Mechanical Engineering graduate student Jongeun Choi was a semifinalist of the 2005 American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award Competition for his paper “Topology Preserving Neural Networks that Achieve a Prescribed Feature Map Probability Density Distribution,” co-authored with his Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Roberto Horowitz.

There were 265 Paper Plaza submissions for the Student Best Paper Competition. Of these, 76 received advisor nominations and were considered for the award. The nominated papers were reviewed through the usual review process and by a panel of experts chosen from the Program Committee. Based on these reviews, five papers were selected as finalists for the Student Best Paper Award competition. The winner of the student best paper competition was selected at the conference and was based on both the written paper and the final oral presentation by the student.