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Fried Awarded Prestigious NIH Fellowship
July 12, 2021
Doctoral student Inbar Fried was awarded the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral (F30) Fellowship, which seeks to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students who int … Read more
Chaturvedi receives NSF CAREER Award
July 6, 2021
Assistant Professor Snigdha Chaturvedi received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This five-year, $549,700 grant will support Chaturvedi’s continued research of … Read more
Amert, Anderson win Best Paper at ISORC 2021
June 30, 2021
Computer science doctoral candidate Tanya Amert and Professor James Anderson won the Best Paper Award at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, held in June 2021.
UNC CS faculty call on Board of Trustees to review Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure case
June 25, 2021
The faculty of the Department of Computer Science have written an open letter condemning the inaction of the UNC Board of Trustees in the tenure case of Nikole Hannah-Jones and urging the Board to review the case at its … Read more
Zhang, Sturton take second place in Intel Hardware Security Academic Award
June 3, 2021
Doctoral graduate Rui Zhang and Associate Professor Cynthia Sturton won second place in Intel’s inaugural Hardware Security Academic Award. As part of the award, Zhang and Sturton received $50,000 to be used for further … Read more
UNC CS wins GRAIC autonomous racing competition during CPS‑IoT Week 2021
May 27, 2021
Doctoral student Abel Karimi and assistant professor Parasara Sridhar Duggirala took first prize in the Generalized Racing Intelligence Competition (GRAIC), a simulated vehicle race affiliated with CPS-IoT Week 2021, the … Read more
UNC Real-Time Research Team Sweeps RTNS Best Paper Awards
May 3, 2021
UNC CS researchers received multiple Best Paper awards at the 29th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS) held in April 2021.
Alterovitz receives Amazon Research Award
April 30, 2021
Professor Ron Alterovitz received a 2020 Amazon Research Award for his research in cloud-based motion planning for autonomous robots. The Amazon Research Award provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to a … Read more
UNC researchers earn Best Paper at IEEE VR 2021
April 14, 2021
A paper co-authored by students Young-Woon Cha, Husam Shaik, Qian Zhang, and Fan Feng; research scientists Andrei State and Adrian Ilie; and professor Henry Fuchs received a Best Conference Paper award at the IEEE Confer … Read more
Fang receives 2021 Horizon Award
April 7, 2021
Graduate student Shiwei Fang has been recognized with a Horizon Award from the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fang was one of five Horizon Award recipients for 2021.
Lei named 2021 Adobe Research Fellow
March 29, 2021
Computer science doctoral student Jie Lei has been awarded a 2021 Adobe Research Fellowship in the area of natural language processing. The Adobe Research Fellowship recognizes “outstanding graduate students anywhere in … Read more
Post-pandemic life: our digital habits, health care
March 26, 2021 | The Well UNC
Carolina’s Pandemic Year: This week last March, the University shifted to remote instruction. The Well is marking the occasion with a week of special stories, including ways the University has addressed the crisis, refle … Read more
2021 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference awards recognize Whitton, Luebke
March 23, 2021
The two major awards at the upcoming 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference will honor individuals with long-standing connections to UNC Computer Science, retired Research Professor Mary C. Whitton and Research Professor a … Read more
Johnston, Chapman Family Awards [Congratulations to Kris Jordan on a Chapman Family Teaching Award!]
March 4, 2021 | The Well UNC
Created in 1991, these awards recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching. Winners are nominated by Johnston Scholars and selected by a special committee of scholars in the James M. Johnston Scholarship Program. Two w … Read more
Finding their place in tech
March 4, 2021 | UNC Communications
In February, students from around the world participated in the annual Pearl Hacks, a beginner-friendly hackathon for women and non-binary students interested in technology. The hackathon is run by UNC students with supp … Read more
Alumni Profile: Mentor Katherine Griffin (B.S. 2020), mentee Tarini Ramesh reflect on Alumni Mentor Program experience
March 3, 2021
Tarini Ramesh (top) and Katherine Griffin meet as part of the UNC CS Alumni Mentor Program Designed to facilitate a professional development relationship between alumni industry mentors and current students in the Depart … Read more
Nirjon receives NSF CAREER Award
February 22, 2021
Shahriar Nirjon, assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Embedded Intelligence Lab, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foun … Read more
‘Changing the game’: Black in Technology works to support Black students in computer science
February 2, 2021 | The Daily Tar Heel
Prior to arriving at UNC, 2020 graduate Charlie Helms had only briefly heard about the field of computer science. But when he attended UNC’s admitted students day, he was immediately drawn to the Black and Latinx compute … Read more
Three College faculty named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
November 30, 2020 | College of Arts and Sciences
Three faculty members of the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are recognized for their research; teachin … Read more
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
November 10, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
You’ve probably heard us say this countless times: GPT-3, the gargantuan AI that spews uncannily human-like language, is a marvel. It’s also largely a mirage. You can tell with a simple trick: Ask it the color of sheep, … Read more
NC Begins Smartphone Coronavirus Contact Tracing, But Will Enough People Use The App? [Prof. Samarjit Chakraborty interviewed]
November 6, 2020 | WFAE.org
WFAE | By Greg Barnes | North Carolina Health News Published October 31, 2020 at 8:51 AM EDT This story originally appeared in North Carolina Health News. About a quarter of a million people in North Carolina have now do … Read more
CS hackathons find new home online
October 30, 2020
When classes at UNC shifted fully online, so did events, such as corporate recruiting and annual hackathons. In October, UNC Computer Science student leaders and staff worked together to hold two popular hackathons, Caro … Read more
Open Course: Extending COMP 110 beyond Carolina
October 30, 2020
Each year, over 1,000 students in COMP 110: Introduction to Programming are introduced to computer science by Teaching Professor and UNC CS alumnus Kris Jordan and his team of 45 enthusiastic Undergraduate Teaching Assis … Read more
Islam, Embedded Intelligence Lab develop for a future with fewer batteries
October 29, 2020
Continuous health monitoring is the future of healthcare, and wearable technology is helping to lead the charge by collecting useful baseline data between check-ups and detecting changes that are early signs of illness. … Read more
With help from open source community, Graphene grows from prototype to product
October 27, 2020
A guiding research principle of the Department of Computer Science is the idea, put forth by founder Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., that a computer scientist is a toolsmith, creating resources that enhance the work of others. … Read more
Alumni Profile: Cassidy Soutter (B.S. 2020)
October 26, 2020
When UNC moved to remote instruction in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so much changed for the Class of 2020 and their peers. Today, as we continue to navigate this unprecedented situation and try to recreate t … Read more
Data science builds bridges
October 19, 2020 | The Well UNC
Carolina’s faculty, researchers and scientists continue to tear down silos and build bridges by sharing data. Silos from years past have rapidly disappeared from the University’s academic landscape over the past decade. … Read more
How scientists secure the data driving autism research [Mark Styner was interviewed for the story]
September 30, 2020 | Spectrum News
The cardboard box has been sitting in Maya’s house in Ohio for months. The box, no bigger than a hardcover novel, contains six plastic tubes — one for Maya, one for her husband, Mark, and one for each of their four child … Read more
UNC student finds TikTok fame, joy through coding
September 22, 2020 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 S … Read more
2020 Hettleman Prizes awarded to exceptional early-career faculty [Mohit Bansal among four awardees]
September 21, 2020 | UNC Communications
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 … Read more