Group achievements

7 July 2025: Aseem Baranwal has won the SCS PhD Dissertation Award!
29 November 2024: Aseem Baranwal is one of the top 20 reviewers at the Learning on Graphs Conference. See the annoucement here.
24 April 2023: Shenghao’s paper Weighted flow diffusion for local graph clustering with node attributes: an algorithm and statistical guarantees was accepted at ICML 2023 as Oral & Poster, top 3%.
21 January 2023: Aseem’s paper Effects of Graph Convolutions in Multi-layer Networks was accepted at at ICLR 2023 as Spotlight, top 6%.
10 December 2022: Aseem Baranwal is one of the top 20 reviewers at the Learning on Graphs Conference. See the annoucement here.
30 April 2022: Our paper Graph Attention Retrospective won the best paper award at the GroundedML workshop.
20 December 2021: Shenghao Yang was featured at Mathematics News.
22 July 2021: Shenghao Yang was a finalist for the best student presentation prize at SIAM ACDA. His talk was on Local Hyper-flow Diffusion. You can find the video here.
16 May 2021: Aseem’s paper Graph Convolution for Semi-Supervised Classification: Improved Linear Separability and Out-of-Distribution Generalization was accepted at ICML 2021 as Spotlight, top 6%.

22 May 2025: Artur Back de Luca has been awarded the President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS).
22 May 2025: Artur Back de Luca has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
26 September 2024: George Giapitzakis Tzintanos was awarded the International Masters Award of Excellence and the Cheriton Scholarship Type II, both from the University of Waterloo, worth a total of 12.5K.
5 January 2024: Aseem Baranwal is one of the five students that got the Cheriton Scholarship for Winter 2024. That’s 10k each year for 2 years.
May 2023: Shenghao Yang has been awarded the Joseph Wai-Hung Liu Scholarship.
9 May 2023: Aseem Baranwal has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
8 May 2023: Aseem Baranwal has been awarded the President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS).
September 2022: Shenghao Yang has been awarded the President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS).
3 May 2022: Shenghao Yang has been awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC (105K for 3 years), 1 of 330 awards nationally in Canada.
18 February 2022: Shenghao Yang is one of the three students that got the Cheriton Scholarship for Winter 2022. That’s 10k each year for 2 years.
31 May 2021: Shenghao Yang is one of the 10 fellows to the Borealis AI Global Fellowship (10K CAD).

May/June 2025: Artur Back de Luca will join Amazon NY as an intern in May/June 2025.
1st of June 2023: Aseem Baranwal joined Microsoft Redmond as an intern for the summer of 2023.
23 September 2023: Shenghao Yang joined Amazon NY as an intern in December 2023.
3 October 2022: Aseem Baranwal joined Google as a Student Researcher.
8 April 2022: Shenghao Yang joined Amazon NY as an intern in July 2022.

1 July 2024: Aseem Baranwal will join the AI residency program at XTY Labs.
23 October 2024: Shenghao Yang joined the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, to work with Michael Mahoney as postdoctoral fellow.