Kostas (Konstantinos Konstantinidis) won the first prize in the Student Poster contest at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS) 2019. His poster abstract was titled: “Speeding up Distributed Computing through Coding”. Out of the 80 accepted posters, eight were chosen as finalists. Posters were judged based on a 3-minute spotlight talk, abstract, and the discussion at the poster session. The award comes with a $1000 cash prize. Congratulations!