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% \address{Department of CSE\\
% University at Buffalo\\
% 226 Bell Hall\\
% Buffalo,  NY  14260--2000}

\signature{Dr. Kenneth W.\ Regan}

\begin{letter}{Graduate Admissions Committee\\
Department of CSE\\
Univesity at Buffalo\\
Re: PhD applicant Frank Tsai
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\opening{
Dear Colleagues:
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I am delighted to recommend Feng-Mao (Frank) Tsai for admission with financial aid to our PhD program. I have known him as a student in my CSE396 course last spring and from other contacts, including his sitting in on about half the classes of my CSE596 offering this term.  

He earned an A in CSE396 and had the top score on my final exam with 225 out of 240.  He excelled in all facets of the course.  Plus he was active on the course's \emph{Piazza} forum answering questions from other students besides posting some himself.  He also made the lone research-quality comments in my \emph{Piazza} forum for CSE596, correctly answering a challenge I had posed in class.  His written homework was typeset 

He has a powerful instinct for focal points in proofs and unsolved problems alike.  Hence he will be research-capable from the get-go.  He has expressed desire to work with me; I have also told him he should be flexible in his first year at least.  I hope he can receive a scholarship.  He also took Matt Knepley's CSE410/510 course using my quantum computing textbook with Dick Lipton, and I know Matt has expressed similar sentiments.  Frank is also simply fun to talk with, including a good sense of humor.

In sum, I can give him my highest recommendation, and I will be happy to answer any further questions.





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