{"id":3560,"date":"2025-12-14T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:08:38","slug":"dcsl-members-recognized-at-end-semester-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/dcsl-members-recognized-at-end-semester-social\/","title":{"rendered":"DCSL Members Recognized at End-Semester Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 14, DCSL members got together to relax and unwind and discuss the semester gone by and plans for the year ahead. There was plenty of food (of Thai and Indian varieties) and drinks (only the healthy fruit juice kind) and holiday cookies. The members got to test out their skill in Pictionary over a hilarious, rambunctious game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_211607319-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>From L to R: Ahaan, Aditya, Cheng, Kavindu, Azam, Atul, Saurabh, Somali, Carl, Xinyu, Pengcheng, Shayok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard of members&#8217; highlights of the semester and their successful efforts at landing internships at top companies and on impactful technical projects (Google, Samsung, NVIDIA, and also startups). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is customary, Saurabh announced the award winners for the semester. The awards are given based on research productivity, initiative in applying for awards, starting new initiatives in DCSL, and mentoring other members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the award winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>DCSL Group Champ: Cheng Chen<br>Citation: &#8220;For showing cooperation in perception is the best&#8221;<\/li><li>DCSL Best Fresher: No award<\/li><li>DCSL Superstar Undergrad: Paolo Wang<br>Citation: &#8220;For speeding up resilient ML training&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a selection of pictures and videos from the event.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/A4U5PaQvisBShbwb7\">https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/A4U5PaQvisBShbwb7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251214_203830461.TS_.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Hard at work at Pictionary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 14, DCSL members got together to relax and unwind and discuss the semester gone by and plans for the year ahead. There was plenty of food (of Thai and Indian varieties) and drinks (only the healthy fruit juice kind) and holiday cookies. The members got to test out their skill in Pictionary over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/dcsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}