Learning Analytics Provides Actionable Insights towards College Student Success

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College students may one day choose their courses the same way they choose books on Amazon. A computer program will suggest the best classes for them, based on grades in other courses, career goals, instructor preference, and learning style.

Undergraduates participate in research with the NSF funded REU Site

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Undergraduates who want to learn how to glean research insights from data should apply for a 10-week, all-expense-paid summer 2019 program at Mason.

CS department welcomes four new faculty members

The CS department welcomes new faculty members Kevin Andrea, Ivan Avramovic, Ping Deng and Eric Osterweil who will be joining the department starting this Fall.

PhD candidate Mohan Krishnamoorthy and professors Alex Brodsky and Daniel Menascé receive Best Paper Award at IFIP DSS 2018

Congratulations to PhD candidate Mohan Krishnamoorthy and professors Alexander Brodsky and Daniel Menascé whose paper “Stochastic decision optimisation based on deterministic approximations of processes described as closed-form arithmetic simulation” was selected for  the Best Paper Award at the 19th IFIP WG8.3 Conference on Decision Support Systems (IFIP DSS) held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 13-15, 2018.

PhD Student Shuai Wang and Prof. Song Min Kim receive Best Paper award at IEEE ICDCS 2018

Post Image: PhD Student Shuai Wang and Prof. Song Min Kim receive Best Paper award at IEEE ICDCS 2018

Congratulations to PhD student Shuai Wang (middle) and Prof. Song Min Kim (left) whose paper "Symbol-level Cross-technology Communication via Payload Encoding," was selected for the Best Paper Award at 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) held in Vienna, Austria from July 2-5, 2018.