOMAS BLUESTONE, ’22 – The Jewish Learning Fellowship
ELYSSA M. MCMASTER, ’22 – The Jewish Learning Fellowship
DANIEL AUSTIN KUNTZ, ’21 – The Williams Prize in Mathematics
COLETTA R. FULLER ’21 – The Washington and Lee University Orchestra Award, The Computer Science Department Award
PRAISE D. APATA, ’23 – The Douglas C. Halstead Memorial Scholarship
2021 PBK initiates from the Computer Science Department
Following are the Computer Science student inductees from the Class of 2021 and 2022 for Phi Beta Kappa/Society of the Cincinnati:
- Allison Miller ’21
- Merrina Lan ’22
- Alyssa Vu ’22
CONGRATULATIONS!