News Headlines
Pasunuru Awarded Prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in NLP/ML
January 23, 2019
Computer science doctoral student Ramakanth Pasunuru, who works with assistant professor Mohit Bansal in the UNC-NLP group, received the prestigious 2019 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his work in natural language … Read more
Combating ‘fake news’: UNC team wins international competition for their fact-checking system
January 4, 2019 | UNC College of Arts & Sciences
The increasing concern over misinformation and “fake news” in the marketplace of ideas has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact-checking via machine learning and natural language processing methods. A UNC-Chapel … Read more
Teaching kids to code (profile of CS major Angelina Patel)
November 30, 2018 | UNC.edu Spotlight
Carolina sophomore Angelina Patel is teaching the universal language of computer programming to an unexpected audience: children. In high school, Patel participated in a computer science camp at Carolina, piquing her int … Read more
Scientists train a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
November 22, 2018 | UNC Lineberger
In a study published in the journal NPJ Breast Cancer, researchers reported they used a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning, or deep learning, to train a computer to identify certain features of breas … Read more
UNC CS researchers earn Best Paper at RTNS 2018
November 21, 2018
Doctoral students Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, and Nathan Otterness and faculty members James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith, and Donald Porter received the Best Paper Award at the 26th International Conference on Real-Time N … Read more
NSF announces awards to shape the human-technology partnership for the well-being of workers and their productivity
November 7, 2018 | National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $25 million in 26 projects to advance the cognitive and physical capabilities of workers in the context of human-technology interactions. These new awards will addr … Read more
UNC CS hosts 400 at Middle School and High School Open House
October 12, 2018
The Department of Computer Science hosted 400 participants at its third annual Middle School and High School Open House in September. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in hands-on research demonstrations, visi … Read more
UNC CS hires 3 new faculty members for Fall 2018
September 26, 2018
Students returning for Fall 2018 will notice three new faces among the computer science faculty. John Majikes, Junier Oliva, and Jeff Terrell were hired in the summer of 2018 and have already begun working with students … Read more
UNC CS sponsors 45 women at 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration
September 26, 2018
UNC was well represented at the Grace Hopper Celebration held in Houston September 26 – 28. With support from corporate partners, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and UNC alumni, the Department of Computer Science pr … Read more
Carolina Ranks 30th in 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities
August 28, 2018 | UNC Global
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 30th in the world and 22nd in the U.S. among global universities, according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by the ShanghaiRanking … Read more
Welcome to “Compder Scifflin” — better known as COMP 110
August 24, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
Sitting in a large lecture on the first day of class can be intimidating. In a room of 300 or more students, sometimes you can barely see your professor at the front — how are you supposed to ask him questions when you d … Read more
Well Said: computer science magic (interview with Prof. Gary Bishop)
August 2, 2018 | UNC Discover
On this episode of Well Said, we hear from computer science professor Gary Bishop, who discusses how he uses computer science magic and how he found that magic here in Chapel Hill. Transcript Bishop:One of the tal … Read more
Bansal receives prestigious ARO Young Investigator Award
July 31, 2018 | College of Arts and Sciences
Mohit Bansal, an assistant professor in the department of computer science, received the prestigious Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) for 2018 — for his work on natural lang … Read more
Can a computer diagnose autism?
July 11, 2018 | Spectrum
Martin Styner’s son Max was 6 by the time clinicians diagnosed him with autism. The previous year, Max’s kindergarten teacher had noticed some behavioral signs. For example, the little boy would immerse himself in books … Read more
Mind games: The emerging brain-powered possibilities of AR and VR
June 15, 2018 | Innovate Carolina
Most people you pass on the street have a general understanding of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). But a team of undergrads at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, led by Brian Moynihan of the UNC … Read more
A Proposed Solution to the Password Reuse Problem
June 13, 2018 | SecurityIntelligence
Password reuse across multiple sites creates major security risks. If an attacker can steal credentials and gain access to one account, he or she can also log into every other account that uses the same password. The thr … Read more
Fuchs receives honorary doctorate from TU Wien
May 24, 2018
Federico Gil Distinguished Professor Henry Fuchs was awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Wien in Vienna, Austria on May 8. Fuchs was recognized for his service to the scientific development of computer graphics, in parti … Read more
Bauer earns 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May 17, 2018
Doctoral student Lisa Bauer was awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Bauer was one of 2,000 fellowship awardees for 2018 selected from more than 12,000 applicants nationwide. The … Read more
Amert, Nemitz inducted into Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
May 16, 2018
Doctoral students Tanya Amert and Catherine Nemitz were selected for induction into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society for 2018. Amert and Nemitz were two of 21 inductees in 2018. The … Read more
Anderson receives IEEE TCRTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
May 7, 2018
Kenan Distinguished Professor James H. Anderson was named the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. The IEEE TCRTS Outstanding … Read more
Computer science department provides an ‘empowering’ day for visually impaired students
May 7, 2018 | UNC Discover
Nobody, Carolina first-year Graham Trogdon said, should be excluded from a college campus just because of a disability. That was the message he wanted to send to the nearly 150 blind and visually impaired children who vi … Read more
UNC Science Expo says you don’t need a lab coat or a STEM degree to be a scientist
April 18, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
The UNC Science Expo packed Cameron Street as hundreds of future scientists and eager local residents gathered around white tents to learn about scientific innovation at UNC. The Expo is a part of the North Carolina Scie … Read more
Maimone awarded IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award
March 30, 2018
Alumnus Andrew S. Maimone (Ph.D. 2015, M.S. 2012) was selected as one of two winners of the 2018 IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award. Maimone was recognized at the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D … Read more
Women and minorities in tech are making their voices heard
March 29, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
Sitting in a room with fellow team members and higher-up employees, someone suggests a solution for a work problem. No one in the room acknowledges they said anything. A few moments later, someone beside them says the sa … Read more
190 at UNC-Chapel Hill inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
March 23, 2018 | UNC News
Phi Beta Kappa inducted 190 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members. The recent induction ceremony featured a keynote address by William L. Roper, M.D., MPH, dean of the UNC School of Medicine … Read more
UNC Comp Sci department works to close gender gap
March 21, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
According to the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, just 24 percent of computer scientists today are women, and only 4 percent of female first-year students are enrolled in computing courses. At UNC, women make up ne … Read more
UNC CS announces Women in Tech Week 2018
February 27, 2018
The UNC Department of Computer Science and the Women in Computer Science Club are hosting the second annual Women in Tech Week, beginning March 5, 2018. This year’s talks will feature a security theme. Throughout the wee … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill research team lands patent for augmented reality
February 26, 2018 | WRAL Tech Wire
A team of inventors from UNC-Chapel Hill received a patent for augmented reality technology offering greater alignment between real and synthetic imagery, according to a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark … Read more
Manocha named AAAI Fellow
February 19, 2018
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) announced its 2018 Fellows on January 1, 2018. Among the 2018 cohort was Dinesh Manocha, Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor in the … Read more
Amitabh Varshney Named Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at UMD
January 24, 2018 | UMD CMNS
Computer scientist Amitabh Varshney has been named dean of the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS), effective March 1, 2018. Amitabh Varshney. Photo: John T. Consoli (C … Read more