News

Huzefa Rangwala wins OSCAR Mentoring Excellence award

April 15, 2018, 12:23 p.m.

Congratulations to Professor Huzefa Rangwala for being selected for the 2018 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award for 2018. This award recognizes and rewards outstanding Mason community members who mentor undergraduate students on their research and creative activities, and who foster a culture of student scholarship in support at Mason.

Events

• Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and Clouds

  Apr 26
  12:00 PM - 14:00 PM

  ENGR 4201

  Alec Jacobson

• Opening Up New Possibilities of Linear Skinning

  Apr 27
  11:30 AM - 13:30 PM

  ENGR 1602

  Songrun Liu

Research Highlights

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  Microtask Programming

  Can software be built through self-contained ten-minute contributions? In microtask crowdsourcing, transient contributors are given a short, well-defined task and an interface purpose-built for completing it. 

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  Towards Integrated Wireless Networking and Sensing using Millimeter-wave

  Professor Parth Pathak’s research investigates the design of next generation of wireless networks that can provide very high data rate wireless links and enable smart indoor spaces.

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  Community and Topic Detection

  Community and topic detection in a research collaboration network from NSF awards granted by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) between January 1995 and August 2014. The network (depicted here as a point cloud) connects PI and co-PIs who received funding from the same award. The coloring in the Figure above was made by modularity groups and the size was by degree.

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  Harmonizing the wireless world

  Professor Song Min Kim investigates on the interplay between wireless technologies, to effectively support massive-scale networks in the Internet of Things.