Zhihan Yang (’23) recently was awarded the CRA 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. CRA is the Computing Research Association. From CRA: “Zhihan is a mathematics and statistics major. His research is in the area of probabilistic machine learning and deep learning. Specifically, his work at Carleton uses multi-armed bandit algorithms to allocate participants to conditions in educational experiments. Using adaptive algorithms in this way offers opportunities to allocate more students to more effective conditions, which is beneficial for students participating in the experiment, but also makes it easier for teachers to conduct experiments in their classes, leading to more effective materials and helping scientists better understand how people learn. Additionally, he has done work on deep generative models for game content generation and deep reinforcement learning for partially observable problems at Northwestern University.” Be sure to congratulate Zhihan on this prestigious award!