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Bansal, Sturton promoted to associate professor
July 3, 2020
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, … Read more
UNC Computer Science faculty issue open invitation toward equity in tech
June 23, 2020
The events of the past few weeks have called on all of us. We have been asked to reflect on the roles power and privilege play in our lives, both individually and within our communities. We have been charged with dismant … Read more
Fuchs named 2020 Eurographics Fellow
May 29, 2020
Federico Gil Distinguished Professor Henry Fuchs has been named a fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics). One of only three inductees for the 2020 class, Fuchs was selected for his “semin … Read more
Profiles in Undergraduate Research: Mathew Atisa
May 27, 2020
Mathew Atisa’s desire to study computer science began with an interest in computers in middle school, it was further fostered by his courses and extracurricular activities in high school. As a first-year student at UNC h … Read more
UNC Computer Science Honors 2020 Graduates with Virtual Celebration
May 20, 2020
May 10, 2020 would have marked the annual UNC Department of Computer Science Commencement ceremony, but with commencement ceremonies postponed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, spring graduates were honored through cre … Read more
2020-2021 Top 10 Scholar-Athletes [CS Major Ashley Smith named Top 10 Scholar-Athlete]
May 19, 2020 | UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes
We have the distinct privilege of honoring our Top Ten Scholar-Athletes. These students are the five male and five female senior student-athletes with the highest cumulative grade point averages. The ten students being h … Read more
The Fast and the Autonomous
May 18, 2020 | Endeavors
In a small corner of Sitterson Hall sits a fleet of pint-size cars that can see and navigate independently, winning races for the team of UNC computer science students that created them. While the stakes are low for thes … Read more
Interview with department founder and Turing Award winner Frederick Brooks by professor Gary Bishop
May 15, 2020 | ACM
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. was born April 19, 1931, in Durham, North Carolina. Growing up in the Raleigh/Durham region, he earned his AB in physics at Duke University in 1953. Brooks then joined the pioneering degree … Read more
Pushing through challenges and embracing new opportunities
May 4, 2020 | UNC Discover
To say that Sweta Karlekar’s four years at Carolina have been packed is an understatement. She had internships at Disney, Yelp and Facebook. She was a part of Google’s AI Research Mentorship Program. She presented her re … Read more
Black in Tech celebrates Black coders with inaugural AfroPix event
April 30, 2020
UNC Computer Science sponsors 19 student clubs and organizations, highlighting the breadth of student interest across the field, as well as the desire for engagement within the student community. Student-led events and p … Read more
Han Guo [interview with UNC Endeavors]
April 9, 2020 | Endeavors
Q: When you were a child, what was your response to this question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” A: I remember Thomas Edison making a significant impact on me when I was pretty young, so I thought I would be … Read more
Tar Heel Reader enables virtual learning for students with disabilities amid COVID-19 outbreak
March 30, 2020
On March 18, Professor Gary Bishop of the Department of Computer Science logged in to check on Tar Heel Reader, an online library of beginner-level books that he has maintained since 2008. In the midst of social distanci … Read more
Kaur receives Google Faculty Research Award
March 30, 2020
Associate Professor Jasleen Kaur received a 2019 Google Faculty Research Award from Google AI. Kaur’s proposal was one of only 150 to be funded out of 917 applications from 50 countries. Google Faculty Research Awards pr … Read more
Bansal receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship and Microsoft Investigator Fellowship
January 30, 2020
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded the prestigious Director’s Fellowship to assistant professor Mohit Bansal, naming him one of the top performers among the agency’s Young Faculty Award recipie … Read more
Karlekar, Guo recognized by CRA for excellence in undergraduate research
January 22, 2020
Each year, the Computing Research Association (CRA) recognizes undergraduate students at North American Universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research. This year, two UNC Computer Science st … Read more
Hase Awarded Prestigious Royster Society Fellowship
August 26, 2019
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 … Read more
Bansal receives NSF CAREER Award
July 22, 2019
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 … Read more
UNC professor’s high-tech robot promises earlier detection of lung cancer
July 19, 2019 | WRAL Tech Wire
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 … Read more
Alterovitz receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
July 16, 2019
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 a … Read more
How can machines, humans talk better? UNC prof, colleague land $1.5M to find out
July 13, 2019 | WRAL Tech Wire
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 o … Read more
Identifying perceived emotions from people’s walking style
July 12, 2019 | Tech Xplore
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 … Read more
AMD’s SEV tech that protects cloud VMs from rogue servers may as well stand for… Still Extremely Vulnerable [featuring work from Jan Werner and Fabian Monrose]
July 11, 2019 | The Register
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] prese … Read more
2019 BARCAMP ENGAGES AND INFORMS IT PROS
July 8, 2019 | UNC ITS
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 u … Read more
Bansal receives Google Focused Research Award in NLP
July 8, 2019
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 … Read more
Alumnus Raskar gives 2019 UNC Doctoral Hooding keynote address
June 4, 2019
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 … Read more
UNC Computer Science recognizes more than 300 graduates in annual commencement
May 27, 2019
The UNC Department of Computer Science celebrated its summer 2018, winter 2018, and spring 2019 graduates with an annual ceremony in Carmichael Arena. With 335 graduates, the 2019 event was the largest to date. The depar … Read more
Kuntz earns Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship
May 15, 2019
Computer science doctoral student Alan Kuntz was named to the first cohort of Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellows. The Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship will award Kuntz a $5,000 addition to his regular stipend fo … Read more
UNC CS team wins F1TENTH autonomous racing challenge
April 26, 2019
Researchers from the UNC Department of Computer Science took first place at F1TENTH, an autonomous RC car race held during Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 2019 in Montreal, Canada. The F1TENT … Read more
Augmented Health Care (profile of augmented reality work from the UNC Graphics & Virtual Reality Group)
April 18, 2019 | Endeavors Magazine
As a computer science student in the 1970s, Henry Fuchs tried to explain the benefits of affordable, personal computers to others at his school. Most were not convinced –– they saw no need for this technology in their da … Read more
Hannan earns 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in natural language processing
April 16, 2019 | College of Arts and Sciences
Computer science doctoral student Darryl Hannan has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for 2019. This is a nationwide fellowship that supports outstanding gradu … Read more