CSE News

January, 2008

Professor Reda Ammar has been appointed President of ISCA (The International Society for Computers and Their Applications). He will serve until 2010. Congratulations Reda!

December, 2007

Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be program co-chair for the 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications to be held in Atlanta, GA on May 6-8, 2008. More details about the symposium are available at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra08/

March, 2007

Eight CSE Faculty Land NSF CAREER Awards at UConn
2007 marks an exciting milestone for the computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at the University of Connecticut, with the announcement that four junior faculty members garnered coveted National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. The four new CAREER recipients join four previous award recipients, brining the CSE departmental total to eight. This achievment surpasses any previous record set within the UConn School of Engineering for a departmental concentration of new CAREER awards within a single year.

Find out about more details in this brochure

August, 2006

UTC Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, along with assistant professor of CSE Chun-Hsi Huang and other colleagues from the Computer Science & Engineering; Genetics & Developmental Biology; Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology; and Neuroscience departments at the University of Connecticut, have developed a new website tool, the Minimotif Miner, which allows researchers to search a given protein for hundreds of amino acid motifs that may be associated with diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The site was profiled in the Netwatch portion of Science magazine (vol. 311, Feb. 17, 2006), and the methodology is described in the March 2006 (vol. 3(3)) issue of Nature Methods.

MnM website is http://mnm.engr.uconn.edu

The web system is also covered in the Journal of Proteome Research (TOOLbox, Minimotif Miner, Journal of Proteome Research, Vol. 5(4): 736-737 (2006))

November 9, 2005

Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be co-chairing the 2nd ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), to be held in conjunction with SNPD 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on June 19-20, 2006. More details about the SAWN workshop.

November 9, 2005

Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be the program chair for the 2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications to be held in conjunction with ICCS 2006 at the University of Reading, UK on May 28-31, 2006. More details about the IWBRA workshop.

August 19, 2005

Assistant Professor Aggelos Kiayias was awarded a $400,000 NSF CAREER award for studying the Cryptographic Aspects of Digital Rights Management. With this funding Dr. Kiayias will setup the `Crypto-DRM' lab at the CSE department where he and his students will investigate new techniques for digital distribution of intellectual product that will be coupled with advanced intellectual property rights protection mechanisms. For more information about this research refer to Prof. Kiayias web-site

Congratulations Aggelos!

November 26, 2004

Professors Reda Ammar and S. Rajasekaran were selected to be associate editors of the Computing Letters Journal, VSP, P.O. Box 346, 3700 AH Zeist, The Netherlands. Professor Reda Ammar will also be the general co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, Spain, June 2005.

November 26, 2004

Professors Reda Ammar and S. Rajasekaran will be the general chair and the technical chair respectively of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Las Vegas Nevada, September 2005. Congratulations to both Reda and Raj!

November 25, 2004

Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be co-chairing the 1st ACIS Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks, to be held in conjunction with the ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2005) at Towson University, Maryland, on May 23-25, 2005.

October 10, 2003

It gives us great pleasure in informing you that Professor Jerry Engel has been elected to be the President of the IEEE Computer Society. As you know, the Computer Society is the oldest (founded in 1946) and largest (100,000 members worldwide) association of computer professionals. Jerry will be President Elect in 2004, President in 2005 and Past President in 2006. Congratulations Jerry!


Computer Science & Engineering Department 371 Fairfield Road Unit 2155 Storrs, CT 06269-2155 Phone: (860) 486-3719 Fax: (860) 486-4817	January, 2008 Professor Reda Ammar has been appointed President of ISCA (The International Society for Computers and Their Applications). He will serve until 2010. Congratulations Reda! December, 2007 Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be program co-chair for the 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications to be held in Atlanta, GA on May 6-8, 2008. More details about the symposium are available at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra08/ March, 2007 Eight CSE Faculty Land NSF CAREER Awards at UConn 2007 marks an exciting milestone for the computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at the University of Connecticut, with the announcement that four junior faculty members garnered coveted National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. The four new CAREER recipients join four previous award recipients, brining the CSE departmental total to eight. This achievment surpasses any previous record set within the UConn School of Engineering for a departmental concentration of new CAREER awards within a single year. Find out about more details in this brochure August, 2006 UTC Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, along with assistant professor of CSE Chun-Hsi Huang and other colleagues from the Computer Science & Engineering; Genetics & Developmental Biology; Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology; and Neuroscience departments at the University of Connecticut, have developed a new website tool, the Minimotif Miner, which allows researchers to search a given protein for hundreds of amino acid motifs that may be associated with diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The site was profiled in the Netwatch portion of Science magazine (vol. 311, Feb. 17, 2006), and the methodology is described in the March 2006 (vol. 3(3)) issue of Nature Methods. MnM website is http://mnm.engr.uconn.edu The web system is also covered in the Journal of Proteome Research (TOOLbox, Minimotif Miner, Journal of Proteome Research, Vol. 5(4): 736-737 (2006)) November 9, 2005 Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be co-chairing the 2nd ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), to be held in conjunction with SNPD 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on June 19-20, 2006. More details about the SAWN workshop. November 9, 2005 Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be the program chair for the 2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications to be held in conjunction with ICCS 2006 at the University of Reading, UK on May 28-31, 2006. More details about the IWBRA workshop. August 19, 2005 Assistant Professor Aggelos Kiayias was awarded a $400,000 NSF CAREER award for studying the Cryptographic Aspects of Digital Rights Management. With this funding Dr. Kiayias will setup the `Crypto-DRM' lab at the CSE department where he and his students will investigate new techniques for digital distribution of intellectual product that will be coupled with advanced intellectual property rights protection mechanisms. For more information about this research refer to Prof. Kiayias web-site Congratulations Aggelos! November 26, 2004 Professors Reda Ammar and S. Rajasekaran were selected to be associate editors of the Computing Letters Journal, VSP, P.O. Box 346, 3700 AH Zeist, The Netherlands. Professor Reda Ammar will also be the general co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, Spain, June 2005. November 26, 2004 Professors Reda Ammar and S. Rajasekaran will be the general chair and the technical chair respectively of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Las Vegas Nevada, September 2005. Congratulations to both Reda and Raj! November 25, 2004 Assistant Professor Ion Mandoiu will be co-chairing the 1st ACIS Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks, to be held in conjunction with the ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2005) at Towson University, Maryland, on May 23-25, 2005. October 10, 2003 It gives us great pleasure in informing you that Professor Jerry Engel has been elected to be the President of the IEEE Computer Society. As you know, the Computer Society is the oldest (founded in 1946) and largest (100,000 members worldwide) association of computer professionals. Jerry will be President Elect in 2004, President in 2005 and Past President in 2006. Congratulations Jerry! Print \| Email