4th year AMPLab grad student Sameer Agarwal has won a prestigious Facebook Graduate Fellowship for his work on the BlinkDB approximate query answering system.  The Facebook fellowships provide generous tuition and stipend support (among others) and are awarded through an international competition.

According to facebook: “Our fellowships support emerging research leaders who demonstrate potential to advance our mission of making the world more open and connected”.

Congratulations to Sameer!

More info at: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-academics/announcing-the-2013-2014-facebook-graduate-fellows/514353405282738