My Computer Science & Engineering Department

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.

We are proud to announce that Abby Delnoce has won the DoD SMART Scholarship. You can read her full story in the article: CSE student becomes fourth Gamecock to ever receive DoD SMART Scholarship.

Manas Gaur (Ph.D. student @ AI Institute) gave an invited talk on "Knowledge-infused Learning for Healthcare". Watch it here.

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".