{"id":439,"date":"2016-05-31T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-08-16T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:01:36","slug":"doctoral-advisee-weicong-ding-wins-2016-ee-outstanding-doctoral-dissertation-award-at-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/2016\/05\/31\/doctoral-advisee-weicong-ding-wins-2016-ee-outstanding-doctoral-dissertation-award-at-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Weicong Ding wins best PhD thesis award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ishwar&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/dingwc\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhD student Weicong Ding<\/a> won the 2016 best doctoral dissertation award in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electrical Engineering<\/a> at Boston University for his thesis titled <em>Learning Mixed-Membership Models with a Separable Latent Structure: theory, provably efficient algorithms, and applications<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ishwar&#8217;s PhD student Weicong Ding won the 2016 best doctoral dissertation award in Electrical Engineering at Boston University for his thesis titled Learning Mixed-Membership Models with a Separable Latent Structure: theory, provably efficient algorithms, and applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}