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Raffel receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Colin Raffel has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Raffel’s five-year grant, worth more than $535,700, is titled “Collaborative, Communal, and Continual Model Training for Democratizing Machine Learning.” The research will seek to enable community-developed and continually-improved machine learning models.
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Chakraborty elected to IEEE Fellows Class of 2022
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor Samarjit Chakraborty was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2022. Chakraborty was recognized for contributions to system-level timing analysis of cyber-physical systems.
Leading the next generation of computer scientists [profile of CS major Nihar Vaidya]
Vaidya is a Chancellor’s Science Scholar majoring in computer science with a minor in neuroscience. He founded a Carolina chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and has contributed to the work of researchers who are bridging the fields of computer science and neuroscience.
Zhang awarded 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
Doctoral student Shiyue Zhang was awarded a 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. 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 and attending professional conferences.
Chakraborty earns 2021 ACM TECS Best Paper Award
Professor Samarjit Chakraborty was awarded the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) 2021 Best Paper Award for his paper, “Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol,” which appeared in the journal in 2020. The paper was selected from all those that appeared in the journal between 2019 and 2020, and the award was presented in a virtual ceremony at the 2021 Embedded Systems Week.
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Raffel receives NSF CAREER Award
April 21, 2022
Chakraborty elected to IEEE Fellows Class of 2022
April 21, 2022