Rzeszotarski Named Siebel Scholar
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HCII Ph.D. student Jeff Rzeszotarski has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. The program recognizes the most talented students at the world's leading graduate schools of business, bioengineering, computer science and energy science. Each Siebel Scholar receives a $35,000 award for their final year of study.
In addition to his Ph.D. work in the HCII, Rzeszotarski is co-founder and technical lead for the data visualization startup DataSquid. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Carleton College and a master's in HCI from CMU. Rzeszotarski has authored or co-authored numerous papers at top HCI venues, garnering three best paper awards. He is a Carnegie Mellon Innovation Scholar for his work combining research and commercialization with DataSquid, and was a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow. Rzeszotarski has worked at Google and Microsoft Research as a research intern, and his work has been featured publicly in venues such as TechCrunch and GigaOM.
Rzeszotarski joins five other Carnegie Mellon graduate students in the 2016 class of Siebel Scholars. Read more about it on the SCS News page.