The SoC is offering a free AI Summer Camp to rising 8-10th graders in Summer 2025! The global job market is being shaped by AI, and early literacy helps students make informed academic and career choices as AI becomes central to many industries. This event will demystify AI, make AI feel approachable, and build a […]
News
Fellowship Awards Presented to School of Computing Graduate Students
Congratulations to our graduate students for being recognized for their academic accomplishments by receiving prestigious fellowship awards! Predoctoral Fellowships are awarded by school recommendation and are intended to accelerate progress of recipients towards the completion of doctoral degree requirements. Shuya Feng received the School’s top honor – the Taylor L. Booth graduate fellowship. This fellowship, […]
Chiman Salavati selected as Finalist for NCWITAiC Collegiate Award
Congratulations to Chiman Salavati, a PhD student in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut, for being selected as a Finalist for the 2025 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award! This prestigious award, presented by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), recognizes women in computing for their technical accomplishments, leadership, […]
52 UConn Engineering Faculty Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists
Fifty-two faculty members from the UConn College of Engineering have been recognized among the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2024, according to Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings. This annual ranking highlights the most widely cited researchers across diverse scientific disciplines, underscoring their significant contributions to research and their global impact. The Stanford rankings evaluate […]
Professors Chuxu Zhang and Dongjin Song Receive Prestigious Frontiers of Science Award at 2024 ICBS
School of Computing is thrilled to announce that Professors Chuxu Zhang and Dongjin Song have been awarded the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) in Computer Science at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) for their collaborative work on “Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network”, originally presented at KDD 2019. This award recognizes research of […]
Prof. Yuan Hong and His Co-authors to Receive CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
Congratulations to Prof. Yuan Hong and his co-authors for their paper, “Distributed Backdoor Attacks on Federated Graph Learning and Certified Defenses,” which has been honored with the Distinguished Paper Award at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024). CCS, one of the most prestigious and selective conferences in the security field, […]
Prof. Dongjin Song Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dongjin Song from the School of Computing, who has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his innovative project titled “Continual Learning on Evolving Graphs: from Memorization to Generalization.” This prestigious award is one of the NSF’s most competitive and esteemed awards, aimed at supporting early-career faculty who […]
Prof. Phillip Bradford to Receive Honorary Doctorate from UEM Kolkata
The University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Kolkata is set to honor Prof. Phillip Bradford with an honorary doctorate degree at their upcoming convocation ceremony. Prof. Bradford, an Associate Professor-in-Residence in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut, has been selected for his remarkable contributions to the fields of Cryptography, Computer Security, Applied Algorithms, Operations […]
Awards Given for Senior Design Project Competition
Congratulations to the winners of the School of Computing’s 2024 Senior Design Project competition! The capstone Senior Design project program is a hallmark of success for engineering seniors. Mentored by faculty and industry engineers, students work to solve real-world engineering problems. The program gives graduating seniors hands-on experience working on projects that make a difference […]
School of Computing Awards Fellowships to Graduate Students
Congratulations to the 48 graduate students who were awarded a fellowship on May 8, 2024 by Dr. Alexander Russell, Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies. Several prestigious awards were given to outstanding students to further their progress toward degree completion. Tan Zhu received the School’s top honor – the Taylor L. Booth graduate fellowship. This […]