Due to the generous gift from The Anthony W. DeSio and Delores J. DeSio Foundation, a scholarship has been created in our department entitled the “Anthony W. DeSio Endowed Fellowship in Computer Science Engineering”. The scholarship support (“fellowship(s)”) is designated for graduate students enrolled full-time in the Computer Science & Engineering Program with academic achievement […]
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Professor Meunier Receives Faculty of the Year Award
Professor Jeff Meunier was awarded the Faculty of the Year Award given by the Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD) Honor Society. This is a unique award since students nominate and vote for their favorite professors. The society has been honoring faculty with this award for the past five years. Jeff was nominated by his student, Andrew […]
Bionformatics Researchers Develop Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Associate Professor Ion Mandoiu is a co-principal investigator with Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health, on a study leading to the development of a new approach to treating cancer by harnessing the power of the patient’s own immune system. The […]
Colloquium with B. Gracy – VP of Pitney Bowes
CSE Colloquium with Bernie Gracy-VP of Pitney Bowes Join us on Thursday, November 6th from 4-5pm in ITE 336 for a seminar with Bernie Gracy, Pitney Bowes Vice President of Strategy and Digital Commerce Solutions. He will be visiting CSE from 3-6pm. Bernie is a UCONN CSE alumnus. He will give a talk spanning […]
Cybersecurity, Education & Diversity Challenge Week
CYBERSEED EVENT EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS! – Post event article here. October 20-21, 2014 The Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation (CSI) is sponsoring the first-ever CyberSEED: Cybersecurity, Education & Diversity Challenge Week. Keynote addresses and sessions from academic, government, and industry leaders Awareness presentations on cybercrime, malware, and evolving threats Networking and recruiting opportunities […]
Mind-controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Ashley Dumaine, an honors student studying Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), is making herself known in the world of technology. She demonstrated her independent study project titled “Mind-Controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)” at Connecticut’s Invention Convention, and caught the eye of writer Erick Royer of MultiRotor Pilot Magazine. In the article on page 26 and […]
Professor Rajasekaran and others receive 1.2M NSF grant for Big Data analysis
Advances in technology have allowed researchers to produce a huge amount of data in a short amount of time. Making any meaningful sense of this information in a timely manner is the next step in “big data.” With a $1.2 million NSF grant, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Director of the Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies, and […]
$500K NSF Grant Awarded to Dr. Bing Wang, UConn Health Center
Dr. Bing Wang, an associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was awarded a grant for close to $500,000 for her project proposed to the National Science Foundation, “Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program (CC-NIE), Network Infrastructure: Enabling Data-Intensive Research at the University of Connecticut through Science Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)”. A demilitarized zone, […]
Abhishek Jain – Computing on Private Data
Abhishek Jain Date: March 3, 2014 Time: 11-12amPlace: ITEB 336 Computing on Private Data Abstract Today, end users generate large volumes of private data, some of which may be stored on the cloud in an encrypted form. The need to perform computation on this data to extract meaningful information has become ubiquitous. The following fundamental […]
Barna Saha – Clean Data and Unlimited Resources: A Probabilistic Journey to a Fantasyland
Barna Saha Date: March 6, 2014 Time: 1 – 2pmPlace: ITEB 336 Clean Data and Unlimited Resources: A Probabilistic Journey to a Fantasyland Abstract Over the last decade, while the quantity of digital data skyrocketed, the quality of data remained far from perfect. Use of automated tools and fallible humans for data collection and integration, […]