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Gift to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences

We would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Wagner for his generous contribution to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences to establish two graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants divide their full-time efforts between study and assistantship responsibilities. The support shown by Nicholas enables our students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will shape […]

Professors Khan and Gokhale Receive Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant

Congratulations to Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan and Professor Swapna Gokhale for receiving an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant entitled: Performance Analysis and Diagnosis of Cloud-based DDDAS Applications. This project focuses on optimal resource allocation, tuning and troubleshooting of system performance in cloud settings, especially for DDDAS applications, which can be challenging for several […]

Professor McCartney Receives Best Paper Award

Robert McCartney was recognized along with seven other authors for his outstanding work on his paper, A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing. Peer Instruction (PI) is a student-centric pedagogy in which students move from the role of passive listeners to active participants in the classroom. Over the past five years, there have […]

Hacking 101: UConn students crack codes for the greater good

In 2015, 288,012 complaints of internet crime resulting in $1,070,711,522 in financial losses were reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[i]. A staggering 80% of the claims came from the United States. The daunting task of staying ahead of hackers has led to a full-on cyber war across hardware […]

Dr. Khan Co-Chairs Symposium

Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan will be serving as the Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chair at the Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016). This is a premier conference that focuses on usable privacy and security research and brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.

Google offers Women in Tech travel grants to 2 EUR conferences

  As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to offer Women in Tech Travel and Conference Grants to attend HITBSECCONF2016 – AMSTERDAM http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2016ams/   We are offering 3 grants, which include: Free registration for the conference Up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs (to […]

Mukul Bansal Receives NSF CAREER Award

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Dr. Bansal was […]