Awards Received from Sketch Recognition Lab Research
Lab Director: Dr. Tracy Hammond| 2020 | TAMU Undergraduate Excellence in Research Award Benton Phillipy Guess, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2020 | TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award Samantha Ray, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2020 | CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention Angel Pina, NSF Computing Research Association | ||
| 2020 | CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention Benton Phillipy Guess, NSF Computing Research Association | ||
| 2019 | Graduate Engineering Minority Fellowship Larry Powell, Idaho National Labs | ||
| 2019 | TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award Larry Powell, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2018 | Best Project, Hackathon '18: Diversify Space & Place. Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Presented a solution to the challenge posted by the College of Engineering. | ||
| 2018 | Best Senior Capstone Design Team", project "CommBo" in the "Other Majors" category Cory Avra, Kaveet Laxmidas, Reed Spivey, Christopher Tsao, Leon Wallace, Christopher Wilcoxen, Engineering Project Showcase | ||
| 2018 | TAMU Undergraduate Excellence in Research Award Jake Leland, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2018 | TAMU Graduate Leadership Excellence Award Seth Polsley, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2018 | Aggies Celebrate Teaching award Dr. Tracy Hammond, Aggies Celebrate Teaching award from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M | ||
| 2018 | 2nd Place in Poster Presentation Spencer Harder, Geoscience Undergraduate Category Team: Spencer Harder, Bryce Schumacher, Nahiyan Khandker, Dillon Gardener, Nathan Manickavasagam | ||
| 2018 | 1st Place in Poster Presentation Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Engineering Graduate Category | ||
| 2017 | X - Factor award at the TAMU Diversity Accessibility Hackathon - College of Architecture, Texas A&M Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Vijay presented a solution for improving the interactions between the professor and students in a classroom using eye-tracking technology, and this solution won the award. | ||
| 2017 | 1st Place Student Game Design Competition (Jury Award) Dr. Blake Williford, CHI Play Conference | ||
| 2017 | TAMU CSE Graduate Leadership Excellence Award Raniero Lara Garduno, TAMU CSE Departmental Award | ||
| 2017 | 1st place in Three Minute Thesis competition, People’s Choice Award in the doctoral category Dr. Vijay Rajanna, People’s Choice Award in the doctoral category | ||
| 2017 | 2nd place in the IAP Research Poster Competition at Texas A&M, March 2017 Dr. Vijay Rajanna, Gaze-Based Multimodal Approach to Rich and Accessible Human-Computer Interaction | ||
| 2017 | Graduate Teaching Fellow award by the Dwight Look College of Engineering - Texas A&M University Dr. Vijay Rajanna, | ||
| 2017 | NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) Matthew Runyon, | ||
| 2017 | NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for graduate studnets fellowship Raniero Lara Garduno, | ||
| 2017 | 1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest (Subject Area: Architecture) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2017 Cullen Brown, Coordinating Attention and Cooperation in Multi-User Virtual Reality Narratives. | ||
| 2017 | 2nd Place Student Research Competition Dr. Blake Williford, ACM Richard TAPIA conference | ||
| 2017 | 1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest Larry Powell, ACM Richard TAPIA conference | ||
| 2016 | TAMU CSE Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Dr. Tracy Hammond, | ||
| 2016 | Texas A&M University College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. College Station, TX. (2016). First Place (out of 215 submissions). Katelyn Goodroe, Identification of Health Disparities in Vision Care through Regression Analysis of Access | ||
| 2016 | TAMU CSE Undergraduate Leadership Award Rafael Moreno, | ||
| 2016 | Texas A&M University College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. College Station, TX. (2016). Awarded Second Place (out of 215 submissions). Seth Smitherman, The Feasibility of Using CASPER to Assess Prevalence of Neglected Tropical Disease Risk Factors | ||
