Distinguished Professor Mohit Bansal was awarded the PECASE, which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are in the early stages of their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science and School of Data Science and Society had a total of 16 papers accepted by the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, one of which was selected for spotlight.

At UNC CS, a powerful transformation is taking place. Each week, dozens of middle school and high school students gather in Sitterson, where student volunteers are helping to spark an interest in computer science. This is Girls Who Code (GWC) at UNC, where 75 UNC student volunteers are demonstrating that the next generation of tech creators and leaders could look very different from the last.

Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor Ron Alterovitz was named to the IEEE Fellow Class of 2025. Alterovitz was recognized for contributions to medical steerable needles and motion planning for medical robots.

Imagine a world where AI can understand human emotions as well as a close friend. This is the vision driving Associate Professor Snigdha Chaturvedi’s research in natural language processing. Her goal is to align large language models (LLMs) more closely with human communication, making them more effective in applications where they interface with us.

Computer science major Ajay Gandecha has brought a keen eye for design, accessibility and user experience to his student teaching and app creation.

Doctoral student David Wan was awarded a 2024 Google PhD Fellowship in natural language processing. The fellowship covers up to three years of tuition and fees, plus a stipend to be used for living expenses, travel, and personal equipment.

Doctoral student Basar Demir won the Best Oral Presentation award at the 2024 Workshop for Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), held during the MICCAI conference. Demir presented an approach to train a generalizable deep registration network that works within and across image modalities.

A research collaboration led by Professor Marc Niethammer and involving researchers from the Department of Computer Science and the School of Medicine received an NIH grant worth slightly less than $4 million to use machine learning techniques for earlier diagnosis of autoimmune diseases.

Carolina scientists define lab automation and create AI that enables a robot to work beside humans.