First-year computer science doctoral student Peter Hase was awarded the Royster Society of Fellows Recruitment Fellowship by the UNC Graduate School. The fellowship provides full tuition cost, health insurance, and funds for professional travel for five years, as well as a $24,000 stipend for … Read more
Dr. Mohit Bansal, assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the UNC-NLP Lab, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers NSF’s most prestigious … Read more
Imagine a high-tech robot that can be used to help detect lung cancer before it’s too late. It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi film. But thanks to the work of UNC Chapel Hill professor Ron Alterovitz and his cross-disciplinary … Read more
Professor Ron Alterovitz was recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are in the early stages of … Read more
Ever give a command to Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant, and find that some things get lost in communication? It’s safe to say that you’re not alone. To perform such functions, voice-activated virtual assistants rely on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such … Read more
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland at College Park has recently developed a new deep learning model that can identify people’s emotions based on their walking styles. Their … Read more
Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort. In a paper [PDF] presented Tuesday at the ACM Asia Conference on … Read more
Carolina Technology Consultants brought together the University’s IT professionals and sparked discussion of the latest technologies at its annual BarCamp unconference on May 23. About 30 people attended CTC’s half-day unconference, held at the Department of Computer Science’s Sitterson and … Read more
Mohit Bansal, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the UNC-NLP Lab, received a Google Focused Research Award in natural language processing to fund exploration of spatial language understanding. The award is worth $1.5 million, … Read more
Raskar’s contributions to the field have been innovative, collaborative, and have served in supporting solutions to global problems. His speech to doctoral graduates mirrored his work, challenging graduates to consider how they too can tackle some of society’s biggest problems … Read more