| 2016 | The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP). 1st Place Research Poster Swarna Keshavabhotla, PerSketchTivity | ||
| 2016 | 2nd Place in the Accessibility Mapping Challenge Dr. Vijay Rajanna, GIS Day 2016 | ||
| 2016 | 3rd Place in the Student Research Competition Dr. Vijay Rajanna, ASSETS 2016 conference | ||
| 2016 | 2nd Place in Graduate Poster Contest (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2016 Raniero Lara Garduno, SmartStrokes: Evaluating sketches from digitized neuropsycology tests. | ||
| 2016 | Best Poster Award - 1st Place. ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA) Dr. Vijay Rajanna, | ||
| 2015 | Best Student Paper Award. MobiHealth 2015 - 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies Dr. Vijay Rajanna, | ||
| 2015 | TAMU Undergraduate Leadership Excellence Award Rafael Moreno, TAMU CSE Departamental Award | ||
| 2015 | TAMU Mentoring Excellence Award Dr. Stephanie Valentine, TAMU CSE Departamental Award | ||
| 2015 | TAMU Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Trevor Nelligan, TAMU CSE Departamental Award | ||
| 2015 | The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP). 1st Place Research Poster Trevor Nelligan, Mechanix: A Sketch Based Educational Interface. | ||
| 2015 | 2015 Girl Scouts of Central Texas Most Passionate Collaborator Award Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Wired Youth, Inc. and Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science & Engineering | ||
| 2015 | Best Poster at 2015 ACM International conference on intelligent user interface Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Michael Helms, Dr. Julie Linsey, Trevor Nelligan, Seth Polsley, Jaideep Ray, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Educational Interface | ||
| 2015 | Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Abram Gutierrez, gRec: A Gesture Recognition Interface for CourseSketch | ||
| 2015 | Capstone. Sigma Xi Interdisciplinary Award. TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Abram Gutierrez, gRec: A Gesture Recognition Interface for CourseSketch | ||
| 2015 | 2nd Place Graduate Oral (Subject Area: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Business, Education, Political Science, Economics) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 David Turner, CourseSketch | ||
| 2015 | 2nd Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Medicine, Biomedical, Neuroscience) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Dr. Folami Alamudun, Visual Search Patterns during Mammographic Screening | ||
| 2015 | Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Oral (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Joseph Newman, Hayden Wood, Frontier | ||
| 2015 | Capstone. 2nd Place Undergraduate Poster (Subject Area: History, Literature, Fine Arts, Communication, Languages, Philosophy) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 KidGab: A Social Media Tutorial | ||
| 2015 | 1st Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Jaideep Ray, Approximate Sketch Matching and Retrieval | ||
| 2015 | 2015 2nd Place Graduate Poster (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Anurag Garg, Seth Polsley, Jaideep Ray, Optimizing Corner Finder | ||
| 2015 | Capstone. 1st Place Undergraduate Oral (Subject Area: Health, Nutrition, Kinesiology, Physiology) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Shoot Responsibly | ||
| 2015 | 2nd Place Graduate Oral (Subject Area: Math, Statistics, Computer Science) TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Raniero Lara Garduno, SmartStrokes: Evaluating Sketches from Neuropsychological Tests | ||
| 2015 | 1st Place Graduate Poster. TAMU Student Research Week, SRW 2015 Trevor Nelligan, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Educational Interface | ||
| 2015 | Best research presentation - 2nd place Dr. Vijay Rajanna, | ||
| 2015 | 1st Place in Graduate Poster Contest. ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA) Raniero Lara Garduno, Analyzing neuropsychological tests with sketch recognition. | ||
| 2014 | 3rd place TAMU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium Emily Berk, Haptic Feedback from Wearable Device for Indoor Navigation in Disaster Situations, Session A on August 8, 2014 | ||
| 2014 | 1st Place TAMU CSE Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) Poster Session Dr. Folami Alamudun, Fractal Analysis of Radiologists' Visual Scanning Pattern in Screening Mammography, (September) | ||
