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Announcing the winners of the Rhea awards for the year 2010

Project Rhea is pleased to announce the student winners of the "Leadership Award", "Design Award" and "Communication Award". Funding for these awards is provided by a grant from the Motorola Foundation.

Leadership Award

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The Leadership Award goes to Rui Zhao for his leading role in the development of the Rhea's collective table of formula. A graduate of Zhejiang University in China, Rui is now a PhD student in ECE at Purdue University. On his own initiative, Rui recruited and managed a team of student writers to grow the database of formulas. He also helped them learn the required basics for mediawiki posting and latex equation typing. As a result, the collective table of formula now includes a humongous table of integral, among other things. Good job Rui!

The Leadership Award this year consists of a cash award in the amount of $500, funded by the Motorola Foundation.

Design Award

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The Design Award goes to Shiv Biddanda for the development and deployment of Assimi, Rhea's visual text search engine.


The Design Award this year consists of a cash award in the amount of $500, funded by the Motorola Foundation.

Communication Award

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The Communication Award goes to ECE graduate student Andrew Haddad, for his conference paper on


The Communication Award this year consists of a cash award in the amount of $500, funded by the Motorola Foundation.



Funding for these awards is provided by a grant from the Motorola Foundation.

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