The Computer Science & Engineering department has been recognized as the 9th best department in the world, tied with Princeton for computational biology and bioinformatics research by csrankings.org which provides a metrics-based ranking of top computer science institutions around the world. This ranking is based on publications in the top computational biology and bioinformatics conferences […]
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Dr. Rajasekaran Announces New Leadership Team
Department Head, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran recently announced that the following highly accomplished key leaders have joined his cabinet as Associate Department Heads. He is looking forward to working with them in realizing the vision of the Department and accomplishing the goals of the School of Engineering. Dr. Jinbo Bi: Associate Department Head for Research and Strategic […]
Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Appointed New Department Head
Dr. Kazem Kazerounian, Dean of the School of Engineering, recently announced the appointment of Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran – Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor as well as UTC Chair Professor – as the next Department Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department effective February 1st, 2019. Dr. Rajasekaran will be taking over the role from […]
Gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science
A special thank you to Mrs. Karen Maryanski for her generous gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science. Fred was the first Department Head of Computer Science & Engineering from 1986-1989. Her support enables our students to become leaders, problem solvers and innovators who help improve our state, the nation and our […]
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 […]