| 2014 | CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalist David Turner, NSF Computing Research Association | ||
| 2014 | Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Raniero Lara Garduno, | ||
| 2014 | Best Graduate Research Presentation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research Alliance in Math and Science Program Dr. Folami Alamudun, Fractal Analysis of Radiologists' Visual Scanning Pattern in Screening Mammography | ||
| 2014 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Engineering/Architecture Raniero Lara Garduno, Larry Powell, Enhancing Mechanix - Interface and Algorithms | ||
| 2014 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Sigma Xi Award for Interdisciplinary Research Raniero Lara Garduno, Larry Powell, Enhancing Mechanix - Interface and Algorithms | ||
| 2013 | 1st Place Best Capstone Project, College of Engineering Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, AggieExpo. Capstone: Kamistry | ||
| 2013 | Texas A&M University Dissertation Fellowship Dr. Manoj Prasad, | ||
| 2013 | Susan M. Arseven ‘75 Make-A-Difference Memorial Award Dr. Stephanie Valentine, (award: $1000) | ||
| 2013 | TAMU CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Ayobami Olubeku, | ||
| 2013 | Best Case Study Honorable Mention, CHI 2013 Chris Aikens, Dr. Danielle Cummings, Dr. Tracy Hammond, George Lucchese, Dr. Manoj Prasad, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Multimodal Location-Aware System for Paratrooper Team Coordination | ||
| 2013 | CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention David Turner, NSF Computing Research Association | ||
| 2013 | NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) Kiley Sobel, | ||
| 2013 | NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program Dr. Paul Taele, Singapore | ||
| 2013 | NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) Dr. Stephanie Valentine, | ||
| 2013 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Glasscock Award (Humanities) Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, Capstone: Kamistry | ||
| 2013 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences Andy Hampton, Bryant Poffenberger, Connor Taylor, Capstone: Kamistry | ||
| 2013 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Social Sciences Dr. Manoj Prasad, Designing Spatial Tactors | ||
| 2013 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Glasscock Award (Humanities) Ben Beadle, Colby Cartwright, Jennifer Than, Homer Werbiski, Capstone: Campus Compass (tie with Kamistry) | ||
| 2013 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences Ben Beadle, Colby Cartwright, Jennifer Than, Homer Werbiski, Capstone: Campus Compass (tie with Kamistry) | ||
| 2013 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Oral in Computational Sciences Matt Borders, Bret Parker, Joseph Tomlinson, Capstone: Animal Games - Android Game with Table-Phone | ||
| 2013 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week (SRW) Graduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Mechanix - A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Courses | ||
| 2012 | Charles H. Barclay Jr. ’45 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Dr. Tracy Hammond, | ||
| 2012 | TAMU CSE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Sarin Regmi, | ||
| 2012 | IAAI Innovative Applications of AI Deployed Application Award Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Hong-Hoe (Ayden) Kim, Wenzhe Li, George Lucchese, Dr. Stephanie Valentine, Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Course | ||
| 2012 | DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Dr. Danielle Cummings, | ||
| 2012 | NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program Dr. Danielle Cummings, HITLab, New Zealand with Dr. Mark Billinghurst | ||
| 2012 | NSF EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) Program Dr. Paul Taele, Taiwan | ||
| 2012 | 1st Place TAMu Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Oral in Computational Sciences David Turner, Creative Design in Mechanix (award: $300) | ||
| 2012 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences George Lucchese, GestureCommander (award: $300) | ||
| 2012 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Undergraduate Research Poster in Computational Sciences Sarin Regmi, Haptigo (award: $150) | ||
| 2012 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Research Oral in Engineering, Architecture Dr. Stephanie Valentine, (award: $150) | ||
| 2011 | 2nd Place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition Dr. Danielle Cummings, Unmanned Air System: Multimodal Interaction for Unmanned Air Vehicles, September 11, 2011 (award: $250) | ||
| 2011 | 3rd Place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition Dr. Manoj Prasad, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly, September 11, 2011 (award:$100) | ||
| 2011 | TAMU Graduate Leadership Excellence Award Dr. Paul Taele, TAMU CSE Departamental Award | ||
| 2011 | Teaching-as-Research Fellow. TAMU Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning Dr. Manoj Prasad, | ||
| 2011 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Oral in Computational Sciences Chris Aikens, Dr. Danielle Cummings, Jimmy Ho, George Lucchese, Dr. Manoj Prasad, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly | ||
| 2011 | People’s Choice Award for Best Poster. Tapia Conference for Diversity Dr. Danielle Cummings, GeoTrooper: A Location-Aware System for Rapid Team Assembly | ||
| 2010 | 3rd place TAMU Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition Drew Logsdon, Hand Gesture Tool Manipulation in a Gaming Environment. September | ||
| 2010 | Best Paper Nomination, SBIM at Expressive Martin Field, Dr. Tracy Hammond, Kourtney Kebodeaux, Defining Precise Measurements with Sketched Annotations, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling - Expressive | ||
| 2010 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences Dr. Brandon Paulson, Expanding Primitive Recognition for Hand-sketched Military Course of Action Diagrams (award: $200) | ||
| 2010 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Oral Computational Sciences Dr. Joshua Peschel, A Surfaceless Pen-Based Interface (award: $200) | ||
| 2009 | TAMU CSE 2nd Place Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition Dr. Brandon Paulson, An Algorithm for Recognizing Sketched Multi-stroke Primitives, September IAP | ||
| 2009 | CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Honorable Mention Dhivya Padmanabhan, NSF Computing Research Association | ||
| 2009 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting | ||
| 2009 | TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Environmental Health and Safety Award Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting | ||
| 2009 | TAMU Student Research Week Interdisciplinary Research Ribbon Recognition Dr. Brandon Paulson, Object Interaction Detection using Hand Posture Cues in an Office Setting | ||
| 2008 | 1st Place TAMU CSE Industrial Affiliates Program Poster Competition Dr. Brandon Paulson, A System for Recognizing and Beautifying Low-level Sketch Shapes Using NDDE and DCR (award: $500) | ||
| 2008 | NSF National Merit Fellowship Honorable Mention Aaron Wolin, National Science Foundation | ||
| 2008 | 1st Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences Aaron Wolin, ShortStraw: A Cheap and Simple Corner Finder for Polylines (award: $300) | ||
| 2008 | 3rd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences Dr. Brandon Paulson, A System for Recognizing and Beautifying Low-level Sketch Shapes Using NDDE and DCR (award: iPod) | ||
| 2007 | TAMU CSE Distinguished Former Student Scholarship Dr. Brandon Paulson, $1000 awarded to outstanding TAMU CSE student | ||
| 2007 | Nominated for Best Short Video Dr. Tracy Hammond, Dr. Brandon Paulson, MARQS: Media Album Retrieval by Query Sketch, Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | ||
| 2007 | AWRA GIS and Water Resources Most Outstanding Student Presentation Dr. Joshua Peschel, Sketch-Based Interface for Rapid Floodplain Assessment, American Water Resource Association | ||
| 2007 | 2nd Place TAMU Student Research Week Graduate Poster Computational Sciences Dr. Brandon Paulson, MARQS: Media Album Retrieval by Query Sketch (award: iPod) | ||
| 2004 | Best Paper Award, Student Oxygen Workshop, MIT Dr. Tracy Hammond, Automatically Generated Sketch Interfaces from Shape Descriptions. MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, September 10, 2004. | ||
| 2002 | New Faculty Fellow, Frontiers in Education Dr. Tracy Hammond, Gender-Based Underrepresentation in Computer Science and Related Disciplines. Frontiers in Engineering, (FIE) November 6, 2002 |