Prof. Anastasopoulos is the recipient of Google's 2020 Award for Inclusion Research, a global program that supports academic research in computing and technology that addresses the needs of underrepresented population.
In 2020 at Mason, 21% of computer science degrees were conferred to women, the university reported, equal to the national percentage, according to the Computer Research Association’s Taulbee Survey. In the same year at Mason, 7% of computer science degrees went to African American students, and 6% to Hispanic students. Nationally, those percentages were 3.3% and 7.9%, respectively, according the Taulbee Survey.
PhD student, Abhishek Roy, and Professor Hakan Aydin at the CS Department won the Best Paper Award at the 11th Int'l IEEE Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2020).
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