New NSF CAREER Awardee: Algorithmic and Statistical Modeling of Haplotypes

Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Derek Aguiar who was awarded an NSF CAREER award titled “Practical algorithms and high dimensional statistical methods for multimodal haplotype modelling.” This project addresses major challenges in computational biology and applied machine learning by innovating new robust mathematical models that make few assumptions and efficient training algorithms to leverage massive […]

Making AI More Secure with Privacy – Preserving Machine Learning

Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Caiwen Ding who, in collaboration with Wujie Wen from Lehigh University and Xiaolin Xu from Northeastern University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Accelerating Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service: From Algorithm to Hardware.” This research project focuses on the design of efficient algorithm-hardware co-optimized solutions to accelerate privacy-preserving […]

New AI-enabled deep-learning method for breast cancer detection

Two UConn researchers have developed a new, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled deep-learning approach to breast cancer detection. The Feature Fusion Siamese Network for Breast Cancer Detection developed by Dr. Clifford Yang, an Associate Professor of Radiology at UConn School of Medicine, and Sheida Nabavi, an Associate Professor at UConn’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, analyzes […]

Systems Administrator 1

The Systems Administrator 1 provides technical expertise in support of the efficient, effective, and reliable operation of the Computer Science and Engineering Department’s educational IT systems and services. This is a full-time, 35-hour-per-week, permanent position at the Storrs campus.  Complete information is here.

Meet Yuan Hong

  Rutgers University alumni and former Computer Science professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr. Yuan Hong begins his next chapter as an associate professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department, bringing his cyber security background to the land of the howling Huskies. Yuan is highly passionate about cyber security. “Thirty years ago, most […]