Eugene Kwek poses for a headshot. Credit: Photo provided by Eugene Kwek.
Computer science undergrad receives honorable mention in 2026 Computer Research Association awards
Jan 27, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Eugene Kwek, an undergraduate student in computer science, has received an honorable mention in the 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards from the Computing Research Association (CRA).
The award program honors undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who “show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research,” according to the CRA website. Kwek was nominated by Rui Zhang and Wenpeng Yin, assistant professors in computer science and engineering at Penn State.
“Eugene’s research focuses on efficient and green computing in the Language Learning Model era, reflecting both strong technical vision and timely research importance,” says Yin. As an undergraduate research assistant, Kwek has actively led and contributed to multiple Artificial Intelligence research projects. In 2025, his first-author paper on LLM compression was published at the Efficient Reasoning Workshop at the Conference for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. He has published one paper at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, and has another first-author paper under review at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2026.
CRA was founded in 1972, with a mission to catalyze computing research by engaging industry, government and academia through leadership of the computing community, informing policymakers and the public and promoting the development of an innovative and responsible computing research workforce.
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