The Department of Computer Science received the Departmental Graduate
Mentorship Award for the 2006-2007 academic year. This award is given by
the UCSB Graduate Council and Graduate Division and the decision is based
on data provided by the Department, results of the Doctoral Exit Survey
and statistics on median time to degree, graduation rates and number of
degrees conferred.

The following is an excerpt from the award citation for the Departmental
Graduate Mentorship Award for Computer Science:

Professor Amr El Abbadi received the 2006-2007 UCSB Academic Senate
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. The goal of this award is to encourage
and reward excellence in mentoring graduate students on the Santa Barbara
campus. Amr has been one of the key architects of the impressive growth in
our graduate programs, both in terms of numbers and, perhaps more
importantly, in terms of quality.

Throughout his academic career at UCSB, Amr excelled in every aspect of
graduate mentorship by:

Lamia Youseff’s paper, recently presented by Lamia, at the 2006
Workshop on XEN in HIgh-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing, was
selected as one of two papers to receive the best paper award.
Lamia is a PhD student in Prof. Rich Wolski’s MAYEM lab and
investigates cutting edge solutions to using software virtualization
to effectively enable high-performance computing. Lamia’s paper is
called Paravirtualization for HPC Systems and her co-authors are
Prof. Rich Wolski, Brent Gorda (from Lawrence Livermore

Team “Bender” (composed of undergrads Bryce Boe, Adam Doupe, and Scott
Bonebrake), took 5th place and some cool cash in the regional programming
contest Saturday Nov 11th. Organized by undergrad Matt Hielscher and
Professor Tim Sherwood, the ACM programming teams keep getting better each
and every year. This year, team bender proved to be a nearly unstoppable
programming machine — able to solve 5 of 7 problems, besting all
the teams from UCSD, UCLA, and many of the other programming contest