Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen will be joining the University of Connecticut School of Engineering in the Computer Science and Engineering Department starting August 2021 as a tenure-track assistant professor. She is currently the founder and CEO of Automated Controversy Detection, Inc. (AuCoDe), an AI-based startup that detects controversies and misinformation online and turns them into actionable […]
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2021 Senior Design Project Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Computer Science & Engineering’s 2021 Senior Design Project competition! This year’s competition, held on April 28th, featured 43 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 […]
UConn Student Wins Top Honors at the 2021 ExploreCSR Workshop
Congratulations to UConn Senior Kiera Wolfe on her first place win at the 2021 Tri-State ExploreCSR Workshop! Kiera’s team, including students from Fordham University and New York City College of Technology, was led by UConn Assistant Professor Caiwen Ding. The team’s project titled Utility Monitoring in Data Centers explored the accuracy of two different forecasting […]
Senior Design Journey 2021: Using Lung Scans and Algorithms to Diagnose COVID-19
A group of five University of Connecticut computer science students are on the precipice of completing a Senior Design project that could not only aid researchers studying lung disease—but could be a boon for diagnosticians when it comes to COVID-19. Complete article is here.
Assistant Professor Fei Miao Wins NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Fei Miao’s Career award, titled “Distributionally Robust Learning, Control, and Benefits Analysis of Information Sharing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles” brings the concept of self-driving cars one step closer to reality. While the science behind autonomous vehicles is extremely technical, the goal is quite simple: to create a system of connected auto cars […]
CyberSEED Returns in Virtual Format
After a postponement last year, the annual CyberSEED event, hosted by Synchrony and The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC), is back on in a 100 percent virtual format. CyberSEED 2021, which will take place on March 27, from 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., will host teams from schools all over the United States, who will compete in […]
CSE Graduate Student Pujan Joshi Wins Best Oral Presentation Award
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Pujan Joshi on his recent accomplishment! Pujan won a Best Oral Presentation award at the 2020 4th International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The paper titled, A Framework for Route Based Pathway Analysis of Gene Expression Data describes pathway analysis as a key step in genomics study to reduce the […]
Jinbo Bi is Using machine learning to better understand the genetic basis for substance use disorder.
UConn researcher Jinbo Bi is Using machine learning to better understand the genetic basis for substance use disorder. Using Big Data to Identify Genetic, Neural Bases for Substance Use Disorder -UConn Today. January 22, 2021. Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
Meet Assistant Professor Ghada Almashaqbeh
CSE’s newest faculty member gives a glimpse into her journey, research, and what lies ahead Although she has only been at the university for a few weeks, assistant professor Ghada Almashaqbeh is quickly making a name for herself. Set to give her first talk as a UConn professor at this year’s virtual Grace Hopper Celebration […]
Zap Partners with the UConn School of Engineering to Advance Decentralized Finance (DeFi) & Applications (DApps) using the Zap Protocol
Every year, the University of Connecticut School of Engineering partners with hundreds of industry leading companies and government agencies through the university’s Senior Design Program. Teams of 3-5 seniors, each mentored by an engineering department faculty member, collaborate with these entities by working on real world projects. Zap is currently working with a team of […]