NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. Jiawei Zhang has been awarded an NSF grant for learning and mining network structured data. Network data is ubiquitous in the real-world, and many online websites providing various kinds services can all be represented as networks.

FSU Computer Science Prof. Viet Tung Hoang recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $174,469, for his project “CRII: SaTC: Towards Stronger and Verified Security for Real-World Cryptography”.

Dr. Xifeng Gao will join the Department of Computer Science at FSU in Fall 2018 as an Assistant Professor.

Prof. Peixiang Zhao has been awarded a $450,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).

Congratulations to Melina Myers on her promotion to the rank of Teaching Faculty II.

Congratulations to Dr. Zhi Wang and Dr. Peixiang Zhao on their promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

The Computer Science Department has been awarded $100K Technology Fee to upgrade its instructional technology infrastructure

Intel Corporation recently awarded a 6-months grant in the amount of $25,074 to Prof. Shayok Chakraborty. The objective of this project, titled “Active Learning for Computer Vision”, is to develop a semester-long curriculum on the emerging topic of active learning for computer vision applications.

Over the month of October, students from the Florida State University Cybersecurity Club traveled to three on-site competitions where they ranked among the top competitors.

National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a 3-year grant in the amount of $590,317 to Prof. Zhi Wang, Prof. Xin Yuan, Prof. Viet Tung Hoang, and Dr. Paul van der Mark from FSU Research Computing Center (RCC) for their research in securing high-performance computing. This project, titled “CICI: RSARC: DICE – Data Insurance in the Cluster Environment”, was awarded by the NSF directorate CISE:OACI.