What started as a video celebrating the completion of a long project for computer science class COMP110, Introduction to Programming, became a viral TikTok within hours. The 59-second video, posted by sophomore Ibrahim Shakhtour, has gotten the attention of around … Read more
The annual Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four promising faculty members who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. Recognized by a staggering number of highly competitive industry, government, and faculty awards, Bansal is an expert in natural language processing and machine learning.
During a typical recruiting season, the halls of Sitterson are filled with corporate partners tabling in the lobby and engaging in in-person panel discussions, networking events, or whiteboard parties. Today’s environment has called for a creative spin on this upcoming … Read more
Newly tenured Parker Associate Professor Mohit Bansal has been working for years on research into natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and machine learning, areas of computer science which seek to help computers process and understand the world as competently … Read more
Brent Munsell has been appointed a teaching assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science. Munsell spent the previous academic year working with the department as an adjunct teaching assistant professor and also holds an adjunct research assistant professorship with … Read more
As an incoming student in 2012, Joe Puccio faced a familiar challenge for college students, organizing and planning for course registration. With co-founder Tara Aida, he developed a program that would track course openings and automatically text students when a spot opened in their course. Now, Coursicle is used by more than 900 college campuses.
At Carolina, earning a Liberal Arts degree offers those with a passion in the STEM fields a unique opportunity to supplement and enrich their studies, to consider application and impact, and be inspired by the world around them. For CS … Read more
Colin Raffel has officially joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor. Raffel received a doctorate in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2016 and spent the last four years working with Google Brain. Raffel’s … Read more
The future leaders of the tech field are learning how to program in churches and libraries right now. And they’re in elementary school. And they’re females. Rida Bayraktar, Founder of PinkSTREAM, says some girls she works with are already writing down … Read more
Mohit Bansal and Cynthia Sturton were promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2020. These promotions are given only to faculty members who demonstrate service to the academic community, potential for future contribution, commitment to … Read more
