My Computer Science & Engineering Department

Each year the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) award four Outstanding Senior Awards. This process is never easy given the many excellent and accomplished students in our program. This year, we have decided that the 2021 Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Senior Awards go to:

• Hunter Damron: Computer Science Outstanding Senior Award.
• Warren Beagle: Computer Information Systems Outstanding Senior Award.
• James Johnson: Computer Engineering Outstanding Senior Award.
• Niharika Pandala. Computer Engineering SCSPE Award.

All awardees will be honored at the University Awards Day ceremony. In addition, Pandala will be honored at a special awards banquet of the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers
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We congratulate the following Computer Science undergraduate students for receiving a Magellan Scholar Award for Spring 2021.

• Griffin Carter : Investigating the Effects of Nanoparticle Delivery to Myoblasts on Differentiation into Myotubes
• Praful Chunchu : Real-time Patient Monitoring on Wearable Devices Using Neuromorphic Computing
• Hunter Damron : Enumerating Symmetrical Domino Tilings
• Matthew Duggan : Concluding Successful Nesting of Limosa limosa with Geolocation Data
• Timothy Hooks: Visual Data Augmented 5G Millimeter-Wave Picocell Placement
• Anne Tumlin : Information Routing with Ocean Sensor Nodes

"AI researchers like me are now turning our efforts toward developing AI algorithms that can explain themselves in a manner that humans can understand. If we can do this, I believe that AI will be able to uncover and teach people new facts about the world that have not yet been discovered, leading to new innovations." Read the full article at The Conversation, written by Dr. Agostinelli.

Dr. Amit Sheth has been named one of the 2020 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lannan (Lisa) Luo was awarded the College of Engineering and Computing Young Investigator Research Award. This award is provided annually to an untenured, assistant professor in recognition of her dedication and contributions to the research objectives of the College of Engineering and Computing.

The 2020 CSE departmental awards are based on evidence from CY2019 Annual Evaluations and data provided by the college. They are:

Junior Researcher (Assistant or Associate Professor) Award: Pooyan Jamshidi

Senior Researcher (Full Professor) Award: Amit Sheth

Undergraduate Teaching Award: Jose Vidal

Graduate Teaching Award: Song Wang

Service Award: Jason O’Kane

Most Valuable Professor (MVP) Award: Csilla Farkas

Hark worked in the Office of Student Conduct after finishing his undergraduate degree in computer science in 2002. It was during this time that he saw a need for a better way of record keeping and data management. Shortly after leaving the office, Hark founded Maxient with his wife Candice. Hark said the couple didn’t know it at the time, but the company would soon grow to serve more than 1,000 colleges and universities by providing conduct management software for student discipline, academic integrity, care and concern records, Title IX matters and more. Read the full story here.

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Jason Bakos of the College of Engineering and Computing has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design processors capable of real-time machine learning of the behavior and response of high-rate dynamic systems. This study is expected to produce technology that will improve the reaction time of high-energy systems such as ballistics, airbag deployment and high-speed vehicle control.

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As NASA and other space exploration organizations continue sending spacecraft missions to the outer solar system, they don’t have time to wait for technology to keep up. That’s where Pooyan Jamshidi and his collaborative team come in.

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