Zach Zappala won the undergraduate student research competition at the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) which was held in Dallas, TX, between March 10 and 12, with his project titled “Investigating Computational Methods for Evaluating Putative Substrate Conformations in Cytochrome P450s”. The competitionhad two rounds: a poster presentation, and a formal, short conference presentation.
As the winner, Zach will receive a check of $500 from Microsoft Research, and will advance to a final student research contest round where all ACM SIG conference contest winners are evaluated todetermine one overall student research contest winner.