The 
thesis of Yu Hu, an Applied Mathematics PhD Student advised by Eric Shea-Brown, was selected as the top-ranked thesis in mathematical sciences, physics and engineering in the competition for the 2014 UW Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award. His dissertation, “Collective Activity in Neural Networks: the Mathematical Structure of Connection Graphs and Population Codes,” propelled him to a Swartz Fellowship at Harvard, where we’ll be watching to see more great findings coming down the comp neuro pipeline.
