NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Michael Gubanov is one of 79 recipients of the prestigious Amazon AWS AI Research Award
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA received many excellent research proposals from across the world and today is publicly announcing 79 award recipients who represent 54 universities in 14 countries. Please find more details in the announcement here and... read morePh.D. Grad Yili Ren Lands Tenure-Track Position at the University of South Florida
Yili Ren, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Jie Yang, has earned a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of South Florida (USF). His research interests focus on mobile computing with an emphasis on integrating the sensing capabilities of wireless and mobile devices to build new classes of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart home applications, enable novel technologies for human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as improve smart home and IoT security. His research work has been published at top-tier mobile computing, computer security, and human-computer interaction venues, including ACM SenSys, USENIX Security, and ACM IMWUT (UbiComp), and has been reported by presses like Tech Xplore, News8Plus, Sina, Unite.Ai, Livedoor News, etc. He will join the University of South Florida in August 2023. The University of South Florida (USF) is a Preeminent State Research University and a Carnegie R1 Research University with over 50,000... read moreCOVIDKG.ORG – a Web-scale Knowledge Graph on COVID-19 presented at a flagship European Data Science conference
FSU Computer Science Research on the first trustworthy Web-scale Knowledge Graph (KG) on COVID-19, learned from millions of Web sources will be presented at EDBT 2023 to be held in Ioannina, Greece, on March 28 – March 31, 2023. EDBT is a flagship conference in Data Science traditionally held in Europe. COVIDKG.ORG is one of the research projects coming out of FSU BigLab! directed by Michael... read moreTech Fee Granted
CS Department has been awarded over $68k technology fee to improve its classroom projection and audio systems and to create a virtual hands-on computer lab.
read moreDr. Shayok Chakraborty part of a $14.7-million project on emerging technology for older adults
Dr. Shayok Chakraborty is part of a team that has been awarded a five-year, $14.7-million grant from the National Institute on Aging for a research center employing emerging and existing technologies to promote the well-being, quality of life and independence of older adults and provide support for older adults with cognitive impairments.
read moreDavid Whalley and Gang-Ryung Uh Awarded $600K NSF Grant to Support Vectorized Instruction Space Research
FSU Department of Computer Science faculty David Whalley and Gang-Ryung Uh have been awarded a new NSF grant for the project “Vectorized Instruction Space (VIS)”. The $1.2M project is a collaborative effort between FSU and a colleague, Soner Onder, from Michigan Technological University with each university receiving $600K.
read moreFSU CS Research presented at ACM SIGMOD conference, held in Philadelphia June 12-17, 2022
FSU CS Research coming out of BigLab! supervised by Dr. Gubanov “Simplifying Access to Large-scale Structured Datasets by Meta-Profiling with Scalable Training Set Enrichment” will be presented at ACM SIGMOD, a flagship Data Management conference, held in Philadelphia June 12-17, 2022. Sophie Pavia won a prestigious ACM SIGMOD Student Travel award that would help partially cover the travel... read moreDr. Shayok Chakraborty receives the NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Shayok Chakraborty has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award for his project titled “Active Learning in the Real World”…
read moreDr. Sonia Haiduc awarded the 2022 “IEEE TCSE Rising Star Award”
Dr. Sonia Haiduc was awarded the 2022 “IEEE TCSE Rising Star Award” …
read moreFSU CS Department Receives $120K NSF Supplement to Support Broadening Participation for Students in Computing
David Whalley, Sonia Haiduc, and Andy Wang have received a $120K NSF supplement award to support Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) in the FSU Computer Science Department.
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