Iris Tien Receives EMI's Top Award for Student Paper

Featured Faculty: Armen Der Kiureghian

Iris Tien, PhD candidate in Civil Systems, received "The Student Paper Award in Probabilistic Methods" by the Engineering Mechanics Institute.

Tien's "A Compression Algorithm for Inference in Bayesian Network Models of Infrastructure Systems" was one of three papers to be honored with the EMI's highest award for student papers. Tien's advisor is CEE Professor Armen Der Kiureghian.

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