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Dr. Bing Wang and Team Win Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Professor Bing Wang and her students Yanyuan Qin and Chaoqun Yue for winning the prestigious Best Paper Award for their research project entitled “ABR Streaming of VBR-encoded Videos: Characterization, Challenges and Solutions” at CoNEXT 2018, a top  computer networking conference. Yanyuan and Chaoqun are co-authors of the paper and Yanyuan is the leading author. This is […]

Lei Li Wins Best Paper Award at ACM Conference

Ph.D. student Lei Li won the “Best Student Paper” award at the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2018) for his research paper titled “An Integer Linear Programming Solution for the Domain-Gene-Species Reconciliation Problem”, coauthored with his advisor Dr. Mukul Bansal. This paper introduces the first exact algorithm, based on integer […]

Dr. Russell Leads Voting Technology Research Center

 Voting security is imperative to the election process, especially with the growing threat that states experience from hackers. The work in Connecticut is being led by Alexander Russell, director of UConn’s Voting Technology Research Center which advises the state on the use of election technology, investigates voting solutions and voting equipment, and develops and recommends safe-use […]

Dr. Song Han and Research Team Win Best Paper Award

The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet 2018 recently announced that Dr. Song Han and his research team won the Best Paper Award for their research entitled, “RT-DAP: A Real-Time Data Analytics Platform for Large-scale Industrial Process Monitoring and Control”. The co-authors include Tao Gong, Mark Nixon, Eric Rotvold, Kam-yiu Lam, and Krithi Ramamritham. Earlier […]

Professor Khan Wins NSF Career Award

A special congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Khan for his latest accomplishment of winning an NSF CAREER Award receiving $559,786 over five years for his research project: “The Role of Emotion and Social Motives in Communicating Risk: Implications for User Behavior in the Cyber Security Context.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide […]

Annual Trivia Contest Kicks Off Semester for Graduate Students

Following introductions from faculty and staff, the main event of the day began- The Graduate Student Trivia Contest!  After careful and painstakingly detailed research by some of UConn’s faculty, a pool of questions was constructed consisting of such important CS research material as “What wireless encryption standard would you recommend to your worst enemy?” and […]

VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR RESEARCH STUDY IN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

The ability to communicate the results of scientific research is fundamental to a career as a scientist. The ability of scientists to communicate science to non-scientists is fundamental to science literacy and public policy, as illustrated by the intelligent design and climate change debates. This project investigates how effectively graduate students in STEM disciplines communicate […]

CSE Introduces New Faculty

Interim Department Head, Dr. Reda Ammar is pleased to announce the addition of 3 new faculty to the departments growing list of accomplished scholars. Dr. Derek Aguiar joins the department as an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and his research interests are probabilistic modelling, computational biology, machine learning and algorithms. Dr. […]

Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang and Hong-Sheng Zhou Awarded NSF Grant

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 grant to Professor Alexander Russell for his project “SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Theory and Practice of Cryptosystems Secure against Subversion”. The grant is a collaborative effort with 2 CSE alumni; Dr. Qiang Tang, an Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Dr. Hong-Sheng Zhou, an Assistant […]

Dr. Bradford Receives Stamford Faculty Recognition Award

The 2018 UConn Stamford Faculty Recognition Award goes to Dr. Phillip Bradford, Associate Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Bradford is an excellent teacher in the classroom, who is also active in the community, with business partners, and helps UConn and local high school students engage in experiential learning projects year […]