Dear all,

A Message from Naoki Saito, Director of UCD4IDS

Dear UCD4IDS members,

Four UCD4IDS faculty members received the 2023 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Awards from the Office of Graduate Studies! Please join me to congratulate: Rishi Chaudhuri (Math/NPB); Jesus De Loera (Math); Prem Devanbu (CS); and Krishna Balasubramanian (Stat), for their excellence in mentoring our graduate students!

All the best,

Naoki Saito

Our own Xiaodong Li (Statistics) has been honored as a Chancellor's Fellow! See the details at: 5 Honored as Chancellor’s Fellows | UC Davis College of Letters and Science .

Please join me to congratulate Xiaodong!

All the best,

Naoki

Dear Colleagues and Graduate Students,

Our faculty member, Prem Devanbu (CS) recently received two honors. One is the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and the other is the 2022 ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (with his collaborators).

Dear all,

UCD4IDS is co-organizing the 2022 ADVANCE Award Symposium together with CAMPOS and Feminist Research Institute as follows. I very strongly encourage you to join us for this wonderful event! Please consider giving your poster talks too!! Here is the link to the symposium website: 2022 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ucdavis.edu)

All the best,

Naoki

Jesus De Loera (Math/GGAM) was elected Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He has just started this role in Feb. 2022, and will serve for three years. Congratulations, Jesus! We really appreciate your dedication and service to our profession! See the list of the current AMS officers at AMS :: Officers of the American Mathematical Society.

Dear UCD4IDS members,

We have now our own GitHub site: https://github.com/UCD4IDS !!

Currently there are a handful of packages our members (Saito, Koeppe, and their groups) are listed there.

Please consider adding your software packages for public dissemination, which NSF would reapply appreciate.

If you have any further questions, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Naoki Saito