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 […]
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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 […]
Sophomore Anshul Rastogi Named Holster Scholar
Congratulations to rising sophomore SoC student Anshul Rastogi for being named a 2024 Holster Scholar! The Holster Scholars Program is a selective enrichment opportunity available only to first-year Honors students. The program supports a small number of motivated students who pursue independent research, design, or creative projects during the summer following their first year. $4,000 has […]
School of Computing thanks our excellent 2023-2024 Belonging, Engagement, Affinity Computer Hangout (BEACH) student staff for their leadership!
The School of Computing’s Belonging Engagement & Affinity Computer Hangout (BEACH) was conceived in Fall 2022 and launched in Spring 2023 with support from an Undergraduate Mini-grant award from the College of Engineering, the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion, and the School of Computing. The program provides a space open daily for undergraduate students to meet […]
CSE’s innovative BEACH program accepted to RESPECT 2024 ACM SIGCSE Conference
Since Spring 2023 CSE has created an innovative space, called the Belonging, Engagement, & Affinity Computer Hangout, for undergraduate students to collaborate and build community. A peer-reviewed conference paper on this program has been accepted to this year’s RESPECT 2024, an ACM SIGCSE Conference. School of Computing faculty members Olga Glebova and Qian Yang, as […]
CSE Ph.D. Student Aidan Kierans Wins Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Aidan Kierans and Assistant Professor Shiri Dori-Hacohen for winning the Best Poster Award entitled “Quantifying Misalignment Between Agents” at the 2023 workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23). STAI 23 was held on July 9th at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) in London.
New NSF CAREER Awardee: Algorithmic and Statistical Modeling of Haplotypes
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 […]
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 […]