news
Kevin accepted to GMU CS PhD Program
Beenish accepted into Texas A&M Ph.D. program
Irina selected for CRA-W Workshop
Irina will be attending the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop in Boston, MA on April 1-2, 2011.
Brian passes qualifying exams
Congratulations to Brian for passing his qualifying exams. Now the only thing remaining is the thesis.
Brian presenting poster at Biophysical Society Meeting
Brian is presenting a poster on "Mapping the protein conformational landscape with adaptive probabilistic search" at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore in March, 2011.
Co-organizing BioLearn workshop at BIONETICS
New student from Chantilly High School joining lab
Nakkul Sreenivas, a junior at Chantilly High School, is joining the lab. Nakkul will be working with us during 2010 and 2011.
Irina receives RA support
Congratulations to Irina. She has just received Mason RA support for the upcoming academic year.
Lab obtains NSF support
Justin receives Mason Apprentice support
Congratulations to Justin. He has just received the Mason Undergraduate Apprentice Fellowship for Fall 2010.
Brian and Kevin receive best student paper award
Congratulations to Brian and Kevin. Their Bionetics paper received the best student paper award. Good job!
Daniel receives NSF Sunrise Scholarship
Congratulations to Daniel. He has just received an NSF Sunrise Scholarship awarded through the NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program.
Positions Available
PhD Positions Available (AI/ML)
- The Shehu Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University is looking to recruit bright graduate students to take on several exciting, ambitious, and timely research projects. These projects span from foundational to applied deep learning and machine learning, with intersections in natural language processing, non-convex optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and other domains of active research in AI/ML.
Invited talk at RSS Workshop 2010
At Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice Workshop in Saragoza, Spain, June 27, 2010.
Seed funding obtained from GMU
Seed funding is obtained from GMU on a collaborative effort with Dr. Kabbani of the Krasnow Institute.
Thomas Jefferson high school student joining lab this summer
We will have an additional member, Subeer Talapatra, join the lab this summer. Subeer is currently a junior at Thomas Jefferson high school.
Two GMU undergraduates joining lab this summer
Chris going to University of Washington
Chris completed his M.S. and will continue his Ph.D. at University of Washington, Seattle. After a summer internship at Google, he will join the Baker Lab. Congratulations, Chris!