Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Derek Aguiar who was awarded an NSF CAREER award titled “Practical algorithms and high dimensional statistical methods for multimodal haplotype modelling.” This project addresses major challenges in computational biology and applied machine learning by innovating new robust mathematical models that make few assumptions and efficient training algorithms to leverage massive […]
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Making AI More Secure with Privacy – Preserving Machine Learning
Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Caiwen Ding who, in collaboration with Wujie Wen from Lehigh University and Xiaolin Xu from Northeastern University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Accelerating Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service: From Algorithm to Hardware.” This research project focuses on the design of efficient algorithm-hardware co-optimized solutions to accelerate privacy-preserving […]
New AI-enabled deep-learning method for breast cancer detection
Two UConn researchers have developed a new, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled deep-learning approach to breast cancer detection. The Feature Fusion Siamese Network for Breast Cancer Detection developed by Dr. Clifford Yang, an Associate Professor of Radiology at UConn School of Medicine, and Sheida Nabavi, an Associate Professor at UConn’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, analyzes […]
Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2023 Conference
Congratulations to Ehsan Ul Haque and Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan for Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2023 Conference for their work “The Nuanced Nature of Trust and Privacy Control Adoption in the Context of Google”.
The BEACH-CSE’s newest social space hosts its first event
We All Scream for Ice Cream! CSE’s newest social space hosts its first event By Alexandria Black, Student Writer The BEACH hosted its first event – an ice cream social – on Thursday, March 9th. The event’s sponsor, Professor Laurent Michel, joined lifeguards, faculty and over 35 CS and CSE undergrads who enjoyed more than […]
Kierans, Hazan, Dori-Hacohen paper Receives Award
A recent paper “Quantifying Misalignment Between Agents” by PhD student Aidan Kierans, Hananel Hazan and Prof. Shiri Dori-Hacohen received the AI Risk Analysis Award at the NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop.
Meet Yuan Hong
Rutgers University alumni and former Computer Science professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr. Yuan Hong begins his next chapter as an associate professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department, bringing his cyber security background to the land of the howling Huskies. Yuan is highly passionate about cyber security. “Thirty years ago, most […]
‘WiSFiRE’ Sparks Connections for Women Students and Faculty in STEM
Second edition of conference features UConn faculty, alumnae, and leaders who have blazed a trail in STEM careers. Complete article is here.
2022 Senior Design Project Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Computer Science & Engineering’s 2022 Senior Design Project competition! This year’s competition, held on April 29th, featured 31 teams presenting projects sponsored by CT towns, industry, and the University. Each team of 2-5 students spent the year developing the project idea, impact, design, interface, and prototype to present at the […]
Student Spotlight: UConn Student Team Aims for the Moon with Lunar Rover Design
An interdisciplinary team of UConn undergraduates are finalists in the NASA Big Idea Challenge. Complete story here.