University of Washington Grad Earns ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
June 4, 2024
Ashish Sharma is the recipient of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well Being,” toward a PhD earned at the University of Washington. Sharma is a Senior Applied Scientist at the Microsoft Office of Applied Research. Sharma developed fundamental advances in natural language processing to positively impact the mental health of many people. His approach involves constructing new machine learning models and algorithms that demonstrate psychological and societal understanding. Sharma is a Senior Applied Scientist at the Microsoft Office of Applied Research.
Honorable Mentions for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award go to: Alexander (Zander) Kelley of the Institute for Advanced Study for his dissertation “Explicit Pseudorandom Distributions for Restricted Models of Computation” toward a PhD earned at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Sewon Min of the University of California, Berkeley for her dissertation “Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models” toward a PhD earned at the University of Washington.
