Author: Prof. Phillip Bradford to Receive Honorary Doctorate from UEM Kolkata
The University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Kolkata is set to honor Prof. Phillip Bradford with an honorary doctorate degree at their upcoming convocation ceremony. Prof. Bradford, an Associate Professor-in-Residence in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut, has been selected for his remarkable contributions to the fields of Cryptography, Computer Security, Applied Algorithms, Operations Research, Management and Simulation, Statistics, Wireless, and Machine Learning.
In a letter addressed to Prof. Bradford, UEM expressed admiration for his exceptional achievements that have significantly impacted society. The convocation ceremony will take place on January 18, 2025, at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata.
Author: Awards Given for Senior Design Project Competition
Congratulations to the winners of the School of Computing’s 2024 Senior Design Project competition! The capstone Senior Design project program is a hallmark of success for engineering seniors. Mentored by faculty and industry engineers, students work to solve real-world engineering problems. The program gives graduating seniors hands-on experience working on projects that make a difference right here in our community.
The award winners are as follows:
First Place Team 22- Solubility Data Management. Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim
John Bogacz, Connor Brush, Petro Filip, Walson Li, Maniza Shaikh, and Jian Zhu
Second Place Team 19- Light Scattering Automation. Sponsor: Professor Qian Yang
Nikolas Anagnostou, Alden Dus, Zachary Hall, Nikolas Kallicharan, Jacob Montanez, Avaneesh Sathish, and Zakarya Zahhal
Third Place Team 21- Multimodal Care Coordinator. Sponsor: Bastion Health
Betul Agirman, James Frederick, Cameron Ky, Quincy Miller and Randy Yu
Best wishes to all and we wish you continued success!
Author: School of Computing Awards Fellowships to Graduate Students
Congratulations to the 48 graduate students who were awarded a fellowship on May 8, 2024 by Dr. Alexander Russell, Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies. Several prestigious awards were given to outstanding students to further their progress toward degree completion.
Tan Zhu and Sihong He received the School’s top honor – the Taylor L. Booth graduate fellowship. This fellowship, named after UConn alum and CSE department founder Taylor L. Booth, is awarded to a doctoral student intending to pursue a faculty career at an American university upon completion of their Ph.D.
Additional awards were presented as follows:
The Marion and Frederick Buckman Engineering fellowship awards were presented to Mahan Tabatabaie, Shuya Feng, and Shaoyi Huang.
The Anthony W. DeSio Endowed Fellowship in Computer Science fellowship awards were presented to Jiachen Wang, Hanbin Hong, and Yushan Jiang.
The Sarah Levitan Larie Computer Science and Engineering Fellowship was presented to Prithvi Shah.
The Professor Reda Ammar Fellowship in Computer Science and Engineering fellowships were presented to Mostafa Karami, Md Amit Hasan, and Binghao Lu.
The Predoctoral Prize for Research Excellence recipients included Dingbang Wang, Ehsan Ul Haque, Yiming Zhang, Hongwu Peng, Chinmaey Shende, Sara Wrotniak, Chuanyu Xue, and Md Zakir Hossain.
The Predoctoral Fellowships recipients included Bingjun Li, Hasan Iqbal, Shanglin Zhou, Joyanta Basak, Sanbao Su, Samson Weiner, Blake Gaines, Jieren Deng, Chenyu Zhang, Farzaneh Rastegari, Josue Martinez-Martinez, Huiqun Huang, Zhili Zhang, Zijie Pan, and Jiahui Zhao.
The Predoctoral Fellowship Rewards recipients included Cheon Jin Park, Sahand Hamzehei, Soumyashree Sahoo, Rye Howard-Stone, Haotian Zhang, Honglin Wang, Masum Shah Junayed, and Shenao Yan.
The Predoctoral Honorable Mention recipients included Hao Wang, Kiran Gautam Thorat, Maryam Rezapour, Qingqi Lin, Nidhibahen Shah, and Qianying Ren.
Congratulations to everyone on your recent award and accomplishments!
Author: Sophomore Anshul Rastogi Named Holster Scholar
Author: School of Computing thanks our excellent 2023-2024 Belonging, Engagement, Affinity Computer Hangout (BEACH) student staff for their leadership!
The School of Computing’s Belonging Engagement & Affinity Computer Hangout (BEACH) was conceived in Fall 2022 and launched in Spring 2023 with support from an Undergraduate Mini-grant award from the College of Engineering, the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion, and the School of Computing. The program provides a space open daily for undergraduate students to meet and collaborate, and is staffed by a team of undergraduate student leaders: school-level teaching assistants, called BEACH Lifeguards, and a program manager, the BEACH Patrol. A series of technical and career workshops, as well as social activities to promote a sense of community in the rapidly growing School of Computing, are also key components of the BEACH program.
We are grateful to the 2023-2024 BEACH staff for an excellent job leading the BEACH this year!
Top row (left to right): Benjamin Acorda ’25, Jace Scaramella ’24, Connor Brush ’24, Angeline McLean ’24, Andy Garcia Gonzalez ’24, Sakeena Aimandi ’24, Alex Dolloff ’24.
Bottom row (left to right): Jacob Gerow ’25, Shreya Seshadri ’24, Zachary Young ’24, Shreya Kanetkar ’24.
Author: CSE’s innovative BEACH program accepted to RESPECT 2024 ACM SIGCSE Conference
Since Spring 2023 CSE has created an innovative space, called the Belonging, Engagement, & Affinity Computer Hangout, for undergraduate students to collaborate and build community. A peer-reviewed conference paper on this program has been accepted to this year’s RESPECT 2024, an ACM SIGCSE Conference. School of Computing faculty members Olga Glebova and Qian Yang, as well as former SoC staff member and current Director of Inclusive Excellence at CETL and the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion, Lara Chiaverini, will be presenting this work at RESPECT 2024 on May 16-17, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Author: CSE Ph.D. Student Aidan Kierans Wins Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Aidan Kierans and Assistant Professor Shiri Dori-Hacohen for winning the Best Poster Award entitled “Quantifying Misalignment Between Agents” at the 2023 workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23). STAI 23 was held on July 9th at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) in London.
