CS Students to Present in Top Computer Security Conference

Published: | 4:54 pm | Posted in: Student Recognition

Mustakimur R. Khandaker, a Ph.D. student from the CS Department, has published a full paper in the prestigious 28th USENIX Security Symposium, which will hold on August 14-16, 2019 in Santa Clara, California. USENIX Security is one of the top-tier conferences in the Computer Security area. The paper, titled “Origin-sensitive Control Flow Integrity” proposes a […]

CS awarded a significant amount of technology fee to upgrade its instructional technology infrastructure

Published: | 4:40 pm | Posted in: News

The Computer Science Department has been awarded over $85K Technology Fee to upgrade its instructional technology infrastructure in four projects: (1) to upgrade Grads Lab computers, (2) to build CS private cloud services, (3) to upgrade the data center server switch, (4) to upgrade audio–visual technology in classrooms. The Systems Group manager, Yu Wang, and Systems Group member, Bobby Roy, developed the proposals for the four projects. The proposals were selected by the Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee, and approved by the IT Governance Council.

Faculty promotion

Published: | 7:47 pm | Posted in: News

Congratulations to Prof. Zhenghao Zhang for being promoted to the rank of full professor and to Prof. Sonia Haiduc and Prof. Jie Yang for being promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, all effective in Fall 2019.

Dr. Haiduc awarded $495K NSF CAREER Award

Published: | 5:16 pm | Posted in: News

FSU’s Computer Science faculty member Sonia Haiduc was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The award totals $494,989 over a duration of 5 years and will allow Dr. Haiduc to study and improve the use and production of programming video tutorials. The outcomes of this project have the potential to transform the way programmers and computer science students acquire knowledge from video tutorials, allowing them to easily access quality information that is easy to extract and use in their own contexts.

Gokila Dorai named a Finalist at 2018 Three Minute Thesis Competition

Published: | 5:21 pm | Posted in: News

The 2018 Three Minute Thesis competition at Florida State University was held in the Durell Peadean Auditorium in the College of Medicine on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The Three Minute Thesis competition, which began at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008, charges graduate students to explain their thesis work in a compelling three-minute speech. […]

Melina Myers Recognized for Inspiring, Motivating Students

Published: | 5:13 pm | Posted in: News

Ten Florida State University faculty members were honored by the Transformation Through Teaching program for their actions to foster meaning and purpose among their students. Included was our own Melina Myers, teaching faculty in our CS department. Melina was nominated by junior computer criminology major Jessica Mitchell for encouraging students to find their passion and offering […]