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May 2024 · Award

Distinguished Teaching Award

Honored to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award from Yale University CS Graduate Program for the 2023–2024 academic year.

Yale Computer Science Department Graduate Program Distinguished Teaching Award certificate for Academic Year 2023–24, presented to Ferhat Erata, signed by Lin Zhong (Director of Graduate Studies) and Holly Rushmeier (Chair).
Yale Computer Science Department Graduate Program Distinguished Teaching Award — Academic Year 2023–2024.

Grateful to students, colleagues, and mentors for their support and inspiration. I served as Teaching Fellow for Operating Systems and Database Systems under Prof. Avi Silberschatz, whose textbooks I first encountered as an undergraduate — teaching those courses under their author has been one of the most formative experiences of my PhD.

The award is selected from all graduate teaching fellows in the Computer Science department, and I owe it to every student who asked a sharp question, every TA colleague I learned alongside, and every faculty member who trusted me with their course.

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