We are proud to share that Prof. Dongjin Song and Prof. Chuxu Zhang, faculty members in the School of Computing, have been recognized with the 2025 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award – Honorable Mention in the area of Data Mining. The award highlights their significant research contributions between 2015 and 2024. The AI 2000 […]
Professor Laurent Michel awarded ACP Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Professor Laurent Michel for being the 13th recipient of the coveted Association for Constraint Programming Research Excellence Award! The ACP Award for Research Excellence was established by the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming ten years after the first Constraint Programming (CP) conference to honor the most influential people in the […]
IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, Chuxu Zhang
Chuxu Zhang receives the prestigious IJCAI Early Career Spotlight at this year’s International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). This honor recognizes exceptional early-career AI researchers, nominated and chosen by the IJCAI Program Committee for their contributions and potential in the field. Congratulations!
AI Summer Camp for 8-10th Graders
The SoC is offering a free AI Summer Camp to rising 8-10th graders in Summer 2025! The global job market is being shaped by AI, and early literacy helps students make informed academic and career choices as AI becomes central to many industries. This event will demystify AI, make AI feel approachable, and build a […]
Fellowship Awards Presented to School of Computing Graduate Students
Congratulations to our graduate students for being recognized for their academic accomplishments by receiving prestigious fellowship awards! Predoctoral Fellowships are awarded by school recommendation and are intended to accelerate progress of recipients towards the completion of doctoral degree requirements. Shuya Feng received the School’s top honor – the Taylor L. Booth graduate fellowship. This fellowship, […]
Chiman Salavati selected as Finalist for NCWITAiC Collegiate Award
Congratulations to Chiman Salavati, a PhD student in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut, for being selected as a Finalist for the 2025 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award! This prestigious award, presented by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), recognizes women in computing for their technical accomplishments, leadership, […]
52 UConn Engineering Faculty Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists
Fifty-two faculty members from the UConn College of Engineering have been recognized among the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2024, according to Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings. This annual ranking highlights the most widely cited researchers across diverse scientific disciplines, underscoring their significant contributions to research and their global impact. The Stanford rankings evaluate […]
Professors Chuxu Zhang and Dongjin Song Receive Prestigious Frontiers of Science Award at 2024 ICBS
School of Computing is thrilled to announce that Professors Chuxu Zhang and Dongjin Song have been awarded the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) in Computer Science at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) for their collaborative work on “Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network”, originally presented at KDD 2019. This award recognizes research of […]
Prof. Yuan Hong and His Co-authors to Receive CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
Congratulations to Prof. Yuan Hong and his co-authors for their paper, “Distributed Backdoor Attacks on Federated Graph Learning and Certified Defenses,” which has been honored with the Distinguished Paper Award at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024). CCS, one of the most prestigious and selective conferences in the security field, […]
Prof. Dongjin Song Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dongjin Song from the School of Computing, who has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his innovative project titled “Continual Learning on Evolving Graphs: from Memorization to Generalization.” This prestigious award is one of the NSF’s most competitive and esteemed awards, aimed at supporting early-career faculty who […]