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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sophomore Anshul Rastogi Named Holster Scholar
Congratulations to rising sophomore SoC student Anshul Rastogi for being named a 2024 Holster Scholar! The Holster Scholars Program is a selective enrichment opportunity available only to first-year Honors students. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New NSF CAREER Awardee: Algorithmic and Statistical Modeling of Haplotypes
Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Derek Aguiar who was awarded an NSF CAREER award titled “Practical algorithms and high dimensional statistical methods for multimodal haplotype modelling.” This project addresses major […]
Making AI More Secure with Privacy – Preserving Machine Learning
Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Caiwen Ding who, in collaboration with Wujie Wen from Lehigh University and Xiaolin Xu from Northeastern University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Accelerating […]
New AI-enabled deep-learning method for breast cancer detection
Two UConn researchers have developed a new, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled deep-learning approach to breast cancer detection. The Feature Fusion Siamese Network for Breast Cancer Detection developed by Dr. Clifford Yang, […]
Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2023 Conference
Congratulations to Ehsan Ul Haque and Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan for Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2023 Conference for their work “The Nuanced Nature of Trust and Privacy Control […]
The BEACH-CSE’s newest social space hosts its first event
We All Scream for Ice Cream! CSE’s newest social space hosts its first event By Alexandria Black, Student Writer The BEACH hosted its first event – an ice cream social […]
Kierans, Hazan, Dori-Hacohen paper Receives Award
A recent paper “Quantifying Misalignment Between Agents” by PhD student Aidan Kierans, Hananel Hazan and Prof. Shiri Dori-Hacohen received the AI Risk Analysis Award at the NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop.
Meet Yuan Hong
Rutgers University alumni and former Computer Science professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr. Yuan Hong begins his next chapter as an associate professor in the Computer Science & […]
‘WiSFiRE’ Sparks Connections for Women Students and Faculty in STEM
Second edition of conference features UConn faculty, alumnae, and leaders who have blazed a trail in STEM careers. Complete article is here.
2022 Senior Design Project Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Computer Science & Engineering’s 2022 Senior Design Project competition! This year’s competition, held on April 29th, featured 31 teams presenting projects sponsored by CT towns, […]
Student Spotlight: UConn Student Team Aims for the Moon with Lunar Rover Design
An interdisciplinary team of UConn undergraduates are finalists in the NASA Big Idea Challenge. Complete story here.
Student Spotlight: Sybille Légitime Receives Sarah Levitan Larie Fellowship
By Noor Majid, CSE student writer Congratulations to Sybille Légitime! She is the recipient of the Sarah Levitan Larie Fellowship for 2021-22. This merit-based fellowship is awarded to a graduate […]
Student Spotlight: Anusha Nagella and Women in Computer Science Club
Governor Lamont Visits, Signs Cybersecurity Bill at UConn Tech Park
On July 15, Governor Ned Lamont visited the University of Connecticut and the UConn Tech Park, in order to meet with several UConn Engineering faculty and sign strong legislation to […]
The Department Welcomes Dr. Dori-Hacohen!
Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen will be joining the University of Connecticut School of Engineering in the Computer Science and Engineering Department starting August 2021 as a tenure-track assistant professor. She is […]
2021 Senior Design Project Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Computer Science & Engineering’s 2021 Senior Design Project competition! This year’s competition, held on April 28th, featured 43 teams presenting projects sponsored by CT towns, […]
UConn Student Wins Top Honors at the 2021 ExploreCSR Workshop
Congratulations to UConn Senior Kiera Wolfe on her first place win at the 2021 Tri-State ExploreCSR Workshop! Kiera’s team, including students from Fordham University and New York City College of […]
Senior Design Journey 2021: Using Lung Scans and Algorithms to Diagnose COVID-19
A group of five University of Connecticut computer science students are on the precipice of completing a Senior Design project that could not only aid researchers studying lung disease—but could […]
Assistant Professor Fei Miao Wins NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Fei Miao’s Career award, titled “Distributionally Robust Learning, Control, and Benefits Analysis of Information Sharing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles” brings the concept of self-driving cars one step […]
CyberSEED Returns in Virtual Format
After a postponement last year, the annual CyberSEED event, hosted by Synchrony and The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC), is back on in a 100 percent virtual format. CyberSEED 2021, […]
Jinbo Bi is Using machine learning to better understand the genetic basis for substance use disorder.
UConn researcher Jinbo Bi is Using machine learning to better understand the genetic basis for substance use disorder. Using Big Data to Identify Genetic, Neural Bases for Substance Use […]
Meet Assistant Professor Ghada Almashaqbeh
CSE’s newest faculty member gives a glimpse into her journey, research, and what lies ahead Although she has only been at the university for a few weeks, assistant professor Ghada […]
Zap Partners with the UConn School of Engineering to Advance Decentralized Finance (DeFi) & Applications (DApps) using the Zap Protocol
Every year, the University of Connecticut School of Engineering partners with hundreds of industry leading companies and government agencies through the university’s Senior Design Program. Teams of 3-5 seniors, each […]
CS Alum Paul S. Cheney Inducted into the 2020 Academy of Distinguished Engineers
Congratulations to Computer Science alum Paul S. Cheney on his induction into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers! The Academy recognizes School of Engineering alumni and friends for their exemplary contributions […]
Professor Fuller discusses Work-From-Home Cybersecurity on NBC Connecticut
Professor Ben Fuller provides some work-from-home cybersecurity tips in this interview.
Dr. Johnson Receives Grant Award to Develop Software for Handwriting Recognition
CSE, Library partnership brings 19th century documents into the 21st Imagine you are a history scholar. You need historical documents that mention the political structure of a town from the […]
Dr. Jinbo Bi Appointed as the Frederick H. Leonhardt Computer Science Chair
The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees recently approved the appointment of Associate Department Head Jinbo Bi, Ph.D. as the Frederick H. Leonhardt Computer Science Chair in the School of […]
CSE Professor Qian Yang Awarded Grants to Optimize 3D Printing Methods
Computer Science & Engineering professor Qian Yang and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering professor Anson Ma are literally shaping the way we use 3D printing. The professors joined forces on two […]
Berk Alpay Named 2020 University Scholar
Congratulations to Berk Alpay on being named a 2020 University Scholar. One of the most challenging and prestigious programs for UConn undergraduates, the University Scholar Program allows students to design […]
Song Han Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Congratulations to Dr. Song Han on his promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure. Dr. Han received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 and […]
Doctoral Students Awarded Fellowships
Congratulations to 14 Ph.D. students who were awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship on May 11, 2020! These prestigious awards are given to outstanding students to further their progress toward degree completion. […]
CSE Recognizes Senior Design Project Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of Computer Science & Engineering’s 2020 Senior Design Project competition! Top honors go to Team 5: Cloud Developer Management Dashboard and Team 17: Process Visualization. Second […]
Virtual Senior Design Demonstration Day 2020
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. Students learn principles […]
Dr. Sheida Nabavi Wins Prestigious CAREER Award
A special congratulations to Dr. Sheida Nabavi for her latest accomplishment of winning the NSF CAREER Award receiving $499,991 over five years for her research project: “CAREER: Machine learning and signal […]
Professor Qian Yang Co-Organized First Annual Women in STEM Frontiers in Research Expo (WiSFiRE)
The School Of Engineering held the Women in STEM Frontiers in Research Expo, also known as WiSFiRE, for the first time—bringing together, and celebrating some of the important research and […]
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: Collaborative Research: Improving […]
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 […]
Dr. Han Receives Multiple Grant Awards
The Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Laboratory directed by Dr. Song Han has recently received multiple external and internal grants to support the design, analysis and implementation of Industrial Internet of Things […]
Be Part of CyberSEED 2019-An Exciting Cybersecurity Event
The University of Connecticut, a leader in hardware cybersecurity, and Synchrony, the fintech market powerhouse are joining forces to sponsor CyberSEED, an exciting cybersecurity event October 19, 2019. Timed to […]
CSE and ECE Hosts Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Departments hosted a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program with the theme of “Trustable Embedded Systems Security Research” […]
Engineering Alumni Brothers Create UConn’s First Cybersecurity Instructional Lab
The Computer Science & Engineering Department is pleased to share news from the UConn Foundation and the School of Engineering. In response to the growing field of cybersecurity, two University […]
CSE Features 41 Projects at Senior Design Day
Each year, more than 100 leading manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical and medical firms, consulting practices, utilities as well as local, state and federal government agencies partner with the UConn School of […]
Dr. Robert McCartney Wins Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time Award
Congratulations to Professor McCartney for recently being recognized for his publication “A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing” being selected 4th best among the “Top Ten SIGCSE Symposium […]
CSE Department Ranked Among Best Departments in the World for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The Computer Science & Engineering department has been recognized as the 9th best department in the world, tied with Princeton for computational biology and bioinformatics research by csrankings.org which provides […]
Dr. Rajasekaran Announces New Leadership Team
Department Head, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran recently announced that the following highly accomplished key leaders have joined his cabinet as Associate Department Heads. He is looking forward to working with them in […]
Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Appointed New Department Head
Dr. Kazem Kazerounian, Dean of the School of Engineering, recently announced the appointment of Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran – Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor as well as UTC Chair Professor – […]
Gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science
A special thank you to Mrs. Karen Maryanski for her generous gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science. Fred was the first Department Head of Computer Science […]
Dr. Bing Wang and Team Win Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Professor Bing Wang and her students Yanyuan Qin and Chaoqun Yue for winning the prestigious Best Paper Award for their research project entitled “ABR Streaming of VBR-encoded Videos: Characterization, […]
Lei Li Wins Best Paper Award at ACM Conference
Ph.D. student Lei Li won the “Best Student Paper” award at the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2018) for his research paper titled “An Integer […]
Dr. Russell Leads Voting Technology Research Center
Voting security is imperative to the election process, especially with the growing threat that states experience from hackers. The work in Connecticut is being led by Alexander Russell, director of […]
Dr. Song Han and Research Team Win Best Paper Award
The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet 2018 recently announced that Dr. Song Han and his research team won the Best Paper Award for their research entitled, “RT-DAP: A Real-Time […]
Professor Khan Wins NSF Career Award
A special congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Khan for his latest accomplishment of winning an NSF CAREER Award receiving $559,786 over five years for his research project: “The Role of Emotion […]
Annual Trivia Contest Kicks Off Semester for Graduate Students
Following introductions from faculty and staff, the main event of the day began- The Graduate Student Trivia Contest! After careful and painstakingly detailed research by some of UConn’s faculty, a […]
CSE Introduces New Faculty
Interim Department Head, Dr. Reda Ammar is pleased to announce the addition of 3 new faculty to the departments growing list of accomplished scholars. Dr. Derek Aguiar joins the department […]
Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang and Hong-Sheng Zhou Awarded NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 grant to Professor Alexander Russell for his project “SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Theory and Practice of Cryptosystems Secure against Subversion”. The grant is […]
Dr. Bradford Receives Stamford Faculty Recognition Award
The 2018 UConn Stamford Faculty Recognition Award goes to Dr. Phillip Bradford, Associate Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Bradford is an excellent teacher in the […]
Jinbo Bi and Song Han win NSF Award in the CISE Robust Intelligence Program
Congratulations to Drs. Jinbo Bi and Song Han on winning an NSF Award in the CISE Robust Intelligence program. The three year $450,000 research project is titled “Multi-view Latent Class […]
Senior Design Day Features Projects from 33 Teams
CSE hosted a record number of senior design teams this year with 33 teams presenting their projects on April 27, 2018. Each year leading technology, manufacturing, and insurance companies, financial […]
Dr. Laurent Michel Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering recently announced their Science and Engineering inductees for 2018. Congratulations to Dr. Michel for receiving this honorable lifetime achievement and being one of […]
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering elects Dr. Bing Wang
Congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang for being recognized as one of the leading experts in her field by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Dr. Wang’s professional areas include […]
Faculty of the Year Award Presented to Dr. Keith Barker
The UConn chapter of the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society recently awarded Professor Keith Barker the 2017-2018 Faculty of the Year Award. Every year members are asked to nominate a […]
Computer Science Alumnus named Dean at the University of Northern Colorado
Burkhard Englert, Ph.D. has been named as the new dean of the University of Northern Colorado’s College of Natural and Health Sciences starting July 1, 2018. He earned his doctorate […]
Dr. Rajasekaran Awarded NSF Grant to Transfer Big Data Tools
Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and his team have been granted $700,000 by the National Science Foundation to transform novel big data tools used in biological research for use in materials science […]
Scholarship Opportunity for Stamford Computer Science Majors
Terrence Cheng, the Director of the Stamford campus, is pleased to announce the addition of the FairHaven Scholarship at UConn Stamford. The scholarship is a highly competitive merit-based award for […]
Dr. Yufeng Wu Awarded National Science Foundation Award
Congratulations to Dr. Yufeng Wu on winning a National Science Foundation award in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. His research project is […]
Distinguished Alumnus-Dr. Lance Fiondella Receives CAREER Award
Professor Lance Fiondella was recently awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for his project CAREER: Software Reliability and Security Assessment: Modeling and Algorithms. The award supports early-career faculty […]
52 Seniors Receive Academic Awards
52 Seniors Receive Academic Awards On December 5th, Dr. Alexander Schwarzmann presented academic awards to 52 seniors who have shown exemplary academic success in computer science, computer science and engineering, […]
Dr. Nabavi and Fatima Zare Win Best Poster Competition
Congratulations to Professor Sheida Nabavi and Fatima Zare for winning the best poster award at the recent Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics held […]
4th Annual CyberSEED Conference at UConn
The Cybersecurity Competitions & Conference will be held October 19-20, 2017 in the Rome Commons Ballroom. Hosted by the Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation (CSI), CyberSEED brings together top information […]
CSE Welcomes New Faculty
Dr. Alexander Schwarzmann is pleased to announce the addition of 5 new faculty to the departments growing list of accomplished scholars. Dr. Amir Herzberg joins the department as a Full […]
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
The Board of Trustees has named Sanguthevar Rajasekaran a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, the highest honor that the institution bestows on its faculty. Established in 1998, […]
Jinbo Bi Receives NIH Mid-Career Independent Scientist Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jinbo Bi on winning an NIH Mid-Career Independent Scientist Award for her research project “Classifying Addictions Using Machine Learning Analysis of Multidimensional Data.” This award is expected […]
Professor Donald Sheehy Receives NSF Career Award
Congratulations to Dr. Donald Sheehy on winning an NSF CAREER Award for his research project “Algorithmic Challenges and Opportunities in Spatial Data Analysis.” The award is expected to total over $500K from 2017 to 2022. […]
Scholarships Awarded to Doctoral Students
Twenty-one Predoctoral Scholarships were presented to outstanding doctoral students in May. Every year the CSE Department awards Predoctoral Fellowships to our best graduate students who are making clear progress towards […]
CSE Awards Prizes for Top Senior Design Projects
On April 28th, Senior Design Day was held in Gampel Pavilion with 26 teams presenting their projects for CSE. Each year leading manufacturing and insurance companies, financial institutions, medical firms, […]
Tyler Daddio Named 2017 Goldwater Scholar
The prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship was recently awarded to Tyler Daddio. Only 240 scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year were awarded to U.S. undergraduate sophomores and juniors across the fields […]
Tyler Daddio and Soumya Kundu selected as University Scholars
Congratulations to Tyler and Soumya for achieving this distinguished award! The University Scholar Program is one of the most prestigious programs for undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. The program […]
Professor Russell Inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering recently announced their list of Scientist and Engineer inductees for 2017. Congratulations to Dr. Alexander C. Russell, Professor and Director of the graduate program, […]
Outstanding Undergraduate Students Receive Academic Awards
On December 7th, seventy seniors were recognized for their stellar academic performance in Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering. The special event was hosted by the Department […]
Understanding Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteria and Archaea: Units of Transfer and Modes of Integration
Professor Bansal is leading a research project, recently funded by the NSF, to develop new computational methods for studying Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in microbes. HGT is known to be […]
UConn hosts 3rd annual CyberSEED conference
The University of Connecticut’s Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation recently hosted CyberSEED 2016. Speakers from around the country shared perspectives on cybersecurity issues and the importance of strengthening […]
UConn Establishes Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity
We are delighted to announce that UConn, with the investment of $2.2 million over the next five years from Synchrony Financial, is establishing the Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in […]
Phillip Bradford speaks at the First Northeast JavaScript Conference, Future of Software Panel
Future of Software Panel at the First Northeast JavaScript Conference, Stamford, CT 2016-09-15. Panelists: Jeff Fox, Ed Faulkner, Phil Bradford, Prabal Ghosh, Isaac Sacolick We were given this sentence a […]
Graduate Students Compete in CS Trivia Game
The Computer Science and Engineering department welcomed its new graduate students for the fall semester. Students and faculty got to know each other over ice cream from the UConn Dairy […]
Hacking 101: UConn students crack codes for the greater good
In 2015, 288,012 complaints of internet crime resulting in $1,070,711,522 in financial losses were reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[i]. A staggering 80% […]
Dr. Khan Co-Chairs Symposium
Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan will be serving as the Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chair at the Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016). This is a premier conference that focuses on […]
Bing Wang selected as a 2016 Women of Innovation honorees by the Connecticut Technology Council.
The CSE department is happy to announce that Prof. Bing Wang has been selected as one of the 2016 Women of Innovation honorees by the Connecticut Technology Council. The selection […]
CSE Student Ashley Dumaine Runner-Up as Top Intern of the Year
Our congratulations to Ashley Dumaine (’16) for being recognized as the runner up for the top intern of the year. Ashley interned at Google in New York City and she […]
Translating DNA Information to Help Predict Risk of Disease
Knowing how our bodies are genetically composed is extremely important to keeping ourselves healthy. The ability to translate DNA information into a quantitative prediction of the risk to disease or […]
Attention students! CTC Skills Challenge Internship and Job Fair 4/2
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David Etim: Ph.D. Candidate, Recipient of 2016 NNSA Graduate Fellowship
David Etim, a CSE doctoral student, was recently awarded a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship. The full-time salaried fellowship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy is for […]
Academic Awards Presented to Stellar Undergraduate Students
On December 9th, forty three seniors were recognized for their superior academic performance in Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering. The special event was hosted by the […]
CT Skills Challenge Programming Contest
UConn Students, Please register on this page AND at the CT Technology Council site. http://www.ct.org/signature-event/connecticut-skills-challenge
Dr. Michel Elected President of the ACP
We are happy to announce that Professor Laurent Michel was elected as the President of the Association for Constraint Programming for a three year term starting in 2015. Election results […]