Jana Kosecka wins Amazon Research Award; Brittany Johnson wins Google Research Award

Prof. Jana Kosecka's proposal "Hand Shape Modeling for American Sign Language Recognition" has been selected for the Amazon's Fairness in AI Research Program.  Prof. Brittany Johnson-Matthews's proposal "Exploring and Boosting Ethical Signals in Data-Driven Software Communities" has been selected for the Google Research Scholar Award under the Software Engineering category. Congratulations! 

Fall'22 Faculty Retreat

The CS department held a faculty retreat on Saturday 9/17 at the GMU Potomac Science Center. The retreat was attended by ~60 faculty (and some 10+ kids, onsite full-day care was provided!). During the retreat, the faculty discussed various topics including scaling to the (huge) growth of the department, addressing teaching needs, and developing strategic and vision plans for the department, the university, and the DC area.    

Ioanna Karantaidou wins Fellowship for Cloud Storage Research

Ioanna Karantaidou, a PhD student in computer science, wins a one-year fellowship from Protocol Labs for her cloud storage research.

Bo Han, Songqing Chen and Evgenios Kornaropoulos win Research Awards from Meta

Congratulations! Prof. Bo Han, Prof. Songqing Chen, and Prof. Evgenios Kornaropoulos win awards from Meta's research program in Towards Trustworthy Products in AR, VR, and Smart Devices and Security Research.

Parth Pathak wins ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award

In collaboration with researchers from KAIST, Parth's co-authored paper titled "OmniScatter: extreme sensitivity mmWave backscattering using commodity FMCW radar" wins the Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys.