Manas Gaur Invited Talk
May 24, 2020
Manas Gaur (Ph.D. student @ AI Institute) gave an invited talk on "Knowledge-infused Learning for Healthcare". Watch it here.
May 24, 2020
Manas Gaur (Ph.D. student @ AI Institute) gave an invited talk on "Knowledge-infused Learning for Healthcare". Watch it here.
May 15, 2020
Dr. Sanjib Sur and Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi, and their co-authors have acquired funding from the UofSC Office of Research for their ASPIRE proposal titled "In-Home Mobility Impairment Assessment and Feedback using 5G Wireless Signals and Voice-Assistants".
May 4, 2020
We congratulate the following Computer Science undergraduate students for receiving a Magellan Scholar Award for Summer-Fall 2020.
May 3, 2020
We are happy to announce that Liang Zhao has received a SPARC Graduate Research grant for work on "Scene Text Detection in Historical Marine Corp Videos" under Dr. Song's supervision.
April 24, 2020
At the AI Institute of the University of South Carolina, my colleagues and I have processed more than 700 million social media posts since the beginning of March and more than 700,000 news articles about the COVID-19 pandemic. We are monitoring these information sources to capture the evolving human experience in the U.S. during the pandemic. We have found troubling indications of a growing mental health crisis and an increase in social ills such as substance abuse and gender-based violence.
From "We’re measuring online conversation to track the social and mental health issues surfacing during the coronavirus pandemic" by Dr. Sheth.
April 24, 2020
This year the students in the Senior Capstone course developed 35 apps either for industrial clients, for USC members, or for themselves. There were:
You can watch video demonstrations and see screenshots of all the apps right now!
If you are interested in having students build an app for you, note that we are looking for clients for next year.
April 22, 2020
Dr. Chin-Tser Huang provides expert opinon on cybersecurity issues in an article on USA Today: Could the NFL draft be hacked? Virtual draft poses new cybersecurity challenges, also on cbs sports.
April 17, 2020
We proudly report that Kevin Gagnon has received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award. This honor recognizes college students of noble character who have acted as humble servants to others by putting service of others before self-interest. The award is presented each year by more than 70 colleges and universities within the American South. At the University of South Carolina, the award is presented each year to the most outstanding senior female and senior male student. You can learn more about Kevin here and here.
April 12, 2020
Our graduate students are busy organizing workshops. Ugur Kursuncu is the contact organizer for CySoc2020: International Workshop on Cyber Social Threat, and Manas Gaur is in the contact organizing committee for KiML2020: International Workshop on Knowledge-infused Mining and Learning.
March 31, 2020
The deadline to apply for the CSE Department’s John H. Fain Scholarship has been extended to June 1. This scholarship is for upper division Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Computer Science (CS) majors planning to become entrepreneurs. Interested applicants must thoroughly read criteria for the award; if they meet the initial criteria, then they must complete and submit the John H. Fain Scholarship Application by June 1. View criteria and application here