NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Faculty promotion
Congratulations to Prof. Zhenghao Zhang for being promoted to the rank of full professor and to Prof. Sonia Haiduc and Prof. Jie Yang for being promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, all effective in Fall 2019.
Dr. Haiduc awarded $495K NSF CAREER Award
FSU’s Computer Science faculty member Sonia Haiduc was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The award totals $494,989 over a duration of 5 years and will allow Dr. Haiduc to study and improve the use and production of programming video tutorials. The outcomes of this project have the potential to transform the way programmers and computer science students acquire knowledge from video tutorials, allowing them to easily access quality information that is easy to extract and use in their own contexts.
Dr. Zhi Wang won the Developing Scholar Award
Congratulations to Dr. Zhi Wang for winning the 2018-2019 competition of the Developing Scholar Award.
Gokila Dorai named a Finalist at 2018 Three Minute Thesis Competition
The 2018 Three Minute Thesis competition at Florida State University was held in the Durell Peadean Auditorium in the College of Medicine on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The Three Minute Thesis competition, which began at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008,...
Melina Myers Recognized for Inspiring, Motivating Students
Ten Florida State University faculty members were honored by the Transformation Through Teaching program for their actions to foster meaning and purpose among their students. Included was our own Melina Myers, teaching faculty in our CS department. Melina was...
Dr. Zhao Awarded the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
Prof. Peixiang Zhao has been awarded a $360,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)’s Young Investigator Program (YIP).
CS faculty featured in Tallahassee Democrat
Professor Shayok Chakraborty is featured in Tallahassee Democrat for his AI research. Please see the detail at https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/wellness/2018/06/23/fsu-collaborates-ai-help-older-adults-and-others/725442002/
CS professor awarded an NSF/Intel grant for computer architecture research
FSU Department of Computer Science Professor David Whalley has been awarded a new NSF/Intel grant for his project “Dependent ILP: Dynamic Hoisting and Eager Scheduling of Dependent Instructions.”
Yu and Oral Awarded NSF Grant on I/O Containerization and Disaggregation
Dr. Weikuan Yu and Dr. Sarp Oral have been awarded a grant of $500K from the National Science Foundation titled “SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: ECC: Ephemeral Coherence Cohort for I/O Containerization and Disaggregation”.
CS Awarded Grant to Enable Reconfigurable Computing Infrastructure
The Department of Computer Science at Florida State University was awarded a grant of $700K from the National Science Foundation titled “II-New: A Software-Defined Reconfigurable Infrastructure for Cross-Layer Research on Computer Architecture, Network, and Storage Systems”.