The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is the top international Computer Vision event, comprising the main ICCV conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. At ICCV 2017 in Venice, Italy, Professor Alex Berg won the Helmholtz Prize for … Read more

Tech companies are pursuing artificial intelligence projects more than ever, and they’re looking at universities to recruit their new talent. According to Dinesh Manocha, a computer science professor at UNC, artificial intelligence is an old field that has been around … Read more

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mohit Bansal has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — becoming only the second UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member to do so — for his work on natural language processing and machine learning. Established … Read more

The International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS) recognized doctoral students Catherine Nemitz and Tanya Amert with the Best Student Paper Award for 2017. The paper, “Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks with Nesting: Optimizing the Common Case,” was also co-authored by … Read more

Eyes focused on computer screens, students from across the state spent their weekend analyzing data sets and competing at the first ever Carolina Data Challenge. In partnership with the National Consortium for Data Science, the Odum Institute, the UNC Computer … Read more

Zareen Farooqui is a junior studying business administration and computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill. This summer, she’s using the knowledge she gained in her classes to revamp United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Teaming for Technology Program. That program refurbishes … Read more

First-year doctoral student Ramakanth Pasunuru and assistant professor Mohit Bansal earned an Outstanding Paper Award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2017 conference in Vancouver, Canada. ACL is the primary conference in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, and the Outstanding Paper designation … Read more

Cenk Baykal (B.S. 2015) and associate professor Ron Alterovitz earned the Best Paper award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their paper, “Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots using Motion Planning,” introduced a method of motion planning … Read more

While most students feel accomplished to get a summer internship or make an A in a class, one of their peers has been running a company since he was 16 years old. Linker Logic Technologies Inc., founded by CEO Ritwik … Read more

Professor Fabian Monrose was named a Kenan Distinguished Professor, effective July 1, 2017. The Kenan Distinguished Professorship will provide Monrose’s salary, benefits and additional research funds. The announcement from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost said the following … Read more