As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to offer Women in Tech Travel and Conference Grants to attend HITBSECCONF2016 – AMSTERDAM http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2016ams/ We are offering 3 grants, which include: Free registration for the conference Up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs (to […]
Mukul Bansal Receives NSF CAREER Award
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Dr. Bansal was […]
Translating DNA Information to Help Predict Risk of Disease
Knowing how our bodies are genetically composed is extremely important to keeping ourselves healthy. The ability to translate DNA information into a quantitative prediction of the risk to disease or observed phenotype is critical. Professor Jinbo Bi is currently leading a project collaborating with Professor Sanguthevar Rajasekaran entitled A High Performance Computing Foundation to Whole-Genome […]
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Accolades for CSE Alumna
Dr. Heidi Ellis, UConn CSE Ph.D 1994 and Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Western New England University is the recipient of several recent awards. Business Insider Magazine – 26 of the most powerful female Engineers in 2016 Finalist for Red Hat “Women in Open Source” Award. Please support our graduates and vote for […]
David Etim: Ph.D. Candidate, Recipient of 2016 NNSA Graduate Fellowship
David Etim, a CSE doctoral student, was recently awarded a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship. The full-time salaried fellowship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy is for highly motivated graduate-level students interested in a career in nuclear security. As reported by UConn Today, David has a strong interest in data analytics as […]
Dr. Nabavi Receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award
Congratulations to Professor Sheida Nabavi for receiving a NIH Pathway to Independence Award for her project entitled: Novel Integrative Method to Detect Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Resistance. As stated in her abstract, “Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is defined by the lack of expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 […]
Academic Awards Presented to Stellar Undergraduate Students
On December 9th, forty three seniors were recognized for their superior academic performance in Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering. The special event was hosted by the Department Head, Alexander Schwarzmann, who presented the awards to this distinguished group of gifted students. During the event, Professor Schwarzmann stated, “You are amongst the […]
Professor Wang Elected To Journal Editorial Board
Dr. Fei Wang was appointed as an Action Editor to the Editorial Board of The Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery based on his extensive knowledge and research accomplishments in the field of Data Mining. The Editorial Board is a very honorable position where the board member is nominated by the current Editorial Board […]
Dr. Sheehy Awarded Two NSF/CISE/Directorate Grants Totaling $514,000
Assistant Professor Donald Sheehy was recently awarded two NSF/CISE/Directorate Grants for his research entitled, “CRII: AF: Principled Divide-and-Conquer for Topological Algorithms” and “AF:SMALL: Homological Methods for Big Enough Data”. These grants address fundamental questions in the growing field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). Topology is the mathematical study of shape. In many data sets, the […]