Assistant Professor Natalie Stanley received an NIH grant worth $219,366 to develop new, fully automated bioinformatics techniques to identify and characterize clinically predictive intracellular signal responses elicited through ex vivo stimulation.
Members of UNC Computer Science’s VisuaLab received two Best Paper Honorable Mention awards from the 2023 IEEE Visualization Conference. Led by Danielle Szafir, the group undertakes research at the intersection of data science, visual cognition, and computer graphics, examining how visualization design enhances understanding and engagement with data.
After graduating in 2023, computer science alumna Rida Bayraktar traveled to Turkey to teach and mentor children and teens in refugee camps and to improve educational infrastructure with her non-profit organization Pink STREAM.
The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce the addition of several new faculty members in 2023 and 2024. Six faculty members have already begun their work for the Fall 2023 semester, and another will join for Fall 2024.
The 2023 UNC-Intel Research Experience for Undergraduate Students wrapped up with a closing ceremony on July 28. The ceremony featured research presentations by each of the participating students and was attended by UNC Computer Science faculty, staff, and graduate students and by industry mentors from Intel.
The UNC Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Group presented research at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) advancing the state of the art in natural language processing. Held July 9-14, ACL is one of the world’s top conferences in natural language processing.
Andrew Kwong joined the department as an assistant professor, having recently completed a doctorate at the University of Michigan. Andrew’s primary research focus is in hardware security at the intersection of software, hardware, and applied cryptography.
Researchers from UNC Computer Science took part in the 2023 Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop in Bochum, Germany, sharing knowledge via a keynote lecture and building professional connections with women from 11 other countries.
In a conversation with Professor Mohit Bansal, host Sam Charrington explores the concept of unification in AI models, highlighting the advantages of shared knowledge and efficiency.
In a recent paper: “Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion,” Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service Research and UNC NLP present CoDi, a novel generative model capable of processing and simultaneously generating content across multiple modalities.
