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Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi has received a resarch award from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) for his project titled "Resource Adaptive Software Purpose-Built for Extraordinary Robotic Research Yields". More information about this collaborative project can be found here.

Dr. Csilla Farkas has received a research award from the National Security Agency (NSA) for her project "Context-Aware Data Security for the Internet of Things (IoT)". This is part of a joint research project with The Citadel.

Dr. Yiannis Rekleitis (PI) and Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi (Co-PI) have received a research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project titled "Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping".You can view the full abstract.

Dr. Homay Valafar has received a research grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH for his part in the project titled "South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE)". The press release: SC INBRE Receives $18.9 million award from the National Institutes of Health has more information on the project.

Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi has received a research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled "SmarSight: an AI-Based Computing Platform to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired People". See the full abstract.

Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi (PI), Dr. Sanjib Sur (Co-PI), and their Co-PIs from Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Exercise Science have received a research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project titled "Acquisition of Omnipercipient Chamber for Gathering Ground Truth and Enabling Research on Smart and Connected Things". See the full abstract.

We welcome Dr. Rasha Karakchi as a new Instructor for the CSE Department. She received her PhD in 2020 from UofSC. She will be teaching CSCE 240: Advanced Programming Techniques and CSCE 313: Embedded Systems this semester.

We would like to welcome Dr. Qi Zhang who joins us this Fall as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Zhang received his PhD. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2020. His research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning. You can learn more about it in his research website. He will be teaching "CSCE 580: Artificial Intelligence" this semester.

We welcome Dr. Biplav Srivastava as a new Professor in the CSE Department. Dr. Srivastava comes to us after two decades at IBM in the roles of a Research Scientist, Distinguished Data Scientist and Master Inventor. His research interests are in Neuro-Symbolic Computing, Collaborative Assistance, Trusted AI, and Applications to Smart City using Open and Sensor Data. Learn more about him at his research website. He will be teaching "CSCE 771: Computer Processing of Natural Language" this semester.

We would like to welcome Dr. Forest Agostinelli to the CSE department. He joins us as an Assistant Professor this semester. Dr. Agostinelli received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in the areas of deep learning, reinforcement learning, search, with applications to the natural sciences. You can learn more about it at his research website. He will be teaching "CSCE 790: Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search" this semester.

Dr. Sheth and Dr. Valafar presented the following videos for the CRA Virtual Conference 2020.

• Computational Modeling, Homayoun Valafar
• Monitoring Health & Social Impact of Policy Decisions, Amit Sheth.

Dr. Lannan Luo has received a research grant from the Ntional Science Foundation (NSF) for her project titled "Semantics-Oriented Binary Code Analysis Learning from Recent Advances in Deep Learning". See abstract here

Dr. Jason Bakos and co-PI Austin Downey (Mechanical Engineering) have received a research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project "Machine Learning on the Edge for Real-Time Microsecond State Estimation of High-Rate Dynamic Events." See abstract here.

See this news article about Dr. Hu's research in deep learning for materials discovery.

Dr. Qiang Zeng has received a research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his research project "Hardware-in-the-Loop and Remotely-Accessible/Configurable/Programmable Internet of Things (IoT) Testbeds". See abstract here.

UofSC Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC) – one of the recent UofSC Excellence Initiatives – have been awarded a $1,252,550 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop a state-wide data-driven system to fight COVID-19 in South Carolina. The multidisciplinary investigation team for this project are led by Dr. Xiaoming Li and Bankole Olatosi and includes BDHSC faculty members from the Arnold School of Public Health, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing (Neset Hikmet and Jianjun Hu), and School of Medicine-Columbia. Dr. Hu will be responsible for helping the development of the mobile app, databases, and data analytics. Read more details at https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/public_health/about/news/2020…