Our paper “A generic transformation for optimal repair bandwidth and rebuilding access in MDS codes” is one of the three winners of the 2017 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award! (More details here) Jie completed the majority of the work reported in this paper while with UTK on a one-year CSC fellowship. We would like to thank the China Scholarship Council for the generous support which enabled this work. Congratulations, Jie!