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	Jinbo Bi Elected into CASE Congratulations to CSE Professor Jinbo Bi, one of 10 UConn faculty elected as a new member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering (CASE) for 2020. Dr. Bi is a leading expert in the are. . . read more \| March 25, 2020
	Dr. Walter Krawec Awarded Comcast Grant for the Development of Experimental Quantum Test-beds Congratulations to Dr. Walter Krawec for being awarded a Comcast grant titled, “Development of Experimental Test-Bed for Multi-User Quantum Communication Protocols”. The next revolution of applica. . . read more \| February 3, 2020
	Dr. Fei Miao Awarded 2 NSF Grants for Research with Connected Autonomous Vehicles and Data-Driven CPS Congratulations to Dr. Fei Miao for receiving 2 NSF awards titled: S&AS: FND: COLLAB: Adaptable Vehicular Sensing and Control for Fleet-Oriented Systems in Smart Cities and CPS: Small: Collaborat. . . read more \| December 12, 2019
	CSE and UConn Health Faculty Awarded Grant for Treating Depression through Mobile Technology Professor Bing Wang is the lead principal investigator on a new $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and Department of Health and Human Services to develop a system that can h. . . read more \| December 2, 2019
	Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Title: Developing Novel Copy Number Variation Detection Method using Emerging Sequencing Data Student: Fatemeh Zare Major Advisor: Prof. Sheida Nabavi Associate Advisors: Prof. Ion Mandoiu and Prof. J. . . read more \|
	Altschuler Family, Computer Science & Engineering Build UConn’s First Cybersecurity Lab The UConn Foundation and Computer Science & Engineering Department dedicated the Altschuler Cybersecurity Lab thanks to the generous donation from the Altschuler family.. . . read more \| October 17, 2019
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Colloquia and Events

10:30 am – 11:30 am, March 30, 2020 – PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub
10:30 am – 11:30 am, March 30, 2020 – PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, March 31, 2020 – Ph.D. Proposal: Shweta Ware
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, April 1, 2020 – Faculty Meeting
9:00 am – 10:00 am, April 6, 2020 – Ph.D. Proposal: Abdullah Alenizi
11:00 am – 12:00 pm, April 6, 2020 – Ph.D. Defense: Chaoqun Yue
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, May 6, 2020 – Faculty Meeting
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, June 3, 2020 – Faculty Meeting

Department Calendar

March 2020
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1	2	3 CSE Colloquium: Sarah Preum 10:30 am - 11:30 am Speaker: Sarah Preum , Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer science at the University of Virginia Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Time: 10:30-11:40 Location: HBL 1947 room Title: Information Extraction and Fusion for Improving Personal and Public Health Safety Abstract: We are increasingly interacting with pervasive applications from a wide variety of… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map CSE Colloquium: Sarah Preum	4 Faculty Meeting 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm ITE 201 Map Faculty Meeting CSE Colloquium: Dr. Eduard Dragut 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Speaker: Dr. Eduard Dragut, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: HBL 1947 room Title: Human-in-the-Loop Entity Mention Mining from Noisy Web Data Abstract: Recognizing entities that follow or closely resemble a regular expression (regex) pattern is an important task in information extraction. Due… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map CSE Colloquium: Dr. Eduard Dragut	5 CSE Colloquium: Yiqun Xie 10:00 am - 11:00 am Speaker: Yiqun Xie, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Date: Thursday, March 5 Time: 10-11am Location: HBL 1947 room Title: Spatial Data Science: Challenges and New Techniques Abstract: Our world has been witnessing a revolution brought by spatial technologies (e.g., Google Maps, Waze, Uber, Lyft, Lime, autonomous driving). According… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map CSE Colloquium: Yiqun Xie	6 CSE Colloquium: Dr. Ghada Almashaqbeh 9:30 am - 10:30 am Speaker: Dr. Ghada Almashaqbeh Date: Friday, March 6, 2020 Time: 9:30AM-10:30AM Location: ITE 125 Title: Building Secure Distributed Services and Resource Markets Abstract: The evolution of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology has provided potential new templates for reshaping large-scale distributed systems and services. Cryptocurrencies implement an open-access, decentralized currency exchange medium, and their blockchains provide public verifiability and auditing… CSE Colloquium: Dr. Ghada Almashaqbeh CSE Colloquium: Syed Rafiul Hussain 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Speaker: Syed Rafiul Hussain, Postdoctoral Researcher, Purdue University Date: Friday, March 6 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: HBL 1947 room Title: Automated Reasoning of Security and Privacy of Cellular Networks Abstract: Cellular technologies enable a wide array of critical services, from personal communication, autonomous vehicles and telemedicine to critical infrastructures, such as smart grid electricity… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map CSE Colloquium: Syed Rafiul Hussain	7
8	9 CSE Colloquium: Ji-Yong Shin 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Speaker: Ji-Yong Shin, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University Date: Monday, March 9 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: HBL 1947 Title: Modular foundations for simple, verifiable distributed systems Abstract: Distributed systems are difficult to build and even more challenging to verify because of their inherent concurrency and weak failure assumptions. Although prior work has explored various… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map CSE Colloquium: Ji-Yong Shin	10 CSE Colloquium: Wei Zhang 9:30 am - 10:30 am Speaker: Wei Zhang, R&D engineer at Microsoft Date: Tuesday, March 10 Time: 9:30-10:30am Location: ITEB 125 Title: Towards an Efficient, Scalable, Dynamic and Flexible NFV-based Data Plane Abstract: Network function virtualization (NFV) allows traditional hardware middleboxes such as routers and firewalls to run as software on commodity servers, which enables complex, flexible and customized… CSE Colloquium: Wei Zhang	11	12 CSE Colloquium: Amin Kharraz 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Speaker: Amin Kharraz, Postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date: Thursday, March 12 Time: 11-12pm Location: HBL Video Theater 2 Title: Ransomware, Scams, Cryptojacking: A data-driven approach to systems security Organized cybercrime occurs in different forms and has become more frequent and consequential. How do we quickly, accurately, and comprehensively identify these threats?… HBL Instruction 2119A (formerly Video Theater 2 ) Map CSE Colloquium: Amin Kharraz Ph.D. Defense: Abdulrahman Alshegaifi 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Title: Energy-Efficient Cache Architecture Towards Extreme-Scale Computing Systems Ph.D. Candidate: Abdulrahman Alshegaifi Major Advisor: Dr. Chun-Hsi Huang Associate Advisors: Dr. Reda A. Ammar, Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Date/Time: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:30pm Location: MCHU 307 Abstract: As we approach the era of exascale systems, where 1,000-core can be integrated in one die, energy efficiency is the… Ph.D. Defense: Abdulrahman Alshegaifi	13 PhD Proposal: Gang Wang 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Title: Towards Blockchain-based Industrial IoT Platform Student: Gang Wang Major Advisor: Prof. Song Han Associate Advisors: Prof. Zhijie Jerry Shi and Prof. Shengli Zhou Date/Time: Friday, March 13th, 2020, 3:00pm Location: HBL Instruction 2119A (formerly Video Theater 2) Abstract: The fast-developing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies provide a promising opportunity to build large-scale systems… HBL Instruction 2119A (formerly Video Theater 2 ) Map PhD Proposal: Gang Wang	14
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22	23	24	25 Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Konover Auditorium Map Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series	26 CSE Colloquium: Benjamin Ujcich 9:00 am - 10:00 am Speaker: Benjamin Ujcich, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 9-10am Location: Zoom, https://illinois.zoom.us/j/497383299 Meeting ID: 497 383 299 Title: Securing Software-Defined Networking and Network Operating Systems Abstract: Software-defined networking (SDN) has seen rapid growth because of its unparalleled flexibility in network configuration. This flexibility results from… CSE Colloquium: Benjamin Ujcich	27	28
29	30 PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub 10:30 am - 11:30 am Title: Computational Approaches for Horizontal Gene Transfer Classification by Scale and Type PhD Candidate: Lina Kloub Major Advisor: Dr. Mukul Bansal Associate Advisors: Dr. Ion Mandoiu, Dr. Derek Aguiar, Dr. J. Peter Gogarten Date/Time: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:30 AM Location: HBL Class of 1947 Conference Room Abstract: The transfer of genetic information between… Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference room Map PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub 10:30 am - 11:30 am Title: Computational Approaches for Horizontal Gene Transfer Classification by Scale and Type PhD Candidate: Lina Kloub Major Advisor: Dr. Mukul Bansal Associate Advisors: Dr. Ion Mandoiu, Dr. Derek Aguiar, Dr. J. Peter Gogarten Date/Time: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:30 AM Location: Meeting link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m9777c31ff8f2fcd7f4838db3708ffd0f Password: xPK78jiy4yM Join by phone: +1-415-655-0002 US Toll Access code: 649… PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub	31 Ph.D. Proposal: Shweta Ware 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Title: Automatic Depression Screening and Depressive Symptom Prediction Using Smartphone Sensing Data Ph.D. Candidate: Shweta Ware Major Advisor: Dr. Bing Wang Associate Advisors: Dr. Jinbo Bi, Dr. Alexander Russell Review Committee Members: Dr. Suining He, Dr. Qian Yang Date/Time: Tuesday March 31, 2020 12:00 pm-1:00 pm Location: Meeting link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m298a36769d09d1094859585762f2425d Password: JhP8saqvw34 Join by Phone: +1-415-655-0002 US Toll Access code: 647 169 142 … Ph.D. Proposal: Shweta Ware

Department Spotlight

CSE is Proud to Announce the Opening of Four New Positions!

Four new positions are available throughout the Computer Science and Engineering Department:

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning (2 Positions)

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Connecticut has an exciting opportunity to expand the faculty in exciting new directions. This year, the department invites applications for multiple tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions, at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning. For further information please see the full announcement.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computer Science and Engineering

The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured faculty position at the Assistant, Associate or Full professor level in any area of computer science and engineering. The position has an expected start date of August 23, 2020. This position seeks to advance education and research in the vast field of computing within the CSE department and the University. Qualified candidates may be considered for a Chair professorship within the School of Engineering. For further information please see the full announcement.

Lecturer or Assistant/Associate Professor in Residence, Stamford Campus

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a non-tenure track position of Lecturer, or Assistant/Associate Professor-in-Residence at the Stamford campus. The successful candidate will primarily contribute to the department’s teaching program. For further information please see the full announcement.

	Jinbo Bi Elected into CASE Congratulations to CSE Professor Jinbo Bi, one of 10 UConn faculty elected as a new member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering (CASE) for 2020. Dr. Bi is a leading expert in the are. . . read more \| March 25, 2020
	Dr. Walter Krawec Awarded Comcast Grant for the Development of Experimental Quantum Test-beds Congratulations to Dr. Walter Krawec for being awarded a Comcast grant titled, “Development of Experimental Test-Bed for Multi-User Quantum Communication Protocols”. The next revolution of applica. . . read more \| February 3, 2020
	Dr. Fei Miao Awarded 2 NSF Grants for Research with Connected Autonomous Vehicles and Data-Driven CPS Congratulations to Dr. Fei Miao for receiving 2 NSF awards titled: S&AS: FND: COLLAB: Adaptable Vehicular Sensing and Control for Fleet-Oriented Systems in Smart Cities and CPS: Small: Collaborat. . . read more \| December 12, 2019
	CSE and UConn Health Faculty Awarded Grant for Treating Depression through Mobile Technology Professor Bing Wang is the lead principal investigator on a new $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and Department of Health and Human Services to develop a system that can h. . . read more \| December 2, 2019
	Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Title: Developing Novel Copy Number Variation Detection Method using Emerging Sequencing Data Student: Fatemeh Zare Major Advisor: Prof. Sheida Nabavi Associate Advisors: Prof. Ion Mandoiu and Prof. J. . . read more \|
	Altschuler Family, Computer Science & Engineering Build UConn’s First Cybersecurity Lab The UConn Foundation and Computer Science & Engineering Department dedicated the Altschuler Cybersecurity Lab thanks to the generous donation from the Altschuler family.. . . read more \| October 17, 2019
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CSE Colloquium: Dr. Eduard Dragut

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CSE Colloquium: Amin Kharraz

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CSE Colloquium: Benjamin Ujcich

PhD Proposal: Lina Kloub

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Ph.D. Proposal: Shweta Ware

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Department Spotlight

CSE is Proud to Announce the Opening of Four New Positions!