8 CICS PhD Students Receive Fall 2025 Dissertation Writing Fellowships

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Eight doctoral students have received Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Fall 2025 Dissertation Writing Fellowships, a recognition that highlights the strength of their dissertation research and its contributions to computing theory and practice. 

Students were nominated by their faculty advisors and each receives a $16,500 stipend to support the completion of their dissertation and preparation for their defense and graduation. 

The 2025 fellowship recipients span research areas that include artificial intelligence, robotics, and other core fields of computing, reflecting a wide range of doctoral scholarship underway at Manning CICS. The Fall 2025 fellows are listed below:

Image	Ojaswi Acharya Advisor: Adam O’Neill "Practical Advances in Modern Cryptographic Primitives"
Image	Tianyu (Kevin) Chen Advisor: Ramesh Sitaraman "Robust Adaptive Algorithms for High-Fidelity Next-Generation Video Streaming"
Image	Bhawana Chhaglani Advisor: Prashant Shenoy "Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Sensing Systems for Healthy Indoor Environments"
Image	Aimen Gaba Advisor: Cindy Xiong Bearfield "Advancing Responsible and Trustworthy AI Using Human-Centered Methods"
Image	Ignacio Gavier Advisor: Ivan Lee "Overcoming Data and Energy Challenges in Wearable IMU-based Learning"
Image	Spencer Lane Advisor: Ethan Zuckerman "Tools for Aggregating, Filtering, Sorting, and Auditing Social Media"
Image	Daniel Marew Advisor: Donghyun Kim "From Trajectory Optimization to Learning: Developing Controllers for Dynamic Legged Robots"
Image	Oindrila Saha Advisor: Subhransu Maji "Fine-Grained Reasoning with Limited Supervision"