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Homay Valafar just does not get it.

When he brings his car to the mechanic’s shop for a tune-up, it receives unique, detailed care based off its individual make, year and model. But, when he goes to the doctor’s office, he is given generic care that doesn’t take into account his unique medical history and one-of-a-kind genetic make-up.

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Scott Craig, a Purple Heart recipient, will earn his degree in computer science from the College of Engineering and Computing. You can read the UofSC News profile of him and other veterans.

I have seen a lot of people flock to data science fields in recent years, regardless of their background. Data science involves the ability to acquire and clean data, draw insights using a variety of techniques and communicate them to decision makers in their unique context of other actors, data sources, and decision choices. See full article here.

Dr. Amit Sheth will be awarded the IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award 2020 in “recognition of his pioneering and enduring research, applications and adoption of distributed workflow processes and semantics in services computing.”

According to the award site, this award “recognizes one individual or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations in the field of services computing have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice in the field. The contributions must have significantly influenced the direction of research and development of the field or transferred to practice in significant and innovative ways and/or enabled the development of commercial systems/products…”.

Dr. Chin-Tser Huang has received a research award from Clemson University/USDOT for his project titled "Modeling Impact of Weather Conditions on 5G Communication and Mitigation Measures on Control of Automated Intersections".

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".

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.