Stanford Honors Thesis Prizes - Symbolic Systems Recipients

Stanford annually presents awards to recognize excellent honors research by Stanford undergraduates. The Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research is given to the top theses in the sciences and engineering, and Robert M. Golden Medal is given to the top theses in the humanities and creative arts.

Symbolic Systems Honors Program Medalists:

The table below lists honors theses in Symbolic Systems that have won university awards since 1995.

Year	Student	Honors Thesis Title	Honors Advisor	Second Reader	Award
1995	Jon Lindsay	"A Biological Basis for Being-in-the-World: Autopoesis and Heidegger's Phenomenology"	Jean-Pierre Dupuy	Terry Winograd	Golden
1998	Jacob Wobbrock	"The Law and Policy of Autonomous Software Agents"	Carey Heckman	Thomas A. Wasow	Golden
1999	Amy Perfors	"Slow and Steady Doesn't Win the Race: The Relation of Infant Information Processing Skills to Later Linguistic Performance"	Anne Fernald	Zenzi Griffin	Firestone
2000	Joan Chiao	"Do They All Look Alike?: An fMRI Study on Race and Face Perception"	Jennifer Eberhardt	John Gabrieli	Firestone
2001	William Barkis	"A New Insight into a Fundamental Neural Mechanism of Learning, Memory and Neuron Death: Understanding the Regulation of NMDA Receptor Expression"	Ben Barres	Erik Ullian	Firestone
2002	Barry Wark	"The Biology of Developing Complex Neural Network Architectures: Integration of Neural Activity by Astrocytes in Regulating Formation of Synapses in vitro"	Ben Barres	Erik Ullian & Stephen Smith	Firestone
2003	Deena Skolnick	"Interactions Between Mutual Exclusivity and Lexical Contrast in Word Learning"	Ellen Markman	Anne Fernald	Firestone
2005	Gregory Wayne	"Order and Word Order: How the Information Content of a Word in a Sentence Helps Explain a Linguistic Universal"	David Beaver	Thomas A. Wasow	Firestone
2006	Michael Bernstein	"Taskposé: A Dynamic Task-Based Window Management Aid"	Jeff Shrager	Terry Winograd	Firestone
2007	Gabriel Recchia	"STRATA: Search Tools for Richly Annotated and Time-Aligned Linguistic Data"	Joan Bresnan	Thomas A. Wasow	Firestone
2008	David Hall	"Tracking the Evolution of Science"	Daniel Jurafsky	Christopher Manning	Firestone
2009	Anna Schapiro	"A Connectionist Model of a Continuous Developmental Transition in the Balance Scale Task"	James McClelland	Anthony Wagner	Firestone
2011	Justine Kao	"A Computational Analysis of Poetic Craft in Contemporary Professional and Amateur Poetry"	Daniel Jurafsky	Christopher Potts	Golden
2014	Makiko Fujimoto	"Show Me the Features: Regular Viewing Patterns During Encoding and Recognition of Faces, Objects, and Places"	Kalanit Grill-Spector	Tirin Moore	Firestone
2017	Bora Erden	"Choice-Predictive Activity in the Macaque Dorsal Premotor and Motor Cortices"	Diogo Peixoto	James McClelland	Firestone
2018	Daylon Tippett	"Testing Theories of Forgetting: The Effect of Memory Suppression Strategies on Associative Memory"	Anthony Wagner	Jiefeng Jiang	Firestone
2019	Atticus Geiger	"Can Natural Language Inference Models Perform Natural Logic Reasoning?"	Chris Potts	Thomas Icard	Firestone
2020	Jñani Crawford	"Validation and Generalization of Pixel-wise Relevance in CNNs Trained for Face Classification"	Kalanit Grill-Spector	Sonia Poltoratski	Firestone
2021	Sofia Miranda Avila Jamesson	"Fallouts of Deportations in Texas: Analyzing the impact of large-scale workplace raids on academic performance"	Michelle Jackson	Beka Guluma	Firestone
2022	Isabel Z. Wang	"Caregiver and Child Health Under Lockdown: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Caregiver Outcomes, Caregiving Behaviors, and Health Services Utilization in Rural China"	Scott Rozelle	Gary Darmstadt	Firestone
2023	Tiffany Liu	"Unequal Provision of Educational Accommodations: Impacts of a Nationwide SAT Policy Change on Receipt of Accommodations"	Michelle Jackson	Nicholas Haber	Firestone and Kennedy