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Bansal elected AAAI Fellow
January 31, 2025
Distinguished Professor Mohit Bansal was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The distinction is reserved for “individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions … Read more

Bansal recognized with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
January 15, 2025
Distinguished Professor Mohit Bansal was awarded the PECASE, which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are in the early stages of their independent re … Read more

UNC computer science, data science researchers present work at NeurIPS 2024
January 10, 2025
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science and School of Data Science and Society had a total of 16 papers accepted by the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, one of which was selected for spotl … Read more

Empowering and inspiring the next generation: Girls Who Code at UNC
December 16, 2024
At UNC CS, a powerful transformation is taking place. Each week, dozens of middle school and high school students gather in Sitterson, where student volunteers are helping to spark an interest in computer science. This i … Read more

Alterovitz named IEEE Fellow
December 12, 2024
Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor Ron Alterovitz was named to the IEEE Fellow Class of 2025. Alterovitz was recognized for contributions to medical steerable needles and motion planning for medical robots.

Human-Focused NLP: How Chaturvedi is Improving AI’s Understanding of Human Language
December 10, 2024
Imagine a world where AI can understand human emotions as well as a close friend. This is the vision driving Associate Professor Snigdha Chaturvedi’s research in natural language processing. Her goal is to align large la … Read more

Coding meets creativity for December graduate Ajay Gandecha
December 9, 2024 | College of Arts & Sciences
Computer science major Ajay Gandecha has brought a keen eye for design, accessibility and user experience to his student teaching and app creation.

Wan receives 2024 Google PhD Fellowship
November 25, 2024
Doctoral student David Wan was awarded a 2024 Google PhD 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, travel, and … Read more

Demir wins Best Oral Presentation at MICCAI WBIR 2024
October 31, 2024
Doctoral student Basar Demir won the Best Oral Presentation award at the 2024 Workshop for Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), held during the MICCAI conference. Demir presented an approach to train a generalizable dee … Read more

CS-led collaboration receives nearly $4 million for ML research to diagnose lupus earlier
October 29, 2024
A research collaboration led by Professor Marc Niethammer and involving researchers from the Department of Computer Science and the School of Medicine received an NIH grant worth slightly less than $4 million to use mach … Read more

Robotics work heralds ‘discovery factories’
October 25, 2024 | UNC Communications
Carolina scientists define lab automation and create AI that enables a robot to work beside humans.

Speeding Up Scientific Progress Using Robots and AI in Laboratories
October 23, 2024
Researchers from UNC, including Distinguished Professor Ron Alterovitz and doctoral student Angelos Angelopoulos, describe how to transform science labs into automated factories of discovery by integrating robotic automa … Read more

Robot Reboot
October 9, 2024 | UNC Research
Lilly Nekervis is working with Computer Science researchers to modify a robot dog to be a guide dog for people with visual impairments.

Chatbot informs women about HIV prevention
September 30, 2024 | UNC Communications
Developed by a team of Carolina researchers including Computer Science’s Shashank Srivastava, ShesPrEPared uses artificial intelligence to help women find their best option for HIV prevention.

UNC CS has 11 computer vision and machine learning publications accepted by ECCV 2024
September 30, 2024
UNC CS researchers had 11 publications accepted by the 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision, a biennial conference covering computer vision and machine learning. The papers came from the research groups of seven d … Read more

Planning for Student Success
September 24, 2024
Director of Career Services Stephanie Johnson and Student Experience Manager Azubeze Uzoma are two staff members at the heart of the department’s initiatives to make sure its grads are not only technically skilled, but a … Read more

UNC Computer Science introduces UNC CS Career Network via Heels Engage
September 16, 2024
UNC Computer Science Department invites all alumni, current UNC students, faculty and staff to connect with each other through the new virtual networking community, UNC CS Career Network via Heels Engage.

UNC real-time systems researchers receive multiple awards at ECRTS
August 23, 2024
Members of the UNC Real-Time Systems Group were awarded two Outstanding Paper awards and a Best Presentation award at the 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS) in Lille, France.

2024 UNC-Intel REU celebrates a summer of research and personal development
August 15, 2024
The 2024 UNC-Intel Research Experience for Undergraduate Students brought 10 rising juniors to Chapel Hill to explore research projects in fields related to computer security. Students were guided by mentors from both UN … Read more

UNC CS announces new chair, 7 new faculty additions for 60th year
August 7, 2024
UNC Computer Science is excited to announce a new department chair and several additions to the faculty ahead of its 60th academic year.

Szafir’s AI research tested at Mars Desert Research Station
July 31, 2024
Artificial intelligence research supervised by Associate Professor Daniel Szafir was evaluated at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. The study involved an autonomous robot navigating the Mars-like terrain to asses … Read more

Tar Heel engineers unlock science behind swimming
July 26, 2024
A new collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Exercise and Sport Science and USA Swimming seeks to tackle fundamental questions on swimmer performance and lev … Read more

UNC CS presents 8 papers, 2 highlights at CVPR 2024
June 28, 2024
UNC Computer Science students and faculty had 8 papers accepted by the 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), one of the most prestigious and selective conferences in its field. Two o … Read more

Cho earns Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
June 25, 2024
Doctoral student Jaemin Cho received a prestigious Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship. Cho was one of only nine selected for the 2023-2024 cohort.

Berg receives 2 NSF grants to optimize resource allocation
June 21, 2024
Assistant Professor Benjamin Berg received two grants from the National Science Foundation to help computers better allocate resources to database queries and machine learning jobs. The grants total $1.8 million, of whic … Read more

UNC-Intel REU welcomes 2024 cohort, program grown to support 10 students
June 20, 2024
The 2024 cohort of the UNC-Intel Research Experience for Undergraduate Students Program will explore the possibilities of research in an academic setting, with support from industry mentors at Intel. The third cohort has … Read more

Alterovitz, Bansal appointed to distinguished professorships
June 10, 2024
UNC-Chapel Hill conferred distinguished professorships on computer science professors Ron Alterovitz and Mohit Bansal, taking effect July 1, 2024. Distinguished professorships are among the highest honors that the univer … Read more

UNC Computer Science presents 14 papers at ICLR 2024
May 24, 2024
UNC CS personnel had 14 papers accepted by the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations. Five of the papers were selected for spotlight posters, and the submissions came from six different research group … Read more

UNC Computer Science celebrates Class of 2024
May 17, 2024
The Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill honored its nearly 500 new graduates with a weekend filled with celebration and Tar Heel spirit. The festivities culminated in a depar … Read more

IEEE Micro Top Picks recognizes paper co-authored by UNC CS researchers
May 16, 2024
A paper co-authored by doctoral student Jaehyun Han, professor Donald Porter, and former undergraduate students Ibrahim Nael Mubarek and Nirjhar Mukherjee has been recognized as one of the IEEE Micro Top Picks from compu … Read more