My Computer Science & Engineering Department

We are proud to announce that Eduardo Romero has been awarded a GEM National Consortium Fellowship. The GEM program seeks to enhance the value of the nation’s human capital by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science. The fellowship, in conjunction with the GEM graduate institution and GEM employer, provides a stipend, full tuition and fees, and a paid summer internship.

Dr. Bakos has received a research award from the DOE for his joint work with Florida State University on "Electric Ship Research and Development."

We are proud to announce the following two ASPIRE award winners:

• Dr. Lisa Luo for her research on "Vulnerability Discovery and Test Input Generation for Android System Services".
• Dr. Greg Gay for his project "Investigating the Relationship between Real and Synthetic Software Faults".

Dr. Yonghong Yan has secured a research award from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/DOE for his work on "Connecting ROSE to LLVM OpenMP Runtime".

Dr. Bakos has received a research grant from the Savannah River National Laboratory/DOE for work on "Data Analysis, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning for Plutonium Canister Corrosion Surveillance".

We are happy to announce that Rohan Bhandar, and William Edwards have been named Magellan Scholars. Their respective research topics are shown below. You can also view the full list of winners and instructions for applying.

This year the 180 Seniors in our Capstone course developed 36 awesome applications for Industry or USC clients, or for themselves. The tech breakdown includes:

• 15 webapps: Node, Angular, firebase, meteor, django, react, ASP.NET, AWS, Google Cloud
• 14 mobile apps: Android, iOS, ionic, react native, firebase cloud
• 2 virtual reality aps: Unity
• 5 desktop/hardware applications: Windows, C#, Java, Linux, Qt

They have also recorded video demonstrations of their apps which you can watch online. We are always looking for clients for next year's Capstone course. If you want an app built for you, for free, click that link to learn more.

The winning team for this year's Backers and Hackers is Tiffany Abernathy, Cayla Przygoda, Jaime Areheart (Backer) for their app GamersCentral, an app for gamers to get connected and discover new games. Backers and Hackers is a completely student-run initiative organized by the Entrepreneurship Club and the College of Engineering and Computing at USC. The program brings together Columbia’s entrepreneurial community and USC’s mobile app development students to transform app ideas into reality.

We are proud to announce that Noemi Glaeser has received a Goldwater Scholarship award. She is one of four USC students to receive the award this year. Nationally, 211 Goldwater Scholars and 281 Honorable Mentions were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,280 mathematics, science, and engineering students, nominated by the faculties of 455 colleges and universities nationwide. The Goldwater Scholarship is awarded nationally to sophomores and juniors pursuing bachelors’ degrees in natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering and who intend to pursue a career in research and/or college-level teaching.

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. After much deliberation, we have decided that the 2018 Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Senior Awards go to:

Computer Science Outstanding Senior Awards: Caleb Kisby
Computer Information Systems Outstanding Senior Award: George Clayton
Computer Engineering Outstanding Senior Award: Boyd Compton
Computer Engineering SCSPE Award: Wesley Cherry

All awardees will be honored at the University Awards Day ceremony. In addition, Wesley will be honored at a special awards banquet of the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers.