Graduating senior Minh Tran and Melissa Wen are among the 120 seniors to be inducted into the Phi Beta Honor Society.

Minh Tran has been working at the lab since his freshman year in 2016. While maintaining a GPA of 3.96 in Computer Science, pursuing NSF REU at Duke University, Minh has published a full paper at the IEEE Face and Gesture (FG) Recognition conference. More impressively, he has a full paper c at the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (impact factor of 6.2) as a first author.

Melissa has been working in the ROC HCI lab for over a year developing an algorithm to determine the feminine-masculine attribute from facial features. Her work as appeared at the EEE MIT undergrad conference in 2019 as well as IEEE International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) Conference 2020.

She is also one of the winners of the Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities, as determined by highest GPAs at the end of their junior year. She also received an honorable mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP).

The University of Rochester’s newest inductees into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society include 120 seniors and 20 juniors. Another 16 students were elected as juniors last spring.

Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Membership is by invitation only, and students are selected by faculty members who are also members of the society.

The University’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Iota of New York, was founded in 1887. Members are chosen based on exceptional academic performance and a letter of recommendation from a faculty or staff member. New members are elected each spring by members of the Iota chapter at the recommendation of the nominating committee.

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