Nine of the inaugural winners of the DiDi Graduate Awards with, at centre, DiDi's Tracy Li and Hongtu Zhu (photo by Daria Perevezentsev)
DiDi Graduate Awards recognize outstanding student researchers
Published: December 9, 2019
Ten University of Toronto graduate students are receiving DiDi Graduate Awards in recognition of their contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, vehicle autonomy, transportation analytics, human-machine interfacing and related topics.
They are the first 福利姬自慰students to receive scholarships from .
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The recipients are:
- PhD students Danijar Hafner and Nicole Barbosa Sultanum, from the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science
- Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering PhD students Alaa Itani and Junshi Xu of civil engineering; Hao Wang and Bilal Majed Taha of electrical and computer engineering and Dengbo He of mechanical and industrial engineering
- Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering master鈥檚 student Nazli Eser Kaya of mechanical and industrial engineering
- Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering master鈥檚 students Abhishek Goudar and Shangyi Xiong of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
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