 Good afternoon classes of 2021 and winter 2020. Good afternoon parents, friends, and all others who are participating in this virtual event to celebrate the achievements of our graduating students. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Michael Wellman, and I am Chair of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I am honored and proud to be addressing you on this very special day. The past year has presented all of us with unprecedented challenges, and I commend you for your resilience and determination in meeting those trials and completing the studies for your degree. It has been a difficult year, and today, commencement does not necessarily look like the day we had all imagined and hoped for. Graduation, however, is a tremendous achievement, worth taking a pause to celebrate, especially this year. And so, on behalf of the department and the College of Engineering, I am pleased to offer our congratulations on your achievements in earning your degree from the University of Michigan. You have a lot to be proud of. You've mastered challenging concepts about computing and data science. You've designed systems that someday, maybe soon, will benefit humankind. You've conducted research that will shape your field for years to come. You've grown not just in technical skills, but as people. You've learned to work in teams. You've made lifelong friends. You've experienced some setbacks and grown through those, and you've stretched yourself to reach goals that you didn't know you could attain. I hope you take the time this week to look back on your years at the University of Michigan and celebrate, safely, with your classmates, friends, and loved ones. And I encourage you to use your Michigan degree as an opportunity to solve problems and design solutions to improve lives and communities around the world. Next, you'll be hearing messages of congratulations from our faculty and staff, followed by a reading of the names of our graduates who are with us today. Congratulations, graduates! Congratulations, and go Blue! Congratulations, graduates! Congratulations, graduates! Congratulations! Go Blue! Go Blue! Congratulations! Go Blue! Hi, everyone. Congratulations. This is a great milestone for all of you. I hope you can continue making the world a better place and look forward to what you'll achieve in the future. Congratulations to all the CS grads for earning your degrees. Great job on all the hard work. Best of luck in the future. On behalf of the CSC Graduate Programs Office, congratulations! Class, you did it. You did it well done, and congratulations. Hey, the time is ripe for you to go out and have a massive positive impact, and we know you will. Good luck, and go Blue! Congratulations on your graduation. I hope you'll take a few minutes to reflect on all the hard work that you've put in and all the challenges that you've worked through, and also on the fun times that you've had on your journey to get here. You have achieved so much, and I hope that you feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. I know you'll go on to do great things. It has been a difficult year for many of us, both locally and in a larger context. Students have been asked to cope with quite a bit while completing an education, and I have seen a pattern of compassion and justice, of students working to help each other out, of students speaking their minds and working for change, and of students striving for academic excellence. Congratulations to the graduating class. Hey graduates, Rocky and I want to congratulate you on all your hard work and successes over the years, especially if you made it through one of my classes, because those are no joke. Go Blue! Congratulations graduates, we are all so excited for you. I wish we could be in person to celebrate with you, but know that we're so proud of what you've accomplished and we cannot wait to see what you'll do next. Congratulations on this major accomplishment, and keep pursuing your dreams. Congratulations graduates, really proud of you. Best of luck on the next chapter, and go Blue. Congratulations everybody. I'm very, very proud of you, and I hope that you will do great things wherever you end up being. Gonna miss you, all of you, but especially the Shanghai Jiao Tong University transfer students, you are the best. Those who stay was interrupted by COVID, will still be champions, go Blue. Congratulations, best of luck in the future and happy trails. Congratulations everyone, good luck on your way forward and glad you're done with COVID. Congratulations, I know you will do extremely well wherever you go. Well congratulations everyone. Remember when you go to start a job, you don't go to any job knowing everything you need to know, but you've learned everything you need to be good at learning. Congratulations everyone, I expect great things. Michigan students are the greatest. You've made it, what a fantastic achievement. Congratulations, well done. Congratulations, I knew you could do it. Graduates and families, I have the honor on behalf of the faculty at the College of Engineering, University of Michigan to present these candidates for the master's degree in computer science and engineering and the PhD in computer science and engineering. Representing the authority vested with the Dean by the Board of Regents, I hereby confer upon you your degree. I extend to you our sincere congratulations. And now we will be reading the names of our CSE master's graduates. The names of all graduates will appear on the screen. Anirud Agarwal, Ayush Agarwal, Tarth Agarwal, Iris Bao, Irvin Batka, Zinab Binaymar El-Yubi, Noor Bagwagar, Morgan Burjigan Wang, Nathan Brown, Joseph Buitwag, Jed Charr, Paul Chamberlain, Chunxiang Chen, Alex Chen, An-Yah Chen, Eric Chen, Haobuo Chen, Mu Chen, Yuhan Chen, Christopher Shimmer-Clark, Aaron Deutschman, Haoran Du, Timothy Dunn, Allison Easton, Alexander Earth, Sahil Farishta, Ryan Fung, Yashmeet Gambier, Yifan Guan, Chen Guo, Victor Hao, Zephaniah Hill, Suyang Hu, Thomas Huang, Xingcheng Huang, Arthur Renuda, Dimpo Jaswini, Cheng Jiang, Ryan Johnson, Gauri Kambatla, Fahad Kamran, Harman Khor, Zhu Yang Kim, Bronson Nose, Carl Koenig, Julia Launier, Brad Levinson, Qinye Li, Wei Chong Liao, Chen Yuling, Yi Rui Liu, Brian Liu, Yu Liu, Andrew Lovelace, Ren Zhong Lu, Chess Luo, Lin Yun Luo, Jia Cheng Ma, Catherine Mayo, Yu Mei, Oliver Miles, Ishwar Mohan, Yogesh Mohanraj, Ethan Mook, Ian Neil, David Nye, Anthony Opipari III, Jicheng Ouyang, Markerand Parigi, Wong Park, Mingran Peng, Joseph Pepper, Benjamin Pinzone, Matthew Pogar, Hannah Potter, Ivan Poo, Matthew Camel, Yin Long Qian, Yi Qingqiu, Keshav Ramesh, Osama Saeed, Persho Satam, Joshua Siegel, Nathan Seitz, Chen Kai Shao, Emily Sheets, Fangzhou Shi, Qingyan Shi, Tianyu Shou, Choi Stacer, Shane Storks, Drake Svaboda, Tengda Tang, Puja Chivadi, Muhammad War, Andrew Vernier, Jiaxin Wang, Yungang Wang, Pan Wang, Wen Qin Wang, Owen Webb, Nicholas Wendt, James Worthington, Qiu Cheng Wu, Xuanhao Wu, Zhe Sheng Xie, Mei Po Xu, Zhi Peng Xu, Zhi Tian Xu, Yi Wen Yao, Jiaxin Ye, Ethan Zhang, Xu Yang Zhang, Larry Zhao, Run Yu Zheng, Siyuan Zheng, Shu Cheng Zhong, Yi An Zhu, Zachary Zipper. This concludes the students who received their master's degrees. We will now recognize the recipients of the PhD in computer science and engineering. For these individuals, we will also read the title of their dissertation and their advisor's name. Abraham Addisi, domain-specific architectures for data-intensive applications. Professor Valeria Bertacco, advisor. Naveed Alamati, algebraic frameworks for cryptographic primitives. Professor Chris Pickert, advisor. Zach Aldenay, automatic quantification and prediction of affect in spoken interactions. Professor Emily Maurer Provost, advisor. Javad Bagherzade, a holistic solution for reliability of 3D parallel systems. Professor Ron Drozolinski, advisor. Matthew Bernhard, election security is harder than you think. Professor J. Alex Hallerman, advisor. Dennis Bueno, software model checking with uninterpreted functions. Professor Kerem Sikala, advisor. Laura Burdick, understanding word embedding stability across languages and applications. Professor Radha Mahalsia, advisor. Daanyao Chen, towards seamless human-mobility interaction. Professor Kongji Xin, advisor. Wei Feng Chen, learning single image 3D from the internet. Professors Jia Dang and David Fui, advisors. Karthik Desingh, efficient belief propagation for perception and manipulation in clutter. Professor Chad Jenkins, advisor. Ian Fox, machine learning for physiological time series, representing and controlling blood glucose for diabetes management. Professor Jenna Wiens, advisor. Sai Guravajala, interactional slingshots, providing support structure to user interactions in hybrid intelligence systems. Professor Mark Ackerman, advisor. Mark Hyman, unsupervised structural embedding methods for efficient collective network mining. Professor Denai Kutra, advisor. Zhengzhan Jin, democratizing self-service data preparation through program synthesis for non-expert users. Professors Michael Kaffarela and H.V. Jagadish, advisors. Kaibok Lee, robust deep learning in the open world with lifelong learning and representation learning. Professor Honglak Lee, advisor. Leonard Lin, enabling and improving centralized control in network and cyber-physical systems, an application-driven approach. Professor Xi Morley Mao, advisor. Lenlan Liu, automatic designs in deep neural networks. Professors Satinder Singh Bhaveja and Jia Deng, advisors. Aaron Mininger, expanding task diversity in explanation-based interactive task learning. Professor John Laird, advisor. Amir Mir Hosseini, data center architectures for the microservices era. Professor Tom Wenish, advisor. Amy Nesky, efficiency in machine learning with focus on deep learning and recommender systems. Professor Quentin Stout, advisor. Taiju Park, design optimization of in-vehicle network. Professor Kong Ji-Shin, advisor. Yibo P, evaluating and improving internet load balancing with large-scale latency measurements. Professor Sugi Jaman, advisor. Vaspal Ramvi Boonsuk, understanding and improving the performance of webpage loads. Professor Harsha Madhayastha, advisor. Jonathan Stroud, models and algorithms for human action understanding. Professors Jia Deng and Radha Mahalsia, advisors. Ji Chang Sui, robust scene estimation for goal-directed robotic manipulation in unstructured environments. Professor Chad Jenkins, advisor. Kevin Sung, towards the first practical applications of quantum computers. Professors Chris Pickert and Yao Yunxi, advisors. Ben Vanderslut, enhancing system transparency, trust and privacy with internet measurement. Professor J. Alex Halberman, advisor. Xin Tong Wang, computational modeling and design of financial markets towards manipulation-resistant and expressive markets. Professor Michael Wellman, advisor. Charlie Welch, leveraging longitudinal data for personalized prediction and word representations. Professor Radha Mahalsia, advisor. Brendan West, streaming architectures for medical image reconstruction. Professor Thomas Wenish, advisor. Xiaowei Xiao, machine learning in adversarial environments. Professor Mingyan Liu, advisor. Dawei Yang, learning to generate 3D training data. Professors Jia Deng and David Fowey, advisors. Babak Zamirai, customized systems of deep neural networks for energy efficiency. Professor Scott Malki, advisor. Fang Zhang, a parallel-tensor network contraction algorithm and its applications in quantum computation. Professors John Hayes and Yao Yunxi, advisors. Qi Zhang, making and keeping probabilistic commitments for trustworthy multi-agent coordination. Professors Satinder Singh Bhavesha and Edmund Durfey, advisors. Shen Zhang, efficiently finding approximately optimal queries for improving policies and guaranteeing safety. Professors Satinder Singh Bhavesha and Edmund Durfey, advisors. For everyone in our virtual audience, please join me in congratulating our graduates. This concludes our program. Thank you for coming. Congratulations and go blue